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News+ page 10 Irish Insider 1999 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 28 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Dust to Dust: Remembering Holy Cross Hall Former residents, rectors reflect on life by St. Marys Lake They were into protesting the Vietnam By FINN PRESSLY War and into the peace movement, so they Assistant News Editor liked the setting and the fact that they had their own environment," said Pete A father brought his family to the shore LaFleur, who was the last president of the of St. Mary's Lake one fall morning, intent hall. on showing them the building where he Holy Cross developed a reputation for spent his four years at Notre Da'me. being a close-knit community on the fringe Thinking he had lost his way, he sheepish of Notre Dame's residence life - a reputa ly asked a passing student for directions to tion enhanced by its secluded location his former residence hall. between the lakes. He left that day without pictures of his "When you consider how close the other old dorm, his old room, and his old hang residence halls are to each other and to outs, but rather with a picture of a barren the dining halls . .. we had the sense that field and a marble monument that marked we were lost and forgotten in the woods the 1990 demolition of his former home, out there," said Bill Kirk, assistant vice Holy Cross Hall. president for Residence Life. Kirk was a former resident of the hall and served as Birth of a hall rector of Holy Cross during its last year of In 1885, the Brothers of the Holy Cross operation. constructed the St. Aloysius Scholasticate, "The dorm was as close to a fraternity 1 a high school seminary, on the raised area that this place has ever had," said LaFleur. between the lakes. Four years later, it was Long before Breen-Phillips became 1 rechristened with name the it would retain informally known as the Pigs, Holy Cross for over 100 years: Holy Cross Hall. proudly bore the name "Hogs." Though Among the residents of the seminary was the source of the name isn't certain, many University pre$ident emeritus Father speculate it derives from the amount of Theodore Hesburgh. mud that Holy Cross students would track In 1967, Notre Dame leased the "build into the dining hall from their walk along ing across the lake" from the Brothers of the lake. the Holy Cross to serve as a men's resi The fields that gave Holy Cross its trade dence hall. mark seclusion also provided a venue for MARY CALASH(fhe Observer "The new students that moved into Holy many of the dorm's most popular evenl'i. Cross in 1967 were very free-thinking. This monument, erected beside Saint Mary's Lake, stands as a memorial to see HALL/ page 6 one of Notre Dame's oldest residence halls. Communist China celebrates 50th birthday, looks to future learn about democracy, Chinese • Domers from students learn about commu China, Taiwan adapt nism in schooL to U.S. values Tho introduction of the princi plf1s of communism at an early age teaches respect for the gov By ERIN LaRUFFA ernmental practice, said Xu. The Nt•ws Writer Communist Party is powerful and far reaching, according to Whnn China's Communist gov Xu. who said that in order to nrnnwnt turns 50 today, th!lre become important in the Chinese will b1~ firnworks reminiscent of government, a person must be a annual Fourth of .July celebra member of the communist party. tions in tho U.S. "People beyond 18 have the But thn right to vote," said Xu. "But we nxplosions don't like voting." This dislike abovn BPijing stems from the lack of informa will bn more See Also tion about candidates in certain than your ND experts elections. In major elections, a v t~ r a g n discuss China's such as .for the Prime Minister, annual ritual. the people generally know more says Notre past, future. about the candidate. Dame gradu Viewpoint The communist rule in China ate student has affected many surrounding AFP Photo Gang Xu, who page 16-17 Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji waves to supporters from the balcony of Tiananmen Gate during countries. the National Day parade. President Jiang Zemin stands to Rongji's left. was born and The year that China became raised in China. This event will communist, Taiwan separated +Military parades Square into a sea of color provinces - white plastic celebrat1~ the system which sets from China. Tony Gau, a Friday as China began cele horses for Inner Mongolia tht~ world's most populous Taiwanese Notre Dame gradu through capital brations feting 50 years of and a replica of Hong Kong's nation apart from its rival super ate student, fears that China will communist rule. skyscraping skyline for power. someday invade his country, as Associated Press Imposing columns of tanks, China's newest territory. "Politically, it is important," Xu China has threatened to do. armored personnel carriers Army veterans bedecked said. "The situation [between China BEIJING and trucks bearing surface with medals from their ser Xu. who received his under and Taiwan] is very complicated. With huge lantern balloons to-air missiles moved through vice in the communist revolu graduate ndueation in Beijing, China and Taiwan are two dif swaying overhead, children Beijing before dawn, followed tion sat in red felt-covered said that Chinese primary edu ferent countries," Gau said. in red, blue and green jackets in the day's first light by gar cation is similar to the American turned vast Tiananmen ish floats for each of China's system. As Amnrican students see DOMERS/page 8 see PARADE/ page 8 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Friday, October 1, 1999 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN NOTRE DAME/SAINT MARY'S HISTORY Volunteers set WHC record New computer improves system The Panchen Monday, Sept. 24,1979 Monda~ Sept. 27,1982 A record number of Notre Dame students volun The capabilities of the Notre Dame computer system Lama teered to fast one day per week for the World Hunger was enhanced by the installation of new Hewlett-Packard Coalition. The effort may raise $10,000, up from computers. "We were looking to increase our productivi It was near the end May 1995, and I had just $2,102 the previous semester. Michael Stegman, ty," said Richard Spencer, assistant provost for comput returned from two months in Siberia. Trying to catch up on world events, I set to scanning accu coordinator for the Coalition attributed the increase ing. The change was made because they anticipate a gen mulated copies of The Seattle Times for world changing events that I may have missed. I nearly to the change from dinner to fasting at lunch. eral increase in computer use in the future. passed over a very small article buried deep in the news section that had A. J. Boyd accompanied a picture of a 6-year-old child. Compiled from U-Wire reports Having just witnessed the Assistant OUTSIDE THE DOME relics of the "Communist Viewpoint Threat" in Russia, the story Editor of a family being tak1;1n politi University of Illinois helps preserve history cal prisoner by the People's Republic of China (PRC) at first seemed hardly CHAMPAIGN, Ill. foundation's plans through one of newsworthy (a sobering thought in itself). The generation of Holocaust sur Gustman's presentations. Gustman Yet, by the time I fmished the article, I was vivors is slowly dying off, but their has been working with the super irate that it had not been placed on the front stories can live on thanks to computing association since 1994 to page. The boy was Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, bet Survivors of the ShoahVisual History set up one of the largest visual ter known as the 11th Panchen Lama. He, his Foundation in Los Angeles. archives available. family and the monks who found and identified Sam Gustman, the executive direc In the five years of the project, him were abducted by the PRC just two days tor of the foundation, spoke at Spielberg's crew has collected more after the Dalai Lama recognized him as the legiti Gregory Hall on Monday night to than 50,000 testimonies of Holocaust mate emanation of the Amitabha Buddha. explain that universities and muse survivors and rescuers. Those who The Panchen Lama is second only to the Dalai ums will soon be able to access gave testimonies filled out an initial Lama both as political leader of Tibet and spiritu Holocaust survivors' testimonies 40-page detailed survey. Trained al leader of Tantric Buddhism. The Panchen through digital technology. The lec education system," said Carrie interviewers then went to the partic Lama is responsible for protecting, liberating and ture was sponsored by the Rennemann, sophomore in business. ipants' homes to record live testimo enlightening the Tibetan people; one of the pri University's Center for Advanced "I think people are going to be ny about their experiences. Victims mary responsibilities of the Panchen Lama is to Studies program. astonished at what happened were also given the opportunity to identify the reincarnated successor of the Dalai The foundation was originally because so many people don't real display any photographs or artifacts Lama after the current one dies.