t i ac HOBSERVER Wednesday, February 28, 1996* Vol. XXVII No. 99 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Glendon ‘honored' to address ND graduates Top 20 Universities Principal speaker and their compared to Commencement Speakers USN& WR peers 1. Harvard Vaclav Havel Undetermined By GWENDOLYN NORGLE President, Czech Rep. 2. Princeton University President University President Assistant News Editor __________________ 3. Yale Kurt Schmoke Henry Winkler Mayor of Baltimore Actor, Director Chosen as the keynote speaker 4. Stanford William Perry Mae Jemison at Notre Dame’s 151st Secretary o f Defense First Black Woman Commencement exercises, Astronaut Harvard law professor Mary 5. M IT Hanna Gray Undetermined Ann Glendon says she is hon­ Former Pres. U. of Chi. ored and excited to address the 6. Duke David Gergen Jane Alexander class of 1996, their teachers and Political Analyst Actress their families. 7. Cal.Tcch. Gordon Moore Robert Inman But although their graduation CEO of Intel Navy Admiral 8. Dartmouth Bill Clinton Undetermined speaker is an esteemed lecturer, The Observer File Photo Pres, of U.S. writer and advocate of social President Bush was the keynote speaker for Notre Dame’s 1992 com­ mencement exercises. 9. Brown Shimon Peres Undetermined reform, many Notre Dame stu­ Israeli Prime Minister dents were surprised by the strong ties to the Catholic 10. Johns HopkinsGeorge Bush Barbara McCloskey announcement of Glendon as Church said she was “ so awed University of Notre Dame former pres, of U.S. U.S. Senator speaker. Some students expect­ by the honor” to speak at Notre Commencement Speakers Ted Koppel ed President Bill Clinton to be Dame. 1992 - George Bush Nightline Anchor the speaker this year, consider­ In accepting an appointment President of the U.S. 11. Univ. of Chicago Kenneth Polonsky Cass Sunstein 1993 - Tom Brokaw ing that in the past Notre Dame by Pope John Paul II to lead a Professor of Medicine Professor o f Law Network Journalist 12. Univ. of Penn. Jane Alexander Tom Brokaw has had the incumbent presi­ 22-member team to the United 1994 - Albert Reynolds Actress NBC Anchor Prime Minister of Ireland dent speak at the University in a Nation’s Fourth World 13. Cornell University President University President presidential election year: Conference on Women last 1995 - Condoleeza Rice Provost at Stanford 14. Northwestern Henry Bienen Undetermined Carter in ‘80, Reagan in ‘88, and September in Beijing, Glendon 1996 - Mary Ann Glendon University President Rush in ‘92. became the first woman to lead Harvard Law Professor 15. Columbia University President University President “I am enormously honored," a Vatican delegation to a major 16. Rice Bill Bradley Undetermined Glendon said of the University’s world conference. 25,000 people, her largest au­ U.S. Senator invitation to have her as the An experienced lecturer, dience thus far. 17. Emory Henry Louis Gates Undetermined commencement speaker. A Glendon has given numerous Though a veteran of com­ Harvard Professor 18. Notre Dame friend of Notre Dame’s Presi­ commencement addresses at mencement addresses, Glendon Condoleeza Rice Mary Ann Glendon Stanford Provost Harvard Law Professor dent Emeritus Father Theodore law schools and universities said she is looking forw ard to speaking at Notre Dame, partic- 19. Univ. of Virginia Unavailable Unavailable llesburgh, a colleague of the around the country, including 20. Washington John Danforth Undetermined faculty and an admirer of the Brigham Young University, Retired Senator students, Glendon, who has where she spoke in front of see G LENDON / page 4 source: US News and World Reports ND faculty probes infallibilitySMC play explores By MATTHEW LOUGH RAN News Writer cultural diversity Nowhere is the office of Pope the way things are on our listed among the officials of the Senior urges campus. We need to be more Vatican, nor is the doctrine of educated and open-minded. infallibility listed among the job understanding, The best way we can do that descriptions of any of those offi­ is to attend m ulti-cultural cials. events on our own campus." With this point, Father open minds “I was pleased with the play Thomas O’ Meara, W illiam K. By LAURA SM ITH and its outcome, ” said Erica Warren chair in theology, Assistant Saint Mary’s Editor Williams, an African- opened a controversial discus­ American student at Saint sion last night about infallibility, Imagine being surrounded Mary’s and a junior member papal authority and the ordina­ every single day by people of the Sisters of Nefertiti. tion of women. who did not look like you and “The people who came to the The discussion, which was did not understand you. This play were open and ready