SNOW Seminarians on Stage Thursday The Moreau Seminary-sponsored production of "The Odd Couple" debuts HIGH 35° this weekend at the Moreau Seminary Auditorium. FEBRUARY 21, LOW26° Scene 16 2002 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 94 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Eldred won't fight monologues from leaders of C.A.R.E. a performance, but does not er the way women should with Wings" and Katie By SARAH NESTOR whom she accused of orga­ give a date, time or place for work together, sitting down Koestner, "Sex Signals." News Writer nizing the performance, the performance. over a cup of coffee and talk­ The events will continue Eldred said she will not sanc­ The students involved with ing," said Karen Ristau, vice next year. Amid the speculation and tion student performers this "The Vagina Monologues" president and dean of faculty. "The sexuality series will rumor as to whether "The year. reading at Saint Mary's In a letter to the student continue next year, with pro­ Vagina Monologues" will be "I have not seen the adver­ Monday refused to comment. body from the Board of gramming as recommended performed at Saint Mary's, a tisements, but there will be Administration reaction to Governance, the board voiced by the anti-violence task word of mouth campaign was no repercussions if the play is students performing or read­ its support of the administra­ force that is composed of fac­ started Wednesday revealing performed," said Eldred. ing "The Vagina Monologues" tion and the steps that have ulty, students and staff," that students will read "The The latest issue of the has been positive this year. been taken this year to incor­ Eldred said. Vagina Monologues" Feb. 25 Marie Claire magazine Students and the administra­ porate new programs in Some Saint Mary's students in Regina North lounge at 9 already had the College listed tion have been able to talk response to the controversy expressed their approval of p.m. as holding a performance of about the situation so that concerning "The Monologues" "The Monologues" return to Unlike last year when "Vagina Monologues," and dissension does not occur on last year. The letter com­ campus in addition to the College President Marilou the V-day Web site also has campus as it did last year. mended such events as the Eldred demanded an apology Saint Mary's listed as holding "They have worked togeth- Sexuality Series, "Womyn see ELDRED/page 7 STUDENT SENATE Trustees Senators continue activity fee debate arrive at By ERIN LaRUFFA SMC Associate News Editor +Group will For the third consecutive consider approving week, debate at the Student Senate's Wednesday meeting student center as centered on whether senators part of Master Plan should recommend raising the student activity fee which all By SARAH NESTOR Notre Dame undergraduates News Writer pay. Amy O'Connor, whom the sen­ ate recently confirmed as club The Board of Trustees arrive coordinator of the Club at Saint Mary's today and will Coordination Council, spoke on begin work in its separate com­ behalf of campus organizations mittees. that would stand to benefit from The Administration has been increased funding. compiling data for the Board to "Recently, we've seen an update them on what has hap­ increase in demand while our pened since the Board's last resources have remained static," meeting in the fall. said 'O'Connor. "Not all clubs A major issue for the Board is need more funding, but the whether they will approve the majority do." ground breaking of the new The money collected through student center to be built as the student activity fee goes to part of the Master Plan. fund a variety of campus organi­ "I really want to see the zations, including undergradu­ approval for groundbreaking of ate clubs, the Student Union the student center project by Board and the office of the stu­ the Board. I don't expect it will dent body president. be a problem and the Board Last week, the senate rejected, should approve it," said Karen by a vote of 14 to 13, a resolu­ Ristau, vice-president. tion calling for the University to After the student center is increase the student activity fee built it will house everything from $65 to $75. The resolution that is currently in Haggar. also called for $5 increases Additionally, it will include a every other year following the TONY FLOYDfThe Observer cyber cafe, campus ministry, initial increase. Amy O'Connor, newly confirmed club coordinator of the Club Coordination Council, continues several lounges, a copy shop, a Since the senate rejected the the debate over increasing _the student activity fee. The senate rejected the proposed small theater and a dining hall. resolution, the body has formed increase during their last meeting but discussion continued during Wednesday's meeting. The new dining hall will have a committee to draft an alterna­ to be built