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• • . Irish Draftees - page 12 VOL XV, NO. 136 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's THURSDAY, APRil 30, 1981 Reagan invitation dra"Ws disapproval By TOM SHAUGHNESSY Reagan administration's policies News Stuff concerning El Salvador, the economy, and human rights. Ms. Manier asked the crowd to "give us VE A crowd of about HOO students and faculty members gathered on the chance to freely express our the South Quad at a rally held to viewpoints and listen with an open protest the choice of President mind to what we have to say." Her Ronald Reagan as this year's com appeal was met with boos and mencement speaker and as the hisses from the pro-Reagan mem bers of the crowd. GIFP recipient of an honorary degree from the University. Following her comments, Bob The crowd appeared to be even Heineman, a 1968 graduate of ly divided between demonstrators Notre Dame, recalled the protests wearing white armbands and pro and turbulence of the sixties and Reagan counter-demonstrators expressed concern over the bearing pictures of the President policies of the Reagan Administra and a banner which read,"Don't tion. Reagan's dream "is a Give the Gipp No Up." The walls of nightmare for the majority of Alumni, Dillon and Badin halls Americans," he said. According to were draped with more pro Heineman, Reagan's "nightmare" Reagan banners. entails the reduction of public fun William O'Brien, a senior from ding for meal programs in public schools, the reduced educational Stanford Hall, opened the rally, ter Students Concerned About Commencement held a rally outside the South Dining Hall to protest ming it "a serious examination of ~e lNVITATION, page 4 President Reagan's scheduled appearance at Notre Dame's graduation. (Photo by Rachel Blount) ideals." O'Brien stated that the ral ly represented a choice "to rake our Ideals seriously" In the face of "the harsh political realities of our world."" Resigning ourselves to 'realism,' suggests that there is real ly no need for an Institution like Conservative Dems pledge budget support Notre Dame," O'Brien stated. He closed his speech by saying, "The ..... WASHINGTON (AP) - House budget plan still being pieced to- that they will suffer only two or to follow later in the year on only true patriotism is the one that Democratic leaders scrambled gether by the Democratic leader three defections would give spending and taxt·s. The precise sincerc:ly and constructively ques yestt:rday to hold the party's ranks ship. lkagan a stunning victory in the shape of spt·mling cuts and tax tions, analyzes, criticizes, en for a looming budget showdown, In addition, Rep. Charles Democratic-controlled !louse reductions themselves will not ht· courages. The only true patriot but rebellious conservatives Stcnholm, D/Tcxas, predicted that next week. worked out for weeks or months. acts out of concern ... and we are stressed their determination to six to I 0 Democrats who arc not The Senate Budget Committee Opponents of tht· president's called to l·arc." join the Republican minority to members of the forum also will go approved a plan drawn to White plan in tht· lloust·, including Rep. Tht· next speaker was senior pass President Reagan's package. along with Reagan, who addressed House specifications Tuesday and Richard c;cphardt, D/Mo., Maureen Manier. Ms. Manier One congressman said as many Congress Tuesday night in a na a final vote in the GOP-dominated conceded that Rt·agan had helped clarlflt-d the stand of the Students as j5 of the 44 members of the tionally televised appeal for enact Senate is expected within two his cause with the speech, his first Concerned About Commcnce Conservative Democratk Forum ment of his program. weeks. since surviving an assassination at- mt·nt, citing the sharp contrast bl· probably will support the presi If correct, Stcnholm's count At issue is a hudgct outline that tween "the principles and values" dent's proposal over an alternative coupled with Republican claims would set guidclint·s for Congress See DEMS, page 4 of the University and those reflected In Reagan's policies as the rea'i<m for their objection to the President's appearance at this Foreign aid year's commencement ceremony. "We feel that tht: choice of com mencement speakers and Development Bank convenes recipients of honorary degrees arc unique opportunities for the Uni HONOLULU (AP)- The Asia Development Bank, set up 15 years ago to By holding its 14th annual meeting in Honolulu at a time wht·n U.S. con versity to express the principles better Asian and Pacific nations economically and socially, meets on tributions to multilateral lending institutions arc under study, the bank and values which It embodies. We American soil for the first time this week, emphasizing its worries over hopes to