- - ---- ---------~--- ----- ------------------------~----------------------------------- Tuesday, November 19, 1996 • Vol. XXX No. 56 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Holtz to leave squad today DART phone lines By TIM SHERMAN just as quickly. But for now, Sports Editor the focus is clearly on Holtz. back in service • The 11-year coach of the One game is about to offi­ Irish informed the team of By MICHELLE KRUPA cially end and another is his decision yesterday after­ Assistant News Editor ready to begin. noon before the squad took According to all indica­ the practice field of Loftus The DART phone lines, which enable students to tions, the intense scrutiny Sports Center. register for courses, will be back in service today after and media circus that has According to those present a temporary shutdown due to mechanical problems. ensued regarding Notre at the meeting, Holtz According to Harold Pace, University registrar. the Dame coach Lou Holtz's instructed members of the problem, which resulted in modification of the regis­ future with the Irish will end team not to discuss the deci­ tration process, was due to a faulty wire. tomorrow. sion to leave with members "We think we found the problem [last] night around The 59-year old Holtz will of the media. 5 p.m. It seemed to be a physical break in the wire announce at his regularly "He's going to make an that leads the DART computers to the mainframe," scheduled press conference announement tomorrow," Pace said. that he is indeed stepping said leading receiver According to Pace, the obstructed connection down as coach of Notre Malcolm Johnson. "That's between the DART system and phone lines made it Dame. all I can say." impossible for students to reach the mainframe to reg­ The final decision came as His teammates took the ister for courses. a result of a Monday meeting same approach. Students were requested via voice-mail to visit the of Holtz, University executive "Our team meetings are registrar's office during specific times to register for vice-president Father confidential," said Kinnon courses. Pace said that the meetings went well, but William Beauchamp and Tatum, Notre Dame's leading that the system should be operative this morning. Athletic Director Mike tackler. "If he (Holtz) want­ "Everything went very smoothly [yesterday.] We Wadsworth. ed us to talk to the media, registered all of the students who had to be registered, "They have reached a deci­ he'd let the media into the but if everything holds together, the system should be sion and it will be announced meetings. So, I have no com­ up immediately," Pace said. at 1 p.m tomorrow," said ment." John Heisler, Notre Dame Holtz, himself, continued to God bless us every one ... Sports Information Director. steer clear of explicitly stat­ Talk of Holtz's departure ing his intentions. The Observer/ Rob Finch has quickly mounted in the "I will talk about that Head football coach Lou Holtz leads the Irish during past few days and talk of his (fu_ture) at the appropriate practice yesterday. Holtz will reportedly resign his sucessor is bound to build time," Holtz said. position at today's 1 p.m. press conference. Vision of Virgin connects ND to past By SASKIA SIDENFADEN One of the spheres appeared to News Writer open, r9vealing a lady sitting on a stone by a dried spring. The lady had Between the Basilica of the Sacred her head in her hands and appeared Heart and the Notre Dame sacristy to be weeping bitterly. A moment stands a small statue of the Virgin later, the lady rose, beckoning the Mary entitled "Our Lady of La two children towards her. Salette." On the wall hangs a plaque The children later described the reading "Statue of Notre Dame which Lady's costume in detail. According was the last earthly object which to John Gallery in his book entitled Father Sorin gazed on before his Mary vs. Lucifer: The Apparitions of death." As we shuffie in and out from Our Lady, Mary was wearing "a Sunday Mass, this statue affords little white robe studded with pearls, a reason to stop and muse. After all, gold colored apron, and roses of there are myriad images of the many colors at her feet." Hanging Virgin Mary across campus. But this from her neck was a heavy gold particular statue of St. Mary, howev­ chain in lace fashion, hemmed by er inconspicuous, has perhaps the roses, and a peculiar gold crucifix. A closest link to the founding of Notre hammer was near the left hand on Dame. 1846. Maximin Giraud, age 11, and the crossbeam and a pair of pincers Melanie Mathiew, age 14, were tend­ near the right hand. The hidden story ing their cows when Melanie noticed Our Lady commenced weeping for Our Lady of La Salette is the first a bright light at the bottom of a God