Castration Considered for Rapists South Bend Area Is Stronghold for Charismatic Movement

Dormitory pizza - page 6 VOL XVIII, NO. 67 the independent student newspaper serving notri dame and saint man 's M O NDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1983 Saint Mary’s decides to integrate residences By JOHN MENNELL complain. The limiting occurs when Staff Reporter people are compelled to move from year to year.” The decision is final: Saint Mary’s The second reason for the change, w ill have class integrated housing according to Rissmeyer, is to build a next year. larger com m unity. “ Currently Saint According to the Director of Mary's is class segregated. I’m not Residence Life and Housing at Saint against class activities but the Mary’s, Patricia Rissmeyer, “The present situation burdens R.A.s,” decision was made last year by an ad she said. hoc committee that was representa “It is impossible for freshmen to tive o f the Saint Mary’s com m unity. get advice. The school is freshmen "The changes are not drastic by and everybody else. This doesn't any measures.” The changes call for build a community of people.” housing underclassmen in all dorms Rissmeyer noted that each class except Augusta. experiences different things and Out of 1 1 I students randomly class integration w ould mean less chosen to discuss the changes with pressure and more support. the housing commission, only 17 Finally she said, "Singles aren’t showed up. “Ninety percent of the good for freshmen. They are isolated ones who were there were in sup without the support they need.’ port of the changes once we ex “The changes will not affect the plained the reasons," Rissmeyer senior class," Rissmeyer said. said. Seventy of this year's freshmen will She outlined three main points as have to live in Regina again, al causes for the changes. though no compensation is planned “ First, there is a degree o f un to offset the higher charge for living happiness and limiting with the cur in a single. rent housing situation. One third of “The overall goal is to improve the freshmen don’t live in Regina," housing," she said, “ Ideally, people Rissmeyer said, "W hen they find out will choose people over the old that they won’t be in Regina they wood in the older dorms." Times blames military SMC Santa The Observer/Thom Bradley for deaths of Marines Santa Claus (known the rest o f the year as Dave nta's visit was sponsored by the LeMans Hall Coun- Associated Press at sea than w ith static defenses Grote) listens intently to the wishes o f Joshua Van- cil and included children from CANCO, a center for ashore, considered terrorism to be dusen Saturday in Saint Mary’s Haggar College Center, abused and neglected children. NEW YORK — U.S. military less important than conventional negligence was partly responsible threats and deferred to the Marine for the death o f 240 Marines last O c commanders in Beirut on questions tober in a terrorist bomb attack. The o f security. As the Marines began to New York Times said yesterday. come under direct attack, the top A Times inquiry into the bombing commanding officers did not raise Castration considered for rapistsfound that Marine commanders did questions or suggest to Washington not consider terrorism a real threat that the troops’ position was becom decreases the male libido by served while taking the drug. Associated Press despite a similar bombing in April ing untenable. suppressing the hormone testos In February, a municipal judge in that leveled the U.S. Embassy in • So much intelligence information terone, and patients lose the urge to Vista, Calif., sentenced a 6 1-year-old NEW YORK — The crim e is rape. Beirut, killing 63 people. on possible terrorist attacks poured commit sexual offenses according to child molester to a year in custody The sentence is chemical castration. The report, which followed inter in that, after a while, the Marines researchers. In regulated doses, it and five years of bi-weekly Depo- The issue is whether judges who views with dozens of military and stopped taking it seriously. The cuts down men’s sexual aggressive Provera injections. He had faced a mete out such “ eye for an eye ” diplomatic officials in Lebanon, problem was not lack of information ness w ith ou t making them im maximum sentence o f eight years. justice are overstepping moral and Europe and the United States, con but lack of trained analysts to potent. Last month, a judge in Anderson, constitutional bounds. cluded that: evaluate it. Depo-Provera has been S.C., gave three admitted rapists the Searching for a means to effective • Preparation of Marines for assign • When the Reagan administration voluntarily used by sex offenders for choice of 30 years in prison, the ly punish sex offenders, at least three