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The Observer VOL. XXIII NO. 32 TUESDAY , OCTOBER 10, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S ND language dept, divided into 3 parts Change is currently in effect By JANICE O’LEARY partments) offers “more per­ News Copy Editor sonal attention for the stu­ dents,” Lanzinger said. He also hopes that the reorganization The Arts and Letters lan­ will provide a closer interaction guage department, previously among the faculty. called the department of mod­ The department’s main goal ern and classical languages, is “ to achieve bilingual compe­ has been reorganized into three tence” through language in­ new departments: German and struction, and to then build on Russian languages and litera­ that knowledge with a focus on tures, classical and oriental literature, Lanzinger said. languages and literatures, and Associate Professor and romance languages and litera­ Chairwoman of the romance tures. languages and literatures de­ The languages were grouped partment JoAnn Della Neva into these three categories in stated that her first goal is to accordance with their similari­ “really improve lower-level lan­ ties, said Dean of the College of guage courses.” She has insti­ Arts and Letters Michael Loux. AP Photo tuted a video-oriented French German and Russian have class and would like to expand historical as well as cultural East German demonstrators stage a peaceful sit-in on a junction in downtown East Berlin Saturday the concept. • linkages and the connection night. They demanded democratic reforms and shouted “Gorby help us” in reference to Soviet President She also stresses communica­ between romance languages is Mikhail Gorbachev who was in East Berlin on the 40th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic. tion and improved speaking obvious, he said. ability. The relationship between Della Neva stated that her classical and oriental languages second goal is to improve and ‘At least’ 70,000 march in Leipzig is a more ancient one, said expand the graduate program David Ladouceur, chairman and by offering a graduate degree associate professor of classical in Italian next year. Associated Press Christoph Wonneberger, persing by mid-evening, Won­ and oriental languages and lit­ Since the titles of the new pastor for the Lukas Lutheran neberger said. eratures. departments include literature, BERLIN— Tens of thou­ Church in Leipzig, said “ at Having all the languages each department is emphasizing sands of demonstrators least” 70,000 demonstrators He said, “ I consider this grouped into one department this aspect. “Literature is really marched and shouted “ We marched in Leipzig on Monday (police restraint) a very makes it “difficult for the de­ what the program is about,” need freedom !” in Leipzig on night. hopeful sign following the vio­ partment to set common Della Neva said. It is only Monday during the largest Wonneberger said he was lence” in earlier demonstra­ goals,” Loux said. With three through reading the great pro-democracy rally in East surprised by the restraint of tions. separate departments, each one works of a language that you Germany since a 1953 work­ police and paramilitary troops will “be able to proceed with can improve upon your under­ ers’ uprising, witnesses said. who were deployed nearby. Police clubbed pro-democ­ their own research agendas,” standing and skills in that lan­ Protesters also held a vigil “ Even though this demon­ racy protesters in six East he added. guage, she added. in East Berlin to demand stration is the largest (since German cities over the week­ The division has been effective The German and Russian lan­ democratic reforms after a 1953), to our knowledge it end and an opposition leader as of the beginning of the fall guages and literatures depart­ weekend of demonstrations went off completely without said that unless the govern­ semester. Hopefully it w ill cre­ ment w ill be having an inaugu­ across this hard-line Commu­ violence,” he said in a tele­ m ent eases its policies, vio­ ate more classes and thus de­ ral AT&T Visiting Scholar lec­ nist nation. phone interview with West lence may increase. crease class size, said Klaus ture series about Russian and On Saturday and Sunday, Germany’s ZDF television Lanzinger, chairman and pro­ German literatures, as is the clashes broke out between po­ network. Before the Leipzig march, fessor of German and Russian romance languages and Litera­ lice and demonstrators with In 1953, Soviet forces officials of the Leipzig Com­ languages and literatures. tures department. hundreds arrested, several in­ crushed a workers’ uprising. munist Party promised pub­ He said that since the de­ The classical and oriental juries, and one death reported Some Leipzig demonstrators licly they would push for an partments each have their own languages