Sullivan Speaks on Homosexuals and the Church
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Friday, February 3, 1995 • Vol. XXVI No. 79 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S A developing vision Sullivan speaks Malloy shares on homosexuals thoughts on and the Church Colloquy 2000 ByTOMMORAN News Writer By DAVE TYLER News Editor The Catholic Church's doctrine concerning homosexuals is illogical and self-contradictory, When the mythical according to Andrew Sullivan, editor of the "tomorrow" of science fic New Republic, who gave a lecture entitled tion writers finally gets "The Gay Catholic Paradox" at the Hesburgh here, where will Notre Library auditorium. Dame be? Don't look now, but • see PROTEST page 3 tomorrow is well on its way. University President Rev. Sullivan, a native Englishman, IS a graduate Edward Malloy C.S.C. has of Oxford and Harvard Universities. He is also set the wheels of Our Lady openly gay, as well as a practicing Catholic. in motion as it reaches the Sullivan stated that the Catholic Church is horizons of a new millennia. self-contradictory in that it preaches treating When Malloy submitted his homosexuals with dignity, yet it continues to "Final Heport of the classify sexual homosexual relations as sinful. Colloquy for the Year 2000" Sullivan cited two Catholic Church docu to the University's Board of ments, issued by the Sacred Congregation for Trustees on May 7,1993 he the Propagation of the Faith, that treat homo handed them a document of sexuality in a sympathetic light. A letter grand vision and sweeping issued in 1975 even acknowledged that in proposals, a blueprint of The Observer/Jake Peters some cases homosexuality is an instinctive, University President Rev. Edward Malloy is optimistic that recommendations stemming "incurable" trait- or, as Sullivan said, the how the Notre Dame from his Colloquy for the Year 2000 will be in place on time. machine should run in the Church admitted "that gay people were born 21st century. President's Committee for the Whole of Education, Diversity and Affirmative gay." Malloy's plan outlined 43 the Colloquy for the Year 2000 to create Action, Residentiality, and Catholic Another official Church missive, published in recommendations and 22 a document that deals with Notre Character be examined and the 1986, urged that homosexuals be treated with building projects in four Dame's concerns for the future as a re University's stance on those issues be "honest concern and theologically well-bal major areas of examination. ligious and secular university. clearly defined. anced counsel." It also specifically referred to Committees on Academic The Colloquy offered seven key foci to Now, twenty months after that report homosexuals when it stated that "Every per Life; Finances, University be addressed in coming years. It recom hit the desk of the trustees, and less son is made in the image of God ... The intrinsic Helations and Athletics; mended that Financial Aid and Scholar than five years from that mythical mil dignity of each person must be respected." Student Life; and Mission, ship Assistance, Excellence in Teaching, lennia barrier, the campus is abuzz Sullivan pointed out that by enforcing a poli Opportunities and Research and Scholarship, the cy of sidestepping the topic of homosexuality, Challenges worked with the the Church is disobeying its own doctrine as University Libraries, International see COLLOQUY/page 4 see CHURCH/ page 5 NROTC starts middle ND alumni commands Discovery school tutoring program Historic flight By BRAD PRENDERGAST At Pierre Navarre, midship Assistant News Editor men will also develop an out includes first door environmental classroom Ian Fowlie is one of about and build a weight room. 200 Naval HOTC midshipmen Jason Domzal, a midshipman woman pilot who will be working with stu whose hometown grade school dents at Pierre Navarre Middle entered a similar agreement Special to The Observer School in South Bend as part of with a local business while he a new agreement signed was a student there, is looking Astronaut Jim Wetherbee, a between HOTC and school offi forward to beginning the pro 197 4 University of Notre Dame cials yesterday. gram. graduate, will command the Fowlie, who will tutor stu ''I'm very excited. When my NASA space shuttle Discovery dents and aid teachers in the school was adopted, I was on a mission that was sched classrooms, is excited about the amazed by how willing the peo uled to leave early this morn project. ple donated their time," ing. "It's a great idea. ROTC has Domzal, coordinator of service The mission was supposed to done other short-term service projects for Naval ROTC, said. fly Thursday, but NASA delayed projects before, but this is a "I want to do the same thing." liftoff to replace a