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r-----------------------------------~~~-~.~-~0• I; I' I I ~.• • ~~~I • • I I I' I If' ..1 • ~.------------------ ~ Friday, September 29, 1 995• Vol. XXVII No. 30 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Debate continues over support staff salaries By MEGAN McGRATH for administrators was the News Writer charge that Notre Dame secre­ taries make less than others in The issues raised during last the South Bend area. Univer­ Thursday's Gender Studies fac­ sity President Rev. Edward ulty forum concerning support Malloy called the figures into staff salaries continue to be question during a homily Sun­ discussed this week, with pan­ day in Siegfried Hall. elists Jean Porter and Teresa According to Mullins, the av­ Ghilarducci having to defend erage secretary at Notre Dame the data used to substantiate makes $20,696. The St. their points. Joseph's county average is "I think the information dis­ $19,932. The 1995 survey, tributed at the forum was in­ conducted by Project Future, complete," said director of Hu­ found the University to be man Resources Roger Mullins. around the market mean in "Some of the comparisons most classifications. drawn were not made cor­ However, Ghilarducci would rectly; it's not comparing like a more careful look at the apples to apples." The main bone of contention see STAFF I page 4 Flood appointed new WVFI station manager By KRISTI KOLSKI Flood was nominated to re­ Assistant News Editor place Maverick from outside Life at the top The Observer/ Mike Ruma the station rather than from Workers continue repairs on the statue of Mary atop the Golden Dome, adding a layer of paint. Campus AM radio station the current staff. WVFI has named Michael Flood ''I'm sure they weren't the new station manager for pleased when someone from the 1995-96 academic school the station was not chosen," Rabbi adapts to Catholic life year. said Flood. "But I am willing to The station officially returned learn and I share my ideas in a By KRISTI KOLSKI might be surprised to learn that captivating for me. To see to "on-air" status Sept. 25 after forum. I don't dictate what I Assistant News Editor Rabbi Michael Signer holds the whether or not I could live as a three week hiatus. want done and so far the board Abrams Chair in Theology and part of a minority culture while "WVFI has the potential to be has responded." A rabbi, a priest and a nun is one of only two rabbis in this being respected." an outstanding entertainment were walking down the street. country that works in a A member of the Reform sect and informational source. I According to WVFI's Chief Stop me if you've heard this Catholic institution. of Judaism, Rabbi Signer was can only hope that my efforts Announcer Justin Cole, Flood's one before. Although Signer, a member of appointed to the Abrams Chair advance its standing in the appointment is indicative of the So the South Bend's Temple Bethel, in Theology in 1991. Although Notre Dame community," said administration's poor percep­ rabbi holds fmds himself in the minority he there have been other profes­ Flood. tion of the station. a chair in is not intimidated about being sors of the Jewish faith teach­ the theology at such a renowned Catholic ing at Notre Dame, Signer is Flood assumes his position "I have nothing against Mike department. university. the first rabbi and the first to after former station manager Flood," said Cole, "But we have No, real­ "At Notre Dame there is cer­ hold a chaired position. ~en Maverick resigned earlier an entire plan for filling the ly ... tainly no apologetics about "Rabbi Signer was offered the this month, citing outside time station manager position. Yet, N o t r e making religion a central part appointment to endorse the commitments and "philosophi­ the administration has passed Dame has Signer of contemporary culture," said long-standing Jewish and cal differences" with how the the assistant manager over long been Signer. "One does not have to Christian relations and to foster station was operated. regarded as be embarrassed to speak about see WVFI I page 4 a bastion of Catholicism. Some matters religiously. That was see RABBI I page 8 Miracle at Medjugolje? Theologians debate authenticity of visions of Mary By BRAD PRENDERGAST calls for a more resolute faith in astounding. They have never erred Associate News Editor God and in Jesus Christ, a greater in reporting the teachings of the devotion to prayer, a strict fast in Church, and they come from a It has been the destination of reparation for sin, and a plea for Muslim family whose parents had choice for thousands of Catholics personal peace in every individual, no