Former Governor Babbit Returns to ND to Speak
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WEDNESDAY , DECEMBER 5, 1990 VOL. XXIII NO. 64 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Former governor Babbit returns to ND to speak By COLLEEN GANNON opportunity and income.” student body president and that time, “slowing drew me to News Writer “I am troubled by the inability resident of Zahm Hall, said, “I the notion that my sense of of our political leaders to lay came to Notre Dame as a Catholicism really did relate to Americans have accepted that out simple truth to the product of a Catholic experi a certain sense of obligation it is the business of government American people about where ence.” He said that he grew up projected outward onto other to do nothing, former Arizona we are in this world, about our in a Catholic Church driven by people,” he said. Governor Bruce Babbit said inability to match spending and rules. “I left here (Notre Dame) Tuesday. income.” he said. In his first year at Notre carrying that experience with “ It was the right thing to do, Leaders need to say that the Dame, he said that he found me,” Babbit said. because I had something to United States cannot continue two faces of the Catholic Although he lost the election, say,” sifid Babbit in reference to to live beyond its means, Babbit Church. “ One face was an ex Babbit said he learned some his candidacy in the 1988 said. According to Babbit, tension of the Catholic Church thing from it. “The 1988 cam presidential election. Although leaders need to tell Americans that I grew up in,” he said. paign never went anywhere,” he recognized the long odds for that the reason government “The Church was obsessed with he said. According to Babbit, winning, Babbit said he entered consumes so much of our in authoritarian tradition,” he the campaign’s inability to get the race to convey a message. come is not because of people Bruce Babbit added. off the ground fated his party "Political leaders in this of welfare or people of poverty, Another face of Catholicism for failure. “Nobody wanted country are not talking up to but “because we created a huge he said. that Babbit observed “seemed any change,” he said. the Am erican electorate. We infrastructure of entitlement However, Babbit said to emphasize the sacramental “To state a problem is some are a society frozen in compla programs for the middle class.” Americans cannot get some quality of faith and worth.” how seen as admitting that cency.” he said. According to “We have to sharpen our fo thing for nothing. “Of course Babbit said he then became perhaps there is a painful solu Babbit, Americans have ac cus about doing something we have to raise taxes,” he acquainted with “the idea that tion, perhaps there will have to cepted “ that the sole function of about the people on the streets said. Catholicism is not rules.” government is to maximize of this land that do need help,” Babbit, a form er Notre Dame Events occurring in his life at see BABBIT/ page 4 English majors sidestep many of DART’s faults by pre-registering By MONICA YANT registration process that allows Associate News Editor Registration '90: English majors to choose their classes within the department before DART registration DARTand other A commitment to maintaining begins. “We have linked a strong, personal advisory problems advising with registration in a system has led to a pre-regis way that the DART system tration process for English would not have enabled us to majors to avoid many of the do,” Buttigieg said. complications of DART, said “When DART was put into English majors receive pre Joseph Buttlgieg, department operation, we saw absolutely no registration information and chair. relation between what our schedule appointments with Each of the 36 full-tim e fac advising was telling students to their advisors before October ulty members within the de do and what they were doing,” break. The pre-registration partm ent advises between 15 he said. Buttigieg noted that process itself is staggered like and 18 students, Buttigieg said. students would decide upon DART, starting with the seniors. The advisors have traditionally classes w ith their advisor, only Pre-registration begins before assisted students in choosing to be denied the courses during 8 a.m., but the earlier students what classes they will take to registration and forced to reg form the line outside the ward completing their major. ister for classes they had no in English office, the better chance The advisory system is one of terest in. they will have to register the the reasons students say they So as not to risk losing the classes of their choice. declare English as a major, strength of the advising system, Janice O’Leary, a junior, be Buttigieg said. “They don’t feel the English department ap gan waiting at 11 p.in and said so lost.” he said of the system proached the Registrar's office she was approximately the 15th which allows majors to get to for a compromise. “After all, person in line that night. - . The Observer/Elisa Klosterman know their professors on a one- the University claims to be very “That’s the only reason I got my Ready for winter to-one level. interested in advising,” classes,” she said of her all- The introduction of DART, Buttigieg said, “we didn’t want night wait. Ron Spitaels, top, and Dennis Krol are shown working on one of however, threatened this sys to throw it away. ” their department’s trucks at the Vehicle Maintenance Bay. see ENGLISH / page 8 tem. The result was a unique pre Minor in uries, little damage Gulf Crisis Action Group starts campaign reported from snowball fight to Congressmen to discourage war in Iraq By PAUL PEARSON students were sent to hospital By MARK CAWLEY “United Nations-sponsored, in order to save our fragile Assistant News Editor emergency rooms for minor News Writer non-violent sanctions, which environment,” stated the lacerations, and one student do not include food and Group. Nearly 500 students took suffered an eye inju ry. Less The Gulf Crisis Action medicine, should be given a The letter writing part in an all-campus snowball than ten others were treated Group has started a letter chance to take their effect on campaign is being financed fight Tuesday, according to for minor cuts and bruises. writing campaign to the Iraqi economy,” said primarily by members of the Chuck Hurley, assistant direc encourage members of the Verdonk. “A negotiated Gulf Crisis Action Group. tor of Notre Dame Security. Father Andre Leveille, rector House of Representatives to settlement should be actively “We have all sort off chipped of Cavanaugh Hall, said that deter an American first- pursued,” she said. in,” said Tara Verdonk. The Hurley said that the annual most students in his hall did strike against Iraq. The Group, in a written Center for Social Concerns event was “more subdued” than not participate in the snowball The action group began statement, also encouraged has also donated its any like it in previous years. fight this year. “We asked our this campaign because, the establishment of a U.N. photocopiers for use in the guys to stay in the hall, and “The costs of war outweigh peace-keeping force to act as campaign. Security officers were pa most of them stayed in the any gains and the potential a buffer between Iraq and The action group’s trolling the ND campus hall,” he said. for escalation is too great,” Saudi Arabia. This force campaign will begin today throughout the night. No major said group member Tara would replace American led from 7 to 10 p.m. at the injuries or extensive property After last year’s snowball Verdonk. “We believe a U.S. troops in the region. The Center for Social Concerns damage was reported. fight, which caused widespread attack would intensify and establishment of alternative coffee house. It will continue damage to campus buildings, At approximately 11:50 p.m., entrench hatred for America fuel sources and an end to the on Thursday and Friday in Father David Tyson, then-vice a resident of Planner Hall re in the region, making future American reliance on foreign the library concourse from 2 president of Student Affairs, ported damage to his second- Middle East disputes more oil was also recommended by to 5 p.m. The group will be suspended $20,000 in matching likely and more difficult to the Gulf Crisis Action Group. soliciting signatures for floor window from the snow funds to cover the damage. ball fight, Hurley said. No other resolve,” she added. “We oppose m ilita ry action petitions and w ill provide After many students protested Several ’alternatives to war in defense of our access to re fact sheets for those who damage to property was re the decision, the matching ported. have been encouraged by sources, the consumption of wish to write their own funds were eventually rein the Gulf Crisis Action Group. which we need to scale back letters. According to a source at Uni stated. versity Health Services, two page 2 The Observer Wednesday, December 5, 1990 I n s id e C o l u m n W e a t h e r Forecast for noon, Tuesday, Dec. 4 The five most Lines show high temperatures. livable cities in America Yesterday’s High: 44 Yesterday’s Low: 27 There’s been a de- - 30 Nation’s High: 88 bate going on lately (El Cajon, Calif.) as to which city in the Nation’s Low: -11 U.S.