and for the world and the com­ The Observer/Shannon Dunne modern apparition of the Virgin ravine. As Maximin later recounted, ing punishments from God for the Notre Dame's Communication and Theatre Mary as she appeared to two peasant "The light was incomparably more ingratitude of man. Of all the sins Department will put on Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" children atop a mountain in La brilliant than that of the sun," form­ this weekend at Washington Hall. Tickets are avail­ Salette, France, on Sat. Sept. 19, ing two spheres. see STATUE I page 6 able at the LaFortune ticket.tesk. Science-related jobs as difficult to come by as any By LAURA PETELLE C&EN's help-wanted ads hint at signs News Writer Is science program of hiring recovery You always knew you would go to college, major in phi­ losophy, graduate, and go directly into a job in your major. Volume of "positions open• advertising, column-inches3 hiding the facts? 1,400 ; _,.__ 1 - Back up, start over. Almost no one would believe this ; i . scenario for an Arts and Letters graduate, but this is still By lAURA PETELLE ; News Writer 1,200 the overwhelming view of science grads. It is also one that is simply not true anymore. 1,000 .,.._........._ "It's a very difficult job market," Francis Castellino, Censorship in the Stepan Chemistry Building?·~ Dean of the College of Science, said. "Any one week can That was the accusation leveled in an anony.:. change the field so dramatically." mous note received on Nov. 1 by The Observer 800 Gerald Jones, Chair of the Physics Department, agreed staff. The note was attached to the article ,. Jobs that the job market is "tougher across the board." in Labs Grow Scarce.. and accused that the "fac~ 600 So does that mean that a degree in science is irrelevant ulty •removed it immediately upon reading it to today's job market? Should professors stop encourag­ (within one hour of its post) in order to hide it 400~~----~~------~~~~~ ing first year students to enroll in the College of Science? from the undergraduate and graduate students.. Should advisors stop encouraging their students to pursue and concluded that "if I [the writer) use my 200 t--.;;._'-~r----I-'~:-'---#-.....;_,-+-:-~~J....t advanced degrees in the sciences? name, I would get in big trouble from [sic] the department." o~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Absolutely not, said Harry White, the chemistry depart­ 1993 ~ 1994 ---l i...__ 1995 ---l !..-1996 _..J ment's corporate relations consultant. "The market is 'Was the article something the College of see JOBS I page 4 see SIDE/ page 5 --------------------------------~--------------------------------~ page2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, November 19, 1996 • INSiDE Cm..UMN Words GOMA, Zaire Public pressure led the South African • A British-based compa,ny supplied British arms scandal government on Nov. 6 to announce it rtng arms and ammunition to the former The Rwandan government bought more was suspending arms shipments to the Rwandan government after it began than $5.5 million worth of weapons and new, Tutsi-led Rwandan government. slaughtering a half-million of its own military hardware from a British The documents were found in a bus, company, contravening a U.N. embargo people in 1994, according to docu­ on exporting arms to Rwanda. part of a wrecked convoy abandoned true ments that Hutu militias left behind by retreating Hutu militias in Sake, 18 when they retreated in eastern Zaire. Arms were flown from .... miles west of Coma. The Hutu militias, Cardinal Joseph The documents, made available to remnants of the former Rwandan Bernardin, a gentle man The Associated Press on Monday, indi­ army that fled Tutsi forces in 199~. of peace and love, has cated the Rwandan government bought were fleeing from Zairian rebel troops prematurely been called more than $5.5 million worth of swe~ping through eastern Zaire. away from his work, machine guns, mortars, grenades, The documents indicated Mil-Tee is which included the recon­ ammunition and other military hard­ based in Douglas, the Isle of Man, off ciliation of Catholics ware from the company, Mil-Tee Corp., England's northwest coast, and in divided on issues. between April and July 1994. Hove, 50 miles south of London. But it Bernardin meant more Some shipments appeared to contra­ is not listed in telephone directories to American Catholics Liz Foran vene a U.N. embargo on exporting and could not be reached for com­ then many at this Editor-in-Chief arms to Rwanda, imposed in May 1994 ment. University may realize. following acts of genocide by the for­ The arms were flown out of London's Steadfast in his faith and in his work, he mer Hutu-led government against APN/m.