Rey and Coffey 1N Run-Off

~ ~ ~---~------ ~-~-- ~- ' :0: I •Nifty Fifties IACCENT: Gwendolyn Brooks ,'' Mostly sunny Thursday. , ~ Warmer with the high around 50. Clear Thursday I VIEWPOINT: An invitation to Korea night. Not as cool. Low 30 ~ to35. Partly sunny Friday. VOL. XXII, NO. 10" THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1989 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Rey and Coffey w1n• 1n• run-off By SARA MARLEY Eilers, Jennifer Trucano and In addition to Coffey and all the credit given to her,'' said Class of 1990 Senior Staff Reporter Greg Talbot by a margin of 64 Switzer, Megan Weyers and West. percent to 36 percent. The West Sean O'Neill will also serve as "I think it was a fairly run ~ The ticket of Carolyn Rey ticket received 378 of the total sophomore class officers for campaign. I'm glad I ran, I ~64 and Tom King were victorious votes. the next school year. believed I had something to of West I Eilers in the senior class officer run "We're thrilled and excited fer. They haven't heard the last -36% off election and the ticket of The Coffey ticket defeated and we can't wait to start next from me. I will still be involved John Coffey and Jennifer Swit Mike Ferguson, Ted Stumpf, year," said Rey. "It's going to in some way or another," West Class of 1992 zer won in the sophomore class Chrissy Harper and Julie be a great senior year." said. ~ office run-off. Robertson by a margin of 58 "It was a great race. Mike ~58% Carolyn Rey, Tom King, percent to 42 percent. "I'm glad the election is (Ferguson) ran a very good ~mpf Caroline Klein and Bob Groth The Coffey ticket received over. I want to congratulate race. We're just happy that we ---42% received 668 votes, defeating 675 votes while the Ferguson Carolyn (Rey) on a fine cam won. We want to thank the ticket of Rod West, Pat ticket received 484 votes. paign and election ,she deserves· see REV, page 4 NORTHEAST NEIGHBORS? Senate hears Student housing complaints district rezoned over election By KENDRA MORRILL individuals to continue ren By FLORENTINE HOELKER Senior Staff Reporter ting the homes as group Senior Staff Reporter residences indefinitely, Editors note: The foUowing Roemer stated. "(The Student senate called an emergency is the first of a three part se grandfather clause) simply meeting Wednesday night to hear com ries. means everything they're plaints concerning the validity of the While an ordinance rezon doing now is okay but they March 20 Junior Class elections. ing the Northeast Neighbor can't do any more of it," he The ticket of Romanelli, Faeher, hood into a single-family res said. Perkins and Butkovich filed a formal idential area prohibits the "No one is trying to cut complaint to the senate saying that the establishment of group back on students in the election was invalid due to the "lack of homes, or homes with more Northeast Neighborhood," a published slate of candidates in The than two students, it may not Roemer said. "There never Observer as called for by the constitu decrease the number of stu was and is not now a prohibi tion and campaign rules." dent homes now for rent in tion on students." that neighborhood, said Jim Only a part of the neighbor To confront the issue, senate called Roemer, director of commu hood has been rezoned into an emergency meeting and invited the nity relations at Notre Dame. "A" residential, The east Romanelli ticket supporters to present The ordinance, passed in west streets of Corby and their points. Representatives of the October of 1988, limits the Sorin and the north-south Ombudsman committee, which runs number of homes available streets of Eddy and Niles the election, also attended the meeting. to students to the present form very rough boundaries Before presenting their main point, level. of the rezoned area, he said, the protesting group made allegations The Northeast Neighbor but the area is not a perfect that members of the senate had already hood presently houses over square. voiced opinions that expressed a 800 students, said Roemer. One or two students may premeditated negative vote. The group A "grandfather" clause al rent any of the homes in the also asked that those members not vote The Observer I R.J. Coccia lows owners who now rent "A" residential area but on the issue. The Northeast Neighbors Housing Services is located on their homes to more than two see NORTHEAST, page 4 Notre Dame Ave. near student residences. see SENATE, page 4 House GOP elects Gingrich minority whip Associated Press Republicans, who hold 174 t~. the 435 House seats. One Re WASHINGTON- House publican was absent and an Republicans elected right-wing other voted for "other." l