---. I • Third Eye Blind comes to Stepan Center • Snow? Already? Parts of the Midwest and Plains Wednesday for a concert tonight. Go prepared: check out were shutdown by a snowstorm. some background information on the group. NOVEMBER Scene • 12-13 World & Nation • 5 11, 1998 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXII NO. 50 WWW. ND.EDU/-OBSERVER BRINGING SPIRITUALITY AND SERVICE TO THE CLASSROOM remaining dcdintt!'d to serv­ ACE nwmlwr. Students serve ing the rwedy, growing spiri­ Stashis credits tlw commu­ tually and living in a Catholi<~ nity atmosphPrP of ACI·: for Catholic schools community. the !JH pnrr<'nt member rntPn­ Sevnnty'-five positions ar!' tion rat<' from ynar to year. after college awarde)d each ynar to stu­ "The first yPar or so of dents from Notre Damn and teaching can be~ challnnging By MIKE ROMANCHEK Saint Mary's. so llwy havn a pnnr support News Writer "Wn are very concerned group built into tlwir honw and careful about thn sizn of lifn," Stashis said. Arter completing their our program so that we can Groups of four to six mnm­ undergraduate ed ueation at really take care of our nwm­ lwrs livn togdhPr in ACE Notre Damn or Saint Mary's, bnrs," Stashis said. house) s. Me m b n r s s h a r n some students seek programs ACE thrivns on thrne main dwres and arn pncouragnd to that will allow them to devel­ ideals: community lifn, spiri­ hold wewkly praynr snssions. op tlwir knowledge in a spn­ tual growth and professional ACii also fosters the spiritu­ cil'ic l'ield as wedl as giving development. al growth of its nu1mbnrs. back to their eommunities. "The people in ACE provide Participants spemd two sum­ The~ Alliance for Catholic support through community mnrs at Notrn Damn honing Education (ACE) program and faith and that makes the their teaching skills as well as provides students from both transition from college that nurturing their spiritual rnla- much easier," said Anne schools with this opportunity. see ACE I page 4 A two-year post-graduate Napierkowski, a second-year program, ACE develops young educators and sends them to needy parochial schools in nine southPrn states. The program serves 25 dioceses in the South where there is a groat IlefHI for Catholic odu­ eators. "We do the best we can to moot the needs of those dio­ eeses but it is not always pos­ sible," said AI Stashis, an associate dirnctor at ACE and a 199(J Notrn Dame graduatn. "Wo try to reeruit pe~ople from a broad range of majors since we don't havP an nduc.a­ tion major horn at Notre Dame." Students earn mast.nr's Photos courtesy of ACE dngrees in nducation through Photo counesy of ACE The ACE program allows students to teach in Catholic schools the ACE program while Former Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students are taking part in ser­ I while working toward their master's degree in education. vice opportunities in education in schools throughout the country. ~ ' Student leader: Adopt­ A Healing Touch A-Team unorganized By LAURA ROMPF onship-ealiber sports teams N'"w' Writl"r and we want to increase sup­ port for these students." he Campus Unity, in t'.IHlpnration add Pd. with StudPnt (;overnnwnt. is Jordan Curnes, chairman of spons11ring an "Adopt a Team" the Campus Unity committee program to unify tlw campus SPt$ tlw "Adopt a Team" effort by l'nl·ouraging Parh dorm t11 as a way to show the student rhoosn a body's apprecia­ No! rl' DamP tion ol' its ath­ sports tPalll letes. and support 'IT'S A GOOD IDEA, .JUST "All the Notrn il throughout NOT VERY ORGANIZED.' Dame athletes 1111' Sf'aSOil. put in long hours S p o n s u r of hard work and dorms ar!' Cuu.tiHN HHHN/No deserve the t>n1·ou rag1!d l.!iWIS I IAU Put::~mHNT res poet and lo makn appreciation ol' posll'rs and the entire stu­ banrwrs for tlw ganws, have dnnt body," said Curnns. "This l.Pam/dorm cookouts, and travnl program is designed to bring to tlw nearby away gamos. attention and support to some "We havn full"illed our cam- ol' the non-traditionally popular The Observer/Lauren O'Neil paign promise in increasing sports." en Chulski, a Saint Mary's sophomore, savors a moment of relaxation while she receives a massage from a support ol' all our athletic But some dorm presidents representative of ''The Healing Touch" at a health fair held in Le Mans Hall. The massage is used as a teams through the student see organizational weaknesses l ethod of non-medicinal healing for illnesses. Other services offered included blood pressure screening, flu body," said Peter Cesaro, stu­ as hindering the program's shots and blood