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Irish Extra - page 7 Videos ain1 to Hesburgh answers entice young GOP voters students' questions By ANDRE THEISEN Hesburgh said he completely sup News Staff ported the alcohol policy. When By DIANE SCHROEDER asked if he foresaw further restric News Staff Head Football Coach Gerry Faust tions, he said the policy would get can relax. tougher only if the current policy In a special effort to communicate If the alcohol policy doesn't work, didn't work. Hesburgh reminded the with younger voters, the Republican it will get tougher. audience it was he who had first campaign for Indiana's governorship And coed dormitories have no allowed alcohol on campus and said b2s produced America's first politi place at Notre Dame. NO is a place where students can cal "music video." Republican All three statements are according learn responsible drinking. Robert Orr's video, which first aired to Father Theodore Hesburgh, Uni Hesburgh admitted liability was Oct. 5, is aimed at 18-24 year olds. versity president, who spoke at a part of the reason for the formation The two-minute video is receiv question-and-answer session at the of the alcohol policy, but declared ing air time on MTV as well as on Library Auditorium la.o;t night. the unacceptability of public comercial television programs When asked whether the football drunkenness was the primary reason where viewer demographicS show a team's performance called for action for the formation of the policy. concentration of younger voters. on his part. Hesburgh stated that NO Hesburgh declared there will The video features Gov. Orr with was a place of integrity and that he never be coed dorms at NO as long recording artist Henry Lee Summer. would not dishonor Faust's contract. as he is president. In defense of this The title song from Summer's new "Five-year contracts are standard for he cited the need for privacy for album, "Stay with Me," is the music new coaches," Hesburgh said, "and both men and women, the ample op soundtrack for the video. coaches deserve that. period to es portunities for interaction already Commenting on the video, Orr tablish themselves." available and the fact other univer said, "This video is a unique effort to Heshurgh is more concerned sities are returning to unisex dorms. reach young voters with our central about the student body's reaction to Other topics discussed included message - that the real issue of this the team's performance. "I think it's the male-female ratio at Notre campaign is Indiana's future, and bush when NO students boo their Dame, the renovation of LaFortune that the Orr-Mutz team is the most own team," he said, in response to Student Center and the student qualified, most experienced. and the students' negative reaction after body's ability to he involved in best prepared to lead Indiana into ~:;t. ~ last Saturday's loss to Air Force. world issues. that future." ·rhc U~rvcr/Vic Guarino "That's not what NO is about. Hesburgh, when asked whether Father Theodore Hesburgh, University president, supported Gerry• The governor went said although Faust, the alcohol polic_y and single-sex dorms in a question and They're our team and they deserve NO would ever reach an equal male the polls show that young voters are answer session last night in the Library• Auditorium. For more our support ," he said, adding, "I've female ratio, emphasized the Saint seen much worse teams that weren't see VIDEO, page 4 details, see the story at riKht. booed." see HESBURGH, page 5 Pre-meds serve as patient/family liasons in area hospital By MARK DILLON nurse of the Elkhart General Hospi "First they keep a patient company staff. They gain hands-on experience ings on the cultural aspects of News Staff tal Emergency Department. She who would otherwise be left unat right in the thick of the emergency medicine and are required to hand thought a link was needed between tended. Second, they keep relatives process." in a report of their experiences at Pre-med students at Notre Dame patients, staff and families. informed of where the patient is, the The students have become such the end of the year. are involved in a program in which Many times in the emergency patients' status, etc. Third, they act integral members of the staff, said The: classes focuses on values and they become part of the emergency room setting both patients and their as a communication link between Press, that when the students left for attitudes patients and staff members staff at Elkhart General Hospital by families are hysterical. They cannot the patient in the treatment room the summer, the emergency room bring into the emergency room set· serving as patient/family liasons in understand the waiting, the lack of and the family in the waiting room. became less efficient and therefore ting. Press cited prejudices based on the emergency room. news, or the