Priest's Script Becomes Reality

E O B S E R V E R Thursday, February 12, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 90 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Scholars examine Hussein’s weapons stance, aggression ByJANEL KILEY In addition, the “Cold War para progress in eliminating such News Writer digm” argues for the prevention weapons as “stunning.” of the possession and accumula Numerous nuclear weapons in Professors George Lopez and tion of weapons of mass destruc Baghdad have been identified and David Cortright examined Iraqi tion while considering humanitar destroyed. president Saddam Hussein’s ian concerns, Lopez said. “The nuclear folder can be determination to use weapons of In their lecture, “Dealing With closed,” Cortright stated. mass destruction last night, Saddam: Bombing, Bargaining or The process achieved similar detailing the options and effects Bailing-Out,” Cortright stated that progress in destroying ballistic of the international community in sanctions imposed against Iraq in missiles, as 817 of 819 scud mis SYRIA preventing the acquisition of such the past seven years effectively siles in Iraqi possession have weapons. isolated the nation “economically, been accounted for, he said. Their presentation investigated diplomatically and politically.” Cortright believes “the Iraqi scud the costs and benefits of certain They experienced an “erosion of force no longer exists.” economic restrictions and consid economic capability” as they lost In the area of chemical %hjSKandar(yah ered the humanitarian concerns over one billion dollars in oil rev weapons, he believes that “signifi related to these actions. enue, he said. cant progress” has been made, At stake in this crisis “is the Controversial evidence suggests but considerable uncertainties impasse between the Security that the economic sanctions remain. However, biological Council and Iraq and the struggle imposed by the United Nations weapons remain an area of con [for power] in the post-Cold War have curbed Iraqi military poten cern for U.N. officials, he said, world,” Lopez said. This “Cold tial by devastating their monetary and while many sources of germ War paradigm” involves such intake from oil distribution, the warfare have been found, many SAUDI issues as the effective enforce professors said. Particularly, the remain hidden. ARABIA ment and affirmation of interna sanctions curtailed development In addition to the military con tional norms and the stand of harmful weapons. cerns with Iraq, Lopez addressed against blatant aggression that Cortright said Secretary of State Iraq displays, he added. Madeline Albright described the see IRAQ/ page 4 4 n p H E R E ARE MANY Z WOMEN, INCLUDING MYSELF, WHO WERE ADMITTED t o N o t r e D a m e , b u t CHOSE TO GO TO S a in t M a r y ’s .’ L o r i M cK e o u g h V ic e-p r e s i d e n t o e S a i n t M a r y ’s Co u le g e Talk confronts stereotypes By ALLISON KOENIG Saint Mary’s News Editor Saint Mary’s women, from the time of their first encounter with the College all the way through their experiences as students and alumnae, battle numerous stereotypes, according to a recent survey conducted by the Board of Governance. The Observer/Jeff Hsu BOG elections commissioner Janet Horvath P erformers in Father David Garrick’s play, “The Escape of Kropotkin,” rehearsed last night in Washington Hall. The play is spearheaded the survey project, issuing open- about a Russian prince who is jailed for his political beliefs. ended questionnaires to all Saint Mary’s stu dents during the second week of this semester. The survey asked students to recall stereo types of the College or its students, who they Priest’s script becomes reality encountered the stereotype from and how they felt about it. By DAVID FREDDOSO mance of the play, without book. man, he excels in his studies and, as Horvath, in collaboration with Student Activities director Georgeanna Rosenbush and Senior Staff W riter The play begins at 7:30 p.m. a reward, becomes a page for Czar tonight; the “stage” will be at the cen Alexander II. student body president Nikki Milos, tabulated the results of the roughly 40 surveys which “The Escape of Kropotkin,” a new ter of the audience which Garrick Kropotkin’s support for the Czar’s play written and directed by Father promised would add a few interesting reforms of the Russian government were returned. “The low number of survey response was a David Garrick of Notre Dame’s the effects to the pro land him in deep ater department, premiers tonight in duction. trouble with the letdown, especially in light of the spirit felt on the Old Band Room of Washington “As people will Russian aristocracy, campus after the [now infamous letter printed Hall. see, the band room f l E 7HAT IS CENTRAL [TO which includes his in The Observer, which was authored by Notre Dame sophomores Catherine Syncr and Stacey The performance had originally fits just perfectly into f f THE PLAY] IS THE own father. He is been planned as a staged reading [the play],” he said. imprisoned for trea Fuller and dubbed Saint Mary’s women ‘the without costumes, Garrick said. With tonight’s per POWER OF FRIENDSHIP son when he is found great Notre Dame parasite.’],” Horvath said. However, the enthusiasm of the formance, Garrick speaking against vio BOG member Genevieve Morrill does not undergraduate cast quickly turned becomes the first lence and in favor of believe that the relatively low response dimin F a t h e r D a v id G a r r i c k the event into something more. member of Notre hum an rights to a ishes the survey’s implications or results. “We “It started off as a reading, but then D am e’s faculty to A u t h o r/ d ir e c t o r, “T h e E s c a p e group of under need to examine the types of stereotypes that students indicated they are experiencing, and the actors asked if they could memo stage a reading of o f K r o p o t k i n” ground revolutionar rize their lines,” Garrick said. “It was his own play on ies. After two years determine what we can do to change those not meant to have costumes and campus. of solitary confinement in a prison false images,” she said. other things that students have decid The play itself is the true story of fortress, Kropotkin’s friends arrange About 40 Saint Mary’s College students, fac ed to come up with.” the young prince Peter Kropotkin, a a complicated scheme to spring him ulty and administrators gathered in Stapleton So after only two and a half weeks generous and liberal, yet traditionally from prison. Lounge last night for an open forum entitled of preparation, the actors will be minded young man in mid-nineteenth “Breaking stereotypes about SMC,” an event putting on a fully costumed perfor century Czarist Russia. As a young see THEATER/ page 4 see LABELS/ page 7 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, February 12, 1998 ■ In s i d e C o l u m n O utside the Dom e Searching for Compiled from U-Wire reports Eric Liddell Rolling Stone’s ‘Covers’ Tour Reaches Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif. For Dominique Williams, a sopho Whatever happened David Zachry In the background, L.L. Cool J’s rap more political science major, the to the true amateur ath- News Copy Edi[or tune “Mama’s Gonna Knock You Out" exhibit was a chance to see covers lete? Whatever hap- ------------- played, while a video showed perfor m i and portrayals of musicians who per p ened to the day when mances by Elvis Presley. formed before he was born. • Olympic athletes competed for pure reasons There were also Madonna’s pointy “I was interested in seeing older and not for a Nike shoe contract or a bustier and Alice Cooper’s fake sev [music] from the 1960s,” said Wheaties box cover? Whatever happened to ered head and guillotine from his Williams. the day of Eric Liddell? 1986 Nightmare Returns tour. Williams added that she heard the Eric Liddell is the subject of the film Rolling Stone’s Covers Tour, which music — Janis Joplin, the Grateful “Chariots of Fire." Liddell won the Olympic opened yesterday at UC Berkeley’s “Our idea to tour the universities Dead and John Lennon, for example gold medal in the 400 meter race in the Paris International House, showcases hun ’was to celebrate the upcoming 30th — around the house as she grew up. Olympiad of 1924. Liddell’s greatness is not dreds of pieces of rock ‘n’ roll history. anniversary of Rolling Stone,” he “I w asn’t old enough (to see what so much measured by the weight of his gold The event has already hit New York explained. the covers looked like),” she said. medal, but by his story. University and UCLA and will be head “We’re paying tribute, giving credit “And it’s interesting to know the story A devout Scottish Protestant and preacher, ing to other schools including Georgia and honoring the magazine for cap behind the picture on the cover.” Liddell did not run for his own self glorifica Tech and Northeastern University. turing the decades. Rolling Stone magazine was founded tion and ego, but for the glory of God. Liddell The exhibit traces the magazine’s We want the students to see things in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who felt that his incredible gift of speed was covers dating back to its first in 1967.

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