Students Protest Parietals with Campout Protest Draws Protesters Were on the Quad
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------------- ---- ----- - Great American Rock Albums Is the parietals debate worth it? Scene Music critic Tim Bodony takes a According to two students, spending one extra Tuesday look at what makes an album truly hour with the opposite sex is not worth standout and last through the test of time. protesting. MAY1, Scene + page 13 Viewpoint+ page 11 2001 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV NO. 132 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Students protest parietals with campout Protest draws protesters were on the quad. + Whetzel saw the protest as a 300 students to way to overcome what he calls South Quad a vicious cycle. "You hear a lot about the student body being apathetic," By PAT McELWEE Whetzel said. "But I don't NewsWrirer think it's apathy as much as an inherent sense of frustra Sleeping bags were unrolled tion. Students voice their opin on South Quad Monday night ion to the administration, and as students vowed to stake out then it's ignored or even a claim to respect on the issue squashed. Next time, you don't of parietals extension. They want to waste your time." planned to spend the night Similar feelings of frustra outdoors in protest of what tion were expressed by Stuart many see as an unwillingness Greene, a professor with a among administration officials seat on both the Faculty to take student viewpoints and Senate and the Campus Life concerns seriously. Council. He came out in sup Students began drifting into port of the student protest. the section of South Quad cor "I think [the protest] repre doned off by Notre Dame sents a real frustration among Security/Police around 9:30 the students that they're not p.m. The three students being heard, and if they're responsible for obtaining per heard, they're not being lis mission to hold the protest tened to," Greene said. from the Office of Student Many students brought blan Affairs - Seth Whetzel, Adam kets and some came with Graham and Mike Pfaff - PETER RICHARDSON/The Observer were the first on the scene. see CAJYiPOUT/page 9 As many as 300 students camped on the lawn of South Quad in protest of the Administration's At one point, as many as 300 lack of concern for students' support of the proposal to change parietals. Students hope that the protest will urge the administration to reconsider extending parietals. + Kirk doubts compelling enough and the pro security, said more officers would posal wasn't passed." be on duty for the cam pout, but he campout will Kirk said because he is both a doesn't expect any problems. impact parietals member of the "We're fully Campus Life staffed and Council and is "The arguments for the ready," Rakow By LAURA ROMPF also in charge resolution were not said. "We're Assistant News Editor of ensuring compelling enough and always expect safe demons ing, but nothing Because a resolution to extend trations by the the proposal wasn't usually hap parietals failed in the Campus Ufe student body, passed., pens." Council (CLC), vice president of he has played a Kirk said the Student Affairs, Bill Kirk, said the unique role in Bill Kirk Campus Life student-facilitated campout would the student ini Council was cre probably not change the current tiated protest. vice president of Student Affairs a ted by Father weekday visiting hours that end at Kirk met with Hesburgh to 12a.m. demonstrators on Monday after- provide a forum where students, PETER RICHARDSON!fhe Observer "The Campus Life Council is the noon. administrators, faculty and rectors Students peacefully demonstrated on a roped-off section of means by which these kinds of ''I'm in charge of making sure can all collaborate on issues such issues can be brought to Father the demonstration can happen as parietals. Kirk said because the South Quad with some students capturing the mood of the Poorman," Kirk said. "The argu without difficulty," he said. CLC rejected the proposal, further protest by playing music from the 60s protest era. ments for the resolution were not Rex Rakow, director of campus action this year is unlikely. Athletes afforded special privileges on campus By MARIBEL MOREY but they also are afforded "We get a lot of help with their own revenues," said ing hall is closed so we get other benefits. John Sejdinaj, director of five to ten dollars for dinner," Assistant News Editor tutoring. I can tell my budget and planning. "What said Battle. Grab 'n' Go advisor who I want for the athletic office does with When they travel, women's Notre Dame women's bas Certain student-athletes, tutoring for any subject., the money they have, I don't basketball players also ketball players have won a including football, basketball know." receive incidental money and national championship, visit and baseball players, can get For this reason, the extra a certain amount for meals, Matt Fabrlcan ed the White House and been two sandwiches and six sides food from Grab n' Go is billed called a per diem. The guests on national television. instead of the average Grab ' sophomore fencer directly to athletics, said amount of money depends on The team has earned extra n' Go of one sandwich and Tina Durski, card services the city and the event. benefits because it brought four sides. manager. While on campus, the home a national title, but all "It helps us out because we But, coaches from each team choose whether or not However, sometimes ath women are obligated to use varsity athletes receive many go on and have three class letes cannot make it to the at least 75 percent of their perks that regular students es," said junior football play to pay for this extra meal ser vice. dining hall at all. During the meal plans. "We have team do not just by virtue of being er, Arnaz Battle, "and after spring, the football players rules for it - they take a Notre Dame varsity athlete class you don't have time to "The athletic office is an auxiliary of the University, practice past 7 p.m., when money out of your per diem if It's common knowledge get food before practice - the dining halls are some you don't use your that varsity athletes receive it's your one opportunity to like food services and the Morris Inn - they generate times closed. free clothes and sneakers, get food." "When we get out the din- see PERKS/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, May 1, 2001 INSIDE CoLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "/ think its about "Its really an "/ regard the "We have a very For Mom and Dad time that we get indescribable feeling rankings as a distinguished Today, my parents celebrate their 25th wed together and say, because I've never flawed system. .. faculty, but our ding anniversary. On the first day of May, 1976, my mother and 'Hey. we disapprove felt it before. I'm current facilities are father stood together in the of sight of God, of this.... pretty overwhelmed Patricia O'Hara, dean of the far less their families and their friends to profess their love for one another as they Paul Grahm, parietals protest by it... Notre Dame Law School, on distinguished. .. took the vows of marriage. organizer, on the Campus Ufe Baseball coach Paul Mainieri Notre Dame's recent ranking Frank lncropera, dean of In the presence of all gath ered in the Basilica of the Council's rejection of a on his team's first-time as No. 27 by US News and Engineering, on the need for a Sacred Heart that Saturday, World Report they pledged their commit proposal to extend parietals No. 1 ranking new Engineering building ment to one another and promised to face together whatever joys and sorrows life might send their way. OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports Today, 25 years later, Anne Marie they continue to stand by Mattingly one another, representing love, faithfulness and gen U. Illinois students protest campus paper uine mutual respect. In a Senior Staff Writer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. and that blacks owe a debt to the word, I believe they are a Students marched to the Illini Media United States. model of all a strong mar- Company parking lot Friday to protest Members of The Initiative gathered riage should be. The Daily Illini's decision to publish a on the Quad midday Friday to rally Through their relationship with one another, controversial advertisement against before the march. The group then my parents have taught me what it means to reparations for slavery. marched to 57 E. Green St., the park give oneself to another human being. The protesters, members of a large ing lot of the Illini Media Company, My mother told me once that if she had ly black student group called The the parent company of the Dl. There, known how my father would change and what Initiative, said the advertisement is the group attempted to present its type of man he would evolve to be 25 years racist and that the Dl promoted dis demands and speak to Dl Editor-in later, her then-25-year-old self might not have crimination on campus by running it. Chief Kat Schwartz. Among other married him in the first place. But love is a "The way that you all have handled things, The Initiative demanded a choice as much as an emotion, she explains, this has been unprofessional and dis The advertisement, "Ten Reasons printed apology or retraction for the and that choice means that she accepts each respectful and adverse to the initia Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad running of the Horowitz ad.