c<>uth Bend Pizza - Campus Scene U.ECV-OW co VOL. XXI, NO. 106 FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Dancin’ Irish allowed to perform next year By MIRIAM HILL ters complaining that the Dancin’ Irish Senior Staff Reporter “were more bothersome than helpful,” said Corrigan, a member of the board. The Dancin’ Irish will be allowed to In addition to banning the group from perform at basketball games for at football games, the committee made least one more year, but have been several other recommendations. Cor­ barred from appearing at football rigan will appoint an adviser to act as games. a liaison between the Dancin’ Irish and That was the consensus of the eight- the athletic department. member appeals committee appointed to review a recent decision by the fac­ The adviser will schedule court times ulty board in control of athletics to dis­ at,the ACC for the Dancin’ Irish and band the Dancin’ Irish. arrange performances and practices. Associate Vice President for Student Dancin’ Irish co-captains had previ­ Services Father Peter Rocca said ously taken care of such responsibili­ Thursday that the group will be allowed ties. to perform at basketball games next The present and newly elected co­ year “on a trial basis.” captains of the Dancin’ Irish will choose “The question of whether the group an additional adviser to help the group should be disbanded will be reviewed choreograph routines. The advice of a by the appeals committee at the end of choreographer will “ensure the next year,” said Rocca, who chaired quality” of the group’s performance, the committee. Rocca said. The committee decided not to allow In another effort to improve the the Dancin’ Irish to perform at football group’s performance, the committee games because of “confusion over their recommended “that the sound system role” as representatives of Notre (in the ACC) be adjusted to provide ade­ Dame, Rocca said. quate, audible background music, be­ He said the group often had trouble cause at present the system is not suf­ with their routines at football games ficient,” Rocca said. because they had to perform to music Both Rocca and members of the Dan­ being played far away from where they cin’ Irish said they were pleased with were dancing. the committee’s decision. “What may “There was some confusion,” Rocca have seemed like a negative decision said. “People asked, ‘Are they cheer­ from the faculty board in control of ath­ leaders or are they dancers, and if letics . in the long run will only they’re dancers, why don’t they have strengthen the performance of the Dan­ any music?’ ” he added. cin’ Irish,” Rocca said. The committee’s decision must be ap­ Dancin’ Irish team member Kristine proved by University Executive Vice Kruczek said the committee’s decision President Father Edmund Joyce and was “a lot more positive than what we Vice President for Student Affairs Fa­ had seen before.” ther David Tyson. Rocca said he was The Dancin’ Irish are a group of confident Joyce and Tyson would give Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s women their approval. who provide halftime entertainment at The group was disbanded Jan. 20 after many men’s basketball games. They The Observer/Mike Moran the faculty board voted to allow only specialize in dance routines to popular The Streets of South Bend Color by Anheuser-Busch, Inc. the cheerleaders and the marching tunes. band to represent the University, ac­ The group has club status and This aerial view of downtown South the golden Dome can always be seen. cording to Director of Athletics Gene operates under the guidance of the Of­ Bend shows some of the city from which Corrigan. The board had received let­ fice of Student Activities. ND psych prof explains ‘stress O’Meara, committee look innoculation’ in recent study By TERRI DEMPSEY and healing and recovery,” Howard for new Engineering Dean REGIS COCCIA said. “(The treatment is) a stress By KENDRA MORRILL Serving on this committee are David innoculation procedure preparatory News Staff Cohn, professor of electrical engineer­ to surgery. It’s a way to deal with News Staff Training to deal with stress has ing; William Gray, chairman and pro­ stress and anxiety so that (patients) The vacancy in the Office of the Dean been linked to lower levels of pain fessor of civil engineering; Albert Mil­ can help their bodies get on with left by former Dean of the College of after surgery according to a study healing,” he said. ler, professor of materials science and Engineering Roger Schmitz has engineering; Thomas Mueller, director recently completed by George Each patient’s recovery rate was resulted in the establishment of a com­ Howard, chairman and associate for engineering research and graduate analyzed by the degree