Student Government Discusses Year's Successes, Failures

0 1 5 0 YEARSBG PC H O B SE R V E R Friday, December 3, 1993 • Vol. XXVI No.60 NOTRE DAME-IN THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Student Government discusses year’s successes, failures By KATIE MURPHY The Job Network, according News Writer to Career and Placement Director Kitty Arnold, has at 1993 STUDENT GOVERNMENT SCORECARD Student The status of projects promised in campaign (top) and other issues In the eight months since tracted the interest of several Frank Flynn and Nicole students who have asked her BOOK FAIR Wellmann took office as student how to use the program. It is Completed involvement body president and vice-presi difficult to say how many stu dent, they have successfully dents have received employ completed three of their four ment through the Network, THE GUIDE primary goal major campaign goals. however, because it is still early J:£yl. ‘Completed In their campaign last winter, in the summer job search pro By KATIE MURPHY Flynn and Wellmann proposed cess. News Writer the creation of a campus-wide Overall, according to Cassidy, Completed Book Fair, a year-round stor student government has been In addition to their primary age facility, a comprehensive committed to a large number of '1 $ 1 0 ^ campaign goals, Flynn and listing of student evaluations of difficult projects. E A C 1 U H Wellmann have attempted to their professors and classes, “It is tough to judge their suc No plans yet encourage more student in and a job bank computer pro cess in a semester, because you volvement and campus com need to continue your efforts gram. The storage facility is the A i m munication on campus social throughout your term. I have ENCOURAGEMENT OF MORE only project which has not been To be addressed in CapolicHQKaracter Report life, m ulticulturalism , and fi accomplished. been impressed with the nancial aid, among other is Despite their inability to fulfill amount of projects they have sues. the storage promise, student undertaken, though,” said PROMOTION OF MULTICULIUBALiSM_ “The number one goal of stu government’s other projects Cassidy. New student govt position established; plans dent government is to get peo have been successful, according According to Flynn, the main include spring publication, MLK Day activities ple involved,” said Flynn. to William Kirk, assistant vice- problem with the storage pro Part of their efforts to in president of Student Affairs. posal is w hether to aim for a DIALOGUE ON SOCIAL LIFL crease participation in student “(The Book Fair) got off the long-term or a short-term fa Another parietals survey will be distributed soon government projects includes ground very well. (The Guide) cility. For a long-term facility, fostering dialogue on these was one of their big successes, student government’s storage campus concerns. Flynn and too, but the first year is not go task force proposes construct Wellmann have tried to bridge ing a permanent facility on CATHOLIC CHARACTER REPORT ing to be the most impressive A report based on student perspectives the gap between their year. They did not have the campus. Otherwise, in terms of LaFortune offices and the resi participation of as many faculty a short-term solution, semi dence halls by attending hall members as they would have trailers could be rented to hold LAUNDRY FACILITIES IN MALE DORMS____________ council meetings. liked,” said Kirk. students’ belongings. The trail In research stages “We go (to the dorms) and I Joe Cassidy, director of stu ers would be stored on campus usually just sit there and an dent activities, agrees. each summer. OUTSIDE VENDORS IN THE HUDDLE swer questions. We usually hit “For a first shot effort, I was In its report, the task force every dorm in a three week cy very impressed with The Guide. supports the long-term solution cle,” said Flynn. It is extremely difficult to pull because it would reduce stu According to Joe Cassidy, di off, particularly if you don’t dent storage costs more than URGE CENTER rector of student activities, this have unanimous support from the trailer solution, and be Completed practice is a positive step to the faculty,” said Cassidy. more secure against theft or wards increasing communica In terms of the Book Fair, weather damage. The question tion. “student government hit a facing student government now “There’s more dialogue, and home run” with that project, is whether it is fair to have effectively market the facility posal are problems that any with more dialogue they are according to Cassidy. future students help pay off the when future students did not student government adminis working with better informa “That is a project that other necessary loan even though vote for it. It is an ethical and a tration