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n r The O bserver 1842•1992 Si SOUlCtNTf NNIAL The O bserver Saint MarvS College NOTRE DAME * INDI ANA VOL. XXIV NO. 124 FRIDAY , APRIL 3, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Casey: Party Faculty vow to keep must rethink struggling despite veto on abortion Editor's Note: The following isFACULTY PARTICIPATION By BRENDAN QUINN the third of four articles ad dressing the issue of faculty N GOVERNANCE News Writer participation in the academic Part3 of 4 governance of the University. The national Democratic By DAVID KINNEY Party failed to understand the seismic, social, and political News Editor Although the proposal calling shock waves generated by the ■ questions on traditional 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, for the reorganization of the according to Robert Casey, Academic Council was vetoed, governance/ page 3 governor of Pennsylvania. the debate over faculty partici relationship between students ‘'In the two decades since pation in the academic gover and faculty are handled, then (Roe), the party’s position nance of Notre Dame continues. according to Professor William on abortion went from open to “I haven’t heard anyone say Tageson. closed and from dialogue to they (the faculty) shouldn’t have Professor David O’Connor dictate, and millions of input in the deliberation of said that the governance Democrats headed for those academic issues,” said Dean committee wanted to make a open doors and they never Eileen Kolman of Freshman small, focused, concrete step came back,” Casey said in a Year of Studies. “The question through the proposal, allowing speech yesterday on “The is in the structures.” for more gradual change. Democratic Party and the Dean Frank Castellino of the The elements of the proposal Politics of Abortion.” College of Science agreed. “ As were intended to both improve “Too many Democrats in this we start to develop a better the quality of debate in the country have had a bad feeling faculty, this type of faculty will Council and to facilitate faculty in their hearts and in their want a say and should have participation in the delibera souls about the national one,” he said. But “are we a tion, said Fuchs. Democratic Party because the mature enough University for Among these changes were Democratic Party broke its that to happen at this point?” increasing the number of compact with mainstream It is not only the faculty that elected faculty from 18 to 24. America when it volunteered it is concerned with the operation The committee hoped to in self as the party of abortion on of the Academic Council. crease the voice of faculty and, demand,” he said. University President Father in turn, to make them more in According to Casey, the pro Edward Malloy said he hopes fluential in the Academic abortion forces in the that the executive committee of Council, according to Professor Democratic Party have suc The Observer/Pat McHugh the Academic Council can Suzanne Marilley. ceeded in alienating Democrats Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey speaks about “The Democratic examine its workings and “The faculty wanted to be such as himself by catering to Party and the Politics of Abortion,” in a lecture yesterday. Casey said effectiveness in order to enliven prominent in the deliberation of special interest groups which that pro-abortionists in the Democratic Party have begun to give the conversation at the where we should go,” added control the party’s purse Democrats a reputation for having weak values. meetings. O’Connor. strings. These special interests position, added Casey. said. The proposal drafted by the There was some debate, how have turned the party away “This is more than an issue of “It is time for the party to Faculty Committee on ever, about how such a restruc from the traditional values of rights. It is an issue of right deliver a strong message to the Governance and later approved turing would increase the influ millions of Democrats, he said. and wrong, and millions of American people that millions by the Academic Council was ence of the faculty in the delib The party has shut off dis Democrats think their party’s of Democrats believe in protect viewed by many faculty to be a eration of academic issues, cussion on the issue, but even dead wrong on abortion, ” Casey ing unborn human life,” he modest one, according to Mort Marilley said. In 1984, in fact, this prohibition has not stopped said. “The party will stay said. Fuchs, chair of the department the Academic Council voted to eighty members of the House of wrong until they open the party Casey said the Democratic of biological sciences. reduce the size of the Council to Representatives from voting and open the platform process Party has failed to capture the “The proposal did not take