U.S. Welcomes Soviet Attempt at Better Relations Teachers Strikes Hit

South Africa - page 5 Leadership conference to include past leaders By SCOTT BEARBY Assistant News l:'dttor "111<: llall Presidents Council opened tht"ir met·ting in old form last night, contrary to efforts last year which would have reorganized the body. The Council hc:an.l from Student Body Vice l'residt·nt Duane Lawrence and student government member Brut·e Lohman ahout an up The ~11'11ul Kramn coming student government leader ship conference. The participants That's what Notre Dame Ticket Manager Mike Bobinski called faster," but juniors, shown here yesterday, and seniors who waited will include many alumni who waiting for student football tickets, which be said his deparbnent in huge lines Monday would be prone to dtsaggree. Sophomores served a.' student leader~ during would try to avoid this year. Bobinski, in an article last week, said are eligible to wait for tickets today, and freshmen ltne up tomor· their college days. the new ticket distribution procedure would be "a beckuva lot row. The conference, explained Lawrence, is scheduled to be held throughout the campus on Oct. 11- 13. Over the summer, Lawrence, Loh Law Building addition will contain offices, man, and Student Body President Hllll-lealy began contacting past stu dent body presidents, judicial coor dinators. HPC chairmen, Observer classrooms, courtroom, more library space editors. and other leaders in order to By KATHY CEPERICH scholarly production, explained such as video machines and other The Notre Dame Law School see if they would be willing to take News Staff Law School Dean David Unk. audio-visual equipment. This will al boasts a good reputation, said Unk part in discussions about student "Ibe expanded library will enable low students to conduct mock trials and he hopes the new facility will leadt•r1ohip and resident·e life. The addition to the Notre Dame faculty to do research here that they in preparation for actual court ap· enhance it even further. Though Lohman, who is serving as co Law School will expand its facilities would otherwise have to do at other pearance, Link said. there will be a 60 percent increase chairman of the conference, said hy adding a new library wing, a stu institutions, he said. A computer will in the size of the law building, Unk two main topks, n:sidentiality and dent courtroom and additional clas provide direct access to other Additional microfilm and said he does not forsee a propor "awnues of student leadership," will srooms and offices. libraries, allowing almost limitless videodisc equipment, and a tional increase in the student body, he discussed. The sessions will not research capacity without leaving telecommunication system will be except in the post-graduate degree be tilled with old stories from the "llle new library space will the campus Link added. added at a later date, Link said. programs. alumni. hut will help current stu provide students and faculty with A classroom was designed to Construction began this summer dent leaders on developing con additional research materials. replace the old courtroom and the and is expected to be completed by It will continue to be a small law crt·te proposals for the The present facility is a good new courtroom will be equipped July 1, 1986. The addition wiU copy school with individualized teaching administration, he added. working library for teaching efforts, with some of the most modern the Nco-Gothic reproduction ar and a graduating class of about 160 Meetings will be held on all parts but the new facilities will encourage courtroom presentation apparatus, chitecture of the existing structure. students, he said. of the <·am pus and in some residence halls in order to make it more con venknt for students to attend. Ses U.S. welcomes Soviet attempt at better relations sions will he open to any interested students, according to Lohman. chiefs claim that the United States Speakes said the administration prepare for the summit through con In other business, Dillon Hall expects the Soviets to make all the has heard such talk before and chal· fidential diplomatic channels. President John 1-lusmann asked the WASHINGTON The White concessions. lenged the Soviets to put their He repeated Reagan's challenge to hall presidents if their halls would be House sidestepped Soviet leader President Reagan, Speakes said, is proposals on the table when arms the Soviets to permit the American willing to help reimburse Dillon for Mikhail Gorbachev's charge that the prepared "to meet the Soviets control talks resume Sept. 19 in president the same access to the an open air concert they financed United States is setting up a con halfway in an effort to solve Geneva if they are serious ahout Soviet Union's government· during freshmen Orientation. frontation at the November summit, problems." negotiating arms reductions. controlled media as Gorbachev has Husmann said they "may have put yesterday and chose instead to Meanwhile, a delegation of U.S. to the independent Western press. the cart before the horse" in holding welcome his pledge to propose senators who met with Gorbachev "Our views of the causes of the "We are pleased that Mr. Gorbac the concert before asking the halls ways of improving superpower rela in Moscow yesterday said the Soviet present U.S.