VOL. XXIII NO. 29 THURSDAY , OCTOBER 5, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Auburn prof discusses date rape Wednesday By MAGGIE MCCLOSKEY olence, aggression, fear, and Staff Reporter harm. “When you put the word date’ Acquaintance rape and and the word rape’ together, “ Crossed Signals on a Saturday they don’t overlap, they don’t Night: Straight Talk About match. It’s very often the case Dating” were the topics of a that people will not talk about lecture given Wednesday night date rape.” by Barry Burkhart of Auburn Studies at Auburn and a num­ University. ber of other universities have Burkhart opened his talk by shown that a woman is 50 explaining the difficulty found times more likely to be raped in discussing acquaintance by someone she knows than by rape because the topic does not a stranger. Between the ages of lend itself to clear communica­ 15-25, 15-20% of all women tion. will have at least one instance Opposing images of the word of forced sexual intercourse. ‘date’ and the word ’rape’ also In order to determine the complicate a universal under­ causes of the prevalence of ac­ standing of date rape, quaintance rape, Burkhart Burkhart said. questioned why men and Burkhart claimed that the women encounter harm as the Twist and shout r„ word ‘date’ has relatively outcome of a relationship. pleasant connotations; B urkhart said, “ One of the These students contort their bodies playing Twister in a contest in Angela Athletic facility as part of whereas, the word Tape’ con­ Saint Mary's Fall Fest. Kristen Tines and Maggie Killian (not pictured) were the winners. jures up opposite feelings of vi­ see DATE / page 5 Intellectual Life Committee Noriega blames revolt on U.S. Associated Press was available from the U.S. Traffic moved along the streets considers year’s goals Embassy. nearby, but vehicles were not By COLLEEN MALLOY to achieve similar success, PANAMA CITY, Panama — Newspapers reported six permitted to stop. News Staff said Ken Scheve, student Troops patrolled the city’s people killed in the coup at­ Many Panamanians chose to With the hopes of fostering government academic com­ lightly traveled streets Wednes­ tempt Tuesday morning. stay home Wednesday and U.S. a greater intellectual envi­ missioner. He added that day and U.S. helicopters Maj. Edgardo Lopez, an aide bases were shut under condi­ ronment at Notre Dame, the there is a need to “gather watched from overhead on the to Noriega, would not confirm tion Delta, which restricts Intellectual Life Committee and distribute information day after rebel soldiers tried in casualty figures or reports that movement of personnel. About met Wednesday for the first on what kind of events have vain to overthrow Gen. Manuel Maj. Moises Giroldi Vega, the 12,000 American soldiers are time this year. The commit­ worked to stimulate intellec­ Antonio Noriega. Urraca commander and coup stationed in Panama. tee, consisting of students, tual life and make student- “ The gringo piranhas want to leader, was among the dead. He The uprising “ aggravated the faculty, and administrators, faculty relations better.” do away with me,” the general, said at least 60 soldiers and Panamanian crisis in every di­ focused its attention on the The committee is concen­ who commands the military four or five officers were ar­ mension and makes it more further development of the trating on three main goals and controls the government, rested. dangerous,” opposition leader Hall Fellows program. for this year. First, It will said during a brief tour of the Every few minutes, heli­ Ricardo Arias Calderon told a The Hall Fellows program evaluate the recommenda­ street outside Panamanian De­ copters of the U.S. Southern m idday news conference. He works to enhance the inter­ tions of past committees and fense Forces headquarters. Command circled over the said the military regime “ is di­ action between students and monitor the responses that He blames the revolt on the perimeters of Quarry Heights vided against itself and rejected faculty. Referring specifi­ have followed. Second, it United States, which has tried and Fort Amador. The two U.S. by the great majority of the cally to Pasquerilla Fast and will formulate practical to oust him for nearly two bases at the western edge of people.” St. Edward’s Hall, methods to improve the pre­ years. The Bush administration Panama City are a few hundred Civilian opponents of Noriega committee members noted sent intellectual conditions. denied involvement. yards from the Panamanian have denied involvement. The the accomplishments of the Chairman Nick Rossi de­ Spokesmen for Noriega said headquarters, where the coup United States has supported Hall Fellows program in scribed the third goal as one some of the rebels took refuge was attempted. the opposition’s efforts against some dorms. to “provide vision through at U.S. Southern Command At the headquarters on the general, who was indicted The committee wishes to open debate about the best headquarters in Quarry Wednesday, loyal troopers in T- in the United States on drug institutionalize the program courses to take to further Heights. Southern Command shirts and baseball caps re­ charges in 1988, and has im­ spokesmen would not come to paired shattered windows and posed economic sanctions in an so that all dorms will be able see LIFE / page 4 the telephone and no comment painted and patched the walls. attempt drive him out. Panel debates the film The Last Temptation of Christ’ By MARIA MILANO Theology department said that Staff Reporter the film was “not a narrative “The film ‘The Last Tempta­ but more of a burning image tion of Christ* is controversial that stays in ones mind and not because of the issue with helps one feel what Jesus has which it deals but what makes gone through.” it controversial is the violence Professor Mark Pilkinton of which it does to the representa­ the Communications and The­ tion of Christ,” Communications ater department stated, “the Professor James Collins said at actual temptation of Christ was a debate on the film Wednesday a real temptation. In the desert night. Jesus’ temptation almost got “The representation of Christ the better of him.” which we have seen in the past Pilkinton said that he was is one based on the Renaissance pleased to see a real Christ who tradition of Christ, a represen­ could be genuinely tempted and tation of one who quotes Scrip­ who over came the temptation. ture,” Collins continued. The sexual nature of Jesus Collins said, “There is an portrayed in the movie was also unusual system [in the film] in discussed. Sister O’Neill stated which the whole resistance and that “sexual mores are the doubt are seen. We see Christ’s same to the Catholic tradition tension about himself, and ten­ as dietary restriction are to the sion about his message that Jewish tradition. Speaking of has never been depicted in film sexuality of Christ strikes Traffic accident before.” see MOVIE/ page 3 Two cars collide at Edison and Juniper Wednesday afternoon. Sister Mary O’Neill of the page 2 The Observer Thursday, October 5, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Restaurant work is not all Members of the Irish Republican Armyon Wednesday shot and killed a Roman Catholic after mistaking him for a Protestant gunman, police in Belfast said. The victim, 52-year-old peaches and cream James Henry Babbington, was shot point-blank by two men outside a primary school, the Royal Ulster Constabulary said. In If you want to retain respect for your fellow a statement to local news media, the predominantly Catholic IRA human beings, never, never work in a ‘ People undergo claimed it killed a gunman who was involved in several attacks restaurant. a complete attitude against IRA members. The IRA statement gave a name of the I worked for about a year and a half at a purported victim, but it was not Babbington. “ The victim was an place called Friendly’s, sort of a cross between change when they entirely innocent man who was on his way to work,” the a Denny’s and a Dairy Queen. I went in young enter a restaurant.’ Constabulary said in a statement late Wednesday. and innocent, eager to do my best to serve the customer. I left a distorted, bitter misanthrope, thirsting for vengeance, wanting to hurt and Tim O’Keefe NATIONAL BRIEFS maim those who had wronged me. Assistant News Editor I am firmly convinced that people undergo a complete attitude change when they enter a The Coast Guard seized a ship carrying 11,500 pounds of restaurant. Somebody may normally be an cocaine — the largest maritime cocaine seizure in history, Coast upright, decent citizen. It doesn’t make any were nine people in line in front of her, but she Guard officials said Wednesday. The Zedom Sea, a 185-foot off­ difference. As soon as they enter a restaurant, pushed her way to the counter, shoved her shore supply vessel reportedly headed from Colombia but flying they become cruel, domineering tyrants, grubby little face forward and announced in an the Panamanian flag, is being escorted to New Orleans, said Rear treating the staff as if they were chattels. obnoxious, nasal voice, “I want ice cream! ” Adm. William Merlin. Nine people aboard were arrested and will When we were waiting to close, for example, “I’m sorry,” I said (even though I wasn’t), be turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration, he said. there would inevitably be two people holding us “but you’ll have to wait until I serve the people “ We are not sure we have found all the cocaine,” Merlin said at a up , sitting over a single cup of coffee each for a in front of you.” news conference at regional Coast Guard headquarters here.