Folk Choir Rocks 'Catholic Woodstock'

~~-----~' ---- ---------~ ,-~ I Tuesday, August 31, 1993 • Vol. XXVI No.2 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPFR SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Folk Choir rocks 'CatholicWoodstock' Off-campus By MEREDITH victimized by McCULLOUGH Professors: News Editor burglaries media distorts By JULIE BARRETT It has been dubbed the News Writer Catholic Woodstock-and with the Notre Dame Folk Choir on papal message Several Notre Dame students the scene, it is no wonder. living off-campus have already The folk choir is not just By JOHN LUCAS reported break-ins and bur about singing traditional Assistant News Editor glaries of their new residences Church hymns, explained the group's director Steven Although the American me • see security tips I page 8 Warner. And the papal visit to dia portrayed the pope's visit since their return to school last to the United States in a nega Denver this August for World week. Youth Day was not just about tive light by focusing on divi Three burglaries occurred in Church doctrine and struc sive issues like abortion, birth the Lafayette townhouse com tured belief. control, and AIDS, the World plex on N. Frances St., one be With over 180,000 young Youth Day in Denver was a tween the hours of 11 and 12 people from across the globe positive and unifying event, according to Ralph Mcinerny, on Saturday night with police screaming their welcome to out front patrolling the area the Holy Father and clapping Grace Professor of Philosophy. and a party next door. to the diverse selection of "I guess that's the risk you "Our basement window in the take when you make a trip a music offered, Warner de back of the house was kicked scribed the 10-day event as media event," Mcinerny said. in, and they just reached in and "one enormous block party for "The media distorted some of his (the pope's) remarks, but I removed the bar jamming the Catholics all over the world." window and came in," said don't think it got in the way His choir of 40 Notre Dame Kathy Campbell, who is one of students and 25 folk choir people were overwhelmed by five NO seniors living in the alums seemed to agree. the whole experience," he townhouse. "We rocked the place," said said. A VCR and some stereo graduate student Lisa Van Problems of the church tend equipment were stolen. Heldorf, describing the final to take center stage in the me Another unit four numbers dia, because positive news piece of music at the Papal down had been broken into Mass where the choir broke does not generate the same around 3:30 a.m. the night be into the Gospel version of kind of headlines that negative fore about 20 minutes after the issues do, according to "Hail Holy Queen" as per Photo Courtesy of Usa Vanheldorf residents had gone to bed. formed in the Whoopie Pope John Paul II looks out over the crowd during his recent visit to Lawrence Cunningham, chair "A friend noticed our front Goldberg movie "Sister Act." Denver. The pontiff was in Denver to help celebrate the World Youth door open and came over to see MEDIA I page 12 "The thing that was won Day Conference. find that our place had been derful about this week was robbed," said Kristen Lefere that there was no preten who was there asleep along tiousness about anything," with one of her roommates and said Warner. "The whole her roommate's mother. point was that there is no Lefere said she remembers problem with having fun and locking all the doors and set just enjoying yourself with a ting the alarm, but the alarm whole bunch of other people." failed to go off when the bur The Notre Dame Folk Choir glar or burglars crowbarred was among nine choirs this the door off its hinges. summer to join in the celebra A VCR and stereo were also tion of the World Youth Day taken. Conference in Denver. According to Chris Matteo of Highlights of the group's Matteo Enterprises who owns excursion included the papal the complex, the alarm mal welcome at Mile High Stadium function was the fault of the and the Papal Mass at Cherry company that installed it, and Creek Reservoir. the students in the other inci At Mile High Stadium, the dent had not set their alarm. choir joined 100,000 people to A third unit was reported greet the Holy Father as he broken into earlier in the week descended upon the crowd of with several valuables reported cheering, chanting Catholics stolen, according to Chuck waving flags from the various Hurley of Notre Dame Security. nations they represented. "There has never been any "I never thought that the thing like this before," Matteo moment could be so moving," Photo Courtesy of