Golden Dome Renovation Begins

Wednesday, May 3, 1995• Vol. XXVI No. 133 NDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME ', ' SMC to host Golden Dome renovation begins GLND/SMC ByMAITHEWLOUGHRAN ' News Writer dialogue For many it is the first view By NORA MEANY of the University of Notre Dame seen before landing in N..ws Writer Mishawaka Regional Airport or A forum to diseuss the place from the tollway before enter of GLND/SMC in the Saint ing South Bend. Mary's eommunity will be held It has been the backdrop of by the Committee in Support of many romantie and inspiring GLND/SMC at Saint Mary's Col camera shots on NBC during luge. home football games. But now, Max Westler, an English the most recognized symbol of teacher at Saint Mary's, de the University of Notre Dame is scribes this debate as "the be due for cosmetic surgery. ginning of a discussion at the Scaffolding and fencing were ereeted on Monday and Tues end of the semester." It is not day around the Main Building mea~t to finalize the issue by commg to an agremnent over and its Golden Dome as con the plaee of homosexuals in tractors began the first com the community, but rather to plete renovation in its 116 year "begin a dialogue." history this week. The meeting will begin with The first part of this renova several speakers giving their tion is a complete exterior opinions concerning the policy overhaul. This is estimated to set by the school regarding the cost $5 million. A major portion of the work hom?sexual support group system, they are no longer nec meetmg on campus. will go towards restoration and cleaning of the 4.3 million essary, Brown said . J~hn Blandford and Kelly bricks of marl and replacing It is ironie that the fire es Smith, the co-chairs of capes are to be removed be GLND/SMC, are slated to talk. the roof. "There have been numerous cause the building had its Joe lncandela. a religion genesis in a fire that claimed tt:acher at Saint Mary's, will projects to fix the bricks, and all structural problems have the former administration g1v~ the religious reasoning been fixed," said Dennis Brown offices,. dining facilities, library behmd the policies. and Mary collectwn, and classrooms in Caputi, a political science of the University Public Relations Department. "This is April of 1879. teacher, will speak concerning The building was commis gender study. Sarah Sullivan, just a basic cleaning." The dome itself will not be sioned by Father Edward the ~aint M~ry's student body renovated. It was regilded in a Sorin, then the president of president, w1ll also speak. Fi Notre Dame, upon his return to nally, a representative from previous project in 1988 at the cost of $300,000. Notre Dame from Montreal the Notre Dame Committee on Also planned to be renovated after learning about the fire. Tolerance will talk. "If it were all gone, I should not .Following the speakers will are window hoods and the base of the statue of Mary. give up," Sorin is reported to be a group discussion includ have said, "Tomorrow we will ing any faculty, students and Windows in the dome area and on the fifth floor will be build again, and build it big administration from the two ger" schools who wish to attend. In replaced, and minor electrical and mechanical modifications That is just what they did. this discussion, people will The design of the building was have the chance to voice their will be made. The main building houses drawn up by Chicago architect opinion concerning homosexu Willoughby Edbrooke. It took ality and the GLND/SMC meet many of the University's administrative offices, includ three hundred laborers all ings. summer to construct much of . The Observer/Shelley Sullivan "This meeting is meant to in ing the Registrar, Provost, and R~n~va!1on to !~e Golden Dome will include the restoration of the President's Offices. "We have the current building out of bUJidl!lg s 4.3 m1lhon bricks. clude all parts of the college marl dredged from the two community. We hope to ad been assured that daily opera Mary that was a gift from Saint demands special considera tions will not be upset by the campus lakes. dress many different points of The Golden Dome, the most Mary's College. tions in the renovation. dialogue through this discus construction," said Brown. The building was entered "The construction cannot in The lire escapes that line the well-known portion of the sion." Westler said. building, was added in 1882 into the National Register of volve a wholesale change in the "The meeting will be very in- building will be removed. Due Historic Places in 1978. The to the fire alarms and sprinkler and is topped with a 19-foot tall, 4,000 pound statue of historical