I O B S E R V E R Thursday, February 13, 1997 • Vol. XXX No. 90 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S 0 NOTRE DAME STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS 1997 C a m p Election results postponed, O’Neill, Keough vote today By DEREK BETCHER have a judicial board [the group that nor­ Assistant News Editor mally conducts elections], so we’ve been working with their hall presidents,” Jen Unexpectedly, the winner of Wednesday’s Dovidio, election committee president runoff election for student body president explained. was not announced last night. But that was where the chain of com­ The two remaining tickets gathered in the mand broke down. student government office last night only to “The person in charge of running the learn that the election election basically didn’t do results were incom­ their job,” Bret Hartmann, plete. Two residence Keough co-president said. halls had failed to par­ 6X ATe’re still trying to Hartmann’s co-presi­ The Observer/Mike Ruma E xpecting to hear election results, both tickets were left speechless last night ticipate. v V get some real, dent, Eric Saslas, had a upon learning that the announcement would be postponed another 24 hours. “Results will be post­ more active involvement in poned until Keough and substantive answers. We the primary balloting but O’Neill vote tomorrow w ill have official results was reluctant to publicly election committee place blame on those president Jen Dovidio tom orrow.’ responsible for the runoff s announced. “Under the mistakes. circumstances, we feel Jen Dovidio “This is not going to hap­ that w e’ve taken all of Election committee chair pen a second tim e,” was the necessary steps to the only comment Saslas make this a fair elec­ would make. tion.” While an exact cause for the absence of a The candidates — Matt Griffin and Erek proctor and balloting place could not be Nass, Matt Szabo and Mary Gillard — were pinpointed, miscommunication, irresponsi­ visibly upset. Both tickets declined com­ bility, and apathy towards student govern­ ment. ment surfaced as likely culprits. The events leading up to the postpone­ The blame in O’Neill Hall was equally dif­ ment were slow in unfolding. ficult to place. Representatives from Keough Hall and The situation was strikingly similar: An O’Neill Hall each picked up their dorms’ O’Neill resident picked up his dorm’s bal­ ballots in the student government office lots but also failed to locate anyone to yesterday, but no polling was conducted in administer the election. either of the halls. Election officials were “It’s an unfortunate mistake, he made a left scrambling for answers. “In a nutshell, neither of these dorms see E L E C T IO N / page 6 Faculty: Recruiting top 0 STUDENT SENATE priority for ND future Quorum eludes senate again By CHRIS SHIPLEY By DEREK BETCHER News Writer Assistant News Editor The future of faculty recruiting took center stage last The Student Senate’s inability to officially night at the second meeting of the Notre Dame Forum on meet yesterday highlighted a serious ineffi­ Academic Life. Faculty from every department came to ciency that proposed reform efforts w ill voice their concerns and comments about the current address. Fittingly, the informal meeting that state of affairs. did occur was dominated by Brendan Kelly’s The session, which featured talks by professors Sonia explanation of pending reform proposals. Gernes and Edward Conlon, continued discussion on the “No business shall be conducted in the six priorities that University Provost Nathan Hatch laid out Student Senate in his installation address in September. Gernes’ and unless a quorum Conlon’s speeches focused on the third and fourth of these is present,” the ■ see also STUDENT student govern­ priorities, which both dealt in some way with student and GOVERNMENT faculty recruitment. ment constitution Professor Sonia Gernes set about defining the problems reads. REFORM page 3 that the University has had with recruiting in the past and That quorum offering solutions for the happiness of faculty in the future. total — three- Gernes, a professor of English, stressed to the audience quarters of the members — is occasionally an that the single most important factor in college education unrealistic target, considering the packed is interpersonal activity with and between professors and schedules of many student government partic­ students. ipants. In her attempt to show how far the “revitalization of The quorum rule is one of many facing undergraduate education” has come, Gernes referred to adjustment in the pending reform process. the University’s implementation of the Kaneb Center, “I can’t call this meeting to order,” senate which offers workshops in time management to teachers, chairman Seth Miller