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T he O bserver VOL. XXIII NO. 16 MONDAY , SEPTEMBER 17, 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Animal rights group protests Circus Flora By RENEE YOUNG People for the Ethical News Writer Treatment of Animals (PETA), located in Indianapolis. Its Members of a local animal purpose is to stop animal abuse rights group staged a protest in the area. last Friday against Circus Flora, One of PETA’s main targets is a group which recently factory farming, in which performed on Washington animals are raised strictly for Street in South Bend. profit. One example of factory The protesting group, or the farming is the raising of Coalition of Hoosiers chickens. According to Lia Encouraging the Ethical Klinkhamer, CHEETA member Treatment of Animals, and coordinator of Saint Mary’s (CHEETA) hoped to encourage Language Learning Center, nine education on the issue of or more chickens are shoved animal cruelty. CHEETA into small coops where they members passed out literature spend their entire lives. to circus goers regarding what These coops are stacked on they described as the horrible top of each other so that treatment animals receive in droppings fall on the coops training. The CHEETA organi­ below, said Klinkhamer. When zation admitted that the Circus the farmers decide to kill the Flora treats its animals better chickens, the animals’ legs On the hot seat AP pho.o than many other animal shows, must be cut off, because their Supreme Court nominee David Souter begins testimony for a second day of confirmation hearings before but they are still caging wild feet have grown into the wire animals. the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday. CHEETA is an affiliate of see PROTEST / page 4 Bush calls Iraqis ‘isolated’; U.N. weighs new sanctions (AP)-As theUnited Nations Iraq of depopulating the A “thundering rage” is governments, appeared to weighed new sanctions country to resettle Iraqis building against the United confirm a growing solidarity against Baghdad, Iraqi there. States in the Arab world, and in opposition to Saddam, television broadcast a The U.N. Security Council a showdown in the Gulf would whose forces overran Kuwait statement by President Bush unanimously condemned end “in a catastrophe” for U.S. Aug. 2. Sunday in which he warned Iraq’s raids last week on the forces, said announcer The resolution followed the Iraqi people that their French, Belgian, Canadian Mikdad Morad, who usually Friday’s raids by Iraqi troops leader’s brinkmanship could and Dutch embassy com­ reads statements from on the diplomatic compounds plunge them into war “against pounds in Kuwait, and President Saddam Hussein. in Kuwait. the world.” warned that further sanctions A group of a few hundred Two Tunisian newspapers Hours later, thousands of against Baghdad were likely. men later began marching in reported Sunday that Iraqi men, women and children Diplomats also began Baghdad. As they passed troops had entered the marched through the streets drafting language for a new through residential Tunisian Embassy in Kuwait of Baghdad, chanting “Death resolution to close off Iraq’s neighborhoods, thousands of as w e ll. In Bangladesh, the to Bush, Death to America!" air routes and punish nations men, women and children Bengali-language newspaper An official Iraqi response to flouting the trade embargo, President Bush joined them. Ittefaq said soldiers stormed Bush’s statement called it full U.S. officials said. Raising their clenched fists the residences of two embassy “Saddam Hussein tells you of “lies and contradictions, ” Bush’s address to the Iraqi in the air, the demonstrators officials Friday. that this crisis is a struggle and said the U.S. president denounced Bush and also people, with an Arabic voice- between Iraq and America. In France retaliated for the aimed to be the “dictator of over and captions provided by President Hosni Mubarak of raid on its property by fact, it is Iraq against the the world." the State Department, Egypt and King Fahd of Saudi expelling 26 Iraqi military and world,” said Bush, standing in Meanwhile, hundreds of apparently was broadcast in Arabia, whom they called civilian trainees and three front of his desk with the Kuwaitis continued to flood its entirety Sunday evening. “traitors of the Arab world” Iraqi students suspected of American flag behind him. into Saudi Arabia Sunday “ Iraq finds itself on the for backing the U.S.