VOL. XXII, NO. 127 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Development of SDI to slack off Associated Press sions already had been dis­ closed, including the fact that WASHINGTON- The Bush $10 billion had been shaved administration will slow or from the proposed defense cancel several futuristic weap­ budget in the compromise with ons programs, including Star Congress. Wars and the stealth bomber, The Pentagon’s new budget to build more of the arms authority, if Congress goes already in the nation’s arsenal, along with Cheney’s bottom Defense Secretary Dick line, is $295.6 billion. Left intact Cheney said Tuesday. is a proposed 3.6 percent pay To further cope with fiscal hike for men and women in the 1990 budget reductions man­ m ilitary. dated by a new White House- Adm. William Crowe, the congressional compromise, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Army, Navy and Air Force will said he supported Cheney’s reduce their active-duty cuts only because of “dismal strength of more than 2.1 mil­ realities- both political and eco­ A P P h o to Daley Congratulated lion by 16,800 men and women, nomic.” Cheney added. But Crowe said the Appearing before the House moves were not justified by any Mayor Richard M. Daley, left, is congratulated by U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon after swearing-in ceremonies Armed Services Committee, changes in the threat posed by Monday. Seated between them are former Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer, left, and Judge Abraham Cheney ticked off a list of cut­ the Soviet Union or in Ameri­ Lincoln Marovitz, who administered the oath for Daley. backs. Many of the bigger deci­ can commitments. Mahoney, Petrites win CO-ED HOUSING Red Smith scholarship Student leaders favor co-ed option By KELLEY TUTHILL nominates the student that they By KELLEY TUTHILL The option of co-ed “I think that inertia is the Senior Staff Reporter believe is the most skilled and JOHN ZALLER housing has not been a biggest obstacle right now,” writer. All faculty members of Staff Reporters reality as of yet because the said Student Body Vice- Molly Mahoney and Cynthia the department then discuss actual implementation is a President Dave Kinkopf. He, Petrites are the 1989 recipients the nominees. Editors note: This is the slow process, said Breslin. too, is in favor of the option of the Red Smith Writing Schol­ The department must submit second in a three part series He noted that the reports to of co-ed housing. He said arship. the names to the Office of Fin­ on co-educational housing. the Board of Trustees have that living in co-residential The memorial scholarship ancial Aid as the scholarship Many students, including been made, students have housing in London was a honoring Notre Dame alumnus consists of a monetary award, Student Body President discussed the matter, but valuble experience. and legendary sportswriter said Costello. Matt Breslin, believe that that the actual process of Kinkopf said that their job Red Smith was established five The Office of Financial Aid undergraduates should have going co-ed hinders the prog­ as student leaders is to be years ago and is presented an­ then considers the financial the option of co-ed housing ress. the “squeeky wheel.” He nually to a student who need of the nominees and at Notre Dame. Student support is neces­ said that the process of going demonstrates excellence in un­ makes a decision, said Russo. Breslin said that co-ed sary, and if a student feels co-ed may move slowly, but dergraduate writing. Both Mahoney and Petrites housing “should be made an strongly about the issue he that eventually it will get This is the first time that two are juniors in the American option at Notre Dame.” He should talk to student gov­ done. students have won the award studies department. sees why people would not ernm ent, said Breslin. “ We “When it is not clear what in one year, said Joseph Russo, Mahoney serves as a sports want their own dorm to go want to be very available to the effect on residential life director of financial aid. He copy editor and sports writer co-ed, but that once it is students.” will be. ..I can understand said that the faculty in the at The Observer. She is from done, he feels that people “I think that it (co-ed their (the administration’s) American studies department South Bend. would become more com­ housing) would bring a dif­ caution,” said Kinkopf. nominates the students based Mahoney said that she would fortable with the idea. ferent type of spirit to the Senior Peter Gutrich was on their outstanding writing like to pursue a career in print Breslin said that the dorms,” said Breslin. He the Chairman of the Com­ ability. journalism. She said that she alumni would probably be believes that co-ed housing mittee on Co-residentiality. “The criteria for