'Friendly' Rivalry Expands Abroad Notre Dame and Boston by DEBORAH SCHULTZ ~"':! News Wrircr ~ College's Shared Trophy
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Friday, October 27, 1995 • Vol. XXVII No. 44 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S University focus The making of a 'friendly' rivalry expands abroad Notre Dame and Boston By DEBORAH SCHULTZ ~"':! News Wrircr ~ College's shared trophy . \ """\.11:,'.· In an attempt to internationalize the Notre ~ serves as symbol of unity Dame community and assist in the further devel .. ' opment of International Studies, a committee on By MARY KATE MORTON the subject has been organized by Father Associarc News Ediror Timothy Scully, vice president and associate provost of the University. Boston College. Screaming Eagles. These The ad hoc committee on International Studies four words have the ability to rile up the was approved by the University's Academic Fighting Irish more than most others, and Council last May and will work to advise the that includes Florida State. They invoke University on international matters. It will also images of a lost national championship and aid in the bringing about of improvements in the of a year of redemption spoiled. When the armt, according to Ivan Jaksic, assistant provost Irish student body thinks about this BC game for International Studies. on Saturday, there is only one acceptable "We want to improve on everything, not just outcome, a Notre Dame win. the study abroad programs, because we would In just six short years, the Notre Dame like to internationalize the whole university to Boston College series has gained the charac expand students' horizons and create a wider teristics of a classic American College span of knowledge and experiences," said Jaksic. Football rivalry- a blow-out and a heart The eommittee has high goals of what it would breaker and two student bodies that look like to accomplish, but actually attaining these forward to the match-up long before the goals is a slow moving process. leaves change color. "Something that is very important right now is But lately, the young rivalry has taken a focus. We are moving with deliberate speed turn for the ugly and the Notre Dame stu beeause we are in the process of gathering dent body made the decision to rectify this information and this takes a great amount of over the summer. time. We are going through a consultation Mark Mitchell, the Student Government prneHss on how to provide a truly international chief of staff, developed the idea to create a campus," said Jaksic. traveling trophy between the two schools PresHntly th11 committee is examining student that would belong solely to their student wants and demands, evaluating both domestic bodies. In an effort to unite the students of and international programs, and speaking with two schools with similar traditions and her faculty members who have an international itages, Mitchell and Boston College junior background. For the 1994-95 school year. only Student Body President Jonathan John Kleiderer embarked on a project to 478 students. 6.3 percent of the student body, Patrick, Vice President bring together the BC and ND communities studi11d abroad. The committee would like to el Dennis McCarthy, and to celebrate their ties and keep the rivalry evate these numbers significantly, but the more Chief of Staff Mark "friendly." important goal is improving the overall strength Mitchell hold the tro "We all know that the students have tend of the International Studies program. phy which will travel ed to regard this competition as a 'Holy War" "What is important is that students have the between the victors of and from what I've heard from people who appropriatll background here so that they can the Notre Dame/ Boston College foot traveled to BC last year for the game, they handle a strong, academically challenging pro had a very unpleasant experience. It sound gram abroad. The question is how to improve ball games for at least the next ten years. ed like it was turning into a Miami caliber the quality of language instruction and offerings The traveling trophy, rivalry which is just nasty, " said Mitchell. at Notm Dame so that when students go abroad, which will be present "And while it's very easy to discontinue con they can immerse themselves in the culture in ed to Boston College tractual obligations to play Miami because order to get as much out of the experience as at halftime of the foot we really don't have any connection to possible," statml .laksic. ball game this week them, Boston College is, next to Notre Dame, Another aspect of the abroad programs the end, is an attempt on the only Catholic