said, “but I’d like to pro­ and a heavy investment in technology. ceed in an informal way.” What followed was “Notre Dame undergraduate education doesn’t need the a pseudo-senate meeting, which included Kelly’s briefing on the reform process. The Observer/Megan Dooher Heimlich maneuver or CPR. We are in need of a good Tony Siefring and Peter Cesaro look on as Brendan dose of beta carotene,” Genres stated speaking about pos­ “I just want to give you an outline of what Kelly explained reform committee proposals to Student sible incentives which could be offered to the Notre Dame we’ve come up with,” Kelly, the reform com­ Senate members yesterday afternoon. faculty. mittee chairman, began. Gernes proposed several solutions to the problems that Central to all reforms, he said, was the idea With those purposes in mind, reform seeks to faculty face in their departments and in the classrooms. that student organizations have two duties to reorganize and recreate portions of student gov­ Grants for outstanding teacher assistants, greater techno­ the student body; first, organizations should ernment, Kelly said. He released a timetable for logical support for class periods, better retirement benefits, provide regular activities, services and pro­ those changes to the senate; much of the imple- and merit raises were among the incentives Genres out- gramming. Second, they should form opinion and plan action on student life issues. see F A C U L T Y / page 4 see S E N A T E / page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, February 13, 1997 ■ I nside Column W orld at a Glance No more Israel begins to follow through on Hebron peace agreement HEBRON, West Bank C urrent status Total Palestinian control compound in downtown Hebron. H i Palestinian civil control ,— . Keeping its word to the Palestinians, with Israeli security I I Total Israeli control Seventeen other stalls are to be Israel reopened an Arab vegetable opened during the next few weeks. 5 tmlas excuses for market next to a downtown Jewish set­ The market was closed by Israel in tler enclave on Wednesday, a day after 1994 after a Jewish settler gunned V-Day freeing 31 Palestinian women from down 29 Muslim worshipers at the prison. Mediterranean Tomb of the Patriarchs. Israel said the The gestures were designed to help market created friction by drawing too I’ve heard that if you are male and the month build trust as Israeli Prime Minister many Palestinians to settler areas. is February, the prospect of having to enter Benjamin Netanyahu left for meetings le ru sa lc m “ This is a good achievement. Life Victoria’s Secret is your most terrific nightmare. with President Clinton in Washington to B e th le h e m starts to return to normal,” vegetable No matter how strongly men stride from discuss how to proceed in Mideast seller Abdel Hadi Nasreddine said. their car through the mall to the store’s thresh­ peace efforts. The opening of the market was stipu­ old, when they reach the “ Netanyahu, speaking during a lated in last month’s Hebron agreement, point of entry, they smell — Guzu ISRAEL stopover in Amsterdam en route to the S tr ip the first peace accord between the the perfume, see the lin­ United States, praised what he called Palestinians and a right-wing Israeli gerie and lose it. H e b r o n ’ s To Jerusalem Palestinian efforts to “ create more con­ J e w i s h crossiltg- — government. Victoria’s Secret epito­ c o m m u n i t y B o n ie r j c r x fidence in the process.” Israel also fulfilled its promise to free mizes feminine pleasure: “ Israel now sees reciprocal move­ station — Palestinian women prisoners, whose it’s an idyllic atmosphere ment by the Palestinians on the fulfill­ release was already more than a year with classical music, sensu­ ment of commitments,” he said. Among overdue. Israel had agreed in al fabrics, and provocative these, he said, were “ acting against 7t 7 / 1/4 mile September 1995 to free the women, but SCForSmen, it’s altogeth- JiUian Pagliocca terrorists, putting terrorists back in its president and an army commander prison, refraining from releasing ter­ Israel opens Arab refused to pardon five involved in killing er different. It’s as if the Advertising Designer market for the first Tomb of the Patriarchs rorists.” time In three years. Israelis. In solidarity, the other women fragrances are toxic or ----------------------------- (Ca ve o f the Machpelah) On Wednesday morning, workers Other designated sites are Jewish enclaves, chose to remain in jail. the walls are papered with barbed wire. For using hammers and chisels pried open religious sites, community centers, schools Waving clenched fists and “ V” for vic­ some reason, the luxuriousness of the place a n d businesses . iron shutters that had been welded AP/W m.