Will it ever end? ACCENT: Christian rock comes to SMC Snow likely today. Very cold, with winds of 20-25 mph and highs in the teens. Low tonight zero to 5 above. High Saturday VIEWPOINT: Breathalyzers and bars in the teens. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's ND’s ’88 debate readies candidates By JIM WINKLER The debate will begin with opening Staff Reporter statements from each candidate, not to exceed two and a half minutes in length, The race for the next Notre Dame stu­ Olmsted said. dent body president is drawing close as candidates prepare for the annual debate ND/SMC ELECTIONS on Sunday, Feb. 14. The nine candidates for student body president have all been invited to partic­ ipate in the debate in the Hesburgh Li­ brary Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., said Candidates’ statements will be fol­ Erika Olmsted, presidental debate com­ lowed by questions from campus media mittee chairwoman. sources and a 30-minute open question By 5 p.m. Thursday, seven tickets had session. They will then be allowed two indicated to Ombudsman that they would minutes for closing remarks. The Om­ take part in the debate. The two remain­ budsman will serve as official ing tickets have until Friday afternoon to respond. see DEBATE, page 4 Bush makes appeals as ’88 race continues Associated Press Dukakis, the leader in New Hampshire’s tightening Democratic con­ Rep. Richard Gephardt turned on test, stressed his role as opponent of the Democratic presidential rival Michael unopened Seabrook nuclear power plant Dukakis on Thursday, declaring him ig­ as he campaigned in front of a clam bar norant of the “complexities of trade designated as an evacuation shelter in policy.” Vice President George Bush case of accident. pleaded with Republicans to help him Jesse Jackson and Sen. A1 Gore stem Bob Dole’s tide in New Hampshire. shunned New Hampshire, Gore touting “I ’m working my heart out here. So his chances in southern states that vote can you help me?” said the struggling next month while Jackson aimed a few GOP front-runner. barbs at his rivals. Dukakis has “every advantage,” he ELECTION said. “ He lives there. He is at home, he’s Susan Coene / The Observer dripping in money. And of course A whiter shade of pail Dukakis, Gephardt and Simon are using money and commercials. I ’m using mes­ Workers at Irish Gardens, in the basement of LaFortune Student Center, try to prepare Dole sounded like a man on a roll, sage, service and experience.” for the fearsome flood of floral fanatics which will inevitably inundate them because of delivering a speech on the deficit and By word and deed, the rest of the Valentine's Day. From left to right are Pat Koeppl, Chris Hurst, and Martine Beamon, declaring, I want to be nice to everybody this week.” see PRIMARY, page 3 _________ SMC Task Force to Making the grade: Are study minority issues pass/fail courses worth it? By BRADLEY GALKO task force to increase this num­ Staff Reporter ber have concentrated on By SCOTT BEARBY grade-point average) more no notification of the stu­ studying and working with Assistant News Editor if there is a large proportion dent’s intent is given to the A report on minority students other schools around the of passfail grades,” Wad­ professor. by Saint Mary’s Diversifica­ country, she said. She ex­ A P ’ may stand for ‘pass­ dick said, citing a 1970 state­ Waddick said he dis­ tion Task Force will be pre­ plained that this has been ac­ ing’ under the pass/fail ment issued by the Law courages the 30 percent of sented to the College’s presi­ complished through question­ grade option, but it also may School Admission Council. the graduating class who dent and Board of Regents in naires sent to other schools, mean penalty’ for juniors Waddick said law schools seek to enter graduate and April, said Pamela Bethel, task guest speakers, and atten­ and seniors who are consid­ and graduate schools weigh professional schools from force member. dance of regional conferences ering post-graduate studies. the mandatory tests (LSAT taking passfail courses be­ The task force’s purpose is on the subject of minority The pass/fail option was in­ cause of the position taken “ to come up with an action plan recruitment by task force stituted in 1970 in an attempt A s and by admissions committees. for the recruiting and retention members. to give students the opportu­ B’s at ND “ A ‘P ’ can be read as a ‘D ’,” of minority students,” and “to “ A lot of (other) schools have nity to explore courses out­ he said. develop ideas to promote a good programs ... to recruit sides