~---------------------~--------------------------~----1 1 Thursday, March 5, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 105 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • BOARD OF GOVERNANCE Board approves new student support group By ALLISON KOENIG comprised of members and sup­ charged with the responsibility Saint Mary's News Editor porters of the disbanded to address all issues of sexuali­ Alliance, the student group ty. In an almost unanimous deci­ whose official club status was "This is about autonomy ... sion at last night's meeting, denied by College president and believing that we as women Saint Mary's College Board of Marilou Eldred last Thursday. are responsible and mature I. To provide peer ~t.IPJ)Ortfqr$tudents facing the difficult issues surrounding (;overnance voted to approve Seven representatives of the enough to have these discus­ sexuality. · Feminist Collective presented sions on our own," said Poogie the Feminist Collective, a "stu­ II. To make kn and promote the principles of \1\fpmen's unity among the dent organization which pro­ the group's constitution and Sherer, a Feminist Collective students at ry's College througtlthe adtwernodeling of these vides aetive. visible and consis­ membership roster. presenter. principles by tlfJhe Feminist Collective.· · ·····.··• tent support to students eon­ "This is about peer support," Feminist Collective represen­ fronting issues around sexuality said Kelly Curtis, a Feminist tative Kelli Harrison pointed out Ill. To foster community~nQ:social justice by encouraging stUdents to gather in support and acceptance of one a~ther. in their lives. this includes but is Collective founder, as she that the administrative efforts, not limited to sexual orientation addressed BOG. "The although valid and helpful in IV. To actively the s~.\11 skillii~hd leader!>hip abilities of Saint Mary's and gender identity," according Committee on Relationships in their own right, a support group College wo {~Citing an ope .· in which students freely discuss to the group's mission state­ no way includes peer support," format for students boasts intimacy in their ··lives with their ment. she said of the official College "unique values that we can only V. To work actively and collaboratively Thf~ Feminist Collective is committee which Eldred has and/or committees in order to achieve see COLLECTIVE I page 4 about issues of sexuality. The Obse!Ver/Melissa Weber Playing beautiful music ... SMC 'woman of the year' offers unique perspective By M. SHANNON RYAN Loux had her first child at age 24 ·News Writer and stayed horne 10 years before she began teaching. In the meantime, she Students commanded the flow of con­ had five children in five years which versation at yesterday's brown bag was "a very densely populated house­ luncheon in Haggar College Center hold." with guest speaker Ann Loux. She did not become a full-time pro­ Loux, Saint Mary's woman of the fessor at Saint Mary's until 1974. and year, offered a variety of choices to this was her first full-time position. speak about, letting the students While beginning her six year tenure decide the topic in the open forum. The tract, Loux raised five teenagers. English professor discussed the role of Loux became a full professor at the women as mothers and workers. College in 1997 at the age of 53, when With experience as a biological moth­ her kids were grown and out of the er, adoptive mother, professor and household. wife, Loux offered advice to the stu­ Now Loux feels that she can fully dents about their futures in mother­ concentrate on her profession and pub, hood and the business world. lishing. Loux began by asking, "if and when" She was quick to emphasize, howev­ concerning the choice of motherhood. er, that this is not true for everyone, If a person does desire to become a and more women are opting not to mother, Loux suggested that she do so have children. early in life. She said that this varies "You might not be good at it," Loux between individuals, but she sees it as said. "It's a really challenging job. a beneficial choice. Some people have kids for the wrong "Everyone says to wait until your life reasons. Kids are so important and is in order to have kids," Loux said. "I need a lot of attention. You can be a don't think you need to just eat that, great service to the world without hav­ but think about it." ing children." She argued that if women have chil­ Over half of the students in atten­ dren in their early 20s, when most dance did not want to have children people's lives are undecided, that they which Loux noted was typical of "the will be able to truly focus on their big trend downward [in the number of careers in their 50s. Then they can women having children] in this coun­ truly focus on their lives. try." "You can have kids in your 30s, but At the end, Loux offered advice to your kids will be teenagers in your young people in the audience. 