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America eyes the prize Where the boys are M n n r la i/ David Duval led America to a record Scene examines the mysteries of the m U n u a yw comeback over the Europeans in this Y chromosome from a female weekend’s Ryder Cup tournament. perspective. SEPTEMBER27, page 14 page 10 1999 ’ O BSERVER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint M ary’s VOL XXXIII NO. 24 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU A D ay at the R a c es M ulticultural University dedicates new center By MAUREEN SMITHE News Writer Friday marked the official opening of the new Intercultural Center on the second floor of LaFortune. Due to the c o m b i n e d efforts of the O ffic e o f Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) and the Office of Intrnational Student Fitzgibbon Affairs, the Center w ill “provide a safe environment for all students from the time he or she arrives on campus till the time he or she leaves,” OMSA director Iris Outlaw said. “This intercultural center is in the heart of the world. This center ... knows no national borders,” said Maureen Fitzgibbon, director of International Student Affairs. MARY CALASHZThe Observer The opening ceremony Student body president Micah Murphy (left) presides over the festivities at Saturday's Keough Hall Chariot Races. The com included a blessing and prayer bined team from Keenan and Cavanaugh Halls won the event. Seven Keough sections and one team from Morrissey compet service with Father Mark ed as well. Poorman. Among the many attendants at the ceremony were m ulti cultural alumni who returned to campus for the weekend. “Our minority alumni boards Lecture features art museum accessibility are here this weekend,” said Mirella Riley, staff advisor to La Alianza. inclined men of the upper- coincided with the rapid Wallach felt that the museum Patricia Geiger and Stephen By LINDSAY FRANK class. expansion of higher educa would continue to become Tsuchiyama, both Asian alum News Writer "IAt this time museums tion and standard art history more and more user-friendly. ni from the Class of 1983, were] accessible only to those classes,” he said. “The American art museum returned to campus and said Art museums are evolving who identified with the Now, Wallach pointed out, will continue to expand their they surprised by the growth to become more user-friend upperelass lifestyle whether anyone can visit a museum appeal to the middle class," of minority populations and ly, said Allan Wallach, profes fiction or not,” he said. without possessing a vast he said. pleased about the new center. sor of Art History and The second k n o w le d g e Robert Haywoood, sympo Geiger recalled “seven or American Studies at the phase, ‘‘It is a complicated kind of the works sium organizer and assistant eight” Asians on campus when College of William and Mary, coined the due to the professor of art history, gave she was a student. of circle that censorship in a lecture Friday. “blockbuster huge a critique of art critic Sister “The student population has Wallach and several col period,” sets around the obects amounts of Wendy Beckett and her changd quite a bit, but it is leagues discussed artistic began in the it ’s trying to suppress. ” information approach toward modern art. much more diversified,” said censorship and the evolution 1960s when available to Haywood pointed out that Tsuchiyama. of art museums at the corporations visitors in while the “spiritual nourish “Isn’t this [Intercultural “Critique of the Museum in b e g a n to Richard Meyer the form of ment” Beckett found in art Center] wonderful? It has Contemporary A rt” sympo replace sin assistant professor of modern pamphlets, such as that of Marc Rothko really brought us up to a sium. gle and contemporary art guided tours was important, her focus on major university. I wish we He said that the image of as patrons of and multi- art reflecting a Catholic had tips,” said Geiger. the museum has changed museums. m e d ia p r e stance excluded or trivialized The 24-hour space was drastically within the last “Corporate sentations the works of homosexual and made possible with funds from century from an elitist orga funding and the emergence of as a result of corporate influ feminist artists and their Student Affairs, contributions nization to one more open to the blockbuster period go ences. roles in defining modern art. Geiger said “show that the the middle class and its hand and hand,” he said. “Visitors are no different “There is too much content Univerity is taking us serious needs. Museum’s audiences began than corporate clients in need [in these works] that could ly-" Wallach defined museum to change as well and