Rezoning Petition Is Unfavorable by DAVID KINNEY the Petition Must Still Get the Parking on the Street

o r The Observer I» « 2 - 1992 SESOUICENTINNIAI e ------------- Saint Marvls College The Observer NOTREDAME-INDIANA VOL. XXIV NO. 3 8 /# ? . \< 7 j Thursday, October 17,1991 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S The Faculty Senate requests better representation sisting of administrative, faculty ner the Faculty Senate does “populist” to saying that 10 dations to the dean, after both By SANDY WIEGAND and student representatives. now. In fact, some Senate more members would make the the department chair and de Associate News Editor members suggested, the Senate Council “unwieldy,” Senate partmental Committee on Ap The resolution also requested could be setting up its own dis members said, but Malloy pointments and Promotions A call by the Faculty Senate that University President Father solution. promised to bring his own rec have sent the dean their rec for better representation on the Edward Malloy, who presides ommendations to the next ommendations. Academic Council received over the Academic Council, be But Frank Connolly, associate meeting of the Academic Coun mixed to negative reactions stripped of the privilege of professor of Mathematics, said cil which will take place Decem The resolution was a wa from the same administrative appointing the three faculty it might be five years or more ber 3. tered-down version of a resolu body recently. Senate members members on the executive before the Senate would be tion passed by the Senate last said Wednesday. committee of the Council. come obsolete if the recom In other business, the Faculty year, which Malloy said he mendations were adopted. Senate approved a resolution would veto, according to David The Senate’s resolution asked The new Academic Council stating that department chairs O’Connor of Academic Affairs. for 10 additional elected faculty would also be able to establish Administrators’ objections to are permitted to inform candi The new proposal must be members on the Academic standing subcommittees to ad the resolution ranged from dates for tenures, renewals or passed by the Academic Council Council, a governing body con dress issues in the same m an calling it “radical” and promotions of their recommen to be effective. GSU talks about an on campus smoking policy limiting smoking to specific ar By JULIE BARRETT eas on campus is scheduled to News Writer come out on Nov. 2 1, according to Joel Barstad, the GSU repre Women’s resources and sentative on the Smoking Task smoking on campus were Force. This new policy is a con among the various issues dis scious effort by the task force to cussed at the Graduate Student encourage smokers to quit and Council meeting last night. Up to protect non-smokers from coming activities planned for secondhand smoke. grad students include a Hal All grad students are invited loween costume party and the to a Halloween costume party formation of a Wilson Commons on Oct. 31. Students arc asked Committee. to bring canned goods for The GSU Women’s Resource charily. Committee recently mailed out The first deadline for appli a directory on women’s re cations for the Travel Grant sources available on campus to Fund is November 15, accord all female students at SMC and ing to GSU President Kurt Mill. ND. Grad students are needed to “(Female) students don’t real volunteer to help the GSU exec ize how many women’s re utive committee evaluate and sources there are on campus,” recommend improvements for said P a tric ia Q u a ttrin , ttye the k Wilson Commons, graduate student representative scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 27. for the Faculty and Student For more information about The Observer/Tim Parish Committee of Women, which GSU plans and activities or any Pizza Talk put together the booklet. “I was concerns, feel welcome to stop even surprised at how many by the GSU office, located in Engineering students discussed important issues yesterday as part of the Engineering Activities Fair. were listed.” room 200 in LaFortune, or call A finalized smoking policy 239-6963. Rezoning petition is unfavorable By DAVID KINNEY the petition must still get the parking on the street. Associate News Editor approval of the County Council Tim Hartzer, lawyer for the and Mayor Joe Kernan. Kugler Notre Dame-lloward Partner A rezoning petition by Pan said that it is difficult to de ship that owns Pandora’s, and dora’s Books received an unfa termine whether the petition City Attorney Richard Nuss- vorable recommendation from will pass in the council. “We'll baum spoke in favor of the ex the Area Plan Commission have to wait and see,” he said. pansion of the bookstore, Ku Tuesday night, according to Kugler said that a number of gler said. planner Scott Kugler. residents of the northeast They pointed out that it is The bookstore recently struck neighborhood spoke in opposi generally considered good a tentative compromise with the tion of the expansion request, planning practice to blend resi city that would allow it to including Art Quigley, president dential and commercial areas. expand. The city would rezone of the Northeast Neighborhood Kugler said that the commission a parcel of land from ’A Resi Association. did not necessarily agree with dential’ to C Com m ercial.’ In Opposition to the petition this premise, because a return, the owners of Pandora’s cited a number of disadvan commercial hub is located only would sell a piece of land on the tages to the expansion, Kugler a few blocks from the area. corner of Howard St. and Notre said, including: Hartzer and Nussbaum said Dame Ave. and drop a lawsuit • the possibility of increased that the expansion would be against the city. commercial spot zoning in resi beneficial to the neighborhood, The owners of the bookstore dential neighborhoods in the according to Kugler, because it plan to replace the present city. would involve tearing down the Pandora’s and two other houses Pandora’s is one of several current bookstore and two on the corner of Howard and St. non-conforming commercial other houses, which are consid Peter’s St. with a two-story, establishments and student ered eyesores. 6,200-square-foot building. A housing in the area. If the city This is the most current in a parking lot would be placed on grants the Commercial C re number of attempts since May a parcel of land across the zoning request to the bookstore, 1990 by Pandora’s to either ex street from the new bookstore, other establishments could also pand or move. In each case, Kugler said. request rezoning, according to pressure from the neighbor The commission voted 9-2 to Kugler. The city could not hood and city restrictions have send the request to the council accept the rezoning petition of led to the failure of the owners’ with the recommendation that the bookstore and reject a attempts. it not pass the petition; six petition from a similar Residents of the neighborhood The Observer/Dave Hungeling members were not present to establishment, he added. believe that this proposal is Neither rain nor shine participate in the vote, said • the proposed building on the more dangerous than other Kugler. site is twice the size of the attempts by the bookstore to Sally Lochmonday had all shine and no rain yesterday as she The vote of the Area Plan original plan. expand and move in the past, picked up the mail from in front of South Dining Hall. Commission is not binding, but • the plan would encourage said Kugler. page 2 The Observer Thursday, October 17, 1991 INSIDE COLUMN l A /C A T H F R R F P O R T Forecast for noon, Thursday, October 17 UngsstowWUemperttores. A look inside a FORECAST: ~AV . n40S Sunnier Thursday and much warmer. Notre Dame High in the mid 70s with cooler temperatures at photo album night. TEMPERATURES: F lash! E v e ry w h e re I go, City Athens everything I do, I bring my Atlanta camera with me. National Berlin Boston Championship? Captured Chicago on film. Circus Lunch? Dallas-Ft.Worth Denver Commemorated in color. Detroit Allow me to share with Honolulu Houston you some select excerpts Paige Smoron Indianapolis from my photo album, London p ictu res I w ill no doubt Assistant Accent Los Angeles Madrid someday treasure as visual Miami Beach proof of my idyllic life at Editor New Orleans New York Notre Dame. Paris •H ere’s a shot of the Dome. I love the way the Philadelphia Rome sunlight glistens on its glossy surface, making it St. Louis seem almost... golden. San Francisco •This is my freshman friend, Donnie, dancing Seattle South Bend on top of a radiator with an empty case of V W 1 Cold Iron! High pressure Shower* Thunderstorms^ S n o w ^ g . sunny Tokyo Washington. D C Meister Brau on his head. Donnie is having Warm front trouble adjusting. Flurries [ v ] tee / G , Cloudy Pt. Static front ( l S Low pressure ^ Rain •That’s my best friend, Chris, at our Indiana Cloudy tailgater, holding a beer. 61991 Accu-Weather, Inc. •H ere’s Chris again, getting a hot dog, holding the same beer, but in her other hand. •Okay, this is Chris, this time with a com pletely different beer. TODAY AT A GLANCE •There’s Chris, over by the Hibachi, holding a— badger? Oh, no, wait, it’s just a beer. the pulpit at Family Worship Center,” Donnie Swaggart •Here’s my friend Nicole, hugging me. WORLD said. The younger Swaggart said he will take charge of •This is a picture of the Dome I took with my Jimmy Swaggart Ministries in the interim.

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