VOL. XXV. N0.63 The ObserverWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Petitions ask support for women's center Student card By JASON WILLIAMS discuss objectives and Halls, but but it took over a group hopes to show University to encourage News Writer stratagem for circulating the week to respond to O'Donnell's officials that there is student petitions around campus. request, she said. interest in a centrally located Several campus women's "All we're asking for is a O'Donnell said other Univer­ hub that coordinates speakers, safe driving groups are planning to circulate place to meet and coordinate sity offices have openly blocked literature and activiti{ls of petitions next week in an events," said Linda Chalk of the the wishes of the Committee. women's groups on campus. By EMILY HAGE attempt to spur enough student Women's Resource Committee. "We asked the Office of De­ "Petitions are the best way to News Writer and faculty interest to start a "Look what were forced to do velopment for a small office get physical evidence and to women's resource center at now-we're squished onto a lit­ with a desk, a telephone and a make a point that students do Student Government and ND Notre Dame. tle table in the basement of the filing cabinet," she said. "I came want a women's resource cen­ Safewalk has distributed Des­ The Women's Resource library." home from class one day and ter on campus," Chalk said. ignated Driver's Club cards to Committee is spear-heading the Patty O'Donnell of the Com­ found a message from the "This also allows us to feel out all Notre Dame students enti­ attempt to establish a center for mittee said their efforts to Director of Development's sec­ the administrations to see what tling them to complimentary women's activities on campus establish a resource center have retary-I didn't even get a their response will be," soft drinks at five local bars in with the help of several other been hit-and-miss. The Office of chance to talk to the O'Donnell added. return for not consuming alco­ organizations including Campus Student Activities has let the director-on my answering Funding for the resource hol and being the designated Alliance for Rape Elimination group set up petition signing machine that said 'There is no center will come from national driver. (CARE) and Feminist Forum. stations in LaFortune Student place for this matter at this and regional women's groups. The Alumni Senior Club, Leaders of various groups met Center, Hesburgh Library and time."' The committee already has Coach's, C.J.'s, Commons and in the Library Pit yesterday to both North and South Dining By circulating petitions, the the Linebacker agreed to par­ see WOMEN I page 4 ticipate in the Designated Driver's Club on a permanent HPC: Library basis. Bridget's declined the offer. "The Designated Driver's open 24 hours Club Card is an option for peo­ ple who do not want to drink during exams and for safety," said R.G. Star­ mann, director of ND Safewalk By BEVIN KOVALIK and Security Commissioner. News Writer "ND Safewalk is sponsoring the Designated Driver's Club Card In an effort to better accom­ because we are in the business modate students during finals of getting people home safely." week, the Hall Presidents' Starmann added that he be­ Council (HPC) will fund approx­ lieves students will not take imately $300 to pay the wages advantage of the card. of the Hesburgh Library em­ Student Body Vice-President ployees so the entire library Molly O'Neill said that it is ex­ will remain open 24 hours pected to create a good rela­ from Dec. 13-17, according to tionship between the bars and Jason Coyle, HPC co-chair. the NO community. "The Library seemed the The card is primarily a "pro­ most ideal place to increase the active" step, according to 24-hour study space available O'Neill. "The more mainte­ for students during finals," said nance-type things we can do, Stanford Hall co-president the fewer problems we will Frank Flynn, who proposed the face ahead." idea. Though the card is not a re­ "LaFortune Student Center actionary measure, it is just would have been a much more another incentive for students expensive venture," he added. to prevent drunk driving, "The Library has more space O'Neill added. and will require less funding." "If this prevents one person In other business, the dead­ from drinking and driving and line for the Iceberg Debates is The Observer/ Sue Kehias killing someone, it is definitely Dec. 10, according to Angie Performing Christmas Cheer worth the effort," she said. Fitzgibbon, Seigfried