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It’s Oscar time Lights out Russell Crowe is one of a select group of actors The energy crisis in California continues as the up for an Oscar. Scene offers predictions for state tries to find and pay for additional Thursday the Sunday ceremony. sources of power. Scene ♦ pages 16-17 News ♦ page 9 MARCH 22, 2 0 0 1 O bserver The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIV NO. 107 idXnV/OBSE RVER.ND.EDU S tu d en t S enate Resolutions pass on eating disorders, student center ♦ Football ticket directly, they might indirect Mark Poorman, vice presi ly," said Lewis Hall Senator dent for student affairs. The distribution options Luciana Reali. “Either your letter includes several recom up for discussion roommate, girlfriend or mendations as well as the boyfriend or classmate could result of a survey the senate have an eating disorder and conducted last year. The let By LAURA ROM PE it affects you.” ter gives five recom m enda Associate News Editor Reali said the committee tions for the new student cen has done research and found ter — asking for more study Two extensive projects both the Counseling Center space and academic facilities, were presented to the stu and Office of Residence Life offices, entertainment dent senate Wednesday offer support for students venues, eateries, and busi night. affected directly and indirect nesses and student services. After working all year, the ly by eating disorders. The From the survey conducted Gender Relations committee director of the Counseling last year, the committee dis addressed the problem of Center, Patrick Utz, is cur covered the current location eating disorders on campus rently looking into hiring of LaFortune suits students and presented a resolution to someone full time to deal best, and thus, recommended include support services in with the issue. LaFortune be expanded. du Lac, the student hand The University Affairs com The resolution was unani book. Also, after working for mittee presented a resolution mously passed, and the sen two consecutive terms, the regarding a new student cen ate will wait to hear from University Affairs committee ter. student affairs. submitted a resolution “This is the perfect time to regarding a new student cen fight for the new student cen In other senate news: ter. ter,” said Welsh Family Hall ♦ Student Body President- The Gender Issues commit Senator Bethany Barker. “If Elect Brooke Norton tee’s resolution aimed to we can get it on the building informed the senate of two offer support for the students plan now, it is more likely choices for football ticket dis at Notre Dame who suffer something will get done.” tribution for next fall. from eating disorders. Stoner/The Observer Barker and the committee Students could either receive “If students do not suffer presented a letter to the sen Student Body President-Elect Brook Norton presented two options to the Senate for football ticket distribution. A decision will be from an eating disorder ate which will be sent to see SENATE/page 4 made next week regarding distribution for the fall 2001 season. Search continues in Bolivia for Notre Dame graduate By TIM LOGAN Senior Staff Writer Rescue officials are still searching for Walter Poirier, a 2000 Notre Dame graduate who disappeared in Bolivia in February. Poirier, who is volunteering in the Peace Corps, was last seen around Feb. 22 in La Paz, the nation’s capital. He was reported missing on March 5, after he had not been in contact with his supervisor for several weeks, according Photo courtesy of Rona Reodica to Peace Corps spokeswoman Susan Notre Dame architecture students traveled to Tecate, Mexico over spring break as part of a ser Buchanan. Peace Corps volunteers, U. S. vice program. While in Mexico they worked to construct small two-room nomes. State Department officials and Bolivian rescue workers have been looking for him ever since. “The search continues, and it’s as Program adds service to curriculum intense as it was when we started,” Poirier Buchanan said. Poirier worked developing eco-tourism Then came an opportunity to travel to Mexico in the Bolivia’s Zongo Valley. He had to trek between sev By JASON McFARLEY during the University’s mid-semester break last eral villages in the mountainous region and La Paz. News Editor week, and, according to Enquist, “it was like a “He was sort of in an unusual situation, traveling God-send.” between three residences and six communities,” The trip to Tecate, Mexico, which lasted from M att Enquist needed a break — a Spring Buchanan said. “That makes it a little more difficult to March 9 to 16, was established as a pilot service Break. track his movements.” program for Notre Dame architecture students. More than a year and a half of late nights