failed naviga long-term, focused effort," he Fowlie, the commanding offi tion unit. said. "I think it will be very ef cer of his battalion, agreed. Wetherbee will be accompa fective." "The program will be nied by a crew of six, including According to the agreement, rewarding to both sides," he Lieut. Col. Eileen Collins of the midshipmen will tutor students, said. "It's an opportunity to U.S. Air Force. Collins is the chaperone field trips, work at give something of ourselves." first woman to pilot a NASA spaceship. science fairs, and assist the The particular skills and aca The crew also includes the middle school's athletic teams demic backgrounds of each second Russian to fly on a shut in order to enhance the quality midshipman will be utilized, of the middle school students' according to McGee. One mid tle, Col. Vladimir Titov of the Russian Air Force. education, according to Gerald shipman who spent last sum McGee, principal of Pierre mer in Washington, D.C., has This Discovery flight is the Navarre, an inner-city school. volunteered to talk to a social first of eight shuttle trips planned to Russia's orbiting Courtesy of Notre Dame Public Relations "[The agreement] sends a studies class about his experi Notre Dame graduate Jim Wetherbee will complete his third space positive message to the stu ences. station, Mir, through 1997, and mission on the Space Shuttle Discovery. dents and brings role models Captain Russell Pickett, com is the shortest shuttle launch into the school," McGee said. manding officer of Notre window in 10 years. Soyuz ships docked. "It's great for the students." Dame's Naval ROTC, decided to Discovery will hover near the Wetherbee, 42, was Notre Saint Marys Elections In addition, the ROTC unit initiate the partnership with Mir station but won't actually Dame's first graduate in space will bring well-deserving mid Pierre Navarre after beginning dock. The mission is a dress when he piloted the Columbia TODAY! dle schoolers to the University other such programs while sta rehearsal for June, when At in 1990 on an 11 day shuttle lantis will link up with Mir. campus to tour the Snite Mu tioned elsewhere in the United mission. He carried abroad the The last time U.S. and Rus seum of Art, visit science labo States. spacecraft the University's Vote in the Dining Hall sian spacecraft met in orbit was ratories, and browse through 1925 Laetare medal awarded in 197 5 when the Apollo and during all meals. the Hesburgh Library. see ROTC/ page 5 see NASA/ page 5 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, February 3, 1995 • WORU! AT A GUtNt:E Questioning AIDS cases drop as spread of fatal disease holds steady ATLANTA from 106,618 the previous year, The rate at which AIDS is the CDC said. spreading has leveled off and "The epidemic is slowing, and tnore than the number of new cases we can take comfort in that - reported every year is falling, but small comfort," Ward said. health officials said Thursday. Together, the 1994 and 1993 advertising The report from the Centers figures represent more than 40 for Disease Control and percent of all 441,528 AIDS Prevention came just three cases reported since 1981, he days after the CDC announced pointed out. that AIDS is now the leading More than half of the 1994 With the turmoil sur----..............- killer of Americans ages 25 to cases resulted from the 1993 rounding the expulsion of 44. redefinition of AIDS. GLND/SMC from their reg Since the early 1980s, when That demonstrates the dis ular meeting place, the AIDS cases snowballed by 200 ease's shift from the once-tradi majority of the Notre percent a year as it spread tional gay male population to Dame community has wit through the white homosexual heterosexuals, women, blacks nessed something quite population, the disease is stabi and Hispanics, and those living amazing: GLND/SMC's cri lizing at a 3 percent annual in the South and Northeast, sis situation has finally increase under an old defini according to Ward. brought the issue to the tion of the disease, according to "This isn't a disease that's forefront of debate. Even Jake Peters Dr. John Ward, the CDC's chief staying in one population," said more surprising is that Editor-in-chief of HN-AIDS surveillance. Troy Petenbrink of the National the issue will be dis- "It's not growing as rapidly as in earlier years, but the Association of People with AIDS. · cussed at length in the ------- rate is still unacceptably high," he said. He predicted a Children with AIDS were one aspect of the report that approaching Student Government elections similar increase in 1995. surprised the CDC, Ward said. Their numbers jumped 8 and should effectively challenge many stu The AIDS defmition was expanded in 1993 to reflect the percent, from 942 in 1993 to 1,017 last year.