to sponsored by the Committee on is reality for the African- learn. We had a great discus­ Notre Dame’s Position on the The Observer/Katie Kroener American students at Saint sion following the play.” Father Thomas O'Meara (above), Father Richard McBrien and Ordination of Women, Student M ary’s College, who make up Some of the issues that Advocates for Inclusive Ministry, Catherine Hilkert last night debated several issues facing the Vatican, including infallibility, papal authority and the ordination of women. only one percent of the Saint were brought out in the dis­ and the Department of Mary’s student body. cussion included the subtle Theology, was so heavily a t­ fessor of theology and Crowley dinary Universal Magisterium of Being one of this minority racism on campus and the tended that it had to be moved O’Brien-Walter chair, added the entire college of bishops. group is what prompted Saint unwelcome feelings many from the llesburgh Library that the pope is not always infal­ The second is a consensus of the Mary’s Senior Alia Paige to black students at Saint Mary’s Lounge to the adjacent audito­ lible. “The first Vatican confer­ faithful.” write a play about the feelings experience. rium. ence set up the three classic Catherine Hilkert, visiting and concerns of African- “Recently, a professor told O’Meara focused his speech conditions under which the pope associate professor of theology, American students at Saint me that some girls in the on the office of the pope and the may be infallible,” said McBrien. used these criteria in her Mary’s College. Paige’s play Education Department were structure of the Vatican. “In “The first is that he must be speech, which dealt with recent “A Place At The Table” was complaining because educa­ many ways he is an administra­ speaking formally as the earthly statements by the Congregation performed by members of tion majors are taught from a tor,” O’Meara said, “making head of the church. Second, the on the Doctrine of Faith on the The Sisters of Nefertiti multi-cultural perspective,” decisions about such things as issue must be one in the realm possibility of the ordination of Monday night as part of The said Williams. “This really w hat color a room should be, of faith or morals. Finally, he women. Spirit of Blackness Week at hurts me because I am an and should in no way be con­ must clearly intend to bind the “The Congregation,” said Saint Mary’s. educator. You cannot call sidered infallible.” entire church by the proclama­ Hilkert, “in answer to recent “The focus of the play is a yourself an educator if you O’Meara indicated that many tion.” doubts about [the Apostolic let­ lack of understanding of other are unwilling to learn “The of the major decisions on theo­ McBrien said that infallibility ter released by the pope on fe­ cultures,” according to Paige. women who complained will logical questions are made by is a “negative gift from the Holy male ordination in April 1994], “I believe we can bridge the be doing the children in their congregations. These congre­ Spirit, given to the entire reaffirmed the decision and gap by understanding each classrooms a grave injustice. gations issue their own docu­ church.” “Infallibility,” he ex­ claimed it to be the universal other. This can solve prob­ It is wrong to be unw illing to ments that are sometimes un­ plained, “only guarantees that a tradition of the Catholic Church, lems, not only in the Saint learn other people’s cultures seen by the pope. “The pope is teaching is not wrong. It may and therefore infallible. Mary’s community, but in in a multi-cultural world.” Bishop of Rome, ” O’Meara said. not say much or even say it “The universality of the con­ society as a whole.” “It makes us feel unwel­ “ His power to teach and define well.” sensus is in question here,” she “I thought the play was come at Saint Mary’s when Catholicism outside of his dio­ lie added that there are two said, “ there is a great doubt that great,” said Saint Mary’s our culture is not represented cese comes mainly from trad i­ other ways that a teaching may all of the college of bishops Junior Bronwyn McAuliffe. tion.” be infallible. “The first,” he “ It really opened my eyes to see PLAY / page 6 Father Richard McBrien, pro­ said, “is an exercise of the Or­ see C H U R C H / page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, February 28, 1996 fORLD AT A GLANCE Highlights Nine die in devastating pile-up on European freeway BRUSSELS, Belgium dent, and it made the catastrophe 10 miles In the second massive pileup in much worse,” Flanders State Europe in two weeks, at least nine Secretary for security Jan Peters 10 km G h e n t in people were killed and over 60 told BRTN radio.