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Ready for Valentine's Day? Homophobia on Campus ■ Check out great g ift ideas and learn ■ Mary Margaret Nussbaum explores how people Thursday whether Valentine’s Day is a contrived arrive at homophobia and bigotry. holiday. FEBRUARY 11, Scene • 12-13 Viewpoint .11 1999 O B S E R V E R The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXII NO. 87 W WW.ND.EDU/-OBSERVER Faculty criticize ND for misleading campus Unveristy to maintain hope [the Senate expresses indignance clause would be revised, I ” said Father Richard McBrien. “They toward Board of Fellows secrecy allowed students to fast, rallies to be held, arguments to be aired in the on non-discrimination clausenewpaper. They allowed the campus to think the decsion was still in waiting. By DEREK B ETC HER “The Board of Fellows should be Assistant News Editor censured for that. I regard it as unethical. Unethical," continued Disappointed but not demobilized, the Faculty Senate McBrien, a professor of theology. approved a strong resolution critical of events preceding “The failure to break secrecy for last Friday’s announcement that Notre Dame will not revise over two months was unjustifiable.” its non-discrimination clause to include sexual orientation. Although the senate’s resolution A majority of the senate concluded the administration stopped short of censuring the fel­ misled the campus into wailing for a clause decision from lows, most members agreed that the Board of Trustees on Fell. 5, McBrien’s dissatisfac­ when, the actual determination tion was justified, and was made by the Board of HE THING THAT BOTHERED ME they warranted a res­ Follows more than two months olution of criticism. earlier. JL MOSTi\ WAS NOT THAT THE FEL­ After the greater "We’re disappointed but not LOWS MADE A DECISION THAT WAS senate approved reso­ so disappointed we’ll give up,” lutions supporting FINAL, BUT THEY ALLOWED THE faculty chairman Michael clause revisions early Dellel’sen said after Wednesday U n iv e r s it y t o m a in t a in h o p e [ t h e last fall, individual night’s meeting. “ It’s more than faculty helped steward CLAUSE WOULD BE REVISED].’ disappointing — this is morally the issue through the serious. We went through a lot University’s Academic o f care, and w o rk to m ake a F a t h e r R ic iia d d M c B r ie n Council, the highest strong ease |only to have the The Observer/Michelle Keefe P rofessor of T heology level where the issue Provost Nathan Hatch addressed the Faculty Senate Wednesday recommendation rejected.]” had ever been dis­ night and fielded questions regarding the non-discrimination clause. The senate stopped short of cussed officially. condemning the action, but did The matter then Provost names academic task label it unethical, a move sena­ advanced to the 12- tors favored in a 27-.r> vote, with member Board of force, faces questions on clause one abstention. Follows before progressing to the “Be it therefore resolved that both the Dec. 1 action of the Board of Trustees where a final By DEREK BETCHER Board of Follows and its subsequent decision not to decision was expected. Assistant News Editor announce that action to the University community be After questioning Provost Nathan rejected as violations of those ideal and ethical require­ Hatch at Wednesday night’s senate In the aftermath of the University’s decision to reject Big ments which are to govern our life as an intellectual com­ meeting, many faculty solidified Ten membership, provost Nathan Hatch outlined a plan for munity," the text reads. understanding that the actual deci­ Notre Dame to reevaluate its academic direction during his The senate expressed indignance toward the University’s sion not to revise the clause was annual report to the Faculty Senate Wednesday night. decision not to publicize the Board of Fellows’ decision, made two months earlier by the fel­ Reacting to a Monday recommendation from president which effectively doomed any chance of clause revision. lows. “The thing that bothered me most was not that the fel­ see PROVOST / page 4 lows made a decision that was final, but they allowed the see CLAUSE / page 6 Race relations at SMC, ND examined By SARAH MAGNESS other minority makes interac­ News Writer tion difficult, ” Callahan said. There is not enough racial When Saint Mary’s fresh­ interaction occurring because man Erin Callahan walks into the College has not and will the dining hall, she looks for not make it a priority, accord­ familiar faces and friends. ing to Tysus Jackson, a Saint Like many other students at Mary's senior and president of Saint Mary’s, her table encom­ Sisters of Nefertiti. passes a homogeneous group Iris Outlaw, head of the of Caucasian women. Office of Multicultural Student With February as Black Affairs at Notre Dame, said History Month, students hear that the responsibility