of pain ex­ mittee to elect a successor to the post. professor of psychology at Notre studies and professor of aerospace and perienced throughout recovery, the Schmitz left his position at the begin­ Dame, and doctoral candidate Judith mechanical engineering; Arvind amount of pain medication re­ ning of the semester to serve as vice Wells. Varma, chairman and professor of quested during recovery time, president and associate provost of the Their findings were reported in the chemical engineering; and Notre length of hospital stay, and the pa­ University. December 1986 issue of “Journal of Dame junior John Bienko, a mechanical tient’s cooperativeness with hospital Provost Timothy O’Meara said the Consulting and Clinical Psychol­ engineering major. nurses. (The nurses were unaware rules for the entire selection process ogy.” of which patients had received stress The search for a new dean may take are outlined in the Academic Articles a very long time, according to Patients scheduled for elective innoculation.) of the Faculty Handbook. One of these surgery with an expected recovery O’Meara. “A year should be the ex­ Of the 24 patients participating in rules names the provost, in this case time of three or more days were se­ pected tim e,” he said, but added that the study, aged 14 to 62, those who O’Meara, as the chairman of a six- lected to participate in the study and the process could last from six months had received stress innoculation ex­ member committee for the sole pur­ randomly assigned to treatment and to two years. In the interim, Associate perienced significantly less pain and pose of choosing a new dean. Dean Jam es Taylor will serve as acting control conditions. The treatment stress after their operation. O’Meara said the committee itself is dean of the college. patients received “stress innocula­ “We knew it was going to be help­ elected by the College Council of the “Finding a good dean is usually a tion” to learn how to monitor their ful,” Howard said, “but we didn’t college in which the vacancy of dean- very difficult task,” said O’Meara. He reactions through deep breathing, know how dramatically cost effec­ ship appears. The committee consists said there are many types of criteria muscle relaxation, and thoughts of tive it was going to be. Just on the of five College of Engineering faculty used, and the committee tries to put pleasant, soothing images. real obvious quantifiable aspects of “The mind definitely has a tre­ members who are either full or associ­ mendous influence on the body in see PAIN, page 4 ate professors, and one engineering stu­ dent. see DEAN, page 4 The Observer Friday, March 6, 1987 - page 2 In Brief What if? ND students turn Pizza and fast-food is dead in Florence, Italy since city officials announced they were taking advantage of a tables on South Bend police new law to “protect local traditions.” In recent years, new The following didn’t happen... but it could have. restaurants have sprung up to serve tourists, but the At about midnight on a certain weekend, two opening of new restaurants in historic areas of the city men walked towards a house. One wore a Notre Mike will now be halted to preserve the balance of culture. Dame jacket, the other a striped sweater. They were cops; South Bend cops; South Bend Naughton plainclothes cops. A ccent Copy Editor An Unprecedented fourth term for Indianapolis Mayor They were the best trained, the bravest, the William Hudnut is in sight as the 54-year-old Republican finest of South Bend’s finest; you might say announced Thursday he will be a candidate in the 1988 that they were the finestest. gubernatorial race. “My plan is to go re-election for And they were on a mission. They were the mayor, and serve if elected. However, I don’t foreclose point men, the scouts, for a small army of law any other possibilities,” Hudnut said. - Associated Press enforcement agents who were lying in wait just a few blocks away for a signal that these men had found what they were looking for - un­ derage drinkers. Yes, theirs was a thankless and dangerous Of Interest lot. For their duty of locating Notre Dame off- campus student parties, infiltrating them, and determining if minors were consuming alcohol “The Rite of Election,”a celebration calling was one that had to be performed alone: no three catechumens and twelve candidates to the Easter uniforms, no nightsticks, no dogs. sacraments, takes place Sunday at the 12:15 p.m. liturgy As the two officers of the peace approached at Sacred Heart Church. - The Observer the house their pulses quickened when they heard the distinctive sounds of a large party: “So let’s see some I D.” said the obviously loud music, primal screams, and ancient furni­ exasperated student for the second time.