treatment they or their Finally, the pre-med students keep hired two students as full-time ethnic background or socio The program involves students loved ones are experiencing. It is an eye on the patient to make sure liasons for the summer. economic position as examples. who volunteer four hours a week at these problems which the student as there is no unattended crisis," he The program, which last year was Press said his course tries to deal the hospital. Professor of Anthropol a patient/family liason attempts to said. strictly volunteer, has become a with the fact that "medicine is not ogy Dr.Irwin Press initiated the pro solve. Press said,"The liao;ons arc not credited course involving 16 stu just a scientific endeavor hut has to gram last September in response to a The liasons have four basic re glorified candy stripers. They are in dents and meeting every other do with the cultural backgrounds of suggestion of Dixie Smith, head sponsibilities according to Press. tegral members of the emergency week. Students are assigned read- those who manage it." Tutu greeted by joyous crowds of countrymen Associated Press Africa), the unofficial black na tional anthem. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Tutu, S3, a leader in the - Bishop Desmond Tutu, telling a struggle for equal rights for South crowd of jubliant supporters that Africa's 22 million blacks, joined "we have done well, all of us," in the singing and danced a little returned to his troubled as he worked his way through the homeland yesterday as winner of crowd. the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu embraced the Rev. Allan "God is saying to us, He is on Boesak, a mixed-race minister of our side," the black Anglican the Dutch Reformed Church clergyman declared to more than who, along with Tutu, is one of 200 people who greeted him as the m_9st prominent clerics in the he emerged ·from customs at Jan campaign against the white Smuts airport. He was accompa dominated government's system ~ nkd by his wife, Leah, and of racial separation, known as . daughters Naomi and Mpho. apartheid. Supporters held up placard" Boesak said Tutu's Nobel prize ~'<> );. ' . saying: '"apartheid: goodbye to is "a tremendous boost for us at a liP Photo You," and "Tutu: freedom a time when the South African gov- South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, this year's da_v. A crowd of over 250 greeted the Bishop at jan Nobel Peace Prize urinner, is' hugged by a member of Reality." The crowd sang "Nkosi Smuts Airport. See the story at left for more details. Sikelel' iAfrica," (God Bless see TUTU, page 4 his staff upon his arrival in johannesburg, yester- ·. The Observer Friday, October 19, 1984- page 2 Alcoa, AT&T and the bookstore: A campus monopoly gone wrong The Palestine Liberation Organization's arms industry- with factories in operation throughout the Moslem world "Curses to the Bloody Monopoly!" recently developed the PLO's own fighter plane, Yasser Arafat was When aimed at Notre Dame's bookstore, it is an un Bob Vonderheide quoted yesterday as saying. The independent Tunisian weekly Er Rai derstandable and just plea, and one that is probably no1 quoted the PLO chairman as saying Palestinian scientists and en vindictive. Plain and simple, the bookstore prices art· Ec'itor-in-Chief gineers were in charge ofthe factories "which have just put the final high; some, according to a Student Government survey. touches to a combat plane." He gave no details of the aircraft and did are as much as 45 percent higher than the average Inside Frid not indicate when it would go into production, the paper said. The drugstore. In response, the Student Senate has pro guerrilla movement has never had combat planes of its own. -AP posed a student-run "general store," a benign creature on the order of a newsstand which could nonethek~s display the banner of"Holy Competition." that pure competition is economically more efficient. Students were asked last week if they liked the idea, A man shot and killed his six children. then killed One final point: Markets controlled by monopolies himself, Evansville, Ind. police said yesterday. The children ranged and nearly nine in I 0 said they did. Most probably an are also characterized by substantial barriers to entry. in age from 3 to IS years old. Police Chief l{ay Hamner identified the swered "yes" for the simple reason that low prices seem The University has argued, though not in these terms, man as James.Alan Day. Hamner said Day's wife, Candace, returned better than high. Americans are often asked in polls if that in the case of the student store, the barriers to entry home from her overnight shift at the Evansville Post Office this mor low taxes are better than high, and most answer "yes" are "natural." It simply would be too expensive to open ning and found her husband dead in a chair with a gun in his hand.