/ ^ X THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys I OLUME 38 : ISSUE 128 TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM C o u n c il o f R epresentatives Operation Group approves $357,000 budgetRice Bowl 2004-2005 Budget Allocation Organization requests exceed $668,000, raises over Office of the Treasurer/ Financial Management Board Class o f 2006 SUB allocation drops 16% to $179,000 $4,000 :2 W 3 -W 152,947 '"."..ZZZ""! 58,800 A copy of the budget alloca­ I $8,000 By MATT BRAMANTI tions obtained by The Observer Judicial Council Class of 2007 Senior Staff Writer reveals that funding requests far By LAURA VILIM 12003-04 'S1,985 200.3-04: SO exceeded the amount of money News W riter $ 2,000 M 8M *ei$7,5oo Members of the newly consti­ available. Student union organi­ Club Coordination Council Off-Campus Council tuted Council of Representatives zations requested about met Monday evening in $668,000, exceeding the final The results from the first #7,000 2003-04: $0 Operation Rice Bowl to be LaFortune to approve the budget by over 87 percent. 2004-05 |S7,500 E O 0 2 5 E H * * * $2,480 held on the Notre Dame Student Union’s annual budget One of the most notable Clubs and Organizations campus in recent years Student Union Senate and to ratify the nomination of changes in the budget was the show the program was 12003-04 1520,000 2003-04: N/A several newly appointed officials. drop in funding for the Student hugely successful in raising 2004-05 ■ ■ 5 2 5 ,0 0 0 $29,240 Student union treasurer Claire Union Board, student govern­ money for Catholic chari­ Class of 2005 Council t>f Representatives Fadel presented the budget, ment’s major programming body. ties around the world, 2003-04: N/A which was compiled at a meeting The allocation for SUB fell to organizers said. 2004-05 157,mo 2004-05 of the Financial Management about $179,000 — nearly 16 The program, which Senior Week Student Union Board* Board earlier this month. percent shy of last year’s ended with the Lenten sea­ This year’s discretionary allo­ $212,000 level. Student leaders I2W-64 n » I0.5IX) 112,000 son, raised slightly over 2004-05 cations totaled nearly $357,000, slashed SUB’s concert budget by 1$ 12,000 2004-05 $189,360 $4,000. Seventy-five per­ down about seven percent from more than half, an area that Hall President's Council Contingency Fund cent of the money will be last year. The current budget accounts for most of SUB’s fund­ GiBO&W 1550.01)0 donated to the work of the g 58,875 reflects lower revenue from sales ing cuts. 2004-05 |S55,000 156.750 Catholic Relief Services to of “The Shirt.” Fadel said the The cuts come a year after help fund development kelly green “Here Come the SUB sponsored a show by come­ projects in 40 countries Irish” shirts were not as success­ dian David Spade that failed to around the world. These Total Allocated Funds: $383,951 $356,838 ful as the “Return to Glory” draw enough students to cover projects include agricultur­ shirts from the 2002 football sea­ its costs. al enrichment, water and son. In addition, anticipated rev­ In the budget documents, •Presidential Committee is included Source: F in a n cia l sanitation, maternal/child in Student Union Board M anagem ent B o a rd enue from student activities fees health, microfinance and MIKE HARKINS/Observer Graphic dipped slightly. see COUNCIL/page 6 job training. The remaining 25 percent of the proceeds remain in the local diocese to fund programs dedicated to alleviating poverty and Schulze lectures on Holocaust reparationshunger. Because this is the first year the program was held Students Society. ered — responsibility, recognition tude. on campus, co-chairs Brin By ANDREW THAGARD “The concept of restitution is and remembrance. Responsibility The issue of reparations is thus Anderson and Julia Miller- Senior Staff Writer limited by its very nature,” should be accepted by the perpe­ a complicated one, said Schulze, a Lemon were unsure of Schulze said. “There are only so trators and the society that they former legal adviser to the what outcome to expect. Marianne Schulze, an Austrian many things that can be given live in, and recognition must be Republic of Austria’s General “As a first-year project, Fulbright scholar at the Center for back ... There are so many school applied to their victims, including Settlement Fund for Victims of the the success of the cam­ Civil and Human Rights at the years [and] years of childhood acknowledging the pain they have Nazi-Era. paign was really, really Notre Dame Law School, lectured that cannot be given