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FEBRUARY 5, LOW23° Scene • page 10 2002 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 80 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Elections Officials detail bar renovations lack social + New Alumni­ Senior Club to be concerns completed in 2003 candidates By JASON McFARLEY News Editor By ERIN LaRUFFA Associate News Editor The University's top student life official unveiled Monday This year's campaign for plans for major renovations Notre Dame student body to the Alumni-Senior Club, a president is filled with venue whose use for social promises of social events gatherings student groups and policy initiatives aimed had long urged administra­ primarily at improving stu­ tors to expand. dent life. In the first public disclosure What's missing, however, of the renovations, Father are "social conscience can­ Mark Poorman, vice president didates" - candidates with for Student Affairs, told the platforms based on social Campus Life Council that justice issues. Last year, changing the club to a sports­ Yogeld Andre and Demetra themed restaurant and bar Smith ran together with a will allow all students to platform that included a socialize together on campus. living wage for campus "We have heard the mes­ employees, community hot sage loud and clear that we topics forums and leader­ need social venues on campus ship-based scholarships. that bring together underage "Yogeld and I ran last and of-age students," year because we were Poorman said, addressing the approached by a group of CLC for the first time in more students, and we all saw a than two years. The plans for the Alumni-Senior need for a vision that was coming from an outsider's As presented Monday, the Club, above, include space for plans will increase the club's perspective," said Smith, area by some 50 percent, 720 patrons - 400 on the dance now a senior. According to from about 10,000 square floor, 190 in the restaurant, 90 in Smith, that vision was one feet to more than 15,000, the pub and 40 in the game that included both the according to a Jan. 21 project Notre Dame community cost summary from the Office room. Father Mark Poorman, at and the outside world. of the University Architect. right, vice-president for Student "I certainly hope every­ The summary estimated total Affairs, presented the plans for a one running this year will include ideas that look cost for the initiative at more renovated senior bar to the than $2 million. beyond themselves," said The revamped facility will Campus Life Council, including Smith. She added that it be ready for use in fall 2003, Matt Smith, left, and Meghan does not concern her that O'Donnell. see BAR/ page 4 see CONCERNS/page 4 Speaker discusses architecture's role in the Holocaust After pouring over examples tural structure and its dedica­ the workers and German­ so he engineered a deal with the By MEGHAN MARTIN of German households, funerary tion to efficiency and compe­ designed housing for plant Slovakian government in which News Writer architecture, monuments, and tence in the extermination of the administrators. its leaders paid for the reloca­ governmental buildings con­ Jewish in Europe, van Pelt The plans that van Pelt found tion of Jews from Slovakia to There is a connection between structed during the Third Reich, stumbled upon a map contain­ were designs for the re-creation Auschwitz, where those who the architecture and function of van Pelt noticed striking similar­ ing plans for revamping the of medieval Auschwitz, a town were physically able would German concentration camps at ities between the architecture of town of Auschwitz. which Hitler had claimed to work for the Germans, and Auschwitz, according to Robert such structures and the archi­ The strategies for urban revi­ have a German culture as a those who were not would be Jan van Pelt, a full-time profes­ tecture of their ancient Athenian talization were ironic and out of result of its location along the killed. sor at the University of Waterloo counterparts. place in a location built specifi­ border of Austria-Hungary and "Suddenly the history of the in Ontario, Canada. Van Pelt's study of Nazi-era cally to carry out the destruction Russia earlier in German histo­ camp became a part of the larg­ Working with Carroll William structures inevitably led him to of an entire people. The profes­ ry. er picture involving the immi­ Westfall, chair of Notre Dame's the concentration camps. sor discovered from this docu­ With building plans already in gration of Germans" to staff the School of Architecture, van Pelt, According to van Pelt, they ment that Auschwitz was slated place, Heinrich Himmler, officer factory at Auschwitz, ethnic who has studied the relationship became the "garbage bins for to play a prominent role in the in charge of the small concen­ cleansing, and the re-introduc­ for more than a decade and a the contradictions" of a society larger scheme for German dom­ tration camp that had been tion of "German glory," accord­ half verified the normative that believed that the "German ination of eastern Europe. established outside of ing to van Pelt. nature of classical Athenian glory" of the Austro-Hungarian Van Pelt was soon to unearth Auschwitz, was charged with After studying original con­ design. Empire could be re-created by a an agreement between industri­ the task of providing enough centration camp blueprints at "If something is normative," pure Aryan race. al giant I.G. Farbenindustrie workers to build it. As a result the site, van Pelt was appalled van Pelt argued in a lecture at The apex of this German plan and Nazi leaders to build a syn­ of the military conflict that at the seeming efficiency and Notre Dame Monday, "it centered around plans for an thetic gas and rubber plant in Germany was simultaneously premeditation behind the func­ deserves to be repeated." eastern Utopia, in the small, the town, far removed from the engaged in. Himmler turned to tionality of Auschwitz's design. Van Pelt's next task was to unassuming Polish town of threat of British bombers. A Slovakia. Van Pelt learned that the gas determine what society, if any, Oswiecim, better known to west­ deal had been struck between As van Pelt put it, "Himmler chambers and ovens built under had attempted to re-create the ern audiences as Auschwitz. the two entities that, should the got control of the 'Jewish prob­ the structures were only as good structure of ancient Greece. All Through his research of the company build the factory, the lem.' He needed Jewish labor signs pointed to Nazi Germany. concentration camp's architec- Nazi regime would provide both and control over Jewish labor," see ARCHITECTURE/pag~ 4 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, February 5, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "We gotta take it back "People started "/ could have swam The perfect to the road where we really congratulating us last week through a brick wall at that like to play ... We don't when the other ticket point because the team was talk about it, but we do have dropped out. They didn't going crazy for me. " road trip a little bit of a road realize that the process was presence. far from over. " Adam Cahill I have high standards. They shouldn't be too sophomore swimmer long, but they definitely shouldn't be too short. Mike Brey Kim Jensen on his Big East qualifying I've had some good, memorable ones, and some men's basketball head coach time in the 50-yard freestyle that were just miserable experiences that I stu"ent body presidential candidate couldn't wait to get to the end of. on the remainder of the season on the lone ticket election You can't have them every weekend or you would get Katie Hughes much too tired. I've come close, but I've never experi- Copy Editor eilced one that I would give a Compiled from U-Wire reports score of a perfect 10. BEYOND CAMPUS Road trips, that is. Sometimes, you gotta bust out. The elements of a good road trip: University of Arizona cuts 128 courses and jobs 1. A Good Shotgun Rider. Compared to shotgun, back seat riders are virtually invisible. They are TUCSON, Ariz. regents met Friday at Arizona State the parasites in the road trip food chain, poking Nearly 130 classes have been can­ University. their necks between the front seats between celed and the same number of jobs cut Northern Arizona University's presi­ naps. as a result of state-mandated budget dent said his university is facing prob­ The basic duties of toll money fmding, CD cuts, University of Arizona President lems similar to UA's, having to elimi­ changing, snack opening, and "can we get over?'' Peter Likins told the Arizona Board of nate employees, classes and eventual­ begging can give the shotgunner a solid score. Regents Friday. ly some departments. But for a perfect 10, major navigation through None of the 128 classes that were "When institutions have been ghettos and never being wrong when answering cut were graduation requirements, through this process before, the net distraught "stay on or get off? what does that sign and it is unclear how many of the 128 effect is that it will increase the time SAY?" spaz-ish question attacks from the driver jobs that were eliminated actually to graduate," NAU President John are also required.