landmark status see page see GLND/SMC/ page 6 DOME/ 6 • fACULTY SENATE Appeals debate tops meeting By GWENDOLYN NORGLE Father Wilson Miscamble questioned Assistant News Editor why the Senate should be involved in the appeals procedure. He suggested Financial aid, appeals procedures, that "the Senate be careful as a repre and student athletes were topics of dis sentative body involved in the appeals cussion last night, as the Faculty Senate procedure." wrapped up business for the 1994-95 In response to this statement, Chair of academic year. the Faculty Senate Father Richard One of the resolutions passed at last McBrien noted that "the credibility of night's meeting concerned appeals pro the Senate as a representative body is cedures described in the Academic Arti not the issue at hand." cles. The Executive Committee According to Paul Rathburn, associate Resolution asks "that the Faculty Senate send the Academic Affairs Committee see SENATE/ page 6 proposal on appeals to the Provost for his endorsement and enactment and that it also be sent to the Academic Council for its approval, with the This is the last regular issue recommendation that the Council for the 199495 school year. incorporate the proposal into a revision of the Academic Articles of the The graduation issue will University." The resolution specifically come out on May 19. Have T: k t th The Observer/Shelley Sullivan refers to section 3, 4, and 9 of Article .a e ou e papers and the trash! III. a safe and pleasant summer. Students take the liberty of using the lot behind Flanner as their own personal trash Prior to the voting on this resolution, dumps. page2 The Observer • INSIDE day, month, year • INSIDE CoLUMN • WORlD AT A GLANCE Clinton allows Cubans held at Guantanamo to enter U.S. Confessions WASHINGTON Bob Graham, D-Fla., said Clinton's deci In a sudden reversal. President ... The number of refugees rescued at sea sion "was a difficult one." While Clinton agreed Tuesday to allow some spiked upward in 1994 when President endorsing Clinton's policy, Graham said of a transfer 20,000 Cubans into the United States Clinton allowed in the elderly, chronically ill, the return of future refugees to Cuba after months of detention at unaccompanied minors and some families. "causes great concern to many people, Guantanamo Bay. But he said any including myself." student more Cubans who flee their country There were indications of a serious will be forcibly returned home. Atlantic Ocean · rift in the administration over the new It happened a little over --""!!"!~~-- policy. Dennis Hays, the State De two years ago. I had Ed Imbus Cuban-American leaders expressed 200miles partment's coordinator for Cuban called my brother from Associate News Editor delight that people detained at the U.S. ~ affairs, and his deputy, Nancy Mason, my dorm at the University naval base in Cuba would be permitted 200km to migrate, but they complained bitter- Gulf of of California, Santa Cruz, to ask some innocu asked to be reassigned in protest of the ly that future refugees would be Mexico Miami ous question- I don't even remember what it decision to repatriate fleeing Cubans, was now·-'- when he mentioned in passing that turned away. KeyWest . rf\0#' Guantanamo officials said. 0 Hays headed the U.S. delegation to Some Republicans accused Clinton of H ~·StraitS .J . N.. Nval Base a letter had come from ND. shutting the doors on a safe haven that avan · · · · I had determined some time before that my three rounds of talks with Cuban offi for 35 years has beckoned Cubans . ·· 0 · · CU · cials on migration issues, most recently chances of going to Notre Dame were slimmer two weeks ago in New York. He is than The Observer's Saint Mary's staff. It just fleeing Fidel Castro's communist state. wasn't going to happen. UCSC didn't give "It's a very lamentable decision," Caribbean Sea · known as a strong supporter of the U.S. grades; professors wrote a paragraph as to how said Republican Rep. Ileana Ros- . trade embargo against Cuba and to Leht·nen who represents the Miami Source. u.s. Coast Guard, AP have close ties to conservative Cuban a particular student did in their class, some I • State Department thing that admissions officers despise because area. American lawmakers. Secretary of State Warren Christopher it's not readily comparable like the GPA. While "How sad it is that the United States called Hays and expressed regret about his decision and I had been active in various clubs and activities is now viewed as an accomplice in Castro's repression of the Cuban people," said Sen. Jesse Helms, R-NC., the said he understood his reasons.

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