$ o c r The Observer # ------------ Saint Maryls College The Observer NOTRE DAME* INDIANA VOL. XXIV NO. 53 JO .^Z WEDNESDAY , NOVEMBER 13, 1991 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S A&L hiring freeze lifted; Positions can be filled By MONICA YANT budget next year is the “top News Editor priority,” new projects and faculty additions may be put on The temporary hiring freeze hold. in the College of Arts and The budget process for the Letters has been lifted and 1992-93 academic year started departments can begin to fill Monday and will continue positions for the 1992-93 through January. O’Meara academic year, according to stressed that no cutbacks are Provost Timothy O’Meara. being made or will be made for the coming year. Budget analysis has shown O’Meara that the $425,000 While he could not speculate “glitch” which caused the how much additional money concern can be recovered. By would be allocated to the lifting the freeze, O’Meara has college, O’Meara said that “ a lot given department chairs within more thought” will have to be the college th'e green light to given to funding areas like the continue hiring searches for sophomore Core program and positions this year and next. the Freshman Writing program. “My general outlook is Both programs offer courses positive ” O’Meara said of the typically taught by adjunct budget situation and future professors not specifically spending. “I think we have a funded by the budget. healthy situation given the The hiring freeze for 1992-93 The Observer/John Rock economy of the country.” was actually one of two Welcome to DART implemented this year, O’Meara Allocations to the college for said. The earlier freeze Senior Jason Rosemurgy flips through his DART book in the Administration building yesterday as he 1992-93 will be larger to get targeted hiring for this registers for classes. Although seniors are finishing their final DART session, juniors and sophomores the budget “normalized,” he academic year was lifted two are preparing for their turn in the next couple of weeks. said. But since stabilizing the weeks ago, he said. Philosophy department faces problem of underfunding Editor's notei, Recent College of Arts and Letters, all," Gutting said. problem by taking away the budgetary problems within the according to Gary Gutting, However, Gutting believes the solution to the old one,” he said. ■ THEO/ page 3 College of Arts and Letters have chairman. problem lies with the Gutting emphasized that this caused concern about course Gutting said he believes that ■ COTH and AMST/ page 3 administration’s lack of funding. problem in the budget does not offerings for the spring the current crisis in the college “There is not enough money have all our courses taught by have any immediate short semester. As students begin the is a result of underfunding. appropriated to the basic things tenured faculty and in small terms effects. “It’s a longer- DART registration process. The “There is no reason to think we need to do,” he said. sections of 25 (students) or term situation, but it’s all the Observer w ill spend the week that money is not being spent less,” he said. more serious," he said. examining the effects of the properly," he said. The administration is worried budget situation in several about deficits in the Arts and At present, Gutting said, only The philosophy department departments w ithin the College. The philosophy department Letters budget, according to 14 percent of the classes in the currently has 34 professors and has no open spots right now, so Gutting. “The administration’s 200 majors, according to philosophy department meet By PAUL PEARSON the temporary hiring freeze had response (to the problem) so far this standard. One-third of the Gutting. This number of majors no effect. Gutting said. has been to solve it by taking Assistant News Editor classes offered in the is slightly lower than in the The problem which faces away new positions,” he said. department are taught by past, but Gutting said this is due Gutting’s department is that to the new department The Notre Dame philosophy adjunct professors and there are not enough tenured With this approach to the department will not cut any graduate students, he said. “I requirement that everyone with faculty to properly teach the budget, the administration is classes or faculty positions due don’t find that satisfactory at a first major in philosophy write to the “ budgetary glitch” in the students. “The ideal would be to trying to “solve the new a thesis. Stolen ‘hang tag’ permits pose problem for Security By MICHAEL SCHOLL since a tag can be