school with a division I-A cornrniltBe would like to examine is facilitating the part of both stu dent governments to football team. studnnts in going abroad through other universi When Kleiderer and Mitchell reflected on tins' programs. keep the competition "friendly" between the the link between BC and Notre Dame, the "Tiwn1 are so many other dimensions of the schools. two recognized that the history and heritage see TROPHY I page 6 see ABROAD I page 8 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Bordt advocates social justice Friday, October 27 By KAREN BELL Iowa. Working eight hour work in the factory in which I News Writer shifts, the mostly female prison shirts were made for the men's guards were each responsible prison. Despite all this, Bordt 12-2 p.m. Alumni -Senior Club for lunch South of Stadium While most professors enter for a unit of prisoners contain noted, there was very little in 3:30-5:30 p.m. Center for the Homeless Main Circle academia through masters' de ing a mix of both serious and the way of rehabilitation. Alumni Tours grees and minor offenders. Bordt feels that when she 4:30p.m. Marching Band Rehearsal Main Building Ph.D. pro It was not the sort of job first got the job, she was "ideal 4:45-6:00 p.m. Glee Club Rehearsal Washington Hall grams, Re where one feared for her life istic and wanted to make some 6:45p.m. Band steps off for Rally Band Building becca Bordt every day, Bordt said, unlike in sort of change," but soon she 7:00p.m. Pep Rally JACC (Gate 10) c a m e the men's prisons which tend to discovered the frustrations of through the possess heightened gang and being a guard and the stress in I Saturday, October 28 Iowa prisons racial tensions. In fact, she trinsic in being in control of not that she stated that the prisoners were other people. Still dedicated to 9:30a.m. Marching Band Rehearsal Loftus Center was ever - mostly apolitical and more or making a change, she decided 11:00-11:30 a.m. Cheerleader Performances ND Bookstore convicted of Bordt less resolved to the fact that to work toward her master's 11:40-12:00 p.m. Cheerleader Performances anything. they were powerless to change degree in Justice Studies, as 12:00 p.m. AA Meeting esc Bordt, an assistant professor their conditions. The prison she felt she could more effec 12:30-1:00 p.m. Glee Club- ND in Review JACC, North Dome of sociology at Notre Dame, administration's policies were tively change things through 1:00-1:30 p.m. Shenanigans Performance JACC, North Dome worked as a prison guard ten very conservative in regards to writing and teaching. 1:00-1:45 p.m. Marching Band Concert Main Buildi~ years ago and has campaigned security and the main priority Going on to earn her doctor 2:10p.m. Marchin8 Band Pre-~ame Show Notre Dame tadium alongside criminal offenders for was simply the so-called "ware ate at Yale, Bordt worked on 2:30 ~.m. NOTRE AME VS. B Notre Dame Stadium social justice and women's housing of these people." researching women's non-prof 30 m n. post-game Vigil Mass Stepan Center rights. Currently she serves on Bordt likened the interior of it organizations. including 4:30-7:00 p.m. Candlelight Dinner Buffet Dining Halls the board of Dismas House and the prison to a college campus: health, education and rape cri teaches undergraduate crimi there were no bars or guards sis services. She was over I Sunday, October 29 nology. with uniforms or guns, al whelmed, she said, by how Bordt, a graduate of Buena though the dormitories were much was actually being done 8,9:30, 11 a.m. Mass Basilica Vista University with a degree locked up at night. The prison by women for women, as she 1,2:00 g.m. Men's lnterhall Football Playoffs Stepan Fields in psychology, used to be em ers were free to work in the li feels the media tends to portray 1,2,3, 4 p.m. Women's lnterhall Football Cartier Fields ployed as a "corrections offi brary or the kitchen, to study cer" at a women's prison in towards their G.E.D.'s. or to see BORDT I page 6 page2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, October 27, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORlD AT A GLANCE House passes sweeping balanced budget bill A different WASHINGTON In a momentous break with the past, the Budget bill on both floors House passed a Republican balanced-budget T H E T H E kind of bill Thursday that would shrink the federal government, cut taxes and return power to the MEDICARE SENATE HOUSE states. Democrats battled to the end against the measure. • Raise annual deductible to $150 in • Keep deductible at $100. Hospital ce01etery The vote was 227-203, with 223 Republicans 1996 and add $10 each year. Shave increases reduced by $76 billion.