would have hit, accord tion,” said Cassidy. student government leaders they did not vote for such a fa philosophical question.” ing to Kirk. Some students, however, did have taken a stab at and they cility. However, the roadblocks that “It was kind of a lofty idea, ” not think the hall council visits haven’t been as popular or suc “We can get the loan,” said Flynn and Wellmann have en cessful,” he said. Flynn. “The problem is how to countered with the storage pro see GOVERNMENT / page 4 see STUDENT / page 4 Barr: Violent crime Sheehan: U.S. must confront Vietnam By SUZY FRY American political or military “We were capable of running Assistant News Editor leader at the time, world poli an overseas empire. We were must be fought in U.S. tics was either black or it was self-confident and infallible.” Despite recent efforts to rec white — there were no shades However, Americans took for By SARAH DORAN causes approach, which fo oncile relations between the of gray. Ho Chi Minh rep re granted during World War II Assistant News Editor cuses on rehabilitation United States and Vietnam, sented a communist nation at that they had an understanding through social policy pro Americans must not forget or tempting to gain more com of their enemies and that their As violent crime continues to grams, should be used as an escape response to this war, munist territory. leaders had imagination, ac grow more wanton, savage alternative to law enforcement said Neil Sheehan, the 1988 “However, as we now know, cording to Sheehan. During and senseless, America must in fighting violent crim e, is Pulitzer Prize winning author of Vietnam was communist for Vietnam, this sense of reality utilize a dual fronted policy invalid and ineffective, he said. “The Bright Shining Lie.” nationalistic reasons. They was replaced by arrogance and designed to both strengthen “It is a false dichotomy in “We must come to terms with were not there to please self-perpetuation. Hence, no the criminal, public debate,” said Barr. Vietnam; we must redeem the Moscow.” president during Vietnam ever justice system I “Such programs are a 15-20 lives of the 58,000 lost,” said Sheehan added that this in had the opportunity to act ra and prevent! year proposal and people need Sheehan, who was a journalist stance of “shaded politics ” was tionally — everything was the develop! protection today.” during the Vietnam War. “If we quite similar to Tito’s break based upon the communist ment of child “Efforts to deal with root from Stalin. “The U.S. saw this, threat and illusion, he said. crim inals,! causes are strangled by vio ■ see PIKE, page 6 and Vietnam, as an aberration “Historically, the same prob said William! lence.” and wasn’t taken very seriously lem is seen from the Puritans to Barr former! The chief component con I see VETERANS, page 6 — everything was still black the Prohibitionists to President U.S. Attorney! tributing to violent crim e is and white.” Wilson’s League of Nations: General dur-' that the state criminal justice don’t, Vietnam will be a wasted Americans see themselves as America never created an intel ing the Bush administration, in systems are broken, he said, war. The truth must be con just and benevolent people, al lectual mechanism to deal with a lecture and panel discussion which has created a system fronted.” ways the defender of good in conflict. yesterday. unable to hold its most violent, “When U.S. soldiers returned the battle against evil, accord “The Vietnamese resistance The gravity of the violent chronic offenders. home from World War II, they ing to Sheehan. “To u n d er of the United States showed us crime epidemic has reached its To mend this predicament, brought victory,” he said. stand this reasoning, war must just how out of whack our sys highest and most intolerable Barr proposed four elements “During Vietnam, we thought be looked at in the American, tem of checks and balances levels, he said, and law en key to criminal justice system we were infallible — we could historical context. All wars was, militarily and politically,” forcement is the panacea that reform. Effective laws at the do no wrong.” were good, moral crusades, he added. “We were on the must be used to restore safety. state level, proper financial re According to Sheehan, no unifying experiences, and this road to an authoritarian state “There is nothing more af sources, specific measures fo American president ever con was always true even for the — Watergate was just one fecting to our lives as cusing on the chronic, violent fronted the reality of the situa Confederates after the Civil example of this plot against the Americans than crime,” Barr offender, and additional com tion; every action and decision War.

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