of about influential African cross-racial interaction rests Americans, civil rights and on the institution. Minority diversity. The audible reflec­ students cannot go all four tions of the actions of Nelson years without interacting with Mandela, Martin Luther King Caucasian students, but Jr. and Rosa Parks have Caucasian students may never encouraged Saint Mary’s and interact directly with a minori­ Notre Dame students like ty, she said. Callahan to reexamine how Maria Oropeza, head of the Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame Office of Multicultural Affairs The Observer/Beth Mayer students interact racially. at S aint M a ry ’s, places Racial interaction in the dining hall, among other places on campus, often occurs on a limited basis at Saint “The fact that there are so Mary's, where the majority of students are Caucasian. Maya Singletary (left), Kimmie Martin (center) and many Caucasians versus any Samara Hussain talk over dinner. see RACE / page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, February 11, 1999 0 INSIDE COLUMN Beware of t h e D o m e Orange Women Compiled from U-Wire reports Deans support law schools’ criticism of m agazine ratings NFW HAVEN, Conn. All of the magazine’s information One of my friends from high school called One hundred eight deans have comes directly from the schools the other day, all the way from California. signed a letter debunking U.S. News’ themselves, she said, and over 80 We primarily discussed the “good old days,” rankings, but given the magazine’s percent of the schools U.S. News ask but before too long the conversation drifted methodology and potential appli­ consistently provide the desired sta­ into familiar tones, ■■ cants' divergent interests, their con­ tistics. much like any other by Dustin Ferrell cern may be misplaced. According to the U.S. News Web tW O College men Assistant Viewpoint Earlier this month Yale Taw School site, the law school ranking method­ “So,” my friend can- Editor Dean Anthony Kronman lent his sig­ ology uses four criteria: reputation didly asked, “how are _________________ nature to “A Dean's Tetter to (40 percent), selectivity (25 percent), the women out there?” Applicants” deriding the rankings. readers rather than — in Kronman’s placement success (20 percent), and I had to pause for one moment, not want­ The letter will hit the mailboxes of words — a piece of “misleading pre­ faculty resources (15 percent). ing to characterize women in any demean­ approximately 70,000 prospective cision.” Kronman, whose school has topped ing fashion of course, and attempted to give law students nationwide early next “We’ve always maintained that no the list each year of his deanship, him his answer. I told him the usual, about month. system of rankings is perfect,” said attributed Yale’s success in the rank­ how sweet and humble the majority of The mass mailing represents an Amy Graham, U.S. News’ director of ings to this specific criteria. women here are, but also about the bitter effort by the majority of the 181 data research. Tast year, U.S. News ranked Yale ones who hate Saint Mary’s women because American Bar Association approved While the deans’ letter alleged the first in selectivity, noting its 7.1 per­ they go to Saint Mary’s. He got a kick out of law schools ranked in U.S. News and rankings did not consider first-year cent acceptance rate in 1997. the rivalry, and said that Notre Dame men World Report to undermine the influ­ class size or the extent of each Stanford’s 12.3 percent acceptance were lucky. ence of that magazine’s rankings. school’s alumni network, Graham rate was the next lowest. The conversation was fairly insignificant But the U.S. News officer responsi­ said there is no source for much of Indubitably, the YTS’s small-admitted in and of itself, but it reminded me of the ble for compiling the data said the the data the dean’s would like taken class helped them in this circum­ many different “types” of people 1 rankings are a valuable service to its into account. stance. encounter out here, men and women alike. The majority of students Tiero aren’t too terribly different from those at my high school, just richer. But one phenomenon 0 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY N UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS that stuck out in my mind while discussing Tuition rising faster than inflation Student pleads guilty to library theft women was the multitude of “orange women” who appear around spring break. STATE COLLEGE, Penn. CHAMPAIGN, 111. While my terminology requires further The average national cost of tuition continues to Those with overdue library books might want to learn explanation, I have no doubt in my mind increase at double the rate of inflation, causing many from the lesson of Sean 11 arte.

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