50s," Loux explained. "If you have your "Having kids and working full-time is The Obse!Ver/Patrick Quigley kids in your 20s, your 50s are free. really rough. [Women] should not try Cellist Simone Uranovsky, a graduate student a Notre Dame, practices tor her concert in Washington Hall Thursday night. You'll know what you're doing and be to be everything at once. [Having kids] a lot better at it." is a serious matter for consideration." Student senate listens to proposed amendments By TIM LOGAN surer. Another amendment stipulat­ Council eo-chairs and the student News Writer ed that the body meet weekly, body president. The group was instead of every two weeks. Cabinet assembled under the constitution to Minor adjustments in the role of meetings have been held every discuss student government pro­ the Student Union Executive Cabinet week for most of the year, and the gramming. were the focus of discussion at last addition will formalize this process. "If we wanted [the ability to night's Student Senate meeting. The amendment which elkitcd the approve resolutions] we would have Student Union Board manager most discussion among senators proposed to make ourselves a voting Andria Wisler and Club was one which states "The body," said Naso, disagreeing with Coordination Council member Leah Executive Cabinet shall ... serve as the implications of becoming a pri­ Naso presented a series of amend­ the primary advising body to the mary advising body. "The president ments to the Student Union student body president." need not come to us with approval Constitution which are being pro­ "That clause suggests that the in mind." posed by the eabinet. senate's resolutions are subject to "If we thought that the Student The amendments included formal­ the Executive Cabinet's approval," Body president needed our approval ization of several positions on the said Keenan senator Matt Mamak. to act, we would have put that in," cabinet, including required atten­ The cabinet is comprised of class echoed Wisler. The Obse!Ver/Patrick Quigley danee of the Student Body vice­ presidents, representatives from Still, some senators were con- Student body president Matt Griffin listens to several pro­ president and Student Union trea- SUB and the CCC, the Hall President posed constitutional amendments at last night's senate see SENATE I page 3 meeting. ---- --- ----- page 2 The Observer~ INSIDE Thursday, March 5, 1997 • INSIDE COlUMN Getting away frotn it all Professor denies accusations of academic misconduct Last wnnkeml. a group of frinnds and I ITHACA, N.Y. refused to work on the Dundee projeet depart1~d from this campus known as Notre Almost two years after University without pay. llamn to ~~mbark on an adventuw to a lake administrators closed the books on the Levitsky denies Demas' charges of house~ that a frinnd of mine so gemerously case, the U.S. !louse of Representatives lying and harassment, and said failum donatnd for the wenk- has initiated an investigatiim into accu­ to cite Demas in lectures was ram and end. David Zachry sations of academic misconduct the result of time restraints. Levitsky This little trip was News Copy Editor brought by Antonia Demas, Ph.D. '95, said he "dons not remember" either probably thn last thing I against David Levitsky, professor of Stein refused to comment on the examples that Demas alleges, such as should have donn last wnnkend considering, I nutrition. specifics of the case. Demas' accusa­ presentations given at a Hotary Club havn or had two tnsts and two papers this While the University concluded in an tions against Levitsky-a late addition to meeting and a Hoche~ster Animal week, but it was also the onn thing 1 nnedcd October 1996 report that Levitsky did her H.esearch Advisory Committe­ Nutrition Conl'ercm<~C\ but added that most at that point in my life, to get away from not commit academic misconduct, stern from research conducted for both he ortcn credited tlw data as "our it all and to forget about life for awhile. three senior professors continue to her dissertation on using classroom work." All l ;{ of us crowdnd into a largn van, stand behind Demas' claims of plagia­ intervention to introduce low-at foods Professors Bobnrt Ascher and T. which was drivem by who I would have to say rism. lying and harassment. into lunches at Trumansburg and a Colin Carnpbnll and professor enwritus was eitlwr tlw most drunk cabby I havo evnr Demas said her lawyer plans to file similar study conducted in Dundee. Joan Egner, comprised her initial known or just the goofiest. Everybody was so suit against the University within the Her 23 allegations against Levitsky, Hesnarch Advisory Group.