Event Attacks Hidden Problem Peace-Keeping Mission by MEGAN Mcgrath News W Riter National Eating Disorders Claims First U.S
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IOBSERVER Monday, February 5, 1996• Vol. XXVII No. 82 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Newton: Sexuality often ignored in campus life By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN as co-residentiality, parietals, News Writer_____________________________ and homosexuality were raised. “Although the policy of S exuality is as important to parietals is officially used to human life as is spirituality, yet provide each dorm with its own -V" . it is never seriously talked sense of privacy, “ said Newton, V s - M r about at Catholic institution “it seems to be an attempt sim such as the University of Notre ply to reinforce the idea that all £ Dame. This was the view pro male-female relations are of a posed by Father Stephen New sexual nature.” , ton in a lecture sponsored by “If the policy promotes pri Notre Dame Encounter in the vacy,” one student argued, “how l og Chapel yesterday. can we have guys from other “Often we keep our sexuality dorms over and stay up until apart," said Newton, “we see it four in the morning anyway? Its as bad and deny that it is part not really quiet then either.” of our lives. We do this Another student argued because it has become part of against the policy of single-sex the Christian culture to view dorms. He indicated that the sexuality as an unacceptable co-residential environment of part of life for single people.” the Notre Dame London pro Newton proposed that, gram opened his eyes to the “Morality is an ideal. Falling feasibility of men and women short of it is not sin, but think living together. "You could ing ourselves unacceptable to have people over for a movie ■ s e God because of our shortcom and not have to be looking at ings is a sin.” In this theory, he your watch and wondering if indicates that people should fo you could fit it in before a cer cus more on who they are tain time,” he said. rather than who they are sup Newton also addressed posed to be. homosexuality. “No one has all “Honesty is the first crucial the answers yet on what causes thing about sexuality, “ Newton homosexuality, so no one can said, “If we can get beyond the say for certain how it can be shame and realize that we are included in the Christian view not bad, but that we are made of sexu ality.” in the likeness of Cod and that lie also emphasized the im sexuality is part of that, we will portance of finding a comfort come closer to the ideal of able environment to discuss morality." sexuality. “In our willingness “It is perplexing that the sub to see the spiritual,” Newton ject is so taboo [at the Uni said, "we must include the sex versity! when sexuality is evi ual in order to bring ourselves dent in such scriptural pas closer to God, and thus closer sages as Song of Songs’,” said to the ideal of morality.” The Observer/Angela Addington Patrick Barredo, the NDE Newton is a Holy Cross Late night jam representative and a first year priest, the rector of Sorin Hall, Students participate in the Slam Dunk Contest in last weekend’s Late Night Olympics, sponsored by Master of Divinity student. and the director of Life Treat RecSports. Students competed in 18 events to raise money for the Special Olympics. In the discussion, issues such ment Centers in South Bend. Event attacks hidden problem Peace-keeping mission By MEGAN McGRATH News W riter National Eating Disorders claims first U.S. casualty By JAMES HANNAH To address the growing prob □ Bosnian government- □ Serbs Associated Press _________ Croat federation lem of eating disorders among $$ Awareness Week S Q its students, Notre Dame and LAKEV1EW, Ohio CROATIA S a ra R im Saint Mary’s are sponsoring Monday, February 5 The television in the dimly lit U.S. s oldier killed | several events in conjunction 10:15 a.m. “Dying to be Thin” M ontgom ery room carried repeated reports with National Eating Disorders 1:15 p.m. (Multiple showings) Sunday of the death of Sgt. 1st Awareness Week. Theater 3p.m. Glass Donald A. Dugan, the first B o s n i a According to the eating disor 5:45 p.m. U.S. soldier to die on peace ders task force of Notre Dame’s h e r z e g o vi 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Same movie at SMC LeMans Hall keeping duty in Bosnia. University Counseling Center, “He was a good person. He Sarajevo o the week will highlight con TUesday, February 6 was strong, strong-headed,” cerns, including the large num said his ex-wife, Betty Dugan, ber of young women suffering 9:45-10:45 a.m.Anonymous Screening ND Counseling Center sitting on a couch in the family YUG0 from disorders and the “enor 7-8 p.m. Second Sreening room with their two children. 