Antostal ‘97 ■ B Aseball There W Ill Be Balloon Tosses, Root Beer Chug Going, Going
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AnTostal ‘97 ■ B aseball There w ill be balloon tosses, root beer chug Going, Going... Irish baseball won yester ging and wet clothes races on Notre Dame and day over Indiana on a solo Saint Mary’s campuses all week long. This homerun by Jeff Felker. year’s AnTostal begins tomorrow. pages 5, 14,15 Gone!!! OBSERVERFriday, April 18, 1997 * Vol. XXX No. 128 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Friday Feature Hickey defers AnTostal: Breaking a vicious cycle Alliance decision Planners of annual festival By LORI ALLEN Saint M ary’s Editor promise strong events despite On Tuesday afternoon, President William Hickey announced his decision to defer offi obstacles with funding, activities cial club recognition to The Alliance of By S A R A H J. H IL T Z The result of this poor Lesbian, Bisexual, Straight and Questioning Women of Saint Mary’s College. His deci News W riter _______________ attendance is budget cuts for the following years. sion to defer stemmed from a desire to con Despite a strong tradition “It’s a kind of a down sult with the Committee on Relationships. as being an entertaining ward spiral,” Ball New s o f and popular event, most explained. this decision students believe that AnTostal ‘97 receives surprised ( rp i0 believe that the AnTostal just isn’t the $11,600 from the activity m em bers o f ‘T the S a in t event that it used to be. fee paid each year by stu A administration According to Shannan dents as a p art of tuition. Mary’s com- would manipulate the Ball, chairwoman of The rest of the funding especially as AnTostal ‘97, low funding, comes from corporate student leaders does poor weather and a gener sponsorship. the commit- them a grave disser- al lack of enthusiasm are This year, as part of the tee !ias vice ’ some of the reasons why Intercollegiate Health and operated in vc' student participation in Fitness Tour, companies re la tiv e AnTostal has been so lack like JecpEagle, Sony, TWA obscurity. L in d a Tim m adaisical over the past few College stu- ___________________________ years. dents have been left in the dark as to the see A N T O S T A L / page 6 committee’s specific functions and duties. Formed late last spring, the Committee on Relationships was instituted in order to actively support the educational environ ment which has an impact on the cultural norms of behavior involving the physical, spiritual, and emotional SEE ALSO aspects of the many and varied relationships in the Editorial lives of Saint Mary’s College students. Consistent with the mis sions of Saint Mary’s College and the Sisters of the Holy Cross, which address contempo rary issues for women, the administration of the College established a committee rep resentative of the College community to engage, as a credible voice, in dialogue and programming efforts specifically directed toward these relationships. “The Committee on Relationships was Photos courtesy of Student Union Board established because, in dialogue with the This year’s AnTostal has been plagued by festivals of the president of the College and senior officers, past, leaving it with low funds with which to sponsor events. we thought that it was necessary and timely Despite this, chairwoman Shannan Ball said that, “We’re try to recognize that it is important for the ing to do twice as much with the same amount [of money]." see A L L IA N C E / page 4 ■ S ecurity B eat Confusion shrouds Shirt project Bomb scare shakes By BRIDGET O’CONNOR News W riter ______ up SMC campus Six thousand copies of the 1997 version of The Shirt were delivered By HEATHER COCKS rule out the possibility of the to campus on Wednesday. Unfortunately, confusion over News Editor call being made from the Saint Mary’s campus, according to changes to the new student gov A bomb scare yesterday Chlebek. ernment constitution led to the afternoon caused the eventual The line is not equipped absence of the staff of The Shirt for evacuation of the Saint Mary’s with any call-tracing capabili that delivery. College campus. ties. “The entire shirt staff resigned,” The call came at approxi The bomb was slated to det said student government president, mately 11:52 a.m. via the onate at 4:30 p.m.; searchers Matt Griffin. information line that goes combed the interior and exte “I’m not really resigning in as through President Hickey’s rior of 36 buildings in the much as I’m stepping down,” said office, according to Richard vicinity, only to come up the former executive coordinator of Chlebek, director