Hall co­ "Christmas Time Around the World," events sponsored by the Multicultural Executive Council, began O'Neill said that although the president. last night with "Mr. Pickwick's Stories." Dickens play was presented at Washington Hall with the help statistics concerning drunk­ see HPC I page 4 of performers Bill Rogers and Robyn Hart. see CARD I page 4 BOG US may send aid force to Somalia WASHINGTON (AP) - The which surfaced in reports last United States prefers to retain week, "a little high," but he total command of its forces didn't offer a substitute figure. should they go to Somalia, but Pentagon sources, speaking U.S. military leaders will coop­ on condition of anonymity, have erate with any plan the United said that the actual number Nations devises to alleviate the would range between 12,000 to starvation, a Pentagon 20,000, depending upon the spokesman said Tuesday. U.N. request and military "We'll work with the U.N. no assessments of the extent of the matter what they come up with operation. on it;" Pete Williams told re­ porters at a Pentagon briefing. The sources also said that a "It isn't a show-stopper," Thomas Foley three-ship Marine amphibious Williams added, indicating the unit will arrive off the coast of command issue would not im­ discussions about Somalia one Somalia late Wednesday. pede U.S. involvement in the day after Secretary-General After U.N. approval, the relief effort. Boutros Boutros-Ghali recom­ 1,800-man 15th Marine Expe­ Williams spoke as diplomats mended using military force to ditionary Unit would secure an at the United Nations met to bring food to the starving So­ airfield to land forces arriving discuss whether force should be malis. later, the sources said. used in Somalia and what role House Speaker Thomas Foley, U.S. troops might play should a At his briefing, Williams also 0-Wash., told reporters the multinational effort be attempted to dampen specula­ United States is very close to mounted. tion that up to 30,000 U.S. sending ground troops and said On Capitol Hill, congressional troops might be sent to Somalia he supported such a move. leaders voiced their support for should the U.N. Security Council The number sent should be the use of Americans. authorize the use of troops. "whatever is militarily sufficient The Security Council began Williams termed the number, see SOMALIA I page 6 page 2 The Observer Wednesday, December 2,1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST Cloudy, windy and Nuclear age cold today with a 60 percent chance of light snow. Highs in the mid-30s. Partly brought peace, sunny and cold Thursday. problems too TEMPERATURES Today either represents City H L Anchorage 44 30 the anniversary of the Atlanta 54 34 greatest achievement in Bogota 66 4B Cairo 73 52 human history, or else it's Chicago 34 30" most wicked. Cleveland 37 33 Dallas 67 33 Fifty years ago, the Detroit 38 33 United States was at war Indianapolis 35 30 Jerusalem 59 48 against Japan and John Rock London 55 45 Germany, and scientists Managing Editor Los Angeles 78 50 Madrid 55 43 were engaged in a global ________ Minneapolis 42 19 race to make a weapon with destructive powers Moscow 03 00 Nashville 48 33 equal to the wrath of God. FRONTS: New York 51 39 Fifty years ago today, Enrico Fermi and Paris 55 45 company finally split the atom. At the place o •• Philadelphia 53 34 • Rome 63 48 their achievement, just under two hours from •COLD • WARM STATIONARY• • C 11192Accu-Wealher,lnc. Seattle 41 35 South Bend 32 29 Notre Dame, is a plaque which reads: "On PffJSSUTe Tokyo 61 46 December 2 1942, man achieved the first sel Washington, D.C. 42 40 sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated H L ~~[UJ ~EZ3g ~ d HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-5TORMS FLURRES SNOW ICE SUNNY CLOUDY the controlled release of nuclear energy." The world has not been the same since. Within three years, J. Robert Oppenhiemer had figured out a way to harness the power o the atom into a bomb. One month later Japan realized the awesome power of the atom as two TODAY AT A GLANCE of their great cities were incinerated in the blink of an eye. Monday it was checking all 1, 700 of its hotels for The atom is a tricky thing. We haven't seen NATION peepholes, but said the problem wasn't widespread. The one yet, maybe never will, but can see its power inspection comes after guests of Holiday Inns in South everywhere. Atomic plants produce 75 percent Carolina and Tennessee discovered peepholes in their of Chicago's energy and 17 percent of the rooms and sued. world's.