exposure. to Catholicism." on pilgrimage. It has captured the among other calls. O'Connor's support of the ap­ hearts of its visitors, who have left These messages remain con­ paritions, however, is not shared by with their faith reaffirmed, their sistent with the teachings of the a number of his colleagues in the souls uplifted. Catholic Church, but to this day the theology department. Kern But is the miracle at Medjugorje Vatican has made no official judg­ Trembath, assistant chairman of all it's made out to be? ment on the visions. the department and an On June 24, 1981, six youths from According to Father Ed O'Connor, Episcopalian, cites two reasons for the Croatian mountain town of a member of the theology depart­ his skepticism. Medjugorje claimed receiving near­ ment and an avowed believer in the "If Mary should appear to anyone, ly daily apparitions of the Virgin visions, the reason is a matter of why doesn't she appear to non­ Mary. The reports, said to still con­ prudence. Catholics?" Trembath said. "It tinue today, spurred a mass of "The Church has to be extremely would seem to me that her mes­ pilgrimages by hopeful Catholics careful, because if it openly sup­ sages would be more effective on world-wide, and until the conflict in ported the visions at Medjugorje those who do not yet believe. Bosnia made travel to that part of and they turned out to be false, the "Secondly, the messages affirm Europe dangerous, the visits contin­ Church would be in a difficult posi­ fairly traditional, even conservative, ued years after the initial sighting. tion," he said. teachings," Trembath continued. The lore of Medjugorje comes to "But I suspect that the Church "Why don't the messages speak on Notre Dame this weekend, when will eventually come out in favor of matters of social justice, for ex­ Sister Emmanuel of Medjugorje them," O'Connor added. "The Pope ample?" hosts a retreat open to Notre Dame has shown a lot of support for them. The bishop of the diocese in and Saint Mary's students. "I myself am strongly convinced which Medjugorje is located also is According to the six youths, the in their authenticity. The truthful­ messages of the Madonna include ness of the youths' visions is see MIRACLE I page 4 o 1 • I I I' I\ I o • I 1, '1 1 I • I • page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Friday, September 29, i995 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Africa's Comoros Islands overrun by mercenaries PARIS Thursday, the mercenaries con- The Question At 66, Frenchman Bob Denard trolled the main army compound. Mercenaries take was thought to have put the bad President Said old days of African coups and Mohamed Djohar Denard was thought to have of a lifetime mercenary campaigns behind prisoner during coup retired two years ago when he him. received a suspended sentence for I keep running into On Thursday, he tried to put a botched attempt to overthrow them. - those people one more notch in his hired gun. the Marxist government of Benin who ask, "So what do in 1977. you want to do with the In a throwback to his post­ He settled in France with his rest of your life?" It's colonial heyday, Denard led his family. like now that we're in second coup in the Comoros Among the last of post-colonial college, we're prime tar­ Islands, an African archipelago French mercenaries, known as gets for this question: and former French colony that "les affreux," or horrible ones, he "What do you want to do he effectively ruled from 1978 fought for three decades in cam­ with your life?" until he was forced out in 1989. paigns in Biafra, Angola, Chad, Patti Carson While it was unclear whether then-white-ruled Rhodesia and And I was content Saint Mary's Editor with declaring my ma­ the coup was successful, it Yemen as well as Benin and the jors, but that's no good. -------­ echoed the era when Denard Comoros. It's not good enough to state your majors and his troops hopped from In a 1978 interview, Denard was anymore, these people want to know all of country to country, installing quoted as saying the Comoros was the details about the rest of your life. The and propping up governments, among the last African nations rest of your life. That's a long time. It is allegedly with at least tacit sup­ where a handful of mercenaries such a perplexing question, isn't it? port from Paris. could still take power. I mean, it's great if you know what you But he said that kind of opera­ want to do with the rest of your life. It's Denard's forces attacked the tion was fast becoming a thing of great if you can say, "I'm gonna be a doctor presidential palace and cap­ APFTonia Cowan the past.

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