I Men’s ■ SMC made a deci­ O ne yea r later... RISE sion last week regard­ lacrosse team I Ambivalence still dominates ing student possession TO THE readies for campus reactions to the Ad z . of halogen lamps. 4th-ranked p. 7 Hoc recommendations p. 3 OCCASION Hofstra p. 28 SC H OBSERVER Friday, April 4, 1997 • Vol. XXX No. 117 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Congressional hearing plans future of federal aid By DAN CICHALSKI of college administrators, students cur­ tant items in the Higher Education and DEREK BETCHER rently receiving financial aid and others Act are the array of student aid Associate News Editors__________________________________ to discuss possible remedies and amend­ programs,” Notre Dame Provost ments. The formal congressional hearing Nathan Hatch said in his opening A bipartisan educational panel agreed was held in the Hesburgh Center for remarks. “The guiding principle Thursday that America’s government International Studies yesterday after­ for the subcommittee should be to and institutions of higher education need noon. preserve, and in some cases to work together to help more individuals “We need to really keep our eye on the extend, the existing programs and afford the rising costs of college tuition. ball here and see why college tuition to fund them at the current levels.” In the process of reauthorizing the rates are going up at the degree that they Joining Hatch on the panel were Higher Education Act, U.S. are,” Roemer said. “We need to concen­ Indiana University at South Bend Representatives Tim Roemer (D-South trate on making sure, whether you are a Acting Chancellor Lester Lamon, Bend) and Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph, middle-class parent or lower-income Western Michigan University Mich.) assembled two panels comprised parent, that you can access higher edu­ President Diether Haenicke, Bethel cation.” College President Norman Bridges, “An investm ent in the Lake Michigan College President people now,” Upton said, Richard Pappas and Ivy Tech State “will pay dividends in the College Chancellor Carl Lutz. future. It’s amazing for me The general consensus among to think about when I was a panel members and the congress­ student that every student men was that these federal pro­ back then could earn grams must be continued, but enough during the summer improved. through minimum wage to “We see these programs as a pay their own tuition necessary complement to what we check.” do,” Haenicke said. “The programs The Observer/Shannon Dunne Six administrators repre­ you [the government] provide are Yesterday's panel reached a consensus regard­ senting different colleges essential for us. Seventy percent of ing the need for both continuing and improving and universities in northern our students receive some sort of federal aid programs. Indiana and western aid.” our most needy students,” Hatch said. Michigan formed the first “A lot of things need to be worked on at “Its assistance to our students has been panel which discussed the federal and state levels to ensure this issues such as accountabili­ act works,” Lutz added. vital." 6"V 4 7e need to concentrate on making ty, affordability and accessi­ The representatives of area institutions “I urge Congress to restore the grant program as the central focus of federal W sure...that you can access higher bility in relation to college showed a strong interest in maintaining costs. effective programs like Pell Grants. education.’ Rep. Tim Roemer “The single most impor­ “Pell Grants are a vital source of aid for see TUITION / page 6 Friday Feature ...And I haven’t had a drink in 40 days By BRIDGET O’CONNOR Assistant News Editor Some people gave up drinking for Lent. Some also got paid to do it. That is, the participants in the Sober-a- thon earned money for their commitment to abstain from consuming alcohol during Lent. The only catch is that the money they earn goes to Life Treatment Center. The cen­ ter treats the indigent popu­ lation, including the poor and homeless who can not afford private treatment for Art meets AIDS face to face substance abuse. “Part of my goal is to just recording. Viewers are able Jason Dilley, the artist who By ALLISON KOENIG raise awareness about what Assistant News Editor _________ to look into the faces of the conceived Project Face to we do,” said Jim Sullivan, a Face, learned first-hand victims and hear in the indi­ 1994 Notre Dame graduate vidual’s own words the reali­ about AIDS through his vol­ AIDS patients will tell their and employee of the center. ty of life with AIDS. unteer position at San stories to visitors in Fund raising was another Francisco General Hospital. LaFortune Ballroom all next The program