ment in Beirut included no special decided in September to order a at least 15 years on an experimental maximum sentence, or castration — judges have recently ordered rapists training in counter terrorism. naval bombardment in support of basis, but in the past year, several either physical or chemical — while and child molesters to take a drug • Most of the admirals and generals the Lebanese army, the Marine com that causes“ chemical castration.” judges handed down unusually who supervised the Marines were The drug, Depo-Provera, short or probated sentences to be see RAPE page 4 more familiar with battle problems see TIM ES page 4 South Bend area is stronghold for charismatic movement Editor’s Note: This is the first o f a Storey was a professor at but I would submit only to God.” And pray for it they do. People of the many songs. These are sung w ith three-part series on People of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh As far as the People o f Praise is Praise members set aside time each tremendous intensity, often in two- Praise, a charismatic religious in the spring of 1967 when he and concerned, the criticisms are un day for prayer and members gather part harmony, while members raise group cm campus. three other professors started the founded. weekly for prayer meetings. The their hands o r clap. ball rolling with the now famous Du “We don't do things democrati entire South Bend community Between songs, members break By KEVIN BINGER quesne retreat. He moved to Notre cally,” said Tom Loughran, Notre meets every other week; the Notre into individual prayer. A chorus of Copy Editor Dame later that year and today rare Dame graduate student and contact Dame chapter meets separately on hosannas , hallelujahs and praise be ly refers to the renewal without the person between the Notre Dame off-weeks. to Gods fills the room. If one listens The Charismatic Renewal is going adjective “ unhealthy.” chapter and the leadership. “But I “ We are a group o f people who carefully, he or she can hear a low strong throughout the world and at Storey’s criticisms are echoed by find the men in the leadership to be want to help one another lead better undertone of unintelligible mum its home base — South Bend — fellow Notre Dame theology profes very reasonable and very concerned Christian lives,” Loughran said. blings. A few people break into despite its split with founder Bill sor Josephine Ford. Ford joined the for in pu t from the group.” One’s first prayer meeting is an tongues — the Holy Spirit speaking Storey, a Notre Dame theology movement in 1971 and was forbid The goal of the charismatic move eye opening experience. The first through man in some unknown lan professor. den to attend People o f Praise events ment is to renew the Christian com thing that strikes the uninitiated is guage. The People o f Praise, one o f the three years later. munity by deepening the the staggering friendliness of the After this dies down, members movement's many communities, “For about three years it was a experience of the Holy Spirit in its group. A stranger is guaranteed to pray silently for God to deliver his boasts 1,000 South Bend members very open, charismatic group,” Ford members. This “spiritual awaken meet dozens of people before the message to them. When a member — 50 of whom form a chapter of said. “ Then a group o f men started ing” is called baptism in the Spirit. meeting gets underway. receives a prophecy he or she Notre Dame students — and com making rules and regulations I didn’t God is said to be an active force in But what makes an outsiders' jaw relates it to the group, usually speak munities in Minneapolis, Minn., Cor think were acceptable. They were the lives o f people who pray for his hit the ground are the prayers and vallis, Ore., and several other cities. asking me to submit to the leaders, intervention. prophecies that take place between see PRAISE page 5 The Observer Monday, December 12, 1983 — page 2 In Brief Eastern Airlines non-contract employees can expect a raise next year to soften an 18 percent pay cut they agreed to accept in return for investment In the company. Richard McGraw, senior vice president for corporate communications, confirmed Friday the pending raise for 1 5,000 non-union employees, from top- ranking managers to clerks and ticket agents. McGraw said he could not specify the amount o f the raises or when they w ill he distributed, but said they would put non-contract workers closer to union mem bers w ho have raises scheduled for 1984. Eastern announced last week that all employees had agreed to contribute 18 percent to 22 percent o f their wages to a stock investment program in order to bail out the debt ridden company.

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