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---- ---~~-----·--~---------- --~ --- ------~-----.... Ax tnurders - page 3 VOL XIX, NO. 75 thl' indl'pl'ndl'nt ~tudl'nt Ill'\\ ~papl'r ~l'n ing Jllltrl dallll' and ~ailll man·~ FRIDAY,JANUARY 18, 1985 Enthusiastic students check out lower prices at new store's opening By MARKS. PANKOWSKI tive to the bookstore," said NeutSStaff Cavanaugh senior Joe Pangilinan. "I see these notebooks here 'Ibe Notre Dame Student Saver cheaper than they were in the the Store opened its doors yesterday to bookstore," said John Gardiner, a an enthusiastic crowd of students on Stanford sophomore. "It's good to the second floor of LaFortune Stu­ see that the Student Government is dent Center. offering a viable service for the stu­ Comments about the new store dents." ranged from "it's a good idea" to "it's Most of the negative comments the greatest supersaver ever as­ made were complaints about the sembled by a human being." lack of college-ruled notebooks and The student store manager, Rick health and beauty items. Schimpf Schimpf, was very happy with the hopes to remedy those problems in response of the student body. the coming days. "We had 15 to 20 people standing "I'm working with our distributor outside before we even opened," to make sure the health and beauty said Schimpf. "We made $450 the aids will be in tomorrow (Jan. I8)­ first hour," he said, adding, Monday at the latest." "Business is fantastic." Regarding the college-ruled Most people who came into the notebooks, Schimpf said, "In the Student Saver were there for one report given by the committee, they reason: to save money. "This is definitely a better alterna- see STORE, page 6 Ethiopia blocked aid, U.S. officials charge Associated Press McPherson said the recent sei­ WASHINGTON- The govern­ zure by the Ethiopian government of ment of Ethiopia has blocked the 6,000 tons of food in an Australian delivery of tons of emergency Amer­ cargo ship was intended to prevent ican food aid to areas of civil war in delivery of the aid to two northern Remembering Kine: that country, an action that threat­ provinces in Ethiopia where Sophomore Dtma Philips leads t'f.f: gospel Tillman and also included a biography of King ens to spread starvation, U.S. officials separatists have been battling gov­ choir at last nights Martin Luther King Jr. com­ read by Tillman and personal reflections on King said yesterday. ernment troops. memorative program in Sacred Heart Church. Tbe by Dr. joseph Scott. "It is just unconscionable," said "The starving people simply can­ program was led by Master of Ceremonies Dennis Peter McPherson, administrator of not be pawns," McPherson said. the Agency for International Devel­ "The conflict has made it (the opment, describing restrictions on famine) worse, and made it particu­ Permission granted for weddings the movement of food shipments to larly difficult to move food around." provinces in northern Ethiopia. While the United States has been McPherson and Chester Crocker, channeling some assistance through assistant secretary of state for Sudan to the disputed areas, at Church of Our Lady of Loretto African affairs, testified before the McPherson said trucks carrying food ANN KALTENBACH ested in being married on campus; have one wedding per weekend a': Senate Foreign Relations Committee across Ethiopia are stopped by gov­ StaffReporter and we needed to respond," said the church." on Reagan administration requests ernment troops. Mary Pat Feeley, director of Campus The church is available at I p.m. for an additional S235 million for To some extent, he said, the Et­ Reinforcing its commitment to Ministry. and weddings should begin at 2 p.m. famine-stricken African countries. hiopian rebels are also to blame for the formation of a family of Christian With the recent approval, only Mayefske said the first wedding Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., the using food as a weapon to advance believers, Saint Mary's has recently students and alumnae of Saint Mary's took place Thanksgiving weekend new committee chairman, said that their cause. b~en granted permission to perform are permitted to be married at the with relatively few problems and II as a result of the Ethiopian policies, Crocker said although there is a wedding ceremonies at the Church Church of Loretto. weddings are now on the schedule "There are millions being starved of Our Lady of Loretto. Saint Mary's has been working for for this year. out." see FOOD, page 6 "So many alumnae were inter- approval of weddings in the church Noting the plans involved for mar­ for the past year, according to Saint riage in the church, Mayefske said, Mary's Chaplain Father Tom "It is a tremendous amount of work Mayefske. "The question was raised because so much is done by phone with