The Observer VOL. XXV. NO. 112 TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1993 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S SMC run-offs decide J-Board next year's class leaders revisions By NICOLE MCGRATH Saint Mary's News Editor proposed By LISA WOLTER Runoff results for Saint Mary’s News Writer sophomore and senior class elections were decided Abstained yesterday. DuLac revisions concerning Courfney Swift was elected election for those who 4.83 % the Judiciary Boards (J-Boards) senior class president and Ja- participated,” Swift added A m p z w in Notre Dame dormitories neen Gillig was elected sopho­ “We were disappointed but 28 .9 8 % were the main topic at this more class president, according we felt we gave it our all."said weeks Campus Life Council to Melissa Whelan, interim Petrovic. “We thought we had a (CLC) meeting. election commissioner. realistic platform but things Rich Delevan, director of J- Swift Swift’s ticket gained 66.18 change.” Board policy, presented his percent of the vote while Petro- According to Petrovic, she 66.18 % recommendations for the legal vic’s ticket had 28.98 percent. hoped that Swift’s ticket w ill department to the CLC regard­ 4.83 percent of the votes ab­ fulfil their promise of change ing J-Boards that consisted of stained. Swift’s ticket includes and she wished them well. four central aspects: a regular Katie Baal, vice-president, Lau­ Gillig’s ticket collected 58.92 meeting time, standardized ren Siragusa, secretary and percent votes while Lisa C l a s s v j hearing procedures, a training Lisa Rania, treasurer. Whisler’s ticket had 36.93 per­ Abstained seminar and a reformed selec­ I don’t know w ha t to say. cent. There was 4.15 percent 4.15% tion process of J-Board mem­ I’m excited and I hope we can abstaining votes. On G illig’s bers. make it the best and funnest ticket are Gretchen Johnson, A regular schedule for the J- year yet,” said Swift. vice-president, Jayne Gillig, Board would alleviate the prob­ According to Swift, the cam­ secretary and Anne Hurley, lem of convening the meetings paign ran smoothly. Monday’s treasurer. and would also allow the Hall voters’ turnout pleased her, as According to Janeen Gillig, Staff ample time to determine well, since the turnout was as her ticket’s first goal w ill be to which cases would be suitable good as last Thursday’s elec­ unite the sophomore class. “We for J-Board consideration, ac­ tions. want to hold more class func­ cording to Delevan. “I’d like to thank the Petrovic tions like a sophomore cruise The issue of standardized platform for making it a healthy see RUN-OFF / page 4 The Observer / Chris Mullins procedures is “very important,” said Father Andre Leveille of Cavanaugh Hall, because SUB chooses new staff members for '93-94 “there has to be a procedure against which someone can say By JOHN LUCAS Sophomore Literary Festival, from tradition, while keeping using a marketing researcher to ‘my rights were violated.’” Assistant News Editor and Collegiate Jazz festival our goals in m ind,” she said. draw more students to SUB Delevan proposed that positions w ill have separate One major improvement in events, Reday said. though there is an irregular oc­ application and interview the programming department “I want people to appreciate currence of penalties and of­ Focusing on creativity and processes. would be the improvement of SUB ideas more. If more fenses, it is possible to ensure organization, the Student Union Working under Zahren on the the campus movie structure, students attend things that regularity in procedure. Board (SUB) recently named a Executive Board are Kate according to Liang. Next year they’ve done this year, I’ll feel A training seminar, said Del­ Keckler, director of marketing, may bring the end of the like I’ve done something,” evan, would be helpful, and SENATE/ page 3 Besty Haskins, director of Thursday night movie, while a Reday explained. proposed that the Office of Residence Life and the Judi­ I BOG/ page 3___ relations, Chris Liang, director Sunday matinee may be In addition, Zahren said that of programming and Jamie introduced. an increased use of dorm ciary Council conduct these n ew staff for the upcoming year. Morris, controller. While programming is mainly liaisons could benefit the seminars to demonstrate the Chosen by a process of both The number and quality of interested in campus events, marketing department. Administration’s support of a application and interview, the campus events could be the marketing department will Zahren, formerly a director of reformed J-Board. new SUB staff was selected by a improved, according to Zahren. work with students to improve programming, cited lack of The selection process of the combination