first and will jut into groups that would benefit from an activity several senators tonight. Burke drew a significant the LeMans parking lot next to tive resolution that would increased funding. · questioned at previous senate crowd the last time he was here, increase the fee but perhaps the current dining hall. Noble The Architecture Club, for meetings - to attract members, but Best Buddies and other clubs Family Dining Hall will be would not include the provision instance, had to take on the according to O'Connor. Students do not have enough money to involving the $5 increases. The demolished so that the new responsibility and expense of are originally drawn to a club bring such well-known speakers student center can be built, committee consists of several organizing a career fair when meeting for the free food, but to campus more often. senators, as well as O'Connor. connecting the two buildings. the School of Architecture then stay in the club when they "[With more money] they There is also talk about con­ Student Activities director Brian stopped holding one, O'Connor discover what it is like. could bring speakers that every­ Coughlin and student body vice necting the new student cen­ told the senate. Another club O'Connor men­ one wants to go see, not just ter/dining hall to the tunnel president Brian Moscona. Other academic clubs, such as tioned was Best Buddies, which someone only a few .people have O'Connor described several the Physics Club, frequently use brought actor Chris Burke to organizations as examples of their funds to purchase pizza - campus two years ago and· again see SENATE/page 7 see TRUSTEES/page 8 ------------------------- ------ I page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Thursday, February 21, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Poetic Expression +Conference: "Ecology, + Boxing: Bengal Bouts +Theatre: "Macbeth," + Concert: Notre Dame Expression is something that manifests, Theology, and Judeo­ Preliminaries, Joyce performed by' "Actors from concert bands, embodies and symbolizes an emotion, an idea or a state of being to someone who did not partic­ Christian Environmental Center Fieldhouse, 5 p.m. the London Stage," Washington Hall, 3 p.m. ipate in the same experience. There are many Ethics," McKenna Hall, all + Concert: Alan Jackson, Washington Hall, 7:30 ways in which to express yourself, ranging from a smile or a frown to cartwheeling down South day Joyce Center, 8 p.m. p.m. Quad and splashing in melt-water puddles to + Lecture: "Crisis in Latin singing and interpretive dance. Those of us who were fortunate enough to American Labor?" Hesburgh see Ani Difranco on Tuesday Center, 4:15p.m. night saw her self-expres­ sion in her movements and dance, her lyrics and her music. All of it combined is Compiled from U-Wire reports her way of expressing that BEYOND CAMPUS which is important to her. We all express ourselves in our daily lives. Whether it - Students protest Laura Bush as commencement speaker comes across in bitter, sar- Angela Campos donie cynicism, in friendly LOS ANGELES, Cal. "She was selectedfor her said. "Having had a career in educa­ flirting or in keeping quiet Despite being 3,000 miles away, tion and information studies, she's and to yourself, we all par- Lab Tech Laura Bush fueled debate between political celebrity. The been dedicated to those areas, as take in self-expression. It is administrators and students who commencement speaker has been demonstrated by her how we let others know objected to the possibility of having should speak to us based on actions," he added. the first lady speak at this year's ''I'm really sorry there is this about ourselves, about who achievements in the field. we are as people, as sentient and emotional University of California-Los Angeles much agitation," Dorr said Friday, commencement ceremony. [Bush] has no merit. " promising to increase student beings. Students in the Graduate School of involvement in future selections. Some of the ways I have used to express myself Education & Information Studies Many students warned Dorr of the include singing out as I walk across the quads, met with Dean Aimee Dorr on Tara Watford political implications of inviting being very animated in how I interact with my Friday to demand that she rescind doctoral student Bush to speak at the commence­ friends and strangers and in prayer. But I have the invitation to Bush. ment. found that the form of self-expression I use the Critics cited Bush's "shallow cre­ doctoral student in education. "She was selected for her political most is poetry. I write poetry as an outlet for my dentials" and complained they were Carnesale, who sent ofT the invita­ celebrity," said Tara Watford, a doc­ emotions, a sounding board for my issues and not allowed to participate in the­ tion in early February under the toral student in education.