Minorities Agree That Self-Identity Is Essential
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VOL. XXV. NO. 117 The ObserverTUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1993 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Handbook offers teacher evaluations to students By MARA DIVIS the semester. News Writer Teaching faculty will be given the option of whether they want The Guide, a student gov to participate in the guide, as ernment invention, will serve as the committee is not aiming to a handbook to inform students steer students away from of course requirements and certain classes, only to improve professors, according to project professors' communication and coordinators Heather Arnold teaching skills, Arnold said. and Susan Petrovic. "We're not trying to persecute Written by students them teachers in any way," she said. selves, the Guide is a catalog of "It's entirely the professors' evaluative information for stu choice whether they would like dents, and will feature a rating to participate or not." system on professors and their The Guide will be a com teaching styles and class re pletely student-run publication, quirements, said Arnold, stu Petrovic said. dent government intellectual "This is not the administra life chairperson. tion asking the students to The committee will issue evaluate the faculty," she said. evaluations to participating fac "The point is to have students ulty members, who will have be more informed when select The Observer/ Brian McDonough students evaluate them, similar ing classes." Spring fever to the way the administration According to both Petrovic evaluates faculty at the end of Taking advantage of the warm weather and sunshine, Professor Yuko Nakahama's Japanese class studies see GUIDE I page 4 outside on the steps in front of O'Shaugnessy Hall. Minorities agree that self-identity is essential By ALICIA REALE agreed, refuting the predomi be achieved due to different is group of blacks, we have to Associate News Editor nant theory of the American sues. "We can't race socializa interpret." students melting pot which purports the tion," he said. This feeling can cross bound It is important that minorities creation of a homogeneous race It is important to bind to aries and everyone can learn identify with their culture and from social interrelation. gether to learn more about from cultural gifts. such as rap arrested one another before they can "The male white elitist each other, said Chandra John music. "Collective effervescence successfully bridge the racial founders ran into problems son, an African-American 39 is shared and goes out to the gap and give to others. agreed with African-Americans. In year-old freshman who lives in larger community," explained panelists at a cultural diversity reality mixing can't work," he Fischer-O'Hare residences. She Chandra Johnson. Forty people, including 2 said. "They did not understand It forum in Howard Hall last has created a group called is important to stick to Notre Dame and Saint MIU'y' night. the creativity of God." "Just a Sister Away" to facili gether and "keep culture alive," students. were arrested Now there is the salad bowl tate discussion about being said Hong Ly, a Chinese Howard aM African-Americans tend to cited by S.U~D.S. (Stop Under stay together socially because theory in which the lettuce and African-American women. "It Hall sophomore. "We must age Drinking and Sales} for un race is the first thing that peo radishes are flavorful together is necessary to build communi know culture and identity first ·derage drinking. early Saturday ple can identify with and form but also taste good alone, ac cation in this environment," she before we can find a meeting mornirig at a party at 19177 bonds over when coming to cording to Marlowe. said. "Power and unity are place." Cleveland Road. "There is a misconception formed to be later dispersed." Notre Dame, explained Kenya Mending, healing and grow Notre Dame sophomore Johnson, an African-American that we are separate because "I love being around black ing can be done among mi Brian Scblemarr, who rents the we don't want to be with you. Pasquerilla East Hall junior. folks, we have a different lan norities, according to Chandra house, was cited for underage "Most African-Americans People who have historically guage, a different attitude for Johnson. ·drinking, a misdemeanor. As been invisible need to come to branch out later but identity is who we are, how we communi "You need to know yourself the "responsible party," he alsu the thing you can identify with gether to gain support." cate and love each other. This before you can give to others. may be cited for having a part right away," she said. There is an ideal of people language is built out of love and We don't support exclusionary without a perrnlt, contributin Athletic