Jeanne Curran said. "The police believe that Around 180,000 people brave temperatures in the 90s to celebrate the Papal Mass in Denver. The Mass lasted about four hours. The folk choir was one of 9 choirs from across the nation present to perform. see CHOIR/ page 12 see BURGLARIES I page 8 SM C extends dining hall service TARNISHED? By LAURA FERGUSON ing hall student employee, it more like shopping malls. Like News Writer helps avoid the 6:30 p.m. ath a retail environment, they offer letic team rush while we are a variety of selections and try to A long-awaited book by In response to Saint Mary's trying to close down," said Le specifically cater to their cus authors Don Yaeger and College student's requests for Mans Hall sophomore Sonya tomers," Kirwan said. Doug Looney blasts Head more convenient service hours Wilson. "This will eliminate "In this same way we are Football Coach Lou Holtz for the campus Dining Hall, that problem. In addition, it trying to accommodate stu for allegedly abusing play Marriott Food Service is seems that more students work dent's non-traditional eating extending its hours to 7 a.m. to more hours so this helps us schedules. By keeping the ers and staff and turning 7 p.m. this year. earn more through work Dining Hall open longer during his back on widespread Marriott will be better able to study." the day we hope to accomplish ·.·steroid use. The book, accommodate student's busy This new service format, , this," he added. released yesterday, accuses schedules, create a common called Carte Blanche, is a grow Carte Blanche is a continua Notre Dame of lowering its gathering space and allow in ing trend among the colleges tion of last years "Renaissance" 1 ...., -.-;t.·~--..rr\.-.•--11111 standards to regain its win- creased opportunities for work and universities served by program to improve the dining study for students, according to Marriott. Already, Saint Mary's hall, according to Kirwan. This L.~_.I.,IIflf'""_...,.,...• :l!"r""":l ning tradition. Food Service Director Kevin is one of three other Midwest program is aimed to give the Kirwan. schools to increase its hours. Dining Hall a less institutional • see page 28 "I am excited about the ex "We (Marriott) are shifting stainless steel look and make it tended hours because as a din- our thoughts of dining halls to see MEALS I page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, August 31, 1993 INSIDE COLUMN ANCE Students tnust Clinton faces old, new issues WASHINGTON i . Listi~g condi~ions for.sending U.S. peacekeeping troops to Bosn~a, President Chnton said Monday he'd have .to be make colloquy convmced that any war-ending settlement was fair enforceable and supported by the beleaguered Muslim~ led government. ''I'm certainly open" to the use of American forces ··but I also want to know whose re their ow-n spo.nsibility it is to stay for how long," Clinton said. Last May, Notre Dame------- Estimates of the number of U.S. troops required have hovered around ~0,000. The possibility of sending U.S. president Edward Malloy troops to Bosma has been on the table since last delivered prophecy to February when Clinton said the United States would be the University communi willing to participate in peacekeeping efforts there. ty. But on the day Monk .. Asked about the use of American forces, Clinton said, chose to release the final Whether I would be ~repared to do that or not depends report of the Colloquy for on whether I am convmced that the agreement is .. .fair, the Year 2000, most of fully embraced by the Bosnian government and is the Notre Dame family was busy, celebrating Rolando de Aguiar enforceable. That has been a source of concern for our military planners all along." He also defended the graduation and the late Viewpoint Editor conti~uing presence of U.S. troops in Somalia, where arrival of spring in Amencan forces and U.N. troops are expanding their role Michiana. Few read and ~fter a humanitarian mission to prevent mass starvation. a.bsorbed the colloquy's published conclu There needs to be a lot of nation-building in Somalia sions, a document which will shape the future fr~m ~.he gr?und up, a lot of institution-building," Clinton of Notre Dame. said. We did go there to stop the starvation and the vio Presented as a special edition of the Notre lence and the bloodshed, but it's also true that the Dame Report, which few undergraduates Hurricane Emily is slowly heading towards the Southern coast abs.ence ~f orde: gave rise ~o all those problems, and so have ever seen and fewer have read, the col as it churns in the Atlantic.

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