Tuesday Election '98: the House and Senate

• Three University of Kentucky basketball • Don't forget to vote today, if you haven't already. Tuesday players received four-game suspensions Check out where to cast your ballot in South Bend. Monday for a variety of off-court incidents. NOVEMBER Sports • 12 News· 4 3, 1998 THE, Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Gude to chair gay student needs group By SARAH J. HILTZ support group with Father Associate News Editor Tom Gaughan was important to do. Somewhere, my life Thn subjnet of gay and lns expnriences led me to it," Gude hian student rwnds rontinues explained. to evolve with thn appointmnnt Whitt~ completing her gradu of Sister Mary l.ouisn Gudt~ as ate work at the University of chair of llw· Pennsylvania in tho 1970s, University's ,-------., Gude said that a questioning Standing student approached her for Committee 0 guidance. on Lesbian At that point, the forum for and (;ay ·.. ·_;. homosexual discussion was Stud!'nt · very limited, and Gude realized NPnds for tlu• t--'\, that this was a field in need of I IJIJX-IJIJ ;u~a- ' . ,.2f altnntion. d(•mic year. "The years in college are (;udn is Gude profound years of searching. ('UITPntly an Students come to terms with associate proft~ssional special issues of maturity and identity ist in the Bomanco languages very differently," Gude said. dnpartnwnt and assistant vice Beginning its third year. the president of Student Affairs, eommittee was established by but she thinks that her own Patricia O'Hara, vice president experiences with the gay and for student affairs, in agree lesbian community havn bnsl ment with a recommendation prepared her for the job as of the Ad Hoc Committee on chair of thn three-year-old Lesbian and Gay Student committee. Needs, which made the sugges "I was asked if I would work tion in its February 1996 final in a gay and lnsbian support report. The committee is group. I said yns beeausn of my intended to serve as a resource experiences in grad school to O'Hara in identifying needs with gays and lesbians." she of gay and lesbian students, said. continuing the dialogue initiat "I beli(we that people have ed by the ad hoe committee, embers of the Notre Dame womens' boxing club take their daily three-mile run. More than 100 box nxpnriPnces for a rnason. and assisting in the implemen- ers started training last week, which also includes push-ups, sit-ups, shadow-boxing and learning Agreeing to co-sponsor tho see GUDE I page 6 ng techniques. The club practices an hour-and-a-half daily. Election '98: The House and Senate Profs predict no big Projected GOP gains change in House seen dwindling By ERICA THESING By ROBERT PAZORNIK News Writer News Wrirer DespilP potPnlial ba,·klash from voters fed up with Only weeks ago, the Republican party seemed poised tht~ Clinton-I.Pwinsky scandal. the Republican party SENATE to gain the additional live seals necessary for a 60-s1~at will likely maintain its majority in the House after filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate. today's elections, nxpPrts sU'J · But today. according to top political analysts, that The Hepublkans. who currently control 228 of the confidence is only a memory. 435 seats in the U.S. !louse of Hepresentatives, "The Hepublicans will definitely not have as large a appear to be safe in maintaining that lead and may majority as they had hoped for," said Pat Pierce, asso even increase it. said Peri Arnold. professor of gov ciate professor of political scionce at Saint Mary's. ernment. "Their current expectations- that they won't roach "Thn most probablfl bet is a relatively small 60 seats- is right on the money." increase in the number of Hepubliean seats," he HOUSE If the Republicans could pick up only live seats in the said. Senate, they would enjoy the benefits or a filibuster Others around campus echoed his ideas. proof majority, according to Sean Savage, associate "The Hepublicans hold the majority now and the professor of political science at Saint Mary's. This way it looks, they will most likely increase their would make matters tough for Senate Democrats, who majority by a few seats," said junior Keven Larkin, would not be able to filibuster in order to prolong dis president of the Notre Dame College Democrats. "I cussion or weaken support for proposed issues. This would say the Republicans still hold the edge in might be especially pertinent, said Savage. if a vote on most of' tho races." Bill Clinton's conviction were to reach the Senate. Assuming that the Republicans do maintain their "A conviction in Senate requires a two-thirds majori lead, this would follow the historical pattern for ty," he said. "The inability of Democrats to weaken the midterm