of new and old “Right now, we’re working for the quality of SUB advertising, training as one of the obstacles J-Board committee continues to Executive Board members, more daring and creative according to Stephanie Reday, to the success of last year’s SUB be debated. Father Mike Sulli­ according to junior Ellen programming... we want to take assistant marketing researcher. board. To avoid that problem van of Carroll Hall said that Zahren, the new SUB Board typical events like AnTostal and For the first time in recent see CLC / page 4 manager. AnTostal, the Winterfest and break away memory, the department is see SUB / page 4 Speaker attacks American racism BY JIM VOGL tion of the white society. as the clock, electricity, fire, News Writer “We are an insane society ly­ paper, cloth, the alphabet, the ing to each other on a daily ba­ numerical system, rubber, sis.” etc.-all inventions from “people In her speech yesterday, “A “It’s a white attitude and a of color.” Collar in My Pocket,” educator white behavior problem. We Elliott became famous when Jane Elliott spoke against white need to cure it and get rid of it she began a “ Blue Eyes, Brown supremacy in America. right now.” Eyes” discrimination exercise to “I’m going to offend every­ Elliot recalled an interview in her third-grade class in body in the audience at least which Diane Sawyer, in attempt Riceville, Iowa, the day after once,” Jane Elliott warned an to show her lack of racial bias, the assasination of Dr. Martin audience at Washington Hall told writer Alice Walker: “When Luther King, Jr. last evening before presenting a I look at you, I don’t see a black For two days, she convinced workshop on discrimination. female.” class members they were su­ “Everyone in this room was Elliott spoke against society’s perior or inferior based on their born a racist,” Elliott an­ tendency to endorse the melting eye color. The experiment nounced. “If you weren’t, pot, using this analogy: “When caused some “bright” students you’re a slow learner, a dis­ you serve a salad, do you throw to flounder in intelligence abled learner or you haven’t it all in a blender and whip it quizzes. Meanwhile children been listening... In this country, up? No, you make a salad so previously deemed dyslexic by education is teaching people each of the elements maintain other students and teachers how to good white people.” their identity... We can’t read and wrote (lawlessly with Elliott incited a crowd of pretend (racial) differences the encouragement. about 75 to “forget about don’t exist. That’s what makes A few days later, ABC filmed a school, it’s time to get us all so interesting, important, Peabody Award-Winning educated.” using the word’s valuable.” documentary “The Eye of the literal translation to lead out of Elliott encouraged the audi­ Storm" from Elliott’s classroom. ignorance. ence to recognize the contribu­ In the 25 years since then, she Elliott examined and criti­ tions of people of color, saying has performed the exercise in cized common discriminatory that many of them may have front of teachers, universities, perceptions. She said that advanced “from slavery to and corporations in attempt to racism is created through a middle- and upper-class” in as free people of socially- Calling all math majors negative feeling about black­ few as three generations. contracted racism. ness, and that inherent white She then challenged “racists” Throughout those years, El- Mathematics professor, Gudlauger Thorbergsson aids undecided superiority is an absurd inven­ to live w ithout such necessities see RACISM/page 4 students in choosing a major. page 2 The Observer INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST WEATHER REPORT |:orecastfor noon,Tuesday, March 23 Why do bad Cloudy and warmer today with a 70 things happen percent chance of Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. light rain with highs to good people? in the upper 40's and lows in the middle Why do bad things happen— — .— 30’s. to good people? This Mark McGrath question has been pondered TEMPERATURES in society for ages. In fact, Sports Writer many people have published C ity H L Anchorage 42 30 books trying to explain this phenomenon. In my Atlanta 73 54 past studies in Theology, this topic has always Bogota 66 45 Cairo 68 48 been a question that people have trouble Chicago 37 33 answering. No one knows for sure what the Cleveland 45 34 reasoning for the bad things is but all people Dallas 63 56 Detroit 42 34 must try to accept what happens and move on Indianapolis 52 38 with their lives no matter how difficult this task Jerusalem 55 43 may be. London 52 50 Los Angeles 78 58 The Notre Dame community has had its share Madrid 72 52 of bad things happening to good people.