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fo e r The Observer The Observer Saint Marvis College NOTRE DAME * INDIANA VOL. XXIV NO. 52 TUESDAY , NOVEMBER 12, 199 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Government department plans no cutbacks Editor’s note: Recent position for the 1992-93 jors, the government depart according to Arnold. “In the Arnold expressed concern budgetary problems within theacademic year, according to ment is the largest undergrad short run, it (the hiring freeze) that students believe the College of Arts and Letters have Peri Arnold, chair. uate major at Notre Dame, ac does hamper our ability to meet University is not concentrating caused concern about course The $425,000 “budgetary cording to Arnold. The number stu dent dem and for classes ... of enough resources on under offerings for the spring glitch” restricts departments of majors fluctuates between an optimum size,” he said. graduate education. semester. As students begin the from creating new positions, fall and spring semesters, as a The result is clashes that are “That’s just plain not true,” he DART registration process. The but does allow departments to result of the graduation of se too large, as well as an inability said. “I don’t know one col Observer will spend the week fill vacant positions, according niors. to reach departmental goals, he league who isn’t concerned with examining the effects of the to Arnold. There are approximately 450 said. The department must be doing the best job they can with budget situation in several The government department majors currently enrolled in the committed to helping under undergraduates.” departments within the College.was able to create one new po government department, ac graduate education through Commitments to research and sition this fall and also found cording to Arnold. The number smaller classes and intensive graduate interests do not pull replacements for three unfilled of majors in the department has advising, while being committed the department away from the By DAVID KINNEY positions. Thus, the department ranged from 429 in spring of to research and doctorate concerns of the undergraduate, Associate News Editor does not have any positions to 1989 to over 600 in spring of training, Arnold said. he added. fill for the fall of 1992, Arnold 1990. The department is equally Although students may face said. The total number of majors committed to each goal, but government classes that are too The government department Arnold said that he expects and non-majors enrolled in Arnold said that resources are large, Arnold said that most will not cut any classes or that the size of government government courses in the the key to meeting these goals. majors do not have a problem teaching positions this spring as classes will remain about the 1990-91 academic year was Because the department does registering for the courses that a result of the recent budget same in the spring semester, 2,800, he said. not have these resources, the they need through Direct Access problems in the College of Arts although he hopes that enroll The department needs more negative effects hit both under Registration by Telephone and Letters, but it will be forced ment will decrease. resources if it is to continue to graduate education and re to scrap plans to create a new With an average of 600 ma serve the needs of its students, search and graduate programs. se e BUDGET / page 4 Fauci: HIV on the rise among heterosexuals By ANDREW RUNKLE News Writer ■ Fauci lecture / page 3 M WHO report/ page 5 _______ The 1990s will mark a con those years. tinued shift of the HIV virus, “There is no such thing as a which causes AIDS, toward the risk group, only risk behavior. heterosexual community, ac Forget about characterizations co rd in g to Dr. A nthony F auci, of risk groups,” Fauci added. director of the AIDS research Fauci emphasized that AIDS office at the National Institute is an epidemic evolving in large of Health. metropolitan areas, where IV “There is a shift in the epi drug use is most prevalent. IV dem ic from gay m en ... to IV drug use has introduced AIDS (intravenous) drug users, their to the heterosexual community, heterosexual partners, wives, he said. “What’s tragic is that and children,” said Fauci to a AIDS is now occurring in a packed Hesburgh Library audi group (inner-city young people torium yesterday. ages 25-44), which over the According to a study done in years has received poor health New York City, the percentage care,” said Fauci. This lack of of homosexual or bisexual HIV- proper health care will only en infected individuals has courage the spread of the virus, dropped from 54 percent to 37 he said. percent from 1986 to 1990. Fauci referred to a study The percentage of HIV-infected performed in Baltimore on individuals who were IV drug 5,000 random clinical patients, users has increased from 33 5 percent of which were in- percent to 46 percent during see HIV / page 5 The Observer/E ,G. Bailey Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the AIDS research office at the National Institute of Health, speaks about the recent shift of the HIV virus toward the heterosexual community yesterday at the Library auditorium. Soup kitchen looking for volunteers By COLLEEN KNIGHT They have a carry-out mission each day. The cooks arrive at 7 News Writer in which they send containers a.m. to prepare the soup, and of soup, along with bread and the other volunteers come at 10 sweets, to individuals and a.m. to prepare for the lunch The soup kitchen at the families who ask for them crowd. They serve lunch to United Methodist Church in ahead of time. All of the food their guests from 11:30 aim. downtown South Bond needs for the soup kitchen is donated until all the food is gone, usu volunteers, according to its by Kroeger’s Supermarkets. ally at about 2 p.m. founder and director, Bea People feel comfortable com Although the kitchen is run in Moore. ing to the soup kitchen because the United Methodist Church, The kitchen, serving lunch on it is a church. “That makes ev they do not try to impose any Mondays, Wednesdays and eryone feel welcome,” said religion on the guests, accord Fridays, has been open to the Moore. ing to Moore. hungry and the homeless for The soup kitchen attracts a Moore allows great flexibility ten years. It provides hot soup, mixture of people, from indi with her volunteers. They usu bread and desserts to people viduals out of work for the first ally work one day a week, and who walk in off the street in time to families travelling “they can decide the times that need of a m eal. through the area with no money fit best into their schedules,” Moore estimated that they for food. * Moore said. serve between three and four “With many of the people,” No students are currently in hundred people in a given day. Moore said, “you would have no volved with the soup kitchen. Enjoying the ride The Observer/Peter-Jay Pultorak “We never turn people away,” idea that they needed help. But Any students who are inter she said, “we just give whatever somewhere they have run into ested in volunteering at the Colleen and Patrick Griffin, children of Captain Thomas Griffin who we have until the food is gone.” tro uble.” soup kitchen should contact Bea recently returned from Saudi Arabia, get to sit back, relax and Soup is also available to those Moore runs the kitchen with a Moore at 233-9474 or 233- enjoy the Veteran's Day ceremony on ND's campus yesterday. who cannot come to the church. staff of ten to twelve volunteers 2307. page 2 ___________ The Observer_______________________________________ Tuesday, Novem bers, 1991 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST: A 30 percent chance of light snow today, U.S. needs Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. becoming partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs family leave near 45 and lows near 35. legislation TEMPERATURES: City H L Athens 66 52 While most Notre Dame Atlanta 60 36 seniors are busy worrying Berlin 45 41 about where they’ll be Boston 40 35 C hicago 38 32 next year, how many have Oallas-Ft.Worth 61 40 given thought to where D enver 33 31 f # Detroit 51 34 they’ll be in ten years? Honolulu 85 72 V '-V x/ Will they be married? Will V > H ouston 70 41 Indianapolis 59 32 they have families? m London 52 48 If any seniors are even Los Angeles 83 56 Peter Loftus Miami B each /4 53 remotely concerned about Asst. News New Orleans 64 34 how difficult it will be to \v \^ N\\s\sv New York 44 39 Editor balance career Paris 50 45 Philadelphia 46 40 maintenance with raising Rom e 64 40 a family, then they should pay attention to the St. Louis 39 31 San Francisco 77 52 Family and Medical Leave bill which will be Seattle 60 49 voted upon in Congress this week. S o u th B end 45 30 Via Associated Press Tokyo 63 52 Last month, the U.S. Senate passed a bill Washington. D C. 48 41 that would guarantee workers “up to 12 Pressure weeks of unpaid leave in family emergencies,” H L E3 E3 t V x j according to the Associated Press. This would HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW CE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY mean that men and women could take this time off to care for a newborn or a sick family member, with guaranteed job security.

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