back. We’re suffered. The Nazis marched into Austria encouraging,” Miller- Monday on legal reparations for not just talking about property “Those who fell victim must be on Saturday, March 13, 1938 and Lemon said. “All of the Holocaust victims. The lecture, rights, we're talking about emo­ recognized as such,” Schulze said. by that Monday things changed support that we got from titled “Restitution after the tional [issues].” Finally, remembrance, she said, dramatically. Jewish students individual donors, HPC and Holocaust: The Limits of Legal When addressing reparations goes beyond Holocaust were separated from their school­ the individual class coun­ Reparations.” coincided with and the horror of events like the Remembrance Day and refers to mates and ordered to attend sep- cils was amazing.” I lolocaust Remembrance Day and Holocaust, Schulze explained, on-going behavior brought about As an incentive to raise was sponsored by the Jewish Law three principles should be consid­ by a fundamental change in atti­ see HOLOCAUST/page 9 money, Operation Rice Bowl earmarked a $300 dorm improvement prize for the dorm with the best participation. This year that dorm was Howard Panel discusses role of Catholicism in votingHall, which has chosen to donate its prize back to the project. Other dorms also made significant contribu­ Debated issues include abortionsame-sex tions to the project not only by raising money but also marriage and fighting in the Iraq War by holding special events to raise awareness about the science. Panelists including Rice Bowl, Anderson said. By KATIE LAIRD Rev. Michael Baxter, a theolo­ In addition to participa­ News Writer gy professor, Charles Rice, tion through the dorms, professor emeritus of law, and individuals involved with Abortion, fighting in Iraq, David Campbell, an assistant other aspects of the same-sex marriage and the professor in political science, University also helped with death penalty were identified expressed varying opinions on the fundraiser. as issues that will raise the the role Catholicism will play “The overwhelming sup­ passions of Catholic voters in when voters make their deci­ port from the entire Notre the 2004 presidential election sions in November. Dame community was so during a panel discussion Campbell, who is neither an inspiring - faculty, staff, between distinguished mem­ American citizen nor a law students, MBA students bers of the Notre Dame faculty Catholic, first stressed the and of course, undergradu­ Monday afternoon. importance of voting in this ate students all supported The dialogue, titled “Faithful year’s elections. the campaign,” Anderson Citizenship: Catholics and the “ You’re going to hear people said. “It’s this kind of sup­ 2004 Election,” was moderat­ tell you how to vote,” he said. PAMELA LOCK/The Observer port that really helped to ed by Daniel Philpott, an Assistant professor David Campell speaks at a panel discussion assistant professor in political see ELECTION/page 8 entitled “Faithful Citizenship: Catholics and the 2004 Election”. see BOWL/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 I n s id e C o lu m n Question of the Day: W hat bar do you think w ill be the next to get bu sted ? Wash, rinse, spin I have a confession to make: I don’t do my laundry. That’s not to say that I ’m walking Drew Baumgartner around in filthy rags. My laundry Phil McCreese Eric Shunh Sean Milligan gets done, ju st not by me. I pay to Ju n io r Senior 5th Year Ju n io r get it done. But I Fisher Fisher Off-Campus Fisher don’t get it done at St. Michael’s. No, I give the “Hands off the "Bust her? I “I don't know. “That University strip bars. ” don’t even know Ty hasn’t told speakeasy enough money as it is. I like to help her. ’’ us yet!” Monk runs in out my own kin. Corby Hall. ” My brother, Tommy, is my laundry boy. Matt Bramanti That’s right. For the last three _ years, I’ve paid Senior Staff him a decent W rite r weekly salary to wash, dry, fold and put away my clothes. And it’s pretty sweet. A little scenario to illustrate: When I left my room yesterday, I I n B r ie f had to dodge an enormous pile of dirty laundry in the corner. When I John Coatsworth, Monroe got back from class today, I was Gutman Professor of Latin greeted by a closet full of nice, American Affairs and director warm, neatly folded, fabric-soft­ of the David Rockefeller Center ened clothing. It doesn’t get much for Latin American Studies, at better than that. Harvard University w ill give a Now, it ’s not that I’ve never had to lecture entitled “Changing do any work.