The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

Student senators- page 4 VOL XIX, NO. 83 the independent student new spaper serv ing notri dam e and saint many's WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1985 Obud sees an increase in hopefuls for races By MIKE MILLEN Senior Staff Reporter This year’s student body presi dent and vice president race prom ises to yield more candiates than last year, Ombudsman, the overseeing organization for the election, indi cated at last night’s informational meeting. OBUD Election Coordinator The waiting is Maher Mouasher clarified campaign rules at the optional meeting, atten ded by four sets of candidates. About campaign violations, the hardest part Mouasher said, “We will be strict. No violations will pass through un It’s that time of year again, Auditorium. Students waiting in detected and unpunished.” when Notre Dame and Saint Chautauqua Ballroom, passed the Henry Sienkiewicz, OBUD direc Mary's students willingly skip time by playing cards, watching tor, agreed. “We will be classes, and meals, to endure ex television, or even studying. But spot checking ballot boxes, and will treme cold and boredom- all for by the time 4:30 came, chairs had have two people on duty at all times. the chance to come away with a to be passed over the crowd to All endorsements must be verified coveted pair of Keenan Revue separate stampeding students. tickets. Notre Dame’s answer to before they are put up, ” he said, add Second City, the Keenan Revue, The first student to receive 1985 ing, “The penalities are fairly nasty is this weekend, and ticket distri Keenan Revue tickets was John for violations of campaign ex bution was yesterday. As always, “the Goose” Gormley, a sopho penses.” waiting at Saint Mary’s was a bit more from Planner, who Each of the four sets of candidates more trying, since students were reportedly arrived in Chautau can spend $95 for their respective forced to sit outside O’Laughlin qua at 7:15 a m. campaigns. Presidential candidate Joe Zahn, sophomore, and running mate junior Patrick McCormick, claimed to be “the Alternative. ” The two said they had “contacted a lot of people on campus and could represent them well.” According to Zahn, “The problem with student govern ment is not in the people but in the structure itself.” Referring to experience, McCor mick said “any student on this campus with intelligence could do the job." Zahn served as chairman of the Judicial Board for part of last se mester. Presidential candidate Pat Browne and vice presidential hope ful Joanie Cahill, both juniors, said they would “bring student govern ment down to the student body." Photos by Mary Flynn see RACES, page 3 Senators seek to make position more than a ‘project job’ By MARK WORSCHEH the aura of professionalism about the whole thing.” “It’s not concrete, the need for resolutions for what I’ve Managing Editor “I’ve never seen a harder working and creative bunch of done. They do help you feel out a consensus one way or the people,” says Dan McNamara. other. Resolutions have a place for things like the student It’s a job that no one - not even those who do it - seems But Pat Browne wishes more people inside student gov store,” says McNamara. able to define. The title conjures images of rhetorical mas ernment shared the senators’ attitude. “Most in student gov Oliva, who has sponsored many resolutions, has no argu tery, of debates over pressing student issues. But that rarely ernment think the position is unneccessary. ” Browne, the ments about method, just about performance. He believes occurs. Mostly, the job involves attempting to get things District 2 senator, attempted to get a budget for senators to the load has not been shared equally. done. expand their role, but the resolution was defeated. “I’ve been able to produce and a lot of senators haven’t, ” Such is the role of the Notre Dame student senator. “I thought the role was a special projects role, but I says Oliva. “You need to find things to do and do them. A lot Not that any of the five senators are complaining about wanted to put together social events for my constituents as have said I can’t find things to do.’ ” having to complete projects. Most just wish they could do well. They didn’t think it was part of my job,” he says. The senator who seems to have had the toughest time more. And the debate continues. In the fall, the senate became grappling with the role is District 1’s Paul Healy. “The students elect people to deal with the administration mired in a discussion of the senator’s role for nearly an hour “I really wasn’t sure was the goal of a senator was,” says on major issues like the Alcohol Policy and the final exam before weary representatives agreed that a committee Healy, who was a senator at a Florida school before transfer policy, but student government doesn’t really allow for that should study the matter. The result was CREST, the Commit ring to Notre Dame. kind of consistent dialogue. It’s a project job,” says District tee for the Restructuring of Student Government, and the “That is the difference between here and what I was used 4’s Tom Abood. study still is underway. to before. You didn’t have to go and look for projects. We Though Abood calls the vagueness of the position the Meanwhile, with two months left in their terms, the were delegated projects. I’m not a creative person, but every greatest disappointment of his term, he remains positive senators seem to have settled in with the purely project project I’ve been assigned has been completed. concerning the year. “Once you realize what you’re going to aspect of the job. But even so, the senators have different “Things just don’t work the same in Florida as they do in be doing and you adjust your thinking, you feel good about methods of planning projects. Indiana. I don’t know how to put it exactly. I’d rather not the projects you get done,” he says. McNamara, who recently arranged to have lights installed comment," he says. O ther senators concur with Abood. on the Lyons basketball courts, believes that much of what Healy does complain that he was removed from one Javier Oliva, who represents off-campus students, says he the senators do does not require a senate approved resolu has been “quite pleased with what we’ve accomplished and tion. He has not written a resolution during his term. see SENATE, page 4 The Observer Wednesday, January 30, 1985 — page 2 In Brief Long lines: part of the Notre Dame Experience The Pentagon has approved $3 million for cleaning up Agent Orange, low-level radioactive wastes and spills of Notre Dame has a lot to offer - if you can wait. other hazardous materials at a sprawling Air Force base in the Florida At Notre Dame, every student has the opportunity to John Panhandle. Air Force officials say they will ask for at least $2 million learn about accounting, engineering or government, if more to finish the job. The Eglin projects are part of a $112 million, he survives the lines at registration. Mennell Air Force-wide program that started in 1981 with the identification The Notre Dame student has the privilege of eating in of potentially hazardous sites, said Lt. Col. Richard Hartman, the dining halls awarded one of the highest awards any in Assistant News Editor base’s environmental protection chief. Eglin, responsible for devel stitutional food service can receive, if he does not starve oping and testing non-nuclear weapons, conducted tests of Agent to death in line. Orange during the Vietnam War. -AP A student can watch major college football in a not go in because everyone in the front the line had stadium where Notre Dame’s football prowess has “saved” a spot for three out of every four people he dominated for many years, if he does not die of knew. pneumonia from a long wait for tickets. Yesterday, before the Keenan Revue tickets were dis All early work by the abstract expressionist painter Every aspect of the Notre Dame experience from a tributed, the same line explosion occurred. It is nice to Jackson Pollock has been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in morning shower to a bedtime snack from foodsales is know everyone has so many friends. Boston. “Troubled Queen" was painted on a gray background with complete with a line. Some lines are not as bad as others. green and purplish brown colors. Pollock, who lived from 1912 to The line should not be looked on as a totally negative Waiting for lunch is not so bad because The Observer 1956, poured or dripped yellows, reds and dark blues onto the paint experienc. Lines can be a place of learning. People provides some entertainment. Unfortunately, lunch is ing. The museum said the painting was purchased with funds from come to Notre Dame to learn so lines may be part at the end of the line and not always such a pleasant the sale of three minor works. It sold Renoir’s “Woman with Black of a liberal education. surprise. Hair" and “Girl Reading” as well as Claude Monet’s “Autumn at Much can be learned One of the worst lines has Jeufosse ” None of the prices were disclosed. Dr. Jan Fontein, the about other people and to be waiting for a shower in museum director, said the Pollack painting “is a major addition to yourself from the line expe U lhal tvos i'6/5 lire for attain 7 the morning.

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