r---------~-------------------------------------- - -~-- ---~---------------------.. Thursday, December 8, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 65 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Card Funds still marked for concert provides Editor's Note: This is the second in a three-part series examining student r;overnment and its pro­ savings ;ects. By ANGELA PETRUCCI News Writer By KATE CRISHAM Associate News Editor The Notre Dame En­ trepreneur Club and Student No, the Dead aren't coming. Government have collaborated And it doesn't look like to provide all students with the Jimmy Buffett, REM, or Jerry Fighting Irish Savings Card Seinfeld will be paying a visit this year. The little gold card, to Notre Dame anytime soon. in its second year, offers spe­ either. cial discounts from local mer­ But while it appears that chants in the South Bend area. the benefit concert which Last year the card was pro­ formed the crux of Davil'l duced by a professional firm in Hungeling and Matt Orsagh's Louisiana that specialized in campaign platform will not making discount cards for stu­ occur, the $10,000 allocated dents, according to Tom by Student Government for the Matzzie, the representative for concert will instead be added the project from Student Gov­ to the Student Union Board ernment. (SUB) concert fund for a con­ Photo courtesy of Warner Brothers He said that the firm came to cert this spring, according to The Athens, Georgia band R.E.M. is one of many performers Student Government could not lure to cam­ Student Government last year the Student Body President pus this year. Other no-shows will include John Mellencamp and the Grateful Dead. and offered them the savings and Vice President. cert as we had described it at Hungeling. "Without them, we wouldn't cards free of charge, and the Hungeling and Orsagh cam­ the beginning is not going to "However, if any big con­ be able to plan what we're firm would then receive the paigned on the platform of happen," said Hungeling. "But certs happen next semester, planning." advertising revenues made bringing the Grateful Dead to we had always had the plan whether or not we're responsi­ "They tried for big shows from the card. campus. But when the band's that if we didn't get a big ble for them, we plan on tak­ that would have been really However. instead of going promoters declined to perform enough name then we'd give ing credit," said Orsagh. great, but they fell through," through a professional firm at Notre Dame. citing an unde­ the money to SUB for their According to SUB Concert he said. "It wasn't their fault, this year, "we saw the opportu­ sirable location and venue, concert." Commissioner Rob Adams. the they just had to rely on what nity for a student group to do Hungeling and Orsagh allocat­ "Katie (Pamenter) absolute­ extra $10,000 from Student the artists' plans and sched­ this project," Matzzie said. He ed $10,000 of Student Govern­ ly worked her butt off trying to Government will be a welcome ules were." realized that this would be a ment funds for a "big-name" get someone, but we couldn't addition to the concert fund. According to Adams. his good fund-raiser for a student benefit concert in the spring. find anyone with a big enough "Oh yeah, their money is a "I think that the benefit con- name willing to come," said major boost," said Adams. see CONCERT I page 4 see CARD I page 4 Sesquicentennial comes to close By LAURA FERGUSON Saint Mary's News Editor Trade gains may come A historic year of celebration at Saint Mary's will come to an at cost to middle class end today with the closing sesquicentennial liturgy in An­ By BRAD PRENDERGAST tries, real wages for those jobs gela Athletic Facility at 2 p.m. Assistant News Editor are enhanced, but low tech Father James Gunshinan wages are reduced," C.S.C., from Saint Mary's Cam­ The adoption of GATT by Bergstrand said. pus Ministry will preside at the Congress last week will greatly In order for blue-collar labor­ liturgy as well as give the homi­ benefit American trade, but ers to succeed in a high tech ly. Sister Catherine O'Brien, unless the quality of education world, education must be given C.S.C., president of the Sisters increases, the American middle a high priority, he added. of the Holy Cross. will offer a class will further diminish, Jef­ "Since 1978, the premium of community reflection after frey Bergstrand, associate pro­ college education has gone up communion. fessor of business economics, systematically." he said. Afternoon classes at Saint said. "GATT will enhance that Mary's have been cancelled so The General Agreement on swelling and diminish the earn­ that all students and staff will Tariff and Trade will help in­ ing power of the lesser educat­ have the opportunity to attend crease U.S. exports by lowering ed." the celebration. Faculty, ad­ tariffs and non-tariff trade bar­ The responsibility for ensur­ ministrators, and this year's riers between countries, ac­ ing that the lesser educated senior class will participate in cording to Bergstrand. survive lies with both the gov­ an academic procession. 'The agreement will produce ernment, through its supervi­ According to Maureen lower prices on goods," he sion of the public school sys­ Manier, executive coordinator said, "not only on exports, but tem, and with private busi­ of the sesquicentennial steering also on imported goods." nesses, which must provide the committee, several symbols of necessary occupational train­ the College which were used As tariffs are reduced, the ing, according to Bergstrand. with the opening sesquicen­ competition among interna­ "The government alorig with tennial liturgy last January will tional businesses will increase, businesses need to foster the be used again in this mass. The Observer/ Tricia Wagner said Bergstrand. Conse­ adjustment of the economy into "This is special because it is Maureen Manier, Chairperson for the St. Mary's Sesquicentennial quently, nations will have to fo­ the areas of our best re­ the first time all of these things Celebration, prepares for the celebration's closing liturgy. cus on their economic sources," he said, "so providing strengths in order to maintain a high level of education is so will be seen and heard to­ "Spirits Taking Flight", com­ Adding to the day of celebra­ gether," said Manier. their relative standard of living. important." posed by Associate professor of tion. the previously taped Saint "In this country, we are As the earnings of the more For example, the liturgical music Zae Munn, with lyrics by Mary's greeting will be aired on quilt, created by Regina Ivory abundant in skilled labor. but skilled workers increase and Ted Billy. chair of the English Good Morning America be­ at a comparative disadvantage the wages of the lesser skilled Lupo '73, will serve as the department and Therese John­ tween the hours of 7-9 a.m. this backdrop for the mass. The in unskilled labor," he said. decrease. Bergstrand warned son '93, the "Canticle of Mary" morning. "Therefore, we will shift pro­ that the middle class may dis­ processional candles and cross by Libby Larsen, and "Take Up This liturgy concludes a year given to the College by the class duction from low tech to high appear even further than it has Your Cross" composed by long celebration of one of the tech industries." in recent years. of 1940, will be carried in the Marty Haugen will add to the nation's top women's colleges procession. Vestments for the However, the increased em­ "During the 1950s and celebration. which has survived 150 years. phasis on more sophisticated 1960s, the middle class became presider were designed and A group of liturgical dancers, Events such as the Storybook sewn specifically for the sesqui­ jobs will diminish the earnings more prominent, meaning led by associate professor of Festival last year and the Col- of unskilled workers. centennial celebration as well. dance Indi Dieckgrafe, will lead Musical selections such as "When there is a higher rela­ the community in the liturgy. see SMC I page 6 tive demand in high tech indus- see GATT I page 4 ------------~------ ---- page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Thursday, December 8, 1994 •INSIDE CoLurk • WORlD AT A GLANCE Researchers see signs of El Nino in Indian Ocean SAN El Nino in the Indian Ocean nificant El Nino WVFI won't FHANCISCO signal in the T w Scientists have discovered that the Indian Ocean has an El Nino, a system which affects the world's weather. n dian c e an 0 How three major oceans share this cycle of warm waters and weak winds: 1 0 researchers ·-·__,.---·---·- ·....- ~··· ·· · ~~ ·...,... ·- that occurs thrive without 1 detailed a theory ,.__ .... 1simultaneously Wednesday that frj with what's 1 change El Nino's cycle of · . going on in the :na;~:;ke;"!~~J ,,.:7:···_ . 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