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/ACCENT: man in green Maybe, maybe not The Partly cloudy today with a 50 percent chance of thun­ dershowers. High in the up­ l VIEWPOINT: Losing ground in space per 70s. VOL. XXI. NO. 18 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1987 ' the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's New Guard Nation readies for celebrates Saturday anniversary By GREG LUCAS Associated Press Senior Staff Reporter A star-spangled spectacle A newly created Irish Guard cranks up Thursday in started training on Tuesday Philadelphia with patriotism night and will be ready for the and a parade, picnic, presiden­ Michigan State game, said Lut­ tial speech, international bell­ her Snavely, director of bands. ringing ceremony, show busi­ "The Guard will be able to ness fanfare and fireworks. do the pregame for sure and The party marks the 200th they will be on the field for anniversary of the signing of halftime," said Snavely. He the Constitution by 39 of the 55 added that the quality of train­ delegutes who shaped it during ing will depend largely on the ,.. four hot summer months. It be­ weather in the next few days. came law nine months later ~w when New Hampshire became About 36 people tried out for 1 ,. I Ill the ninth state to ratify it. to positions that were opened $~·.'~;~·~, .:'' ~ .. .*Rp Schoolgirls on the deck of the up when the administration dis­ ~V.; banded the former Irish Guard Kitty Hawk recited the Pledge ' of Allegiance yesterday along in the beginning of September, with construction workers in said Snavely. v According to Snavely, an or­ f "' Boston, President Reagan and der from the Office of Student ' "' millions of Americans \. celebrating the U.S. Constitu­ Affairs dismissed seven of the J \ 10 former Irish Guard mem­ tion's 200th birthday a day ear­ J ~~ bers. The other three students, ·.-..._,~ ly. who had not been dismissed Reagan led a nationally from the old squad. were eligi­ televised Pledge of Allegiance ble to try out for the new team. for "Celebrate the Constitution The three former members Day," the preamble to tried out, but did not make the Thursday's bicentennial bash. new team, said Snavely. "It's still our blueprint for The decision to dismiss the freedom," Reagan said from seven guard members "was the Capitol in Washington based on incidents that oc­ The Observec-Susy Hemandez during the day-long civics and curred this year in light of in­ Under where? history lesson. cidents that occurred last In anticipation of the first home game coming up window to the awaiting Notre Dame freshmen At the New York Stock Ex- this weekend, freshmen of Regina Hall toss arti­ below In the annual "panty raid." see GUARD, page 3 cles of clothing of dubious nature out of their see BIRTHDAY, page 5 Pope says dissent from church law 'grave error' Associatt•d PrPss contraception, divorce, abor­ was to say Mass in Dodger agreed with the Church's ban mind," said Cardinal Joseph tion and homosexual acts. Stadium. on women in the priesthood, Bernardin. "Many tend to LOS ANGELES - In a blunt "Dissent from Church During the private meeting and only 25 percent thought question things, especially exchange, American bishops doctrine remains what it is, dis­ at a seminary in the San Fer­ birth control is sinful. those matters which are impor­ told Pope John Paul II on Wed­ sent," the pope said in remarks nando Mission complex, the To accept faith, said the tant to them, as religion is." nesday that "an uncritical ap­ to 320 of the nation's 400 bis­ pope was treated to an un­ pope, is to abide by the plication" of old solutions is no hops. "As such it may not be usually frank discussion about Church's teachings and "it Archbishop John Quinn of longer good enough for U.S. proposed or received on an what bothers American Cat­ would be altogether out of place San Francisco told the pope Catholics. But the pope called equal footing with the Church's holics and has caused them to to try to model this act of reli­ that "the first challenge, the dissent from church law "a authentic teaching." ignore many of the Church's gion on attitudes drawn from conversion of the mind, is to grave error" and incompatible teachings. secular culture." convey to American Catholics with being a good Catholic. The meeting with the bishops A Los Angeles Times poll of The pope was addressed by that the revolutionary changes There was no compromise in began a day in which the pope 957 Catholics last month found four senior bishops of the which have occurred in per­ the pope's reply to the leader­ also visited with Nancy Reagan 9 of 10 say Catholics may dis­ American Church. sonal and societal life in the ship of the American Church, and met with