and literatures de­ by news organizations and even “ began conversations open dialogue between citizens office in O’Shaughnessey Hall, partment is also sponsoring an witnesses. The government with paramilitary troops” and the government, church the faculty is more available for inaugural lecture series bring- has issued no official toll. after the crowd started dis­ sources said. consultation with the students. This division (into three de­ see FOREIGN / page 8 Senate debate over racially offensive remarks goes on By SANDRA WIEGAND the procedure is no procedure News Copy Editor basically.” “ I think that there should be Verbal complaints are not a something where we are con­ satisfactory method of combat­ scious of exactly what to do, ting faculty who make racially where to channel our com­ offensive remarks, said Rob plaints.” he added. Price, president of the Black Student Senator Sigi Loya, Cultural Arts Council at the who is working with minority Student Senate meeting yester­ club presidents, said they would day. be drawing up a proposal for Presently, all complaints to the provost on this issue. the provost’s office are verbal, The presentation of a pro­ and often no complaints are on posal to the administration for file for a specific faculty mem­ a security escort service was ber because the complaints are approved at the senate meeting. not in written form, said Price. The proposal w ill be given to Director of Security Rex Rakow In regard to a recent incident this week and Student Activities Price said: “We wanted to meet will be contacted about the with the provost and with the prospect of basing the service professor to discuss this issue... in LaFortune. so that they could be aware of Gina Mahony, the student what was happening. The who drew up the proposal, provost told us that we can’t hopes to meet with the adminis­ make that move because this tration within the next week to Bus bombing ap pmo professor has no file. Our point receive their approval. A police inspector examines the burned out wreckage of a bus in Bogota, Colombia Sunday, in which was, you have no method of If the proposal is approved, complaint, no form so that we seven people were killed after an apparent bombing. The country’s drug lords were blamed for the at­ tack. can get complaints in his file... see SENATE / page 8 Tuesday, October 10, 1989 page 2 The Observer WORLD BRIEFS The Grim Reaper knocks A 22-1 /2-fOOt-tall paper clip was unveiled outside a busi­ ness college Monday to honor the Norwegian who invented the of­ fice helper 90 years ago. The paper clip, weighing a desk-crushing when seniors interview 1,320 pounds, is a faithful copy of Norwegian Johan Vaaler’s 1899 invention, said Per Langanker of the Norwegian School of Senioritis is not all that it is cracked up to be. Management. “ The paper clip is 100 percent accurate and fully As an underclassman, I often found my mind ‘Sometimes an wandering away from my studies and dreaming functional if anyone has big enough paper,” said Langanker, 23, interviewer will play of the school's student committee. The paper clip was made from of the days, when, as a proud Notre Dame se­ steel tubing and is mounted on a 6-ton concrete base outside the nior, I would be able to lay around like a slug. on your honesty to institute in Baerum, an Oslo suburb. What a rude awakening I have undergone in give him the ammo he the past few weeks. Contrary to all expectations, I have discovered that the most common needs to waste you.’ symptom of senioritis is stress. A study was re­ Greg cently conducted in which several physiological Pope John Paul II began a visit to the world’s most Lucas populous Moslem nation Monday with a message of friendship measurements were used to determine stress and assurances that his Roman Catholic flock was loyal to levels in college students as a function of their Assistant News Editor Indonesia. In an atmosphere of controversy over a scheduled stop year in college. The highest stress levels were in East Timor, a predominantly Catholic former Portuguese found in seniors, followed closely by freshmen, are being painstakingly scrutinized, people from territory annexed by Indonesia in 1976, John Paul sought to make with sophomores and juniors bringing up the your proximate and distant past are being con­ clear that Catholics were no threat to the archipelago’s unity. “ I rear. tacted, phones are being tapped, and mail is be­ have come as a friend to all Indonesians, with a great respect for To me, at least, this shows that stress tends ing monitored. all the people of this dynamic nation,” he said. to accompany times of monumental change. For Thus, you should be ready for the following the college senior, this change is perhaps most scenario: “Gee Greg, your participation in the acute.

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