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XXIII NO.120 THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Blanco pledges service to students in address By ANN MARIE HARTMAN which involves social interac student administration hopes to Assistant News Editor tion and projects with peer tackle include research into the guidance and counseling; and a quality of undergraduate Out with the old and in with continuation of the “Fred line," education; student representa the new was the theme of the a telephone number students tion on the duLac revision student body address held can use to voice their campus committee; cooperation with Wednesday by the newly-in- praises and criticisms. the South Bend City Govern stalled student government The second item on the ment in regards to off-campus president and vice-president, Blanco-Florenzo agenda is to attacks; and the overall student Joe Blanco and Dave Florenzo. increase student input to the attitude towards the S.U.F.R. administration. Blanco sug After accepting the presiden movement. tial gavel from former student gested that a continued effort to Pasin and Tombar opened the leaders, Rob Pasin and Fred follow up on the board of evening’s address with words of Tombar, Blanco outlined his trustees reports will be the thanks, but did not relinquish agenda for the 1991-1992 route the new student adminis their titles until they passed on school year. tration will take to make im their words of wisdom. According to Blanco, there provements in this area. Pasin told new leaders to are three main areas that he Blanco concluded his agenda “expect intense highs and in hopes his administration will be in saying that he wants to in tense lows." But if asked to ac crease campus involvement in cept the role of president again, able to address. world issues. “Notre Dame is Pasin said he “would in a First is the area of service to unique and saddled with a re minute." the student body. “Student sponsibility to the world," said Tombar’s closing remarks government must deal with in Blanco. were a plea to all students to dividual concerns," said Blanco. He and Florenzo plan to pro have an open-mind towards the pose various national and in S.U.F.R. organization. Blanco He and Florenzo hope to im plement this plan of student ternational programs to the said he hopes to refocus stu service through an emphasis on University, as well as to raise dents on the message of the S.U.F.R coalition and clear up The Observer/E.G. Bail student life; further develop funds for the lecture series that misinformed judgements held Joseph Blanco, 1991-1992 Student Body President, gives his openinr ment of a pilot gold program Pasin and Tombar established. Additional areas that the new by students of the organization. address to the Notre Dame community Wednesday evening at th< Center for Continuing Education Auditorium. Speaker: student free speech is in danger By DAVID KINNEY about issues involving even th< Assistant News Editor most subtle of racism or sex ism. Freedom of speech and of Michigan’s speech code wai academics is being threatened later declared a violation of th< on college campuses across the First Amendment by thr nation, at the cost of the mis Supreme Court. sion of the university to teach • A social worker was prohib the truth, according to Charles ited from beginning a program Sykes, author of “The Hollow to help homosexuals convert to Men: Politics and Corruption in heterosexual behavior. The Higher Education.” administration said that this is “We have so lost the idea of a speech crime; the university what education should be," must embrace homosexuals on said Sykes during a lecture campus rather than attempt to Wednesday. Schools currently see SYKES / page 4 support an “idea of scholarship whose goal is n o t. to weigh ideas, but to advance political Speaker ideas." The administrations of many The Observer/E.G. Bailey universities and colleges are addresses Singin' in the Spring curtailing students’ freedom of speech in attempts to fight “The Bone Forest" entertains students with music in the fieldhouse mall Wednesday afternoon. Warm racism, sexism, and other types sex issues temperatures brought many students outdoors to enjoy the benefits spring weather offers. of discrimination on campuses, according to Sykes. By MEREDITH The politicalization of cur MCCULLOUGH Thief of ND rare books to assist in returns riculum has also begun to de News Writer velop, diminishing the concept DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — for April 26 but both sides will also declined comment. of a true liberal arts education. Issues addressed in abortion, Convicted rare book thief request a delay. Blumberg faces up to 35 This “dogmatic, absolute un pornography, and surrogacy Stephen Blumberg will soon be On Jan. 30, Blumberg, 42, years in prison and a maximum derstanding of human experi debates are closely linked by reunited with his collection as was convicted of four theft-re fine of $1 million. Neither at ence” does not allow for the problems of sex discrimination authorities try to match thou lated counts, including one of torney would discuss sentencing discussion of the problems of and equality rather than by sands of stolen books, some possessing 21,000 stolen rare recommendations Wednesday, cultural diversity, he said. questions of personal choice or from Notre Dame’s Libraries, books from hundreds of li although Reade told reporters Through the speech codes, privacy, said Cass Sunstein, a with their owners braries across the country and in January that Blumberg expulsions, and other sanc professor from the University of "It’s going to happen,” said Canada. Some of the volumes deserved a long stay in prison. tions, universities are sweeping Chicago's Law School. Linda Reade, the assistant U.S. came from Notre Dame. "In many ways he is a more the problems inherent in a di In a lecture yesterday titled District Attorney who prose The other charges dealt with hardened criminal than many verse student body under the “Abortion, Pornography and cuted the case. stolen antique windows and others I have come across," she rug instead of solving them Surrogacy Arrangements," She said she did not know musical instruments. said at the time. through debate. Sunstein explained that the when Blumberg, whom she de He cited a variety of though the three debates are scribed as a “thief of historic When he was convicted, Federal Judge Harold Vietor examples of this problem: usually separated in public dis proportions," would be taken to Reade resisted a defense re denied appeal bond and Blum • University of Connecticut cussion, he “think[sj they have the Omaha, Neb., warehouse quest to allow Blumberg to see berg was taken to the Cass passed a sweeping resolution an enormous amount to do with where FBI agents have been the books, saying she’d rather County Jail in Atlantic. An offi banning everything from racial each other." trying to inventory the books. give him a list of books that he cial at the sheriffs office said epithets to the obvious exclu Each of these debates are The task is arduous because could identify while in jail. Blumberg has posed no prob sion of people from conversa dominated by two different po Blumberg obliterated most of She said Blumberg has re lem at the jail. tions and inappropriate laugh sitions, one libertarian and the the identifying marks. ceived a list and has not been In the trial, Blumberg pleaded ing. other traditionalist, which cap She and one of Blumberg’s helpful so far. innocent by reason of insanity, • University of Michigan re ture the common views of the attorneys, Ray Rosenberg, said “We have requested certain with Rosenberg saying the de sorted to the distribution of a American public, according to the visit would happen before things, but there has been no fendant was absorbed by Victo pamphlet to inform students Sunstein. Blumberg is sentenced. response,” she said. She de rian history and “lived in a time about the speech code. One Sentencing was originally set clined to be specific. 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