i O B S E R V E R Thursday, April 25, 1996 • Vol. XXVII No. 131 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Times, space set ND honors Hume for peace mission By BRAD PRENDERGAST sistently and courageously rejected That same year, Hume was elected News Editor the appeal to violence which so long to a seat in the European Parliament, for finals crunch has plagued his country’s politics,” where he still holds one of the three Observer Staff Report When looking back on John Hume’s said Father Edward Malloy, president Northern Ireland seats. He has also childhood in Derry, Northern Ireland, of Notre Dame. “ By honoring his w it- served in the British Parliament since In order to meet the Finals Study one would have expect- 1983. increased demand for ed that he would in­ But the most distinguishing study space during Days Schedule evitably join his fellow f v f you don’t believe in violence, then your note on his political resume finals. Student Catholics in the armed I , . n . , was his controversial deci­ Government is offering O'Shaughnessy Hall conflict against British * only weapon is dialogue. [Military] victo- sion to open talks with Sinn open until 1 a.m. additional study space rule. After all, came Fein leader Gerry Adams two Hayes-Healy Hall he ries are not solutions. You need compromise.’ as well as extended open until 1 a.m. from a family mired in years ago. Originally hours. These changes SDH (second lloor) poverty, in a town deci­ denounced by members on go into effect May 2. open until 3 a.m. mated by unem­ John Hume, 1995 Notre Dame Award recipient both sides, the talks never- O’Shaughnessy Hall Hesburgh Library ployment, in a land more ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------theless led to the cease-fire and Hayes-Healy Hall openier 24 hours concerned with religious d eclared by the IRA on LaFortune rst floor) w ill be open until 1 a.m. open 24 hours differences than with religion itself. ness, we hope to hasten the peace for August 31, 1994, and subsequent during the study days Instead, Hume, who will receive the which he hungers and thirsts.” cease-fires by loyalist paramilitary between May 2 and May 5. The numbers of the 1995 Notre Dame Award tonight, Hume has his political roots groups. available rooms in those buildings w ill be posted diverted his energies to accomplish­ entrenched in Northern Ireland’s civil Hume’s decision to talk with Adams on the doors of the building. ing his people’s political aims rights movement of the late 1960s. was an idea born out of his life-long O’Shaughnessy and Hayes-Healy w ill also be through peace, becoming the leader In 1969, he was elected as an inde­ belief in non-violence. “If you don’t open during finals week, however, times and of Northern Ireland’s mainly-Roman pendent to Northern Ireland’s believe in violence, then your only room numbers will be announced at a later Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Parliament. A year later, he and five weapon is dialogue,” Hume told date. Party and one of the world’s most other non-Unionist members of the Europe Magazine last summer. highly respected politicians. Parliament formed the SDLP, becom­ see STUDY / page 6 “ For three decades, Hume has con- ing its leader in 1979. see PEACE/ page 6 Student Senate Senate approves fund allocations for 1996-97 year By BRAD PRENDERGAST News Editor Student Senate put to rest several bud­ getary matters for the 1996-97 school year at its meeting yesterday, approving next year’s budget for campus governing organizations, The Observer/Dave Murphy the allocations to student clubs, and the dis­ tribution of funds to charity from the sales of 1996’sThe Shirt. The budget, approved by a vote of 14-1 with Rebuilding tradition one abstention, was developed after the bud­ get committee, led by student body treasurer Erin Hoffman, met with leaders of the various Workers take pride in strengthening student government organizations during a Stadium workers, several of whom day-long session Sunday. ‘The House that Rockne B uilt’ have ties to Notre Dame’s history, The budget passed through the senate with install the seat foundations above the little discussion yesterday, except from Matt By DEREK BETCHER Fred Wyant broke into the con­ north end zone (above left), while oth­ Griffin, president of the class of 1998, who News Writer struction industry as an apprentice ers prepare the exterior for the con­ carpenter building the Hesburgh struction of the new concourse (above). objected to the distribution of funds to the councils of each class. Every working day for the past five l ibrary, Jeff Cerney’s grandfather “I’m tickled to death