the award will probably start out sports taken by surprise at first. would better communica­ The Committee consisted of is writing skill and academic writing, but eventually she “We have the best alumni in tion between men and wo­ five female and five male achievement in writing,” said would like to write on politics. the nation. they love men on campus. He sees im ­ students. The report that Professor Donald Costello, The Red Smith Scholarship Notre Dame so much that proved relations and fewer they compiled was pre- chairman of American studies. Award was “something that they would come to accept stereotypes as positive Costello said that each Amer­ it (co-ed housing.)” aspects of co-ed housing. see CO-ED / page 4 ican studies faculty member see AWARD / page 4 Earthquake shakes Mexico City and Acapulco Associated Press the seismically sensitive cen­ government spokesman Sept. 19, 1985, killing at least ter swayed widely and were Miguel Hernandez. 10,000 people and destroying MEXICO City- A strong evacuated. Gulfof “Even though the quake was hundreds of buildings. That earthquake struck Mexico City “ The quake produced a lot of MEXICO Mexico intensively felt, everything is quake measured 8.1 on the and Acapulco on Tuesday, panic because of the recent normal and there are also Richter scale. cracking buildings and an (1985) experience,” said Earthquake reports of no major damage. “There’s a real psychosis aqueduct, shattering glass and Mayor Manuel Solis. We did a survey by radio,” said Pacific Mexico J here about earthquakes since panicking thousands of people He said fallen cables and Hernandez by telephone. Ocean \ C i t y * 1985,” said Alejandro Maura, who remembered the killer short circuits caused power The U.S. national an office worker who, like quake of 1985. blackouts in many parts of the Acapulco] Earthquake Information Cen­ hundreds of others, had not re­ One man was electrocuted city. He also said the Tlahuac ter in Golden, Colo., said the entered his building hours after when power cables fell on him, aqueduct, one of several bring­ earthquake registered 6.8 on the tremor. and two women were seriously ing drinking water to this me­ AP the Richter scale. The Francisco Guerra, advertis­ injured when they jumped in tropolis of 19 million, cracked dents for maintaining epicenter was 40 miles east of ing director of the newspaper panic from the second story of in several places and caused “serenity and coolness.” He Acapulco, about 200 miles Novedades de Acapulco, said a swaying building during the some flooding. said their experience in the 1985 south of Mexico City, said seis­ the quake caused brief power 8:26 a.m . (10:26 a.m. EST) However, he said all services disaster had served them well. mologist John Minsch. failures and panic. quake, officials said. would be restored within three Tuesday’s tremor shook the Mexico’s Seismic Institute cal­ Police sent on inspection days. Pacific beach resorts of culated the quake at 7 on the “I’ve never felt a tremor so patrols throughout the city re­ President Carlos Salinas de Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, but Richter scale. strong in the city and I ’ve lived ported no collapsed buildings Gortari made a quick tour of there were no reports of death The tremor hit Mexico City here for 30 years. I thought the or other deaths or serious in­ affected areas and, in a televi­ or damage throughout the state at about the same time as the building would collapse,” he juries, but many buildings in sion interview, praised resi- of Guerrero, according to state m assive earthquake that hit on said. page 2 The Observer Wednesday, April 26, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS ND is founded on a The Afghan government said Tuesday that its forces killed 58 Moslem guerrillas mounting another attack on the eas­ tern city of Jalalabad. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Nabi also said 250 guerrillas were killed in other fighting. His sense of community claims could not be independently verified. The Soviet ambas­ We are ND. sador to Afghanistan, meanwhile, reported thousands of Good enough, except- who’s the “We?” casualties by both sides in the seven-week siege on Jalalabad. An incident which happened Monday on the Our campus is not Yuli Vorontsov also said the offensive appears to have been or­ Stepan basketball courts could cause you to comprised of two wonder just who the “we” is meant to include. chestrated entirely by the Pakistani military, not by the govern­ camps, athletes and ment of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The details of the incident vary according to whom you’re talking, but the gist is this: a students.’ NATIONAL BRIEFS melee erupted during a Bookstore basketball game between a team of Stanford freshmen and Dave Bruner Shock TV host Morton Downey Jr.