Bishop McManus (bishop of and correspondence. If couples Hehir will address SMC gradu:ates the Fort Wayne- South Bend, Ind., could come in and discuss their By ANNE MONAS1YRSKI ican Catholic Bishops. In addi­ sembly in 1973 and as Advisor for diocese) in August of 1983," said plans, it would be much easier. The Saint Mary's Editor tion, he is Senior Reserach U.S. Bishops at the fV Interna­ Mayefske. "At first, he was opposed problem is that the couples are scat­ Scholar, Kenney Institute of Et­ tional Synod of Bishops in Rome to it, but gradually, by Oct. 1, 1984, tered all over the country. Unlike a United States Catholic Confer­ hics, and Research Professor of in 1974 among the several other he finally granted permission." usual wedding, the mother can't do ence member Father Bryan Hehir Ethics and International Politics, committee positions. Holy Cross Junior College and everything, thereby requiring much will be the keynote speaker and School of Foreign Service, both of The Lowell, Mass., native was Saint Francis College were also more work for the bride." honorary degree recipient for Georgetown University in Wash­ born Aug. 22, 1940. He earned among those Catholic schools re­ "The biggest problem," added Saint Mary's 138th commence­ ington, D.C. his Bachelor of Arts degree in ceiving permission from the bishop Mayefske, "is choosing a priest to ment exercises on May 18, Tbe Hehir's affiliations include Philosophy and his Master of to perform weddings on their perform the ceremony. Often, the Observer has learned. memberships on the Board of Divinity (Theology) from Saint campuses. girl loses touch with her parish Hehir, who was the principal Directors for Bread for the John's Seminary, Boston, Mass. priest or he is transferred during her Previously the Church of Loretto college years and they really don't adviser in the American Catholic World, on the Advisory group for He earned his Th.D. i.n Applied was prohibited from holding wed­ Bishops' recent letter on nuclear the United Nations Association Theology from Harvru:d Divinity know any priests to ask." war, is not a stranger to Saint Multilateral Project, Interna­ School specializing in Ethics and dings because it is not a parish In order to make wedding ar­ Mary's. He has visited Saint tional Advisory Council for International Politics. church. rangements, Saint Mary's students "Notre Dame's Sacred Heart and alumnae should make reserva­ Mary's twice before, once as a African-American Institute, Hehir is also ~uthor of Church is a parish church, however, visiting speaker in 1981 as part of Council on Foreign Relations, numerous publications on social tions in the liturgy office of the the Justice Education lecture se­ American Society for Christian justice and human rights includ­ so it did not need to be given this Church of Our Lady of Loretto with ries. Ethics, and Catholic Theological ing contributing articles for permission," explained Mayefske. Wedding Coordinator Julie Frazier Hehir is Secretary of the De­ Society of America. America and Commonweal "The Church of Our Lady of at least four months before the mar­ partment of Social Development Hehir has served as a member magazines. Loretto belongs to the Sisters of the riage. In turn, campus ministry is and World Peace of the U.S. Cath­ ofVatican Delegation to U.N. Spe­ Hehir was named a MacArthur Holy Cross so that their approval contacted to make further arrange­ was needed to open the church to olic Conference, in Wa~hington cial Session on Disarmament in fellow last year of the .MacArthur ments. D.C., a civil organizati<m ofAmer- 1978 and to the U.N. General As- Foundation. student and alumnae weddings," said Feeley. "The sisters agreed to see CHURCH, page 6 The Observer Friday,January 18, 1985- page 2 ·In Brief A B.S. in Chem.E. does not equal a Maytag repairman's license Yale students want more sex, according to a non-scientific survey there. Seventy-four percent would like more After struggling through four years of college and sex in their lives, although 81 percent already consider themselves paying more than 535,000 for a degree in chemical en­ "somewhat" to "very" sexually active. The survey was conducted by gineering, my father still sighs when I tell him I cannot Bob the Alliance for Sexual Progress, a student group promoting more fix his telephone. open discussion of human sexuality. At Duke University, meanwhile, When the front door bell at our house loses its pizazz Vonderheide a study by the Peer Information Service for Counseling and Educa­ or when the digital clock in the station wagon goe1. tion in Sexuality found students think there is more sexual activity minutes astray, my father arms himself with his reading Editor-in-chief on campus than there really is.

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