Open Forum - page 3 VOL XIX, NO. 36 llie independent student new sp.iper ser\ mg nutrt dame and saint man \ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1984 Richard Allen, former Security Adviser, talks about Reagan’s policies By PA. CIMINO speech were admittedly his own. Staff Reporter However, a strong tie to Republican ideals was evident in everything he Former National Security Advisor said. Above all, his support of Reagan to President Ronald Reagan, Richard seemed his most adamant point. Allen, was on the campus of the Uni­ Allen began his speech by reassur­ x'i versity of Notre Dame yesterday to ing his audience about the well­ discuss "American Foreign Affairs in being of our country. "The United the 1980s.” States is more secure today than four A press conference had also been years ago,” he said. “Respect and un­ planned but had to be canceled derstanding for our actions has in­ when Allen was delayed in travell­ creased around the globe and we are L ing. The evening was sponsored by also better equipped to deal with the Student Activities Board. crises,” he continued. Allen has Allen has had a long career as a great faith in the Reagan administra­ The Observer/Chris McLean foreign affairs advisor for the Repub­ tion. A representative from Harvard Law School at the Law School Caravan held yesterday in Stepan lican party and also owns an interna­ Next, Allen reviewed the high Center. Forty law schools attended the Caravan. tional consulting firm. speaks to (left to right) senior Patty Chandler, see ALLEN, page 5 junior Mark Rabogliatti and sophomore Tim Lyons The views he expressed in the Notre Dame graduate to receive first Tom Dooley award By KAREN THOMPSON who had fled their country He also He returned to the United states Notre Dame in 1948, had a great 1961, of cancer. President Dwight News Staff was the coordinator of Notre in 1981, and today maintains his in­ love of the Grotto. In a letter written Eisenhower said, "Few if any men Dame’s World Hunger Coalition. terest in refugee poverty problems to University President Father have equalled Dr. Dooley’s exhibi­ Michael Bowler, a 1977 Notre After graduation, Bowler went to by doing volunteer work in several Theodore Hesburgh on Dec 2, tion of courage, self sacrifice, faith in Dame graduate who spent eight Thailand, enrolled in Chaing Mai areas. 1960, Dooley wrote, “But just now .. his God, and readiness to serve his months working with refugees and University, and lived with a Thai Bowler, who will receive the and just so many times how I long fellow man.” displaced persons in the Far East, family for five months. After return­ award on Jan. 18, says he is “honored for the Grotto ... if I could go to the Bowler said, “Thomas Dooley had will receive the first Doctor Thomas ing to the U.S. in 1978, he spent one to be the first recipient of the award. Grotto now then I think I could sing a great influence on me and my life ” Dooley Award of the Alumni Associ­ semester at John Hopkins University Thomas Dooley has always been inside.” Bowler’s advice to students about ation. and also worked as an intern for the special to me, and after reading his Dooley had a great love for Notre living a good Christian life is to Chuck Lcnnon, executive direc­ International Rescue Committee books 1 became interested in doing Dame and said to Hesburgh in his "accept yourself the way you are. tor of the association, said Bowler and for Bread for the World. work in Asia." letter, “Notre Dame is twice in my Don’t feel like you have to prove "exemplifies the same spirit, In 1979, he was sent to Indonesia Doctor Thomas Dooley, for mind and always in my heart. That yourself. Christian service and social humanitarian concern and service as and Singapore to assist the “boat whom the award is named, estab­ Grotto is the rock to which my life is justice is grounded deep in Dooley did." Candidates can be people” - refugees who fled their lished seven hospitals in four under­ anchored." spirituality, otherwise it’s superfi­ nominated by anyone, and the homelands in boats. He spent 15 developed countries, wrote three Dooley died at age 34, on Jan. 17, cial.” recipient is chosen by the National months involved in the resettlement best sellers, and brought medical Alumni Board of Directors. of refugees from Indonesian camps, care to half a million people. He also Before his graduation from Notre and five months working with founded the Medical International Dame, Bowler and his family refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia Cooperation Organization. sponsored two