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VOL XXIII N0.120 THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 -- · THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Blanco pledges service to students in address By ANN MARIE HARTMAN which involves social interac­ student administration hopes to Assistant News Editor tion and projects with peer tackle include research into the guidance and counseling; and a quality of undergraduate Out with the old and in with continuation of the wFred line," education; student representa­ the new was the theme of the a telephone number students tion on the duLac revision student body address held can use to voice their campus committee; cooperation with Wednesday by the newly-in­ praises and criticisms. the South Bend City Govern­ stalled student government The second item on the ment in regards to off-campus president and vice-president, Blanco-Florenzo agenda is to attacks; and the overall student Joe Blanco and Dave Fiorenza. increase student input to the attitude towards the S.U.F.R. After accepting the presiden­ administration. Blanco sug­ movement. tial gavel from former student gested that a continued effort to Pasin and Tombar opened the leaders, Rob Pasin and Fred follow up on the board of evening's address with words of Tombar, Blanco outlined his trustees reports will be the thanks, but did not relinquish agenda for the 1991-1992 route the new student adminis­ their titles until they passed on school year. tration will take to make im­ their words of wisdom. According to Blanco, there provements in this area. Pasin told new leaders to are three main areas that he Blanco concluded his agenda wexpect intense highs and in­ hopes his administration will be in saying that he wants to in­ tense lows." But if asked to ac­ able to address. crease campus involvement in cept the role of president again, world issues. wNotre Dame is Pasin said he wwould in a First is the area of service to unique and saddled with a re­ minute." the student body. wStudent sponsibility to the world," said Tombar's closing remarks government must deal with in­ Blanco. were a plea to all students to dividual concerns," said Blanco. He and Fiorenza plan to pro­ have an open-mind towards the lie and Fiorenza hope to Im­ pose various national and in­ S.U.F.R. organization. Blanco plement this plan of student ternational programs to the said he hopes to refocus stu­ service through an emphasis on University, as well as to raise dents on the message of the funds for the lecture series that S.U.F.R coalition and clear up The Observer/E.G. Bail· student life; further develop­ Joseph Blanco, 1991-1992 Student Body President, gives his openinc ment of a pilot gold program Pasin and Tombar established. misinformed judgements held Additional areas that the new by students of the organization. address to the Notre Dame community Wednesday evening at th; Center for Continuing Education Auditorium. Speaker: student free speech is in danger By DAVID KINNEY about Issues involving even th1 Assistant News Editor most subtle of racism or sex ism. Freedom of speech and of Michigan's speech code wa: academics is being threatened later declared a violation of th1 on college campuses across the First Amendment by tht nation, at the cost of the mis­ Supreme Court. sion of the university to teach • A social worker was prohib­ the truth, according to Charles ited from beginning a program Sykes, author of wThe Hollow to help homosexuals convert to Men: Politics and Corruption in heterosexual behavior. The Higher Education." administration said that this Is "We have so lost the idea of a speech crime; the university what education should be," must embrace homosexuals on said Sykes during a lecture campus rather than attempt to Wednesday. Schools currently see SYKES I page 4 support an widea of scholarship whose goal is not . to weigh ideas, but to advance political Speaker ideas." The administrations of many The Observer/E.G. Bailey universities and colleges are addresses Singin' In the Spring curtailing students' freedom of speech in attempts to fight . "The Bone Forest" entertains students with music in the fieldhouse mall Wednesday afternoon. Warm racism, sexism, and other types sex1ssues temperatures brought many students outdoors to enjoy the benefits spring weather offers. of discrimination on campuses, according to Sykes. By MEREDITH The politicalization of cur­ MCCULLOUGH Thief of ND rare books to assist in returns riculum has also begun to de­ News Writer velop, diminishing the concept DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - for April 26 but both sides will also declined comment. of a true liberal arts education. Issues addressed In abortion, Convicted rare book thief request a delay. Blumberg faces up to 35 This