of security at empty-handed. The search The Shirt, Bill Walsh. “What they Saint Mary’s. was handled internally by really need is someone who can “A female caller said a Security officers and staff work with the new system. It’s a bomb had been placed in one members. better time to step down.” building somewhere on cam “At about 3:15 p.m., we The changes that he referred to pus,” Chlebek said. “We noti decided to evacuate campus,” surround the inclusion of The Shirt fied local law enforcement, Chlebek said. “Everyone as a student group in the new con and got help from mainte cleared off from 4:15-4:45 stitution. In the past, the small nance and building services.” p.m.” group of students which coordinat The call rang through to the He attributed the one-hour ed the design, production and sale of the shirt, under the guidance of switchboard as an off-campus The Observer/Jon King call, however, that does not see B O M B / page 4 -------------------------------------------------------- The Shirt 1997 has already run into problems with the resignation of its see SHIRT / page 4 staff, including executive coordinator Bill Walsh. page 2 The Observer • IN S ID E Friday, April 18, 1997 0 INSIDE COLUMN 0 WORLD AT A GLANCE Rotating Two airliners nearly collide over Los Angeles LOS ANGELES Angeles. Two jumbo jets with more than Near miss over Los Angeles “ The two targets merged on the 350 people aboard nearly collided radar scope,” McGrath said. “ The Limes over the city during a landing controller watching this was help attempt after a pilot failed to follow er talk controllers less. The individuals w orking the an air traffic controller’s instruc said the planes a ir c r a ft w e re p re tty sh oo k up tions, officials said Thursday. San Fernando \ Working at a farm Valley i Van Nuys,. r One shaken controller was sent market one summer, I A Brazilian VASP MD-11 veered in front of a KLM Dutch Royal Airlines home early, McGrath said. came home one evening South Central to Mom’s inevitable Boeing 747-B at midday Wednesday, Jetliners are generally kept a mile apart, but that can vary with question, “What'd you forcing the KLM jet to steer clear, each airport, FAA regional do at w ork today?” the Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mitch Barker said. Trying to be different said. Both planes landed safely. There were 344 passengers and and not give the usual The FAA said it is not clear how a crew of 15 to 20 on board the answer — “Nothing” — close the airliners came to each KLM flight from Amsterdam, KLM I replied, "Rotated Dan Cichalski other. But Kevin McGrath, a spokesman for the air traffic con spokesman Peter Wellhuner said. lim es.” Viewpoint Editor The number of people aboard the In short, when the trollers union, said they were 200 to fruit on display would get low, I’d go into 400 feet apart at one point about 10 VASP flight from Osaka, Japan, the freezer in the back and bring out the miles east of Los Angeles was not immediately known, but new produce. The limes were kept in a International Airport over densely tt v an MD-11 can carry up to 410 pas- The Observers K ^ ^ r s . wooden bucket, and those I had just populated South Central Los brought out from the back would go on the bottom. That way, those that had been sit Reno dismisses Republican criticism Waco lawsuit seeks to fault officials ting out the longest would be bought first. This process is called “rotating” the pro WASHINGTON WACO, Texas duce. Attorney General Janet Reno Four years after the fiery end of the Branch Davidian Regardless of the process, Mom got a kick brushed aside Republican criticism of standoff, the cult lives on, pressing a lawsuit aimed at out of the term “rotating limes.” During the her refusal to seek an independent pinning the blame for the 80 deaths on the government. fall months that year, she insisted that I use counsel to investigate Democratic cam The lawsuit, seeking hundreds of millions in damages, it as a title for a college application essay. paign fund-raising. “ The best thing I challenges the government’s conclusion that the Branch But I wasn’t that stupid. See what college can do is ignore the politics,” she said Davidians themselves started the fire and that they also has done to me since? Thursday. “ I take everything based on shot first during the federal raid on their compound 51 With another year now coming to a close, the evidence and the law ,” Reno told days earlier. The plaintiffs — about 250 surviving I am reminded of that job and Mom’s title her weekly news conference in defend Davidians and the relatives of the dead — contend that — obviously.