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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 38: ISSUE 121 TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Number of full professors trails average the top twenty peer institu­ standards with respect to Percentage of full professors at Notre Dame By JOE TROMBELLO tions, that have 55 percent of tenure and promotion might Assistant News Editor their faculty at the full profes­ partially explain the smaller sor rank. number of faculty who are full Notre Dame's percentage of faculty who are Less than half of Notre University administrators professors. Some faculty who 4 full professors trails the national average Dame's faculty members have said that a number of factors, were either hired or received achieved the rank of full pro­ including the cyclical nature of tenure before the University University of Notre Dame: 45% fessor and the University has hiring, the increasing difliculty increased its emphasis on the lowest percentage of full Average of Top 20 Academic lns·tittltio,ns: of the University's promotion research may not be meeting professors among top twenty standards, the University's the higher expectations. institutions. which may lower emphasis on teaching as a fac­ "[The] University has been the rankings of individual tor in promotion decisions and transitioning to a place where The percentage of full professors at Notre Dame departments. the difficulty that some faculty research is more important According to statistics pro­ may have in receiving appro­ than it has been historically," who are women also trails the national average vided by the Office of priate mentoring all play a she said. "We have some peo­ Institutional Research, 45 per­ role in why Notre Dame has ple hired land tenured I before University of Notre Dame: ff% i::iiiiii'i: ;.::i:\\ . cent of Notre Dame's faculty is fewer full professors than the research expectations Average of Top 20 Academic Jnstitutioos: ~~~; at the rank of full professor, a other peer institutions. were higher and they have statistic equal to or better Transitional Period never performed at a level than a number of Notre Carol Mooney, vice president Source: Office of Institutional Research necessary to be promoted." Dame's Catholic peer institu­ and associate provost, said MIKE HAAKINS/Obse!Ver Graphic tions but one that falls behind that changes to Notre Dame's see FACULTY/page 4 In the shadows Panel Brothers of Holy Cross are called to discusses tninister in education, not sacraments Brown t'dilor's note: This is the guagel. The syntax, the words second of a four part series - everything is completely dif­ case focusing on the religious of ferent." Notre !Jam e. Saint Mary's and Beere remained in 1/oly Cross. Bangladesh for 54 years, By JANICE FLYNN teaching at high schools, News Wrirer By ANDREW THAGARD recruiting boys for vocations in Students and faculty gath­ Senior SraiTWrirer religious life and later training ered Monday night in the first young men at a trade school. of a two-part series commem­ Brother Thomas More llis experiences represent a orating the 50th anniversary Becre's story sounds almost lifetime of service that few of the historic Brown v. Board unreal. could match. It's a life that's of Education Supreme Court For over half a century, brought him tremendous joy decision for a panel discussion Beere, 79, has dedicated his but also a degree of sadness, and a documentary screening. life to edu- particularly in Educational institutions cating chil­ regard to the across the nation are honoring dren and .,.I Religious limited time the anniversary of Brown. promoting he's spent with which declared segregation in ~l%§1Wt,.,. .,~,~~ •;-':·.~ on Campus the word of his family. public schools unconstitution­ God- ini­ A Holy Week Senes "I really al. ·Discussion has turned to tially in the enjoyed my focus on the legacy of Brown United time there," and the present condition or States but predominately in he said. "I was never home American public schools. Bangladnsh. [however] for funerals or wed­ The documentary "The Hoad "At that time, Bangladesh dings. This summer I'm going to Brown" depicted racial seg­ was probably the poorest to the wedding of one of my regation from the birth of the country in the world," he said. grandnephews. They said, 'You nation up to the present day. remembnring his time there have to come, you've never It particularly focused on the while sitting on a couch in been to a wedding."' CHUY BENITEZ!The Obse!Ver life of Charles Ilamilton Columba llall's parlor. "I spent While many of his con tempo- Brother Thaddeus Gottemoller makes a rosary from materials he Houston, an oft-forgotten but I the first I year. every