wdogmatic, absolute un­ Stephen Blumberg will soon be On Jan. 30, Blumberg, 42, years in prison and a maximum pornography, and surrogacy derstanding of human experi­ debates are closely linked by reunited with his collection as was convicted of four theft-re­ fine of $1 million. Neither at­ ence" does not allow for the authorities try to match thou­ lated counts, including one of torney would discuss sentencing problems of sex discrimination discussion of the problems of and equality rather than by sands of stolen books, some possessing 21 ;000 stolen rare recommendations Wednesday, cultural diversity, he said. from Notre Dame's Libraries, books from hundreds of li­ although Reade told reporters questions of personal choice or Through the speech codes, privacy, said Cass Sunstein, a with their owners braries across the country and in January that Blumberg expulsions, and other sanc­ "It's going to happen," said Canada. Some of the volumes deserved a long stay in prison. professor from the University of tions, universities are sweeping Chicago's Law School. Linda Reade, the assistant U.S. came from Notre Dame. "In many ways he is a more the problems inherent in a di­ District Attorney who prose­ The other charges dealt with hardened criminal than many In a lecture yesterday titled verse student body under the wAbortion, Pornography and cuted the case. stolen antique windows and others I have come across," she rug instead of solving them She said she did not know musical instruments. said at the time. Surrogacy Arrangements," through debate. Sunsteln explained that the when Blumberg, whom she de­ He cited a variety of scribed as a "thief of historic When he was convicted, Federal Judge Harold Vietor though the three debates are examples of this problem: usually separated in public dis­ proportions," would be taken to Reade resisted a defense re­ denied appeal bond and Blum­ • University of Connecticut the Omaha, Neb., warehouse quest to allow Blumberg to see berg was taken to the Cass cussion, he "think[s] they have passed a sweeping resolution an enormous amount to do with where FBI agents have been the books, saying she'd rather County Jail in Atlantic. An offi­ banning everything from racial trying to Inventory the books. give him a list of books that he cial at the sheriffs office said each other." epithets to the obvious exclu­ Each of these debates are The task is arduous because could identify while in jail. Blumberg has posed no prob­ sion of people from conversa­ Blumberg obliterated most of She said Blumberg has re­ lem at the jail. dominated by two different po­ tions and inappropriate laugh­ sitions, one libertarian and the the identifying marks. ceived a list and has not been In the trial, Blumberg pleaded ing. She and one of Blumberg's helpful so far. innocent by reason of insanity, other traditionalist, which cap­ • University of Michigan re­ ture the common views of the attorneys, Hay Hosenberg, said "We have requested certain with Hosenberg saying the de­ sorted to the distribution of a the visit would happen before things, but there has been no fendant was absorbed by Victo­ American public, according to pamphlet to inform students Sunstein. Blumberg is sentenced. response," she said. She de­ rian history and "lived in a time about the speech code. One Sentencing was originally set clined to be specific. Rosenberg warp, a secret world." could not debate or even talk see ABORTION/ page 4 ---- --------------------------------------~------------------------------ Thursday, Apri14, 1991 page 2 INSIDE COLUMN Chain letters Cloudy today, chance of showers. High in 60s. Showers tonight, bring nothing near 40. Friday, partly sunny, high in but sorrow 60s. I've never believed in TEMPERATURES: bad luck. l!ntil now. Anna Marie Tabor I got a cham letter. , City H L Athens 57 50 It was not a friendly one Sa!nt Marys Accent Atlanta 73 51 promising to make me a Editor Berlin 64 35 Boston 54 37 millionaire in thirty days------­ Chicago 65 37 if I sent one dollar to the Dallas-Ft. Worth ?9 63 named person. Denver 64 32 Detroit 53 27 This letter promised Honolulu 80 70 good luck if I send Houston 79 57 Indianapolis 66 38 twenty copies to other London 54 43 poor, unfortunate souls. Los Angeles 77 51 And if I didn't... Madrld 66 45 ~iami Beach 75 67 The letter went on to describe what hap­ Moscow 43 43 pened to people who broke the chain. New Orleans 77 60 Within ninety-six hours the curse made New York 57 36 Paris 55 45 their lives miserable. Philadelphia 57 34 In some cases, it ended them. Definitely not Portland, Ore. 57 46 Rome 64 37 a pleasant fate. St. Louis 74 52 I laughed, wadded it up and casually San Francisco 73 49 threw it m the trash. South Bend 33 Since then, nobody knows the troubles I've seen.

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