attract the attention of the Amt·rican government, especially that of simply do not feel President declining U.S. foreign aid. Trea'lury Secretary Ronald Reagan, who is the U.S. governor on the board. lie Reagan's policies accord with the In the past, the United States has set the pace for nmtributions to the ADB. will be represented at the meeting by Deputy Senetary R. Tim McNamar. Image of the University which we But with the Reagan administration plans to review U.S. foreign aid, there is Two matters are to he discussed hy the ·H national representatives on the as students arc taught to represent now concern about future cuts in aid - and that such cuts would be board of governors: replenishment of society at large," Ms. Manier said. mirrored among the bank's 16 other donor members, including 14 in the Asian Development Fund, due to She referred specifically to the Europe and North America. run low on funds in 1982, and an in crease in the bank's ordinary capital to cover conventional loans for the four Meet next year period beginning in 19H3. Thursday The Manila-based bank provides two main types of assistance. The Asian Development Fund is the "soft-lending" arm of the bank. It Murday prepares proposals makes so-called conccssional loans to Asia's poorest nations, loans which typically carry no interest charges and require only an annual service ('barge By JEFF CHOPPIN second proposal recommends that proposal requesting that a student of 1 percent. Bangladesh and Burma were the largest borrowers from the Jenlor Jtaff Reporter the Board of Trustees amend the sit on the Board. fund in 1980. constitution of the Campus Life "It has been talked about a lot, but Conventional loans from the bank's capital stock arc made at 9 percent Student government will present Council to Include the Chair of the it has never been tried before. It will interest to the better-off developing nations sul'h a'l Taiwan and Korea. four Senate-approved proposals to Faculty Senate as one of the two be very Interesting to sec what hap These loans are for specific projects such ao; port improvement or expansion the Student Affairs Subcommittee of faculty representatives. An ex pens.... They will either squash it im of a region eletric power grid. the Board of Trustees next Thursday officio member of the Faculty Senate mediately or they will listen to our The Reagan administration hao; Indicated it will continue to meet Its inter at the Center for Continuing Educa would also sit in CLC meetings. Input." The rea'iOn for the proposal, national obligation while overall foreign aid policy Is under review. tion. The third proposal suggests that Mui'day said, is that the students Specifically, it will expedite the remaining installments of a four-year com The major thrust of the presenta the University complete the need quicker feedback pertaining to mitment to the development fund made by the Carter administration in tion will focus on the Notre Dame Chautauqua project in La Fortune. the discussions on their proposals. 1979, according to Lester Edmund, the outgoing Amcrkan member of the social life. Overcrowding, the off The fourth proposal requests that a He said that the average time be bank's board of directors. campus Issue, and a lack of social student sit on the Board of Trustees. tween presentation and response is The bank was founded by the United Nations In 1966 as "an international space will be among the subjects dis Student Body President Don Mur about five months. The other reason partnership devoted to the economic and social advancement of Asia and cussed in the proposals. day said that the townhouse and for the proposal is for "someone to the Pacific," bank president Taroichi Yoshida said. Since then it ha'l lent The first proposal recommends Chautauqua proposals will each express the views ofthe students." more than S8 billion for some 4S'5 projects, leading to overall capital invest that the University commission a take up a "considerable" amount of Murday reported that he had con- ment of some S21 billion. study into the fea'libility of on time. The most interesting one, See CLC, page 4 campus M:nior townhouses. The according to Murday, will be the See BANK, page 3 -- ~- ---------------- - News Brieb Thursday,April3o, ~9s1- page2 c===~========*=================================~ by The Observer and The Associated Press Pope John Paul 11 joins Jewish religious leaders in a historic interfaith prayer during his forthcoming visit to Switzerland, Remember Cynthia Dwyer the visit's Swiss organizers said yesterday. They said the prayer scheduled during the pontiffs five-day visit beginning May 31 has no precedent in the history of the papacy, and will follow ecumenical Cynthia Dwyer, a 49-year old Amherst, New York, meetings between the pontiff and Protestant and Jewish groups.