and Search teams have been scouring the Valley, looking on early mornings in Notre Dame's architecture Officials in the architecture school, the Center mountains and trails where they think Poirier might have for Social Concerns and the Kellogg Institute building had begun to make Enquist question traveled. The U.S. Embassy in La Paz is coordinating the his choice of academic programs. served as organizers of the project. effort, with help from the Peace Corps and Bolivian gov- “We architecture majors get stuck in Bond “The curriculum in the architecture program Hall. We have really crazy hours,” the second- see POIRIER/page 4 year archie said. see MEXICO/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Thursday, March 22, 2001 I n s id e C o lu m n T h is W eek at N o tr e D a m e /S a in t M a r y ’s Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday In the mood ♦ Lecture: “Local and ♦ Lecture: “Organizational ♦ Movie: “Three Days in ♦Auto Show: Cavalcade of In the midnight hour when the wind stings Comparative Advantage," Ethics: A New Frontier for April," DeBartolo 102, 7 Wheels, Joyce Center lungs and makes eyes burn for the want of sun. When the reality sends you gray skies Alan Dearorff, University Bioethics and Medicine,” p.m. Arena,10 a.m. to 5 p.m. accompanied by snowy days and cold hall of Michigan. Room C-103, Auditorium, McKenna Hall ♦ Concert: Saint Mary’s ♦ Concert: “From Seoul to ways, I am in the mood. Putting on another day of shirt, sweater, Hesburgh Center. 4:15 4 p.m. Patchwork Dance Steel,” South Bend jacket, gloves to face Myra McGriff Chamber Singers, brown Mondays, we say, ________________ p.m. ♦ Concert: Notre Dame Company, Little Theatre, O’Laughlin Auditorium, “If only.” Praying time Glee Club, Washington 8p.m. will leap a month closer Saint M ary’s 7:30 p.m. to the end, we prance E d ito r Hall, 8 p.m. like giddy kids waiting for school bell chimes marking recess time. But all the while I am in the mood. O u t s id e the D o m e Compiled from U-Wire reports Some count days until real jobs, real world, business suits completed with dress up shoes as they flip through the memories, past years, and all the while I am in the Penn State censors Safer Sex Cabaret mood. Coasting through Wednesday to Friday we UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. President Graham Spanier for sup watch as the clock tick locks closer to sum Terrell Jones, vice provost of edu porting student free speech at state mertime, and I am in the mood. cational equity, recommended appropriation hearings in Listening to Nina Simone I am in the mood Tuesday night that a student group Harrisburg. for California rays of tangerine warm with move a planned safe-sex program Organizers of the cabaret said the ocean blue skies and enough green to make off-campus or tone down its content educational program intends to pre the strongest cry. With dry heat burns skin to avoid censorship from vent sexual disease and unwanted leather hard, a premanent smile appears as Pennsylvania State University. pregnancy by promoting abstinence. I imagine sitting deep in the groove of Penn State Allies, a gay rights But the cabaret would also feature Highway 99 smelling nothing but cows and group, had planned to sponsor the a series of student-written, student- hay for miles. Safer Sex Cabaret March 31, during events. performed skits covering topics such Yes, I am in the mood for Grandma Mimi’s Pride Week, in the Forum Building. “They’ll [the administration] say as erotic massage, correct condom Sunday brunch complete with the world’s This would be the second year for it’s lewd,” he added. usage and phone sex. best macaroni and cheese. When I get the cabaret. Earlier this year, state lawmakers Although the members of lesbian, there she greets me with a “Hey babygal,” “I believe the LGBTA organizations led by Rep. John Lawless, R- gay, bisexual and transgender and the latest happenings in our small need to make the call on this pro Montgomery, criticized the university groups discussed moving the pro gram. You need to look for a win-win for allowing the student-run events gram off campus, they weren’t sure town. And when we are done eating she will now to take Jones’ advice. fill me up with tin foil leftovers. alternative. It’s not going to happen Cuntfest and Sex Faire, calling them inappropriate. “Wc can’t even talk about sex As I work through the one o’clock hour, I the way it’s set up,” he said, refer now?” said Jennifer Storm, social am in the mood for the quiet house of ring to the name of the proposed Last week, the Penn State Board of director for the Lambda Student Coelho Avenue where nothing happens but program and nature of some of the Trustees commended university Alliance.

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