switched News Writer from car to car. Johnson said many of the A number of University park­ stolen hang tags are used by ing permits have been stolen non-permit holders who wish to from the vehicles of Notre park on-campus. In response, Dame faculty and staff mem­ Security officers have been bers, according to ND Security. sweeping University parking lots in search of stolen hang Phillip Johnson, assistant di­ tags. rector of security in charge of parking operations, says a total One student and one staff of 28 “hang tag" permits have member have had stolen hang been stolen from faculty and tags discovered in their cars staff so far this semester. this semester. No criminal charges have been filed against A "hang tag" is a parking either person, but Johnson said permit that is hung on the rear their cases are being “ handled view mirror of a vehicle. Hang through University administra­ tags are issued by the Univer­ tive channels.” sity to faculty and staff who do not wish to use windshield Chuck Hurley, also an assis­ parking decals. These tags are tant director of Security, sug­ not available to students. gested that some stolen hang tags may be being sold as sou­ Although windshield decals venirs of Notre Dame. “If you are more difficult to steal, printed Notre Dame on toilet Johnson said hang tags are paper, people would buy it," preferred by drivers who “find Hurley said. it too difficult to remove the The Observer/Marguerite Schropp decals" at the end of a Johnson said the best way to Artistic expression prevent hang tag theft is to semester. Hang tags also pro­ Colleen O’Rourke, an art major, explains her half, man, half woman torso sculpture to Mary Cosgrove have tag holders keep their car vide flexibility for permit hold­ at the Saint Mary’s underclass portfolio review yesterday. ers who have two or more cars. doors locked at all times. page 2 The Observer Wednesday, November 13, 1991 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST: Decreasing Will AIDS fall to cloudiness and much warmer today. Highs in the middle 50s. Partly backburner like cloudy and warm Thursday. Highs in the lower 60s. other issues? TEMPERATURES: City H L My mom called me last Athens 68 52 Thursday afternoon to Atlanta 60 36 Berlin 45 41 give me the news that Boston 40 35 Magic Johnson was Chicago 38 32 retiring because he has DaHas-Ft.Worth 61 40 kV Denver 50 32 AIDS. v4xn\'\ s\ n\<\n\- a Detroit 51 34 I mumbled something Honolulu 85 72 X ; ■'.-.f.x-.'.-.x-y ~5 Houston 70 41 into the phone like, “Yeah, Indianapolis 50 32 right," and went back to Hene Ferrari London 52 39 sleep, convinced that she Associate Sports Los Angeles 83 61 Miami Beach 74 58 had fallen prey to yet an- Editor -------- New Orleans 64 34 o ther office rumor. FRONTS: New York 44 39 Paris 54 39 But this was no joke. Two hours later, at an Phlladefrhla 46 36 emotional press conference, Earvin “Magic” Rome 61 40 COLD WARM STATIONARY St. Louis 39 36 Johnson announced to the world that he had ©1991 Accu-Wealher, Inc. San Francisco 77 52 contracted the HIV virus and was retiring Pressure Seattle 60 54 South Bend 45 33 from the NBA. E3 Tokyo 61 52 H L EZ3 ■a & Washington. D C. Immediately, the public turned and reex­ HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY 48 37 amined its view of the deadly disease. News programs were devoted to explaining AIDS V ia A sso cia te d Press and its effects. The first AIDS CableThon, held in California, raised over $1 million, and organizers credited the response to public awareness of Magic’s ordeal. My only problem is, where was all the at­ tention before Magic’s sudden revelation? TODAY AT A GLANCE AIDS has been recognized for several years now as one of the biggest health problems the U.S.—and the w orld—has faced in its history, but until last Thursday, how much money would have been raised by the CableThon? WORLD NATIONAL And what will happen a month or two now, Kurdish agreement may end embargo Senate okays Social Security break _______ when Magic’s press conference is “old news” ■ NICOSIA, Cyprus — The Kurdish nationalists will ■ WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday voted to and the public eye is turned elsewhere? withdraw guerrillas from several northern Iraqi cities in eliminate a so-called earnings test under Social Security Consider the Gulf War. In January, whose an agreement aimed at ending Baghdad’s blockade of law that sharply cuts benefits for recipients between the eyes weren’t glued to the television set, taking food and supplies to the area. But a Kurdish rebel ages of 65 and 70 who earn more than $9,720 a year.