Committee Assembled to Promote Ethnic Diversity

VOL. XXV. NO. 76 The ObserverFRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1993 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Committee assembled to promote ethnic diversity By THERESA ALEMAN assistant professor of physics, fairs. ber, will meet "as frequently as United For Respect, (SUFR) News Writer Greg Butrus, student body Erskine Peters, professor of possible, but at least once a challenged the University to president, Carolyn Callahan, English, Roger Schmitz, vice month" in an attempt to meet address concerns over race re In an effort to promote cam associate professor of ac president and associate provost, task force recommendations, lations in matters of academics, pus-wide awareness of the countancy, and Maria Fuentes, and Father Richard Warner, according to committee mem residence halls, and student af value of ethnic variety, Univer assistant director of Minority counselor to the president also ber, Smith. fairs. This committee comes as sity President Father Edward Student Affairs. serve on the committee. According to Outlaw, the a response to those concerns," Malloy has appointed a 12-per Members also include Sister The committee was formed committee is a University at said Outlaw. son committee on cultural di Jean Lenz, assistant vice-presi "to follow up on a task force re tempt to show accountability Although, when or how the versity according dent for student affairs, George port on cultural diversity issued and concern for campus race committee will implement to Roland Smith, Lopez, associate professor of this fall and to coordinate cam relations. The committee, ac changes has not yet been estab executive assistant to the government and international pus activities in this area," ac cording to Outlaw, will attempt lished, they remain optimistic president and committee studies, Roger Mullins, director cording to a recent newsletter to make Notre Dame, as a that it can make the campus member. of the department of human issued by Malloy. campus, "more aware and tol "more open to the acceptance Other members of the com resources, and Iris Outlaw, di The committee, which has al erant of cultural differences." of cultural differences," accord mittee include Ani Aprahamian, rector of minority student af- ready met twice since Decem- "In spring of 1990, Students ing to Butrus. For swimmers, recovery a wonderful story Second By BECKY BARNES Assistant News Editor Gary crash Despite the painful memories, this week the story of the Notre Dame women's swim team accident and recovery is one that Coach SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)- An Tim Welsh wants to tell. Amtrak passenger train "This story is a wonderful crashed into a semi tractor story," he said. "A healing story trailer truck yesterday morning is a wonderful story." just west of Gary, Ind. There were no serious injuries in the collision, which happened less • Haley Scott/ page 6 than a mile from the fatal crash of two South Shore Railroad It is a story he has had many commuter trains this week. opportunities to tell recently, as The commuter and Amtrak Jan. 24 marks the one year trains run on separate tracks anniversary of the bus accident and the crashes were appar in a snowstorm on the Indiana ently not related. The latest ac Toll Road. an accident that cident happened at a highway claimed the lives of freshmen crossing just before 11 a.m. Meghan Beeler and Colleen EST about three miles west of llipp and injured freshman Ha Gary. ley Scott and 34 others. The train was en route from Attention is something that Grand Rapids, Mich., to the swim team was not used to Chicago when it struck a truck before last year. To a low pro crossing the tracks, said file sport at a University where Howard Robertson, an Amtrak football and basketball usually spokesman in Washington. hold the spotlight, the new "We don't know if he was try media blitz has both its positive ing to beat the train ot just and negative aspects, said se didn't see it," Robertson said. nior swimmer Kay Broderick. The Observer/T. J. Harris He did not know how many Although she realizes the Members of the women's swim team enter the pool during a meet. This Sunday marks the one year anniver passengers were on the train. story is of great interest to all sary of the accident which claimed the lives of Freshmen Meghan Beeler and Colleen Hipp. Buses were taking them from the people who offered so much in which Beeler and Hipp lived matter of "life affirmation," he each offered their services to the accident scene to the support last year and want to will take part in the Mass. said. "Our assignment after the the team in dealing with the Chicago station 24 miles away. know how the team is doing, "it "The Mass is a celebration ... ," accident was to say 'life goes emotional and physical conse The accident occurred about does bring everything up again started Welsh, and then he on.'" quences of the accident. Sports half a mile from the scene of a and puts everyone under a stopped to qualify. "Memorial? An assignment easier said Information has played a large commuter crash on Monday microscope," she said. I don't know quite what word to than done, perhaps, but neither role in handling the current that killed seven riders and in "Everyone's bracing them use." the coaches nor the team had to media onslaught by screening jured 69. selves in a way for the anniver Confusion is nothing new to do it alone. In dealing with both callers and protecting members Federal investigators contin sary and all the attention," she the swimmers these days. the physical and mental of the team whom they know ued today to study the results continued. Anger, questions and disbelief consequences of the accident, aren't up to the attention. of a re-enactment of a collision Welsh likes to focus on the were all part of the initial reac both then and now, the team Father Theodore Hesburgh, between the trains. positive aspects of the story. tion to the accident and still has had the help from all facets University president-emeritus, "We've reached no conclu "The support that has carried remain to some extent today, of the Notre Dame community. invited Welsh to his apartment sions about the- cause," said us through the year is an in said Broderick. The outpouring of sympathy, on the 14th floor of the library Michael Martino of the National spiring story," he said, and But it's getting better. "The love and support from the to talk about everything the Transportation Safety Board. that's the story he likes to tell. team has done a remarkable community has probably been team has been through and the Investigators were only gather The team will mark the an amount of healing, and we want the greatest aid to the team, he upcoming season. ing facts for analysis, he said. niversary with a Mass on Sun to mark that in a way that said. "It's all on the intangible Everyone has said, "You're One commuter train day at 11:45 a.m. in the Basilica commemorates both Meghan side, but it's very, very helpful." part of the family, let us help sideswiped another shortly of the Sacred Heart, and and Colleen," said Welsh. The University Counseling members of the· residence halls The memorial Mass is a Center and Health Services see SWIM I page 6 see CRASH I page 5 Clinton faces Iraq, guests on first day O'Meara encourages WASHINGTON (AP) - On his greeting from Clinton. spokesman said she would be first day in the Oval Office, It was almost 1 p.m. before he closely involved in developing greater faculty participation President Clinton said Thursday paid his first visit to the Oval Clinton's health-care program. his administration would not Office - just a quick look Day One brought the first ByNICKRIOS from the members of the flinch from military showdowns around before moving on to the break in the military cease-fire News Writer committee. with Iraq following a fresh Roosevelt Room for a meeting extended by Saddam Hussein as Provost Timothy O'Meara The Faculty Senate had a challenge. The Senate rushed with senior aides. a goodwill gesture to the new emphasized that he wants and prepared list of questions which approval of more of his Cabinet Clinton told them, "We just president. supports the promotion of they had sent in advance to but hundreds of senior positions have to be dominated by high Pentagon officials said two greater participation by the O'Meara. One of these ques remained vacant. standards and clear vision and U.S. warplanes fired on an Iraqi faculty, during yesterday's tions dealt with what he hoped After partying into the early we ought to have a good time air defense site after it turned meeting of the Faculty Senate to accomplish in the next few hours after his inauguration, doing it." its radar on them - a Committee. He said he wants years. Clinton spent all morning Meanwhile, his wife, Hillary, precursor to possible firing. It the voices of the faculty to be "I will try to establish the new greeting thousands of visitors to was checking out the Oval Of was not clear whether it was an heard and taken into consider form of governance in such a a White House open house. fice. In a break with tradition, isolated incident or a calculated ation. way that it works well in aca Well-wishers waited outdoors she will have an office in the test of Clinton.

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