elections. Since the Civil War, the vote through filibustering could very seriously hurt President's party has increased its numbers in the Clinton's chances [of exoneration]." midterm election only once, said Larkin. Overall, most analysts agree that although Clinton's scandal will play a factor in today's election, it will not see HOUSE I page 4 see SENATE I page 6 page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Tuesday, November 3, 1998 • INSIDE COLUMN Riddle Me That utside the Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports Scenario: I was walking out of DeBartolo yesterday when I noticed something strange. No, not the smell- I noticed that a long time Hackers invade Stanford University e-mail system ago. What I noticed this time really bothered STANFORD, Calif. words and 250 off-campus pass me; it struck a strange The FBI is investigating a hacking words, had been compromised. The chord. Robert Pazornik incident discovered Monday in which accounts affected are mostly student I was proceeding down Copy Editor 5,000 Leland computer system pass accounts. Only 5 to 10 percent of the the path which leads words were stolen. It was the first accounts involved are those of staff kind of between Hayes-Healy and the building major break-in on Stanford and faculty, said Hansen. where all of the art students hang out, and University's Leland system, officials So far the hacker has used only one then I saw it. said. out of 5,000 accounts. The Web sites It's big. It's red. And it looks like someone's The Leland system is perhaps best and home pages associated with the trying to dredge for oil in the middle of South known as the hub of Stanford's stu stolen passwords have not been Quad. I don't know what this scarlet monstros dent e-mail accounts. The break-in Hansen, computer security officer. affected by this incident, said Hansen. ity is supposed to represent, or what in God's took place on Oct. 11, but, it wasn't Stanford, which is taking no new The only way to hack into the name it's doing here, but someone calls it art, until two weeks later that officials action to improve its network security Leland system is by actually logging so I guess I'll have to get used to it. discovered the presence of a "snif in response to the incident, has into a machine on campus, according But wait a second. Just two days ago, as I fer," a software program that can turned the case over to the FBI. to Hansen. Two original "sniffers" was walking down that same path from DB intercept login names and passwords According to Dennis Michael, man broke into the system in the Starke between Hayes and the art building, there was in two Leland Systems workstations. ager of Leland Systems, hacking is a Publications Building and intercepted this odd looking putrid yellow geometric The hacking connection was made very serious felony. the password there to hack into the • shaped deformity there. Actually it had been directly from Sweden to Stanford . "It's a crime to use somebody's workstations in Sweet Hall. there ever since I can remember. And if you "[The fact that] there are several password without their permission," "The system on the second floor [of walk a little farther down that path, you'll find addresses in Sweden and a machine he said. Sweet Hall] is the most secured on that the white-head-bust-thing with the red in Canada, combined with other fac Over the preceding two weeks, campus," said Hansen. "It's really writing on the side has also been dislocated tors, led us to believe these individu 4,500 Leland account passwords, just bad luck that they found this from its normal location, replaced by some 20- als are in Sweden," said Stephen along with 250 non-SUNet ID pass- machine that is vulnerable." foot high aluminum lightning rod, which is also called art. I. personally, call it a lightning rod. But now I'm confused. • KENT STATE UNIVERSITY • YALE UNIVERSITY Where has all the crappy art gone? Has the administration tired of their former crappy art Students support preacher's assailant Theater collapse forces evacuations selections and decided to replace them with all KENT, Ohio NEW I-lAVEN. Conn. new crappy art? Was the local auto-wreckage The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Union held a rally A second-floor projector booth of the aging Hyperion facility overstocked on twisted metal and had Thursday to protest student Ben Brucato's guilty sanc Theater, collapsed at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning just as stu to unload some real cheap? But, wait, the tion of disorderly and disruptive conduct. The rally, held dents were returning home from Halloween night festivities.

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