-led forces being secret agents. They left The eight-minute speech after Iraqi troops opened a brink of war, ” Bush said. But in the Persian Gulf. the country Sunday night was followed immediately by a border crossing over the “war is not inevitable. It is still The U.N. resolution Sunday, under police escort on an Air 25-minute response from an weekend, and Kuwait’s along with actions by the France flight to Amman, possible to bring this crisis to Iraqi TV announcer. government-in-exile accused a peaceful end.” Italian and Soviet Jordan. Efforts to recruit and keep minority grad students aided by new director By SARAH VOIGT colleges by assessing minority does in the white community,” News Writer enrollment and making said Lawrence. “There are very recommendations w ill make few black alumni out there.” him a valuable addition to the As an initial phase of his Errol Lawrence, the newly staff.” minority recruitment plan, appointed assistant director of Before beginning at Notre Lawrence will introduce Notre Graduate Schools, plans to use Dame, Lawrence worked for a Dame’s graduate programs to his expertise to help recruit and year as an access and retention the minority populations at retain minority students. specialist for Lilly, Lopez and other universities. “We [the The scarcity of minority Associates, an independent members of the Graduate students on campus is a serious consulting firm in Princeton, Admissions Staff) will meet with problem, according to Barbara New Jersey. the director of Minority Affairs, Turpin, director of Graduate “Because I’ve developed and black and white faculty Admissions. specific techniques in the members at other schools who “Compared to the minority recruitment and subsequent counsel students about enrollment of other graduate retention of minority students, I graduate schools. “ schools, we don’t stack up very have some ideas about what Lawrence emphasized that w ell,” she explained. “We only w ill attract them to Notre once minorities submit their have one new black student this Dame,” Lawrence said. applications, they must meet year.” There are about 1,500 Lawrence said that many the same admissions students in the graduate qualified minority students do requirements as non- program. not consider Notre Dame minorities. Lawrence’s “Part of the problem is that graduate school simply because responsibilities, however, by no Powell speaks AP Photo we’ve had no coherent plan in they have never been exposed means end with the minority the past,” Turpin said. “Dr. to the school. student’s acceptance into the Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks to Lawrence’s experience creating “Notre Dame does not stand newsmen in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia after visiting American troops recruitment plans for other out in the black community as it see DEAN / page 4 who are deployed in the country. page 2 The Observer Monday, September 17, 1990 I n s id e C o l u m n W e a t h e r Forecast for noon, Monday, Sept. 17. Frosh football Lines show high temperatures. fans show true ND spirit Yesterday's high: 62 After a lot of com- Yesterday’s low: 54 plaining about who Nation’s high:1 07 should get tickets and (Borrego Springs, Calif.) where students Nation’s low: 23 should sit at Notre (Truckee, Calif.) Dame games, the first Forecast: home game arrived. Sunny and very cool to­ One group of fans day, with a high of 60 to stood out from the Corinne Pavlis 65. Clear and continued rest. It wasn’t Notre Saint Mary’s Editor cold tonight, with a low Dame or Saint Mary’s near 40. Sunny and students per --------------------------------- warmer tomorrow, with a se, but rather the freshman classes of both FRONTS: high near 70. schools. As a senior, I finally had the chance to sit in the coveted senior section. I have never COLD WARM STATIONARY ©1990 Accu-Weather, Inc. been to a ND game I didn’t like. I guess I Pressure figured it could only get better now that my friends and I were in sections 28 and 29. I ® (b E3 F?q was wrong. HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY The senior section was not all I had Via Associated Press GraphicsNet dreamed it would be. Granted there were three times as many people as there should have been due to every girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, friend from home, and alum W o r l d who talked a student into getting them into the student section; but that wasn’t the real Thousands of demon­ 25 children, seven adults drowned in problem. What bugged me most was the re­ strators marched to the Moscow Honduras Sunday when a flash-flood dragged their ally bad attitude disnlaved by the students Kremlin Sunday demanding that school bus as it was crossing a rain-swollen river and and fans. President Mikhail Gorbachev and his During the National Anthem fans were overturned it, authorities said. The victims included 52- prime minister resign to take swearing at one another about being in the year old American missionary Dorothy Sauder Hood The responsibility for the country’s wrong seats. I could not believe how pushy accident occurred on a country road between the villages deepening economic crisis.

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