is sponsored motivation for program through a $5,000 donation Dilley designed the project to week, thanks to a hospital coordinators. Addressing from the administration and accomplish two objectives: to volunteer and the powers of issues of alcohol abuse on the Student Union Board educate the public and to the media. campus however, was not “We really want to get as express hope. Project Face to Face is a an aim of the program. many people to come as pos­ According to Dilley, the The Observer/Shannon Dunne non-profit organization that “To be honest, I don’t real­ Student Gavin Campbell (right) earned over sible. This program is so exhibition is especially sponsors an interactive ly care about student drink­ $200, part of which was sponsored by Doug important; it is something to important for young people exhibit which tells the stories ing. There are some people Zwilling, after completing the Sober-a-thon . put on your list to do and to witness because they are of people living with the AIDS who are addicted though, actually do it,” said Tricia the group most affected by virus. In the exhibit, a hand­ and I care about getting treatment the Life Treatment Center, pointed Sevilla, the SUB m em ber AIDS. crafted mask, modeled in the for them,” explained Sullivan. out that while the aim was not the who is responsible for coordi­ Dilley’s background in the­ image of each patient, hangs Father Steve Newton, rector of benefits brought to the students but nating the exhibition’s visit to ater arts and mask making above a tape player and a Sorin Hall and executive director of printed excerpt from a Notre Dame. see FACE / page 4 see SOBER / page page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, April 4, 1997 INSIDE COLUMN WORLD AT A GLANCE Not Just Russia and Belarus take first step toward peace MOSCOW 100 miles lose its independence to much larger Russia and Belarus signed a treaty LITHUANIA Russia. Oranges and Wednesday meant to bring their peo­ 100 km Critics also argued that integrating the ple, economies and armies closer two struggling countries will only create together, in a First step toward reinte­ © M in s k RUSSIA more problems for both. gration by two former Soviet republics. About 5,000 opponents of the accord Tomatoes President Boris Yeltsin, who signed BELARUS tried to march to the Russian Embassy the accord with his Belarusian counter­ in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. Riot part Alexander Lukashenko, stressed police confronted them, clubbing and When 1 informed peo­ Megan Ferstenfeld the two Slavic nations will remain sov­ hitting the marchers when the protest­ ple that I went on the ereign and separate. ers threw stones at them. CSC Migrant Accent Copy Editor “We’ll not transform our community UKRAINE \ The clash was the worst violence in Experiences Seminar in into a unified state for now, but a union Belarus in months. Russian news broad­ Immokalee, Fla., over spring break, one of of two states,” Yeltsin said at the sign­ AP/Wm. J. Gastello casts showed policemen beating women the more popular responses I received was: ing ceremony in a gilded Kremlin hall. with truncheons and an officer swinging “Oh that’s great — did you pick a lot of No other ex-Soviet republics have shown a real desire his boot to hit an injured protester who was lying on the oranges?” for reunification since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, pavement. Well, yes, I did pick a lot of oranges. And creating 15 separate states. Opposition and human rights activists said about 200 a lot of people picked tomatoes, too. But Although Russian hard-liners hailed the treaty as a step people were beaten and detained. The government con­ there was so much more to it than that. toward the revival of a mighty state, Belarusian opponents firmed 70 people were detained and three policemen were Not that I blame anyone. In fact, I am expressed fear their country of 10 million people would injured, but declined to provide more information. certain that I would have asked the same question if I had been in their shoes. Yet, their inability to grasp the true nature of my experience highlights an NYC bar bans table dancing Researchers find American cannibals important deficit in our education. While we can read about something forever in a NEW YORK NASHVILLE, Tenn. book, and attend lectures until we drop, we Hey, Julia Roberts — get down off | One spring around the year 1150, the people of what’s can never fully understand another reality that bar! And Drew Barrymore — now known as Cowboy Wash mqt a horrible end. In a unless we have the opportunity to witness it don’t shake your booty like that! 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