their majors, without Part 3 of Vincent Raymond, associ­ more culturally aware and serve minority students,” the pressures of grading. a three-part ate dean of the College of campus,” said Bethel, adding Bethel said. But graduate and profes­ series Business Administration, that the plan will also extend Many decisions still have to sional schools are now ques­ said he agrees that passfail to recruiting more minority be made by the task force, said tioning whether applicants and G R E) more for students courses are not a good idea faculty and staff. Bethel, such as whether or not are merely trying to take the with passfail grades. “What for those applying to law Mary Ann Rowan, task force only one or two minorities easy way out in lightening that report said then is still school and graduate school. chairwoman and Saint M ary ’s should be concentrated on, his or her course load, said true today,” he said. Waddick advised that stu­ director of admissions, was un­ what services should be Robert Waddick, assistant Under the University’s dents interested in post­ available for comment. developed, and exactly how dean of the College of Arts academic code, a junior or graduate studies who wish to Minority students constitute they should be developed. She and Letters. senior may take one passfail take a passfail course a “ really small percentage” of said it will take a “well- “It is understandable that elective course each semes­ should wait until the eighth Saint M ary’s student body, Bet­ many admissions officers ter. Grades ‘A’ through ‘D’ see TASK, page 4 hel said. Present efforts of the are already discounting it (a are considered passing, and see GRADES, page 3 page 2 The Observer Friday, February 12, 1988 In Brief Valentine's Day or no: Love really stinks David Tilley,a first-year law student at Notre Dame, died Thursday night, said Father Peter Rocca, assistant Well, you love her, gyyi : _ vice president for student services. Tilley, a 1984 Notre But she loves him IVI I K C Dame graduate from Fresno, Calif., was ill for several And he loves somebody else weeks before his death, he said. He is survived by his You just can’t win Naughton parents, Cecil and Marlene Tilley, and two sisters, Pamela And so it goes ’til Cogite and Marlene Elizabeth Tilley, of Fresno, Calif. A The day you die Features Editor funeral mass will be offered today at 3:30 p.m. in Sacred This thing they call love Heart Church. -The Observer Is gonna make you cry . Love stinks. Yeh, yeh Love stinks. Yeh, yeh Alexander Haig is planning to drop out of the presidential race and endorse Sen. Bob Dole, according to published reports from The Washington Post and the Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday of the Dallas Times Herald. The former secretary of state, who year, but you probably wouldn’t know that from received less than 1 percent of the vote in the Iowa the way I act. caucuses, has called a news conference Friday to discuss I don’t participate in traditional Valentine’s the future of his campaign for the Republican nomination, Day rituals; I haven’t given anyone a card since but his campaign manager, Brian Sweeney, refused com­ third grade and don’t intend to start now. I don’t ment. - Associated Press eat valentine candies because they taste like old chalk, and I don’t like valentine hearts be­ cause they don’t look enough like the real thing. Despite this, I really do enjoy Feb. 14. Valen­ tine’s Day is my favorite holiday of the year “Louie, Louie”may be a rock ’n’ roll classic, but because it proves once and for all, conclusively it’s never been considered classical music - at least until and undeniably, beyond all doubt, that love now. WQED-FM, a classical music station intrigued by stinks. an AM rival’s 63-hour “Louie, Louie” marathon, had three I have to confess that even I, a self- local classical artists record versions of the 1963 garage proclaimed Cupid-slayer, feel a tug at my heart - - band hit and is playing them several times an hour. Pit­ now and then and begin to wonder if there really myself when things didn’t work out and act tsburgh Symphony pianist Patricia Prattis Jennings, is something to this love business. But then V- giddy and silly when they did. I would make pianist Christopher O’Riley and cellist Carter Brey and day rolls around, and I regain m y sense of per­ wishes to the moon, pick flowers, write lousy the Con Spirito Woodwind Quintet all recorded their inter­ spective when I see what love is really all about. poetry, walk around the lake, and spend all my pretations of “Louie, Louie ” this week.