Vietnamese families and Laos. Dooley, who graduated from Urban Plunge offers opportunities to understand plight of city’s poor By PAT SAIN put into groups of Tour to seven husband died, and she had to have a Senior Staff Reporter people, and the group is put in the heart operation which left her care of a contact person. The con­ unable to work. She went on Nearly 300 Notre Dame and Saint tact is usually connected with a welfare, and they would not believe Mary’s students will spend two days parish or social work center at the her when she went in (to apply for during Christmas break seeing a city site of the plunge. welfare), leaning on a cane.” from a different viewpoint as part of “We went to an alcoholic drop-in “The welfare system was not the Urban Plunge. center (in Cincinnati) last year," doing what it should have been The Urban Plunge program offers said senior Tom Holubeck. "Most of doing, ” said Holubeck. “ It would students "an opportunity to expe­ the people there were alcoholics not pay for her medication. It was rience for themselves the problems and really appreciated us being killing her.” The woman relied on of the poor unique to the city, and there. They saw that we cared, and money from the local parish, be­ the ways those problems arc being they really opened up.” cause welfare would not support dealt with," said Sara Webb Phillips, Junior Susan Hemmer, who also her, said Holubeck. coordinator of justice and peace went to Cincinnati last year, said, “It leaves you wondering, Who is education at the Center for Social "There were bookshelves (in the al­ going to be the next victim?’ ” said Concerns. coholic center) from floor to ceiling Hemmer. "The plunge is not a tour of the stuffed with shopping bags. Each bag Junior Don Timm, who made a poor,” said Phillips. “The plunge contained the life possessions of one plunge in Dallas last year, said, “I’ve makes people aware in their own of the people at the center.” lived there all my life - I knew there area of needs they hadn't seen The center provides a place for were poor people, but I couldn’t before. It gives people a sense of people to sleep each night, and gives believe how widespread (they) hope - a look at what is being done.” them a meal each night. were. The city keeps them well hid­ Students on the plunge are sent to Senior Anne Attea, who made a den.” cities of their choice if at all possible. plunge in Chicago last year, said, "There used to be poor people If a plunge site does not exist in a "I’ve lived in the Chicago area for living next to the state fair,” said particular city, a new one will be over ten years, and 1 heard things in Timm, but "developers bought the started if possible, said Phillips. Last the news, (about urban problems) land they were living on, and tore year, 260 students went to 56 differ­ but I had never seen them close up, down all of the housing, promising ent sites. or been immersed in them." to build (new houses).” The land Applications for this year’s Urban "We talked to a lot of (elderly) was never developed as promised, Plunge arc available at the Center for folks,” said Attea. “(There was) so said Timm. Instead, a small, expen­ The Obscrver/CJhris McLean Former National Security Advisor Richard Allen speaks about Social Concerns and from hall repre­ much fear in them - they were afraid sive housing area was built in the "American Foreign Policy in the 1980s" last night in the Library sentatives. All applications are due to go out at night. ” middle of the land. Auditorium. In addition to the future of foreign policy, he also tomorrow at the Center for Social “We met one lady who had been The poor people are allowed to spoke about policies offormer presidents and his own experiences Concerns. successful, married, and a registered see PLUNGE, page 3 in the Reagan administration. See the story above for more details. During the plunge, students are nurse," said Hemmer. “Then her The Observer Thursday, October11,1984 — page 2 In Brief Adding activities to your schedule could be worth your while TO clear h er soil S n a m e , a Tennessee woman filed a $3 million lawsuit over the young man’s death from an alcohol The alarm goes off, disturbing only your roommate. overdose suffered after a Tennessee State University fraternity party. Finally he or she tells you to turn the obnoxious thing John Mennell The suit, filed in Davidson County Circuit Court, charges TSU and its off. You get out of bed, still tired from studying until administrators with negligence for failing to investigate reports of four in the morning.