to be involved “I’m concerned with the disparity of differ­ and a half months, hundreds of con­ played with the Four Horsemen, and in this. We were working on C0BA ent classes in fund levels,” Griffin said during struction workers have been digging, Tim McConn spent a college intern­ when the design documents for the the senate meeting, noting that the class of hammering and welding on the Notre ship working on Planner and Grace stadium started coming out, and we 1997 received $19,000 — about $10,000 Dame Stadium construction project. Halls. While these three Casteel could tell then it was going to be a more than the class of 1998 and $16,000 They've demolished the old and Construction employees have unique special project,” Wyant offered. more than the incoming freshman class. hoisted the new in their historic ties to the Notre Dame campus, they The project superintendent is no The freshman council received a smaller refiguration of what is regarded as a share with their co-workers a com­ stranger to construction on the Notre level of funding because it usually does not national athletic mecca. mon sense of pride resulting from Dame campus: Wyant has been peri- organize and plan activities until two to three So w ho are these la n d m a rk their participation in such a high- builders? profile project. see WORKERS/ page 4 see BUDGET/ page 4 Hall Elections Fourth vote fills Holy Cross board Mayhem in Sorin By MAUREEN HURLEY McDonald and Kelly Meyer Saint Mary's News Editor Holy Cross Run-off Results ticket took 35 percent of the votes. After a series of run-offs, “For our hall, the voter abstentions and election S c turnout could have been violations, the Holy Cross ■53% - Antes better,” said Holloway. Hall Council’s executive “But I guess after four board seats are filled. — Holloway times, it gets a little old.” Finally. Christine Riesenberger, 12% In the fourth election to Abstain vice-president elect for the fill the board seats, forty- 46.1% voted Residence Hall Association, six percent of the 1996-97 said, “The women chosen The Observer/Tom Roland Holy Cross residents in all the halls are all excit­ showed up at the polls yesterday, with 12 per­ ed about RI1A. We’re looking forward to a great cent abstaining. year.” Running under the slogan “Experience is As the Antes ticket assumes the helm of Holy Key,” the Anna Antes, Gina Drew, Kristi Dawson Cross leadership, they “plan to stick to their The Observer/Mike Ruma and Rachael Krouse ticket proved victorious, platform, because we feel we were realistic in Sorin residents crowded in the lounge last night for the yearly claiming 53 percent of the votes. hassle of room picks. The Allison Holloway, Mia Rinehold, Jamie see ELECTION/ page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, April 25, 1996 INSIDE COLUMN fORLD AT A GLANCE Taking time Chernobyl forest fire dredges up old fears of radiation KIEV, Ukraine age dose to people, because the radia­ Radiation levels around the Chernobyl i50m"ef i tion background would have had to nuclear plant rose as much as tenfold 50 km Mogilev increase 1,000 times to reach what we out fo r o after fires swept through nearby vil­ M insk MOGILEV Cherikov call dangerous limits,” said Yuri Ivanov, lages, but officials on Wednesday head of the radiation monitoring center spring played down the potential health haz­ B ykhov1 : 5| for the exclusion zone. ards. Krasriopolye Environmentalists said the govern­ Environmentalists criticized the gov­ BELARUS ment should also have tested radiation RUSSIA Ahhh, spring in South ernment for not ordering tests in popu­ Gomel levels outside the zone. Bend. The birds are lated areas outside the 18-mile exclu­ - y c r y — “ You have to be very careful with chirping, ethanol is in the sion zone around the plant or examina­ <> y v Moscow their figures,” said Yevhen Kobetsky, a air, and the rabid tions of firefighters or other people in K o nuclear physicist who works with the nuclear-accident monster the vicinity of the fires Tuesday. Chernobyl Ukrainian environmental group Union squirrels are frolicking on The blazes, six miles northwest of the ■ v \ to Save Chernobyl. plant, revived Ukrainians’ fears about UKRAINE He was particularly concerned about the quad. Let’s face it, v<v. \ UKRAINE there’s always plenty to lingering contamination from the radiation doses received by the fire ­ Chernobyl, where a reactor exploded fighters and the picnicking families who gripe about, no matter AP and caught fire in the world’s worst had returned to their former villages w hat season it is. Heck, Melanie Waters if you can even tell commercial nuclear disaster 10 years ago this Friday.