50 miles mous amount of shame and e> (Montenegro! 12:15-1:15 p.m.Anonymous Screening SMC Counseling and “He was a good father. He 50 km reluctance” involved in coming 3-4 p.m. Second Sreening Career Development was a good husband.” forward with a problem. 3-6 p.m. Open House ND W om en's “I don't understand why my Ramstein Air Base in Germany Additionally, the events sched father is dead, because he was Resource Center on Sunday. No details were uled will educate students con 7:30 p.m. supposed to be over there keep Lecture by Dr. Jean Kilbourne Carroll Auditorium available on when he would be cerned about their behavior or ing peace,” said 19-year-old returned to the United States, the behavior of someone close Lisa Dugan. “1 would like Bill said Army spokesman Klaus to them . Wednesday, February 7 Clinton to explain that to me.” Praesent. Events start today with the Her 15-year-old brother, 7 p.m. Lecture “Healthy Eating for 218 Rockne Earlier Sunday, at an air showing of the video, “Dying to Donald, recalled fishing trips Students.and Athletes’ base at the Bosnian town of be Thin.” The 30-minute video with his father. by Dr. Becky Cook Tuzla, two columns of soldiers will be playing in Notre Dame’s Dugan, 38, of nearby Belle stood at attention before U.S. Montgomery Theater, on the Center, was killed Saturday in Thursday, February 8 and NATO flags as Dugan’s first floor of I.aFortune, at northern Bosnia when he ap casket was loaded onto a plane. 10:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 3 p.m., 6 p.m. Lecture “How to Help a Friend Stapleton Lounge, parently stepped on a land He had been in the Army and 5:45 p.m. It will be show with an Eating Problem” LeMans Hall m ine. since 1978. ing continuously between 9 by students Ann Potter and He was the ninth alliance sol Dugan’s current wife, Mimi, a.m. and 5 p.m. in the LeMans Emily Anderson dier to die since NATO troops The Observer/Tommy Roland lives in Germany. lobby at Saint Mary’s. began entering the Balkans in His mother, who lives near Tuesday, both schools will screening test and a discussion to attend. Screenings take December. More than 40 sol Kenton in Hardin County, did host the National Eating Disor of the results with a health care place from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 diers, three of them Americans, not want to talk with reporters ders screening program. The professional. Students con a.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the have been injured, mostly by Sunday. Several relatives had program features a brief lec cerned about their behavior or m ines. gathered at her home. ture, an anonymous written that of a friend are encouraged see AWARENESS / page 6 Dugan’s body arrived at page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, February 5, 1996 0 INSIDE COLUMN 0 WORLD AT A GLANCE Something At least 22 dead as Colombian plane crashes into suburbs ASUNCION, Paraguay found all six were dead. A Colombian cargo plane caught fire BOLIVIA BRAZIL The plane, which was not carrying any to think in the air shortly after takeoff Sunday, cargo, crashed into seven houses and killing at least 22 people when it A su n cion burst into flames, destroying the build crashed into houses in a suburban Plane crash ings. Light rain was helping to douse the about neighborhood, the government said. fires, rescue workers said. The plane’s three-person crew and Parents began a desperate search for It’s not just something - one passenger died in the crash. All children who had been playing in the you hear about on the talk were Colombians. The civil aviation ARGENTINA streets of the middle-class neighborhood. sh o w s anym ore. It a fleets office said firefighters found the air Firefighters searched for other victims us and people around us craft’s black box in the smoldering de among the debris. every day. Actually, it af bris. Television footage showed several peo fects more than five million Among the victims were seven chil 1 5 0 m iles ple raking through the debris. One man A re a of dren, including five brothers, who had was seen stealing part of the plane’s tur Americans right now, pri d e ta il 1 5 0 km marily women. It’s real. been playing an outdoor volleyball bine. AP Five percent of college- match in the streets of the Juan The DC-8 F55, belonging to the Linea age females suffer from Sinforiano Bogarin neighborhood, 2 1/2 miles northwest Aerea del Caribe, took off from the South American city’s Patti Carson clinically diagnosable of the airport and 9 miles north of the capital.