were of specialists," he said. motivate the viewer to politi The center will host cultural history in two parts. He called composed mainly of students Likening the atmosphere of cal action or ecstasy as awareness services, educa the first stage "robber-baron and teachers during this current museums to shopping opposed to spirituality,” he tional programs and lecture period” when the museum time. malls, Disneyland and said. series. catered solely to artistically “The blockbuster phase Colonial Williamsburg, see MUSEUM/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Monday, September 27, 1999 I n s id e C o l u m n T h is W eek at N o tr e D a m e Monday Tuesday W ednesday Thursday Free People ♦ Singin’ in the Rain: ♦ El Norte, Selena, and Mi ♦Concert: “Cavatina Duo,” ♦ Lecture: “Competing in Annenberg Auditorium, Familia: Intercultural Hesburgh Center a Digital Economy,” Read Freely 7 p.m. Center, 7 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. Auditorium, 4:15 p.m. Jordan Auditorium, What do “Catcher in the Rye,” “The Adventures ♦ Symposium: “Catholic ♦ Concert: “1999 Indiegrrl ♦ Zev Keedern: Holocaust 4 p.m . of Huckleberry Finn,” “A Wrinkle in Time,” “I Teaching and Sweatshops,' Fall Tour,” Little Theatre, survivor, Hesburgh ♦ Acoustic Cafe: Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” “ Lord of the Flies,” “ Slaughterhouse Five,” “ One Hundred Hesburgh Center Saint Mary’s College, Library Auditorium, LaFortune Student Center, Years of Solitude” and “Little 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9 p.m. Red Riding Hood” have in Auditorium, 7 p.m. common? They’re all among the United States’ 50 most-fre- quently banned books of the 1990s. Welcome to Banned Books O u t s id e t h e D o m e Compiled from U-Wire reports Week 1999 — “ Free People Read Freely.” Sponsored by a wide variety of groups — Autopsy shows former MSU student suffocated including the American Laura Petelle Library Association, the EAST LANSING, Mich. “There were no obvious signs er found the body Wednesday while American Booksellers The former Michigan State searching an unused kitchen for the Association and the American Assistant of assault to the young man’s University student found dead in the source of a strange odor. Some stu Society of Journalists and Managing basement of South Wonders Hall body. It appears to be an dents had complained of the odor Authors — Banned Book Editor suffocated after becoming trapped for several days. Week runs Sept. 25 through accidental death situation. ” in an unused cooler unit, law The kitchen, used as a snack bar Oct. 2 and celebrates our enforcement officials said Thursday. about eight years ago, is now used right as Americans to read without censorship. “We’re able to state at this time Bruce Benson for storage and is adjacent to a 24- It may seem silly in this day and age to fight the death was not a homicide,” said MSU police chief hour study lounge. book bans. After all, nobody’s burning books in Kathaleen Price, Ingham County The body was found in a sitting the street. The Comstock Laws — which prohibit chief assistant prosecutor, at a position along with some personal “obscene materials” in the U.S. mail and effective assault to the young man’s body,” news conference Thursday after items, Benson said. ly banned such books as “The Canterbury Tales” he said. “It appears to be an acci noon. The man was tentatively identified and Boccaccio’s “Decameron” — are now unen dental death situation.” An autopsy was performed by a Michigan driver’s license he forced, although they remain, for the most part, The body was that of a 23-year- Thursday morning indicating that was carrying, Benson said. Police on the books. Such Internet merchants as ama- old black man who was a student at oxygen deprivation caused the are waiting to release a name until zon.com and bn.com make it possible to acquire MSU between January 1997 and death, said MSU police Chief Bruce the identity can be confirmed by almost any book imaginable. May 1998, Benson said. The man Benson. No signs of foul play were dental records and all family mem Besides, those who attempt to ban books usually had never lived in Wonders Hall, found, but officials are still waiting bers are notified. have the best of intentions — they want to protect Benson said. for toxicology reports, which could Benson said the storage room is others (usually children) from information, lan The man also once lived in indicate if any alcohol or drugs normally kept locked but was not guage or ideas they consider inappropriate. Lansing but used his parents’ were in the man’s system. locked at the time the body was But as John Stuart Mill, a far more eloquent address on his license.