CHRIS SKORCZ Chose the Evangelical Vote As Policies Are Jeopardized Be Staff Reporter the Topic of His Lecture
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See CAMPUS SCENE - inside VOL. XXI, NO. 52 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1986 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Trustees meet to nominate candidate By MARK PANKOWSKI confirm the nominee, he said. News Editor Conklin said the successor to University President Father In a closed meeting Theodore Hesburgh will be Thursday, a University Board named as soon as the board of Trustees’ committee met to acts. The m atter was on the nominate a candidate as the board’s agenda for 2 p.m. next Notre Dame president. today, he said. Whether the committee was successful, however, remained The board is also scheduled unclear Thursday night. to vote today on whether to divest from companies doing Board of Trustees Chairman business in South Africa, said Donald Keough and Vice Chair Conklin. man Andrew McKenna, con Conklin said the Ad Hoc Com tacted Thursday night, would mittee on South African Invest not say whether the 10-member ments met Wednesday to form nominating committee had se ulate a recommendation on the lected a candidate. divestment question. The “The nominating committee board was to vote on the 9- did meet today,” said Keough, member committee’s recom who is also the committee’s mendation this morning. chairman. “The process will take place Besides the presidential se through tomorrow (Friday) lection and the divestment ... We should come up with a decision, Conklin said “there solution by tomorrow,” he said. isn’t anything else on (the The full 49-member board board’s agenda) of any conse was scheduled to vote this af quence.” ternoon on whether to confirm Five Holy Cross priests have the committee’s nominee. been identified as likely succes The Observer/Margaret Mannion sors to Hesburgh, who will Color provided by Anheuser-Busch, Inc. An Associated Press report retire on May 17, 1987. Fired up quoted Keough as saying the They are Father Edward In greener times, a fountain at Saint Mary’s College erupts in a brilliant display of light. committee had come “very “Monk” Malloy, associate close” to nominating a can provost; Father William didate. The report also quoted Beauchamp, executive assis Keough as saying the commit tant to the president; Father SMC students talk about alcohol tee had not been disbanded and Ernest Bartell, director of the By ANN KALTENBACH tures sponsored by the Saint Saint Mary’s, being 22, there’s remains “intact.” Helen Kellogg Institute for In Assistant News Editor Mary’s Alcohol Education more than just the bar scene Assistant Vice President for ternational Studies; Father Mi Council in conjunction with Al . you can make your ownUniversity Relations Dick Con chael McCafferty, associate Expressing perspectives on cohol Awareness Week, the lec fun. It’s a little disappointing klin, however, said he thought professor of law; and Father alcohol use at Saint Mary’s, ture titled “As We See It” that people have to drink to the committee had come up David Tyson, vice president for Senior Mary Dilenschneider featured a panel of students, have fun. with a nominee. student affairs. told students at an alcohol faculty and residence staff “We as a community need to “I met with Donald Keough In a Nov. 2 story, however, awareness lecture Thursday presenting their views on be more serious and quit laugh and Andrew McKenna on an the Chicago Tribune quoted un night in LeMans that campus campus drinking. ing at people who are trashed.” other matter . and I sensed named sources as saying Mal “social life doesn’t have to Dilenschneider spoke from Margaret Monahan, a Saint that they had settled on a can loy would be nominated and focus on the bar scene.” the perspective of a Saint didate,” Conklin said. The third in a series of lec Mary’s senior saying, “Here at see BEER, page 6 A majority vote is needed to see BOARD, page 6 A Weekend with Penn State Falwell speaks to ND on evangelical vote By CHRIS SKORCZ chose the evangelical vote as policies are jeopardized be Staff Reporter the topic of his lecture. cause our people were virtually Alumni Association sets events Speaking in the wake of last ignored. Rev. Jerry Falwell, fun week’s Congressional elections “The Republicans lost six Special to The Observer damentalist preacher and out the ultra-conservative Virginia seats by a total of 29,000 votes spoken leader of the controver preacher blamed six Republi because they didn’t ask for the The Notre Dame Alumni Association has prepared a list sial Moral Majority, addressed of events on campus for the final home football game of can losses in key Senatorial help of the Religious Right a capacity crowd in Washing elections on the Republicans’ which felt as though they the season. ton Hall Thursday night in a failure to enlist the political weren’t