representatives agree with Church policies and "We live in an open society 20th century are not grounds as he affirmed the Church's of the Hindu, Buddhist, Moslem still be considered loyal fol­ where everyone prizes the stand against women priests, and Jewish faiths. Later, he lowers. Sixty percent dis- freedom to speak his or her see POPE, page 3 Disapproval 'widespread' for Scholastic cartoon By KRISTIN COLLIGAN The cartoon "puts blacks in surprised by the reaction on the Notre Dame-Saint Mary's feeling that it was read, maybe News Staff the same context as campus. "It was definitely not community," she added. interpreted as being a little fun­ criminals," said Rochelle a type of thing that was Holder said she thought the ny, and overlooked. And that is Members of the black com­ Holder, president of the Black .neant to be offensive." cartoon was printed without probably the thing that has up­ munity at Notre Dame have ex­ Cultural Arts Council. "To In a statement issued Wed­ thought to the feelings of the set the students the most," he pressed concern over what propagate that type of informa­ nesday, McKernan said, community. "It was a careless said. McKernan, however, they consider a racial remark tion is wrong and disrespect­ "Scholastic now recognizes error, and there was no reason said she does not feel that the in a cartoon in last week's ful." that in publishing that strip we this needed to happen," she cartoon was meant to be taken Scholastic Magazine. Dennis Tillman, president of inadvertently hurt deeply said. "The way it was accepted as a racial statement. "It's the The cartoon, "Life in Hell," the Notre Dame chapter of the many of our readers. Scholas­ by the people (at Scholastic) kind of attitude that's always by syndicated artist Matt NAACP, said, "It's as if one, tic did not mean to cause pain who read it was careless and presented to people going off to Groening, had a teacher telling two, three there's a definite re­ in any way. irresponsible on the part of high school," McKernan said. a character that in high school lationship between drug­ "We officially apologize for Scholastic." "It was dryly mocking what the he would face "gangs, drug­ pushers, gangs and Negroes." any hurt that cartoon may have Tillman also expressed con­ teacher was saying. He's pushers and Negroes." Kathleen McKernan, editor caused any and all members of cern about the ease with which of Scholastic, said she was the cartoon was run. "I have a see CARTOON, page 4 ~--------~----------~~~~-----~----~~--------~------.-------------~--~----------~~-------. page 2 The Observer Thursday, September 17, 1987 In Brief Michael Jackson hype Prince Harry, younger son of Prince Charles and a thing of the past Princess Diana, spent his first day at nursery school Wed­ nesday making a pair of cardboard binoculars. Harry, If there is one rock artist who is universally who turned 3 on Tuesday, arrived at school with his parents held in contempt by today's college students it and 5-year-old brother, Prince William. Two hours later is surely Michael Jackson. Jim his mother came to take him home. "I was upset about Despite the fact that an overwhelming leaving Harry," Diana was quoted as saying. percentage of these same people at one time Carroll - Associated Press either bought or taped Jackson's hit album Photo Editor "Thriller," and probably still remember the The Earth's ozone layer will be protected by a treaty words to its songs, they are reluctant to admit that calls on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemi­ their past admiration. More likely than not, cals by the year 2000, signed by two dozen countries Wed­ their copy has been lost, taped over, or ig­ nesday. Friends of the Earth, hailing the treaty as an nominously handed down to a younger brother important first step, announced Wednesday that or sister who doesn't listen to it either. McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Around campus the consensus holds Jackson Chicken franchises in the United States and some other to be "major uncool." And even though people countries have agreed to abandon chlorofluorocarbon­ are aware that his newest album is out, nobody filled foam packaging for safer materials. "It's the tip of seems to care. For many, this pretended indif­ the iceberg, but a visible one," said the group's interna­ ference even veils a hidden hostility to the tional director, Geoffrey Webb. -Associated Press former star. People want to see Jackson's al­ bum fail. And this contempt extends to the general public as well. Given Jackson's immense popularity only three years ago, it's amazing Of Interest that none of his "Thriller" songs receive any airplay anymore.

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