activist Newt Gingrich of Geor The vote for Gingrich was gia to their No. 2 leadership widely taken as a rebuke of the post Wednesday and charted a low-key style of the current Re course for battle with the ruling publican leadership, and as Democrats. reflecting a desire in the House Gingrich, the chief accuser of GOP to concentrate more ef House Speaker Jim Wright and fort on attacking the the publicity-hungry leader of Democrats instead of working a neo-conservative faction, with them on legislation. declared he would "build a "As whip, Newt's task will be much more aggressive, ac to count votes, create con tivist party." sensus or piece together a "I'm going to be happiest majority for initiatives spon when two Republicans are sored by the Bush administra debating an issue on TV and tion," said Rep. Tony Coelho, there's no room for a Demo the House Democratic whip. crat," he said. "That's a tough job under Gingrich, 45, was elected any circumstances, more so for minority whip over Rep. Ed someone who's stood apart ward Madigan of Illinois, 87-85 from the legislative process so Just a few examples of the artwork displayed at the Student Center. in a secret ballot of House often," he said. Annual Student Art Exhbit this week in LaFortune page 2 The Observer Thursday, March 23, 1989 ~~~--------------------------------------------------~~~~~~------IIIIIIIIGril•i§ill•ilii~lllllllll IN BRIEF 'Have the guts to Sister Miriam Jones, S.C., associate provost of the University of Notre Dame and the woman who oversaw its changeover to undergraduate coedu~ation, will !eave deviate from the norm' to become provincial of the Central Provmce of the Sisters of Charity in Cincinnati. She will return to her congrega When I was young, I used to hate Good Friday tion's headquarters, Mount St. Joseph, on July.L She was for three reasons: my mother made me go to Alison recently elected spiritual director of a commumty of some Mass on a day that wasn't Sunday, she made me act like a reasonable human being between 200 religious women which she joined in .HJ~3. "Sister John Cocks and her gracious and forceful leadership m the move to the hours of twelve and three o'clock in the coeducation in 1972 will forever be a part of the Notre afternoon, and she served hot cross buns for Production Manager breakfast. Dame story," commente~Rev. E~~ard.A: Malloy! C.S.~., president of the University, and It Is difficult to Imagme I have, I hope, matured slightly since then. Mass has become something more than a chore the Provost's Office without her candor, her concern and to be endured on Sunday mornings in uncom her steadfast commitment." -The Observer fortable patent-leather shoes. I like to think I · can behave myself for more than three isolated hours a year, and I finally came to the conclu sion that if I don't like eating iced rolls with A New Queen Azalea is being searched for after colored flecks in them I don't have to. festival organizers took heat from local church members These worries aside, I still find that Good because their first choice, actress Julie McCullough, has Friday troubles me. appeared in Playboy. Miss McCullough, who plays Julie Whether it's due to a surplus of religious en Costello on ABC's "Growing Pains," was a 1985 Playboy thusiasm or to a lousy mood because I still have cover girl and also a Playmate of the Month. In addition, two full days of Lent to go, I tend to wake up the Dallas native appeared in a photo feature on "Girls on Good Friday with the conviction that man of Texas." The 55-church Wilmington Baptist Association is basically shallow and self-serving. opposed her selection. -Associated Press This is in direct contrast with my usual phi losophy that humans are lovable in spite of their ,. faults. Every Good Friday, without fail, I con template the fact that we lovable humans turn I our backs and run the other way when it turns Actress Liv Ulmann is "resting comfortably" after out to be the easy thing to do. an appendectomy at Massachusetts General Hospital. ~he Peter, for example, was indignant at Jesus' had intense abdominal pain and was taken to the hospital probable betrayal at the hands of one of his When it comes down to it, who knows how where she had surgery on Tuesday. She is expected to fellow apostles, and horrified at the thought that many people in the crowd that followed Jesus return home in a few days. -Associated Press he, one of the most devoted followers of all, as he struggled under the weight of his wooden would ever deny his connection with his beloved cross would have liked to put a stop to the whole leader.

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