sugar monitoring. In addition, information was available to students about diet and nutri­ dent body president. tion, headaches and antibiotics. "We have national champi- see TEAM I page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, November 11, 1998 • INSIDE COLUMN The pressures utside the Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports of greatness African American studies proposal to go through final stages Here comes the feeling again. You know the feeling. It's that horrible sink­ BIRMINGHAM, Ala. "We have no idea how long it will ing feeling- you're stuck. You become over­ UAB is on its way to becoming one take, but we are hoping it [the pro­ whelmed with the thought that no matter what of the first schools in the Southeast to posed major] will go into effect Fall you do, there is no way offer a degree in African American 1999," Smith said. of getting out. Christine Kraly studies. For many years, UAB has offered It's the acknowledge­ Copy Editor The proposal is to create an inter­ African American studies as a minor ment of your workload, disciplinary major for the study of only. your committments, your never-ending respon­ African American music, literature, However, a 1997 survey of 250 UAB sibilities. art, health and politics. students shows that students are It hits you at midnight on Sunday, when you In August 1994, Associate Professor studies program at UAB. The propos­ interested in obtaining a bachelors realize that you haven't started a two-page Virginia Whatley Smith and a small al went through a few revisions. then degree in the program. Core paper due Monday; you work from 6 p.m. committee looked to see if having a headed to the Undergraduate In the study, 81 percent had a "high till 2 a.m.; you have a quiz on Thursday; you African American studies major Programs Council, in June of this degree of interest" in a bachelor of have a paper due Friday on a 298-page book would be feasible at UAB. When they year, where it was approved. arts degree in African American stud­ you haven't cracked open yet; and, oh my God, sent in the proposal recommending a The proposal then went to the UAB ies. Sixteen percent of those surveyed let's not start with how messy your room is. new major, they were told to proceed. Faculty Senate, which gave the pro­ had interest in the degree while only It is the ultimate realization that you are, Three years later, an expanded posed degree its unanimous approval two percent was unresponsive. indeed, a Notre Dame student. nine-member committee worked to in August. "I have a lot of interested students," Coming out of high school, it's likely that refine the proposal. The proposal must now face the UA said Smith. most, if not all Notre Dame students carried The proposal was first submitted to Board of Trustees and the Alabama Not all those interested are under­ with them a slight air of confidence. Okay, we the deans of the schools of Arts and Commission on Higher Education. graduates. Smith expects the major to were cocky. We can act like we were modest Humanities and Social and Behavioral ACHE has to approve the program draw graduate students as well as about the whole thing- we were happy to be Sciences. Both of these schools helped before it will be able to be offered as candidates from all over the states. accepted and chastely told our parents that to co-found the African American a major at UAB. we'd do our best. But the fact of the matter is, this is Notre Dame, and who among us didn't get an extra • RtHGERS UNIVERSITY • UNiVERSITY OF PENNSYlVANIA ego boost just to feel the thickness of the enve­ lope and realize we were going to one of the best {THE best, in my opinion) schools in the Student is killed traveling back to school Dining halls are cleared of illness blame nation? NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. PHilADELPHIA, Penn. Reading my acceptance letter, thoughts ran Rutgers College junior Frank P. Thomson - on his It's looking less and less like food poisoning. Preliminary wild through my head: Finally. I've worked way back to Rutgers after visiting a friend at the results from laboratory tests of stool samples from students four long years for this. Sweet revenge for all University of Maryland - was fatally struck by a pass­ who fell victim to a mysterious illness last week have turned those who said I couldn't make it. ing car early Monday morning while preparing to up no evidence of bacterial contamination. Penn and city I didn't stop to worry about the next four change a flat tire in Camden County.