wanted,” he said. Fal FRIDAY: lecture titled “The Evangelical influence of Falwell and his fel 7 p.m.: Band rehearsal. The Notre Dame Marching Band well attributed Reagan’s vic Vote: Is it Monolithic?” marches from Washington Hall to Cartier Field. low evangelicals. The Religi tory in 1980 to his ability to put “The evangelical vote is not ous Right, as the media has together a “tenuous coalition” SATURDAY: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Shenanigans food booth on the North completely monolithic,” he termed Falwell and similar re which consisted largely of reli Quad. said. “Its position in regard to ligious conservatives, com gious conservatives who aban 12 to 3 p.m.: Hospitality Center in the ACC North Dome. issues and principles is very prises as much as 20% of the doned fellow evangelical in Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s alumni, students, family clear. For example, we are electorate, enough to have al cumbent Jimmy Carter. Carter and friends are cordially invited to the Hospitality Center very strongly pro-life but we lowed the Republicans to retain was unable to establish a firm for refreshments, entertainment, films and information. are not monolithic in regard to control of the Senate during stance on several of the most Coffee compliments of the Notre Dame Alumni Associa politicians.” President Reagan’s final two significant social issues of the tion. He said that in today’s years in office. late ’70’s and early ’80’s. 1:30 p.m.: Pep Rally in front of the bookstore, sponsored pluralistic society no one per “Not one senator who ran Reagan was able to articulate by the Dancin’ Irish and the Irish Cheerleaders. son or minority group can domlast week sought the help of the positions the conservatives 12:30 p.m.: Performance by Shenanigans in the ACC North inate. But he stressed the need Religious Right,” said Falwell, found very attractive on these Dome. for participation in the political who makes no secret of his same social issues, won the 1:30 p.m .: Glee Club performance in the ACC North Dome. process, something the evan wholehearted support of the support of the Religous Right, 2 p.m.: Band concert on the steps of the Administration gelical movement, through its President. “The Republican and subsequently won the elec Building. registration of approximately Party has forgotten the Reagan tion, Falwell said. 8.5 million voters, has been 3:30 p.m.: Football: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Penn genius. He was able to put to The success of Reagan’s State Nittany Lions. able to effect. gether yuppies, political con agenda during his first term After the game: Hospitality Center in the ACC North Given the evangelicals’ in servatives, economic con gave him overwhelming con- Dome. creasing participation in servatives, and religious American politics, Falwell conservatives but now his see PREACHER, page 6 The Observer Friday, November 14, 1986 - page 2 In Brief Final home game is special to You can hold hands, but sexual activity is out of the students, players and alumni question in University of Colorado dorms. As outlined in the new guide to residence hall living, officials prohibited I’m not the athletic director, ...or the foot “sleeping together” or “going to bed with another person.” ball coach. Some students are angry but others are getting a good -University President Father Theodore Hes Tripp chuckle out of it. -The Observer burgh, after handing back a football a reporter gave him at his first press conference. Baltz News Editor American family life has been torn by two decades of Maybe because the home football season ends liberal social experiments, according to a special task Saturday and it’s my senior year, I’ve been force on family life which cited examples ranging from having this horrifying nightmare lately. In it I no-fault divorce laws to permissive sex to the easy am a first-year alumnus in the student section availability of welfare. The task force, appointed by Pres at a Notre Dame football game. The Irish score: ident Reagan, released a 70-page report urging the Reagan my feet leave the bleachers, my hands fly into administration to order assessments of any new initiatives the air in a victorious burst of energy. Scream to “reinforce the stability of the home.”Associated - Press ing and hollering like I’ve done for the last four years whenever Notre Dame gets a touchdown, I pause and look around the section. The entire stadium is deathly silent. I can hear those alleged echoes in the lonely, whisper ing wind that blows across the the football Of Interest arena. My enthusiasm wanes; I collect myself and lower my fists. A faceless fan sitting next The 6th annual Senior Class Block Party for the North to me tugs my coat and says, “Hey, Mac, sid- east Neighborhood Community will be held today from 4 down and be quiet! Yer not even ’sposed to be to 6:30 p.m.