two-thirds of its original size in order to facilitate discussion, against the party’s pro-abortion to dialogue and debate,” he see CASEY/ page 4 the president’s veto away,” said Fuchs. “It was not a threat to according to Malloy. him or the Academic Council.” Castellino said that there is no Faculty emphasize that they reason to revert to the larger Senate committee passes do not want complete control of structure of the council. the operation of the University. Expanding the number of Rather, they want to have say in elected faculty in order to gain budget, limits defense cuts issues such as curriculum, the a greater majority of elected treatment of faculty, tenure faculty sets up an unnecessary WASHINGTON (AP) — The adopted a proposal by Hollings out of work. policies and how the see FACULTY/ page 4 Senate Budget Committee ap and Sen. Pete Domenici of New “You don’t w ant to counsel proved a $1.5 trillion budget for Mexico, the panel’s ranking Re yourself out by closing out Fort next year Thursday after publican, that would set fiscal Dix ... and have them coming Kelly, Carrier win rejecting a plan by its Demo 1993 defense spending at up here looking for more cratic chairman to cut defense $291.5 billion. The vote was 11- unemployment compensation,” spending by $10 billion and 10, with Hollings and Dodd Hollings said. GSU elections agreeing to limit the reduction joining the GOP members. $asser’s defense figure was By MAURA HOGAN participation from the grass to $5 billion, about what Presi immediately attacked by roots level, Carrier said. dent Bush has proposed. The vote represented a set Republicans and some News Writer Mike Kelly and David “We would like to The overall budget for fiscal back for Senate Democratic Democrats as being too deep, spearhead initiatives at the 1993, which begins Oct. 1, was leaders, who had been hoping and by other lawmakers as Carrier defeated the ticket of Kurt Mills and Patrick graduate student level to approved 11-10. The full Senate for a deeper defense cut than being too shallow. McKinlay yesterday in the avoid being seen as a distant plans to begin debating the the president has proposed in Graduate $tudent Union body of governors,” he said. measure next Tuesday. the aftermath of the dissolution “The ice is cracking, and we (GSU) elections, garnering 90 “We also would like to im By a 12-9 vote, the panel re of the Soviet Union. It came don’t know how things will end votes in favor of their child prove relations between jected a plan by chairman after Defense Secretary Dick up in the Soviet Union,” and healthcare platform. graduate students and the James Sasser, D-Tenn., that Cheney lobbied several of the Domenici told reporters. Mills and McKinlay captured undergrads,’’added Kelly. “I would have held next year’s de senators by telephone. “What’s so bad about waiting the remaining 66 votes. thin k th e re is a fense spending to $286.8 bil “This says an enormous three or four years before we Due to ambiguity and low misunderstanding between the [two groups] regarding lion. amount about the strength of drastically reduce the defense.” publicity, “out of 1,200 gradu research. We were un the military-industrial complex Thanks to sizable Democratic ate students, the 15 percent voter turnout was not dergrads once, and we are Three of the committee’s in this country,” Sasser said defections, the House and Sen available as a resource [to the Democrats joined the panel’s after the vote. “Bringing down ate have rejected efforts by surprising or unexpected,” according to Tony Hazbum, undergrads]." nine Republicans in voting excessive military spending is party leaders in the last week to election commissioner. Both Kelly and Carrier said against the plan. The three going to be a long, excruciating shift billions of dollars from As president and vice-presi they feel very strongly about Democrats were Sens. Ernest process, because they’ll resist defense to social programs. But dent of the graduate student their platform of improved Hollings of South Carolina, J. you at every turn.” even with all savings directed at governing body, Kelly and child and healthcare, and are James Exon of Nebraska and Hollings argued that his plan deficit reduction, Democrats are Carrier plan to reorganize eager to follow up on the Christopher Dodd of Connecti would avoid throwing hundreds split over how far the Pen and consolidate the GSU studies conducted by the cut. of thousands of troops and tagon’s budget should be administration in order to Minutes later, the committee civilian defense related workers shrunk. incorporate m ore see GSU/ page 7 page 2 The Observer Friday, April 3, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST: Partly cloudy and WEATHER REPORT cold with a 70 ‘New left’ percent chance of Lines separate high tem perature zones for the day.