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Monday, February 3, 1997 • Vol. XXX No. 82 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Art department wants • SMC Srm.JENT GmtERNMENT ELECTiONS 1997 Election nears for SMC \ stolen arrow returned By CAROLINE BLUM a core requirement that stu By JAMIE HEISLER Saint Mary's Editor dents take a women's studies course at Saint Mary's. In Associate News Editor They have researched, addition, courses of all The landmark red and planned, and brainstormed. majors would be required to blue modern sculpture Thursday they began cam address women's issues. located between paigning, knocking on doors, If elected vice president O'Shaughnessy Hall and hanging up posters, and and head of the Student Fitzpatrick Hall was van handing out flyers. Academic Council (SAC). dalized the weekend of But they have only one last Parente intends to earn more Jan. 25. chance at the debate Monday night to con student attract:on to the organization. She The vandalism entailed vince voters to elect them to the offices of also would apply more community stan the theft of the rotating student body president and vice president. dards to the SAC. arrow originally located "Things have been going really well so "As an education major, I have been out atop the sculpture. "It's far," Board of Governance (BOG) elections · in the commPnity a lot," Parente said. a pretty hard piece to get commissioner Emily Miller said. "Everyone "Therefore I want to hold more possibilities off so they must have has been playing fair and encouraging oth for the students at Saint Mary's to· get really struggled to get it ers to vote." involved with the South Bend community." off," said Father Austin There are three tickets running for office: McNally is currently the president of the Collins, associate profes Meghan McNally (president) and Anne junior class, and Parente is the treasurer. sor of art. Paren~e (vice-president), Lara Becker (pres They have worked together on the planning The artwork, titled ident) and Jenn Cervantes (vice-president), of this year's "Play of the Mind" conference, "Turns About," is on loan and Nikki Milos (president) and Lori as well as on the orientation program at to the University from McKeough (vice-president). Saint Mary's. Running on the platform "Strengthening "Some people might be worried that the artist John Mischler, 1.-..~lllfM-· a professor from Goshen the Community through Collaborative Meghan and I are such good friends," College. If the stolen Leadership for a Promising Future," the Parente said. "They think that it might cre portion is not returned, McNally ticket focuses on expanding acade ate a problem, but actually we really bal the University will have mics, improving campus communication, ance each other out. We possess the ability to reimburse the artist and supporting campus Community to listen and implement the needs and for the refabrication of Leadership Teams (COLTS). dynamics of the student body." the piece. "We have a 90 percent retention rate at The Becker .ticket is running on the plat "We · would really Saint Mary's," McNally said. "That means form "Working Together to Build the Saint appreciate getting it back The Observer/Katy Soby we lose 10 percent of the .freshmen and Mary's Community." They want to improve so that it can be Vandals stole the arrow from the top of this sculpture sophomore classes eacb year. We think that diversity on campus with a better Cultural repaired," said Collins. two weekends ago. develeping a freshmen seminar program, Awareness Week, and a culture-a-month "Anyone with informa respected artist who has pieces in a Chicago which 85 percent of other colleges have, stall news bulletin. tion can come speak with gallery. He has commissions from all over the will provide better support for freshmen - Also understanding the importance of me." country and just recently completed a commis- support that the three-day freshmen orien communication at Saint Mary's, Becker and tation program does not give." According to Collins, see ELECTION I page 4 Mischler is a well- see ART/ page 6 The McNally ticket also wants to develop Eating Disorders Awareness Week Black History Month qegins at NO 'When image becomes an obsession, it's time to take a closer look!" By ALEX ORR ...· ··········••·•·•··::•Vii!WiiHMillffi•. News Writer Black Histor~ Month llliiiiililiiliiiiiiBi·::.w;!Jin®:: i {••• ·.· .. ·.·•·:~:1. February is Black History Month, an event that • Wednesday, February 5 . "Slim Hoges;;.'~' -~""""!"'