day, all Inherited from his father decades ago. Gottemoller, 92, has crucial individual to the long day long, [learning the Ian- see BROTHERS/page 6 served the Congregation of Holy Cross for the last 72 years. process of toppling racial seg­ regation, who has been called "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow." Jack Pratt, associate dean of CAMPUS LIFE COUNCIL the Law School, gave a brief introduction to Houston, ask­ ing the audience to keep in mind the "life-threatening" Group discusses dorm exercise equipment conditions in which Houston worked. CLC and the Hall President's well-being and fitness of resi­ respective dorms but that Houston, a prestigious black By ANDREW THAGARD Council, read members a letter dents. space constraints made such Senior Staff Writer lawyer, traveled throughout from HPC Athletic Chairmen "[The HPC Chairmen] would requests difficult to address. the south in the 1930s. Erinn Rigney and Bill Bonner, like to sec more invested in "I wouldn't mind buying the Equipped with a movie cam­ A lack of sufficient voting outlining what they perceive to this," Maxwell said. "It might equipment but we have no era, he captured the discrep­ members to hold an official be a lack of sufficient exercise be something for the CLC to room to put it," Brannock said. ancies between black and meeting did not dissuade the equipment in the residence look at next year." "In Howard Hall it's just not white schools. With a tena­ Campus Life Council from dis­ halls - particularly within Kathy Brannock, rector of feasible." cious group of gifted black cussing a perceived lack of female dorms. The letter also Howard Hall, and Heather The debate expanded into lawyers that included his stu­ exercise equipment in the noted that equipment present Rakoczy, rector of Pangborn one focusing on gender dent Thurgood Marshall, dorms and delivering commit­ in the dorms is often in poor Hall. said that residents have inequalities in general within Houston chipped away at seg- tee reports on Monday. condition and that a lack of asked for additional exercise Wyatt Maxwell, a member of usable equipment hinders the equipment in the past for their see CLC/ page 6 see PANEL/page 6 --------------- ~- ----------- ------ -- -- -------------- ----- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, April6, 2004 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do YOU WORK? IF SO, WHERE? The Look Do you ever get the Look? You know, the Look that is just scream­ ing "I can't believe someone like you got in a school like this." I get it a lot. So I'm writing this column as a sort of service Carolyn Lethert Eric Doversberger Katl Sedun Nicole Gonsalves Paul Chung VIncent Lynzlskl project. If you've Kate Gales ever been a Junior Junior Junior Freshman Sophomore Sophomore recipient of the Pasquerilla East Dillon Cavanaugh McGlinn Knott Keenan Look, you can Sports read it and think, Production UNOa,, "Wow, this girl is "/ work at The "Props out to "The Huddle.'' "At the Math "Nope." even more Huddle, only the Kaneb Office." spaced out than I am." Or, if you can the best place Center and top my experiences, you can write me an e-mail. Then I can laugh at ever. " crew and the you. always present Oh man, I really hope I get some animal stories from people. I'll be sympa­ thetic. I promise. So top these. crackers." Please. I shocked myself with Christmas lights. It hurt. It was not fun. I told Erin, who lives across the hall. She gave me a Look. "You touched open wires without turning the lights off?" I really didn't know you were IN BRIEF supposed to do that. I guess you could say that the news was a shock Class registration for Fall ... zing. 2004 will begin for rising sen­ I fell down the stairs of my dorm. iors this morning and continue What makes the story better is that through Thursday on IrishLink. the door was open, and I fell out the door, too. Very embarrassing, let me The Keough Institute and the tell you. People were watching me. law school will sponsor a lec­ They gave me the Look. My best ture by Michael Farrell of the friend, who tore both her ACLs, gave Irish Human Rights me that test to see if I tore anything Commission "Using because my knee was so swollen. International Human Rights She also gave me the Look. Law in Practice" at 12:15 p.m. I made a CD for a guy, code name today in the Law School Ignatius, on Valentine's Day. I wrote Courtroom. Farrell will also "To Ignatius, from Kate" on the front lecture on "Civil Rights, the while my brother, code name Xavier, Law and the Conflict in was explaining to me the fine art of Northern Ireland" at 5 p.m. in CD making. The next day, his room­ the Law School Courtroom.

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