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XXI, NO. 106 FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Petition calls for outdoor graduation By DAN MURPHY are a lot of interested students.” He Staff Reporter said about one quarter of the dorms have returned the petition so far, and Junior Jim Winkler has started a pe the number of signatures is “in the tition to move graduation ceremonies neighborhood of 500.” Many students into the football stadium next May. have expressed a desire to help orga Big families mean big problems for nize an outside graduation, he added. seniors when it comes to graduation Winkler said he was unsure of the commencement ceremonies, according petition’s prospects for success. to Winkler. “I think it’s absolutely “Everyone always says the adminis ridiculous to have to have a lottery tration doesn’t listen to students. I think among your own family for four the idea is feasible. With a little graduation (commencement cere creativity, we can make it work in the mony) tickets,” said Winkler. stadium,” he said. Commencement ceremonies have The unstable South Bend weather is been held inside the air conditioned an important consideration, noted Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center Winkler. “There is, obviously, always since 1968, limiting the number of avail the possibility of rain, so we need a con able tickets. Each graduating senior tingency plan, possibly in the ACC,” he receives four tickets to distribute to said. family members, often a difficult task. The threat of wet weather means Winkler gave the petitions to hall everything must be duplicated if the presidents to circulate in each dorm. ceremonies are held outside, incurring He plans on submitting the petitions to extra costs, according to assistant the administration early next week. registrar David Kil. “You can never “The petition is to show that it’s not just my idea,” said Winkler, “There se e GRAD, page 7 House passes trade bill despite veto threat Associated Press measure now goes to the Senate, where M ajority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D- WASHINGTON -The House passed a W.Va., planned to begin debate Friday. sweeping trade bill Thursday, deliver He was shooting for a vote on final pas ing a sharp blow to President Reagan sage early next week. as supporters of the hotly disputed mea sure piled up enough votes to override The House passed the measure after his threatened veto. defeating, 253-167, a move by Minority “Our future isn’t in the past,” House Leader Robert H. Michel, R-Ill., to Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, declared throw the bill back to the conference as he fought a move to return the bill committee and drop the plant-closings to a House-Senate conference commit provision. Synchronized basketball The0 bserver/m*® Moran tee and drop a plant-closings provision Dan Reynolds, left, of Tequila White Lightning, goes up for a rebound in a Bookstore that Reagan said he could not approve. Reagan, on the road in Massachu game against Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Three Other . on Wednesday. “We can regain our competitiveness ... setts, said he would veto the bill if it Bookstore basketball action culminates this weekend in the finals on Sunday. We can be No.l again.” came to him with the plant-closings The final tally, 312-107, contradicted provision intact. He also sent a letter numerous forecasts that the bill’s spon to Michel, saying, “I want a trade bill.” sors would fail to produce the two- Controversy over the plant-closings thirds vote needed to override a veto. provision overshadowed central fea New faculty chair is announced But many lawmakers, even if they tures of the bill, which would stream had their doubts, appeared to have no line the way the United States imposes Associated Press Green Bay will fund the Paul J. Schierl taste in an election year for going on import curbs to aid U.S. industries and chair, named for the company’s chair- record against a measure billed as a retaliate against international trade vi A $1 million gift from a Wisconsin man and chief executive officer, plan to upgrade American competitive olations. corporation will fund a legal ethics ness. Scores of other provisions range from professorship at the University of Notre Schierl holds undergraduate and law The bill was a House-Senate compro repeal of the windfall profits tax on oil Dame Law School, the University an- degrees from Notre Dame and is a mise on two competing measures that companies to billions of dollars in new nounced Thursday. member of the Law School Advisory passed both chambers last year. The agricultural subsidies. The gift from Fort Howard Corp. of Council. Mobs, confusion at checkmarking will be corrected, says Weaver By MATT GALLAGHER the students in line for theol lem has been overstated. She went smoothly in November prior to 5:30 p.m., was not en forced on Wednesday because Copy Editor ogy and English courses. said there was much confu 1987. Weaver said the problems sion, but little violence. However, the disorganiza the departments failed to Disorganized mobs rush arose because the students During checkmarking in tion was so great Wednesday remind the Security office to ing, pushing and shoving to were unaware where the lines April 1987, two students were night that “at a point, we enforce it, said Weaver. get their checkmarked should form. She said the stu injured as they were pushed thought (the students) might She said that last fall Secur classes in O’Shaughnessy dents in line for theology through the glass doors of faint, they were so stifled,” ity was asked to patrol Hall should be a thing of the courses formed from both Stepan Center. said Weaver. O’Shaughnessy to prevent past, said Ellen Weaver, as ends of the hall, and thus there Weaver said that the check- Joseph Buttigieg, chairman lines prior to 5:30 p.m., but sistant chairman of the depar were two lines meeting head- marking was moved to of the department of English, apparently no one asked them tment of theology. to-head at the office door; O’Shaughnessy in the fall of said, “We had a good system to do the same this week. pandemonium ensued. 1988 to prevent the confusion worked out. The problem was “No one thought to remind The process of checkmark Weaver, who was present which marred the process at with people skipping lines.” (Security); we assumed that ing Wednesday night was Wednedsay evening in the Stepan. The “5:30 rule,” preventing typified by confusion among theology office, said the prob Weaver stated the process students from forming lines see MOBS, page 5 P ag e 2 The Observer Friday, April 22, 1988 In Brief ND racial problems Six h u n d red additional copies of the special issue of must be addressed the Notre Dame report will be made available to off- campus and graduate students beginning this afternoon. Almost one year ago today, a racial con The issues may be picked up at the student government frontation marred the championship game of Chris offices located on the second floor of LaFortune Student the Bookstore Basketball Tournament. No mat Center. Two hundred more copies for law students will be ter what provoked the incident, I, among many Murphy available in Room 203 of the Law School. Additional ques spectators, sensed a very dangerous situation- tions should be addressed to Darlene Cutrona, extension -something that one would not expect to see at Editor-in-Chief 5337. -The Observer Notre Dame. This ugly incident inspired a letter from Uni A to tal of 105 license branches have volunteered to versity President Father Edward Malloy that undergo the transition to state jurisdiction under the called for the end of “comments or actions that Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commission prior to the July 1, display racial or ethnic insensitivity.” Certain 1988, deadline established by the Indiana legislature, in ly, the fact that racially motivated incidents cluding the South Bend and Mishawaka license branches. happen on this campus cannot be overlooked. Under the new system, hours of operation will be expanded Whether competition on the court or ignorance from an average of thirty-seven-and-a-half hours to forty- off the court breeds the ugliness, it is time that two-and-a-half hours of operation per week. With improved the University’s administrators, faculty and service to motorists the top priority, comment cards will students challenge themselves to examine their be available in all state-operated license branch offices, own attitudes concerning racial insensitivity. so the Commission may receive public input of the changes One of the problems at this University cur which have occurred. -The Observer rently being looked at is the obvious lack of minority students, faculty and administrative staff. Only 3 percent of the students and only a handful of faculty and administrators are Of Interest black. The fact that these numbers are not anywhere close to national averages may lead to a general attitude that minorities should not R e c e ss 101 will be held today at Stepan Center from 9 have to be dealt with. This ignorance must come to 11 p.m. Events include fingerpainting, free ice cream, to an end immediately . balloons, dodge ball and favorite grade school tunes. -The Observer The administration is apparently serious in cording to estimates.