~------- has its roots in the 1920s when one man sought 7 p.fD. Monday~··February 3, 1997 to correct a perceived deficiency in the general 155 DeBartolo 7 p.m. Carroll Auditorium, Madeleva Hall, Saint Mary's College perception of the history of African Americans. "Neria," a feature film from Zimbabwe. "If a race has no history, if it has no worth Followed by a panel discussion on An award winning thirty minute video by Jean Kilbourne. while tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world ... " women's inheritance rights in Africa. "D These are the words of Carter Woodson, the •wednesday, February 12 ······ .. yi~g I~ B':'?"'e~T'r.":'h':"!"'in~""'!!"'5""'~~~""~'~""~"""""'""....... - man whose goal it was to bring the rich history 155 DeBartolo 7 p.m. shown ·cahffffuaTI"y beiween 11 a.m. and 6:3op.m. of Africans, and the descendants of Africans, for Monday, February 3, 1997 ward in the development of North America. "Warrior Marks," the documentary by MonJgomery Theater, LaFortune Center, Notre Dame The African Student Association at Notre Dame Pratibha Parmer. is a student group whose ideals are very much in Followed by a panel discussion on genital line with the thinking of Woodson, according to .. ft~!!!;!,,,~!!~Q SOI1}~9ne with an eating problem Guillaume Zanlome, the president of the associa mutit'ation and the sexual blinding of 6:30p.m. Tuesday, February 4, 1997 tion. women in Africa and Asia. 140 DeBartolo Hall, Notre Dame "The African Student Association was founded • Wednesday, February 19 This panel will feature a female Notre Dame student recovering in 1988. Its goals were to foster the interests at Notre Dame, Saint Mary's, and Holy Cross of 155 DeBartolo 7p.m. froman eating disorder, her mother, and a student who has African students. They were also to promote "New Gods," the documentary by Ali Mazrui. had afriend with an eating disorder. awareness of Africa issues and realities," Folllowed by a panel discussion on the impact of Zanlome said. Islam and Christianity on Africa. This "promotion of awareness" is particularly fl Q~.,,~,~,!l.!l Woman Accept Herself? Part I • Thursday, February 20 fitting during this month of increased zeal for all 12 p:m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, February 5, 1997 things African. Hesburgh Center Auditorium 4:15p.m. North Wedge Room, Dining Hall, Saint Mary's College "The African Student Association does this Lecture by Prof. Ann Loux: "My Experience in Lunch time discussion featuring a panel of professors. [promotion] every year through the organization of lectures, films, and panel discussions," Cameroon." explained Zanlome. • Wednesday, February 26 HQ!"~"~mJ• Woman Accept Herself? Part II The organization has planned a series of activ 155 DeBartolo 7p.m. 12:~0 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, February 6, 1997 ities for this month, keeping with the theme of North Wedge Room, Dining Hall, Saint Mary's College describing and discussing those issues affecting 'The Drilling Reid," a documentary. Becky Cook, M.S., R.D., therapist at HOPE Program, Memorial modern Africa. Folllowed by a panel discussion on multinational The first of these activities is a showing of the corporations and environment in Africa. Hospital, discusses healthy eating. film "Neria" from Zimbabwe, which Zanlome The Observer/Sue O'Kain said "deals with the struggle of women in Africa .___T-:h_e_s_e-~-or_u_m_s-fo_r_d_i-sc_u_s_si-.o-n_w_I_.ll_b_e-he_l_d_o_n_c_e_~a Look for continuous coverage of Eating Disorders for heritage and rights." The showing will be week, beginning this Wednesday and continuing held on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in 155 DeBartolo until the end of Black History Month, and will Week in The Observer, beginning Tuesday. Hall. Following the showing will be a discussion cover a variety of African issues. on the topics in the film by Douglas Agbetsiafa of All forums will be held in 155 DeBartolo Hall, the Indiana University-South Bend School of excluding the discussion by Ann Loux on Economics, Ann Loux of the English Department Cameroon, which will occur in the auditorium of at Saint Mary's, and Kagwiria Mbogori of the the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. Center for Civil and Human Rights Law. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, February 3, 1997 • INsme Cm.mviN • WOJU.Il AT A GLANCE Band attacks village, massacring 31 people, paper says The forgotten ALGIERS. Algeria of car bombings and village massacres A band of men armed with knives that have intensified with the start of the and axes decapitated 31 people who Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Jan. holiday had been forced from their homes in 10. Since then, about 310 people are Medea, south of the capital, into the known to have been killed and 600 It is Feb. 3, and I am streets, the El Watan newspaper injured. suffering from an acute Heather MacKenzie reported Sunday. There was no immediate claim of case of post-holiday News Copy Editor The attack by about 50 men took responsibility for Saturday's massacre, depression. Yes, I am place early Saturday, the newspaper but suspicion fell on Muslim militants aware that the fruitcake was given away quoted local residents as saying.