O'hara Defends GLND/SMC Decision

Tuesday, February 21, 1995 • Vol. XXVI No. 91 TI-lE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT tv1ARY'S O'Hara defends GLND/SMC decision CLC passes measure 'objecting' to administration action By EDWARD IMBUS sexuality, and it is also expect Assodatc News FJitnr ed to be reflected, philosophi cally and conceptually, in rec Hesponding to a formal re ognized student or qtwst from the Campus Life ganizations." The philosophy Council (CI.CJ. Vice President of GLND/SMC, she concluded, of Student Affairs Patricia was inconsistent with the O'llara attended yesterday's University's mission. cu: meeting to give the ad mi nistralion 's reasons for Since GLND/SMC was not an not granting GLND/SMC offi officially recognized club, she cial university recognition. At said that it was forbidden from the nnd of the meeting, the receiving the privileges recog Council passed a resolution nized student organizations obj1~eting to the ad received, including use of any ministration's policy and campus facilities. Conse called for official recognition quently, she said. GLND/SMC of the group. was prohibited from using the Counseling Center as a meet • see ED ITO RIAL, page 7 ing place. O'Hara also insisted that the Speaking to a packed Notre University, "is not denying, ig Dame Hoom in LaFortune, noring, or denigrating gays O'llara stated that in 1992 she and lesbians." She stated that upheld a decision by the Office she had changed her opening of Student Activities to deny remarks to students during The Observer/ Mike Ruma GLND/SMC oflicial recognition freshman and transfer At the c.a~pu~ Li!e Co~~cil meeting, Professor Patty O'Hara, vice president of Student Affairs, explained after her "analysis of applica orientation to state "that the admm1strat1on s dec1s1on to deny GLNDISMC official recognition. tion materials," convinced her offensive behavior towards that the group failed to pro gays and lesbians is not tolera mole the mission of the ble," and that RA training had l I niversi ty. been adapted to help meet the Plans for debate fall through needs of homosexual students. "GLND addressed homosex In her decision, she affirmed through because of in," said Town. ual acts neutrally, and urged the decision of the previous GLND/SMC GLND/SMC's refusal to partici ''I'm very disappointed that the University towards encour vice president of Student pate, according to Jay Town, they declined our invitation. aging monogamous homosex- Affairs, Father David Tyson, declines president of the College He pub GLND/SMC prides itself on edu 11111 relationships," said stressing that there are other licans. cation and fostering debate, O'llara, an ex officio member options available to gay and In an interview yesterday but when a group contrary to of the CLC. With that determi lesbian students, including College GOP Town said that a panel discus its beliefs or even its existence nation, she concluded that the services offered by the By DAVE 1YLER sion between the two groups asks for a discussion and ex constitution of GLND/SMC was University Counseling Center News Editor was to have taken place Mon planation of the issue, they "not consistent with the teach and Campus Ministry. day, but did not because of don't respond, they feel its be ing of the Church." Plans for a "debate" between GLND/SMC's questioning about neath them and contrary to "Notre Dame is different In addition, Notre Dame's the Notre Dame chapter of the the debate's appropriateness. their mission. than many places," she said. "broad open-speakers policy," College Republicans and Gays "(GLND/SMC co-chair) John "I feel their reaction was un "It articulates individual which has included forums and Lesbians of Notre Dame Blandford told me via e-mail professional, and disappointing behavioral expectations of and Saini Mary's College that this forum wasn't at the CLC I their students. especially with see page 4 (GLND/SMC) have fallen level he wanted to participate see DEBATE I page 3 Blank: 'Why are there so Women 'invaluable' to ND few women in economics?' Soon after founding Notre greatest Catholic university in Progress still Dame, Father Edward Sorin the world, it provides an impor tant "opportunity for women By TIMOTHY GREEN by women in almost all of the encouraged a contingent of Holy Cross sisters to join him in for academic excellence and New.• Writer social sciences, such as political necessary, science, psychology, and sociol America. They soon did, and quality of education." According to Malloy, co-edu Due to a variety of factors in ogy. they went on to found Saint eluding the conflicts of aca In these fields, women now Malloy says Mary's College. cation has created "a much dPmic and family life, both ac make up 35 to 40 percent of Women remained an impor richer and more diverse educa tive and passive discrimination, university faculties. Economics ByTOMMORAN tant part of the University, tional institution" with more and the nature of economics it remains the glaring omission to News Writer Malloy said, pointing out that "vibrant and exciting class sf' If, there is a disproportionate this trend, where typical facul Lewis Hall was founded as a rooms." He stated that the so cial network is much improved, rP-presentation of women in the ties are less than 10 percent Women have come to be an residence for religious women field of economics today, ac women, according to Blank. invaluable part of Notre Dame seeking graduate degrees. and that for both men and cording to Professor Rebecca Given the above data, Blank and its Catholic character, ac When a proposed merger with women, Notre Dame now offers Saint Mary's in 1972 fell better preparation for leader Blank of Northwestern Univer has posed this basic question: cording to University President through, Malloy said, Notre ship in society and the Church, sity. "Why is it that the field of eco Father Edward "Monk" Malloy. As the Chair and co-editor of nomics has fewer women than In a lecture last night at Dame decided to admit women as well as better preparation anyway, due to "excellent con for modern family life. tlw Newsletter of the American every other social science?'' Pangborn Hall, Malloy spoke Economic Association's Com Blank attributed the problem to about "The Catholic Character versation about the advantages Malloy also mentioned the important part women have mittee for the Status of Women a variety of causes. of Notre Dame ... How Women of being a co-educational insti One reason for this imbal Have Enhanced it in the Last 20 tution." played in the voiunteerism of in the Economics Profession the University, stating that "the (CSWEP), Blank herself has ance, according to Blank, is the Years." Malloy pointed out a num undertaken considerable study conflict with the concerns of Father Malloy made note of ber of valid reasons behind this range of things that Notre decision. Referring to the Dame people do in response to of this issue. academic life and the concerns the fact that although Notre of family life which many Dame has only been a co-edu largely female audience, he human need has increased ex Blank pointed to statistics noted that otherwise, "You ponentially" since women were that CSWEP has gathered women face. "It is harder for cational institution for 23 years, women to concentrate on get women have always been an wouldn't be here, first and first admitted. which illustrate her main point. foremost." He stated that as a Malloy also addressed the According to the data that has ting published or working to important presence at the Uni achieve tenure when they also versity. Father Basil Moreau, co-educational institution, progress that still needs to be been compiled, in the 1960's, Notre Dame is more fully repre made in terms of male-female less than live percent of social are concerned with raising a founder of the Congregation of family," Blank said. "Basically, the Holy Cross, created a three sentative of both society and relations. He admitted the science faculties In American the Church. many social problems that stu- universities were women. To life just isn't fair on this issue." pronged organization consist Malloy also said that since day, more than 30 years later, ing of priests, brothers, and sis ters. Notre Dame is arguably the great strides have been made see BlANK I page 4 see MALLOY I page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, February 21, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • Wmu.n A.T A GLANCE Police commander on trial for Apartheid-era murders Reliving the JOHANNESBURG, South Africa received in the mail exploded. 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