counselor Demetrius from different races getting respect for each other. If to the delinquency of minors or Marlowe, an African-American, along, which sometimes cannot someone white is with me and a see MINORITIES I page 4 maintaining a common nuisance, said Sergeant Speaker discusses women Charlie Feirrell of the Saint Joseph County Police. "Neighbors had complained in law: progress still needed and a traffic accident occurred nearby which involved some~ By BILL ALBERTINI years after Notre Dame law one who had been at the News Writer school began admitting women, party," said FeirrelL "Alcohol "that all accredited law schools was a factor in this crash." Though women have made in this country were open to "We were just trying to break progress in law, they still have qualified applicants regardless up the party," he said. a long way to go, said the of gender," according to Students receiving citatiot1s Honorable Shirley Abrahamson Abrahamson. were: at the 25th anniversary cele In addressing the women at CarrollHall sophomore .John bration of women in the Notre the law school, Abrahamson McPik~;.. · · Dame law school yesterday. said they "may be expecting Dillon Hall sophom9te Abrahamson, a justice on the continued unopposed progress Zachary Budzichowski; ·· Wisconsin Supreme Court pre in the job market, but [they] Farley Hall sophom9re sented the keynote address of may also wonder, 'Is there the Hillary Nystrom; · the celebration, entitled "A proverbial glass ceiling, and Fisher Hall junior. Miguel Courtroom of One's Own: The can it be cracked?"' Perez; New Role of Women in the Le She answered by saying that Planner Hall sophomores gal System." "Women have firmly estab Brian Deeley, Eric Nunes, Sean Abrahamson opened the lished themselves in all career O'Brien, and Matshame Riley. speech with a brief note about paths of the field of law. This Grace Hall sophomores Graciela Olivarez, the first does not mean, however, that Stephen Crowley, Thomas woman to enter and graduate our struggles are over." Doohan, James Ha.ss, Michael from the University of Notre Abrahamson added that while Hahn, Michael Kliber, William Dame law school. women compromise 20 percent Nurthen, and Michael Shields; She then gave a history of of the legal profession, only 10 Holy Cross Hall sophomores women in law. In 1869, ac percent of the judiciary in the Meredith Binder and Julie Tay cording to Abrahamson, Iowa U.S. is female. lor; became the first state to admit "Perhaps," she said, "the Keenan Hall sophomores a woman to the bar. In the scarcity of women on the bench Wilfred Freve and Stephen same year, the Illinois Supreme also explains why we are ex Hryriewicz: Court and U.S. Supreme Court pected to behave not as indi Knott Hall sophomores ,Amy refused a woman's right to join viduals, but in stereotypical Borbely and Melissa Hurd; the bar because, "God designed feminine ways." The Observer/ Brian McDonough ~iegfried Hall sophomore the sexes to occupy different She compared the judiciary to Amy Holthouser; .. Shirley Abrahamson, a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Co~Jrt, spheres of action," which "newly integrated male clubs." speaks at the Notre Dame Law School on women's role in the legal Walsh Hall sophomores therefore left women out from She then stated that "we must system. Her speech commemorated the 25th anniversary of women Megan O'Shaughnesy and JUlie practicing law, Abrahamson recognize that obstacles to law students admitted to the Law School. said. It was not until 1972, five see LAW I page 4 see $.U.O.S.lpag~ <4. +@· ... <<~··· . --------~-- ~------ -- - ~ I page 2 Tuesday, March 30, 1993 INSIDE COLUMN f =.·lil1l!.:illl·.!:IJi·:=:.lililii.'::.::.!.i.:i. i:ml FORECAST Join the Mostly sunny and ~ mild Tuesday with highs in the mid 60s . 'Justice .Cloudy and cooler Wednesday with a 40 percent chance of 1rain. High of 50. Leagu_e_'_ I TEMPERATURES Spring has finally City H L arrived. Anchorage 34 13 South Bend has had four A11anta 75 48 Bogota 66 43 days of sunshine (we'll Cairo 72 50 have to see if that's some Chicago 44 36 sort of a record), Cleveland 44 34 I Dallas 74 57 Bookstore Basketball XXII OetroH 45 34 has started (my girlfriend Richard Riley .Indianapolis 56 40 was lucky enough to have Business Manager 1Jerusalem 64 46 ILondon 50 43 on of the Elvises throw Emeritus ILos Angeles 62 50 some of his chest hair to _______ Madrid 70 43 !Minneapolis 42 32 her), and Notre Dame students have been taking IMoscow 39 32 to the basketball courts in a mass exodus after Nashville 53 47 being subjected to over four months of forced INew York 51 38 • • • Paris 52 32 hibernation. • Philadelphia 52 40 At the same time, the final four teams are •COLD WARM STATIONARY• • Rome 54 32 Sea Hie 54 35 making their ways to New Orleans and March Pressure South Bend 6737 Madness has reached its peak.