-Soviet tensions are hev was able to present his views to to help finance the concert, but felt tions. leader told them he is ready to make quite different from that presented the American public," Speakes said. the event henefited the entire In the administration's first formal radical offers to reduce nuclear by Mr. Gorbachev," Speakes said in "If President Reagan had a com campus. reaction to Gorbachev's debut inter· weapons arsenals and may not response to the Soviet leader's inter parable opportunity to express his HPC Chairman Kevin Howard view in the Western press, presiden oppose basic U.S. research on space view with Time magazine. But he views to the Soviet people through tial spokesman Larry Speakes based military systems · the so said, "We do not intend to enter into the Soviet media, this would no see HPC, page 4 dismissed the Communist Party called "Star Wars" program. a debate in the media," preferring to doubt improve our dialogue . Teachers strikes hit several cities Associated Press representing 28,000 teachers in Jim Prescott, a spokesman for the nation's third-largest school Thompson, said the governor was CHICAGO- Yesterday, teachers district, launched its third walkout "very frustrated" by the walkout. in Chicago and Seattle went on in as many years after rejecting the "I think he's more frustrated strike, one day before the 430,000-student district's offer of a with this strike than with the past scheduled start of classes; while 3.5 percent salary increase. The ones because last spring he put teachers in Philadelphia shouted union is holding out for a 9 percent together a record increase in their overwhelming approval of a raise. school funding in IUinois," said new three-year contract that Aides to Illinois Gov. James Thompson. averted a walkout. Thompson met yesterday with A coalition of I 7 unions Elsewhere, strikes by teachers in hoth sides to present a proposal, representing 12,000 other school Q 10 other school districts in Pen { I . the terms of which were not dis workers, including painters and / nsylvania, Illinois and Michigan closed. engineers, also struck yesterday. .~JJ.~ disrupted the resumption of fall "My hope would be to have a The 19,000 member Philadel APPhoto Chtca!l.o teachers Union president jacqueline Vaughn, left, classes for more than 76,000 stu settlement this afternoon," said phia Federation of Teachers flushes th'' victory sign us she rides on the union'sfloat iTI the 1985 dents. Jim Reilly, the governor's chief of ratified by voice a vote a S2.50 mil l.ahor Day Parade in Chicago Monday. The Chicago Teachers Union, staff. lion, three-year contract. The Observer Wednesday, September 4, 1985- page 2 In Brief Mutual respect, understanding '· to result from Five Points party Ever since Father Sorin built the first log cabin and A Holy Cross Junior College student was called it his college, students have been leaving campus· injured yesterday afternoon in an accident at the intersection of in the eternal search for kicks. Juniper Rd. and Edison. Thomas Lewis, 18, of 1102 Portage, was Today, huge tribes of students migrate from campus Dan riding his motocycle northbound on Juniper when he apparently every weekend looking for that exclusive off-campus failed to obey the stop sign at Edison, according to Glenn Terry, party, or to stop in for a beer or two at one of the local McCullough director of Notre Dame security. He struck a car driven by Carl taverns. News Editor Griman, of 1942 E. Donald St., which was westbound on on Edison, A number of theories can explain why students are so Terry said. Lewis was taken to St. Joseph's Medical Center where he anxious to leave campus for awhile - such as the cramp ! is in stable condition with multiple abrasions, a hospital spokesper ing alcohol policy, the strict regulations of DuLac, or , son said. - The Observer even a natural need for independence. But the end to join them this weekend for a party at Five Points. result is a lot of fun for the students, a lot of worry for According to the festival planners, the party will enable ~ the administration, and a lot of sleepless nights for the the student and residents to get together in a context of ~ A fireman dropped a smoke bomb into the lockers neighbors.

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