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r--~-------------------~----~ ----~ --------~ --- --~--------------.. Wednesday, January 22, 1997 • Vol. XXX No. 74 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • SnmENT GOVERNMENT ANALYSIS As term closes, Miller's team connects on aims But contact between officials needs attention; CLC, Student Senate are stagnant STUDENT GOVERNMENT By DEREK BETCHER mittee was created to MATTHEW LOUGHRAN and interact with the provost's EVALUATION RUSSELL WILLIAMS 'sure, student govern­ office; and a reform com­ Assistant News Editors ment has its limitations. mittee was created to explore ways student gov­ LEADERSHIP/INITIATIVE- But it has its possibilities, ernment can reform and Administration has both a high level of Student Body President Seth Miller, activity & a lack of constituent unity. No Vice-President Megan Murray, Chief of too.' Seth Miller improve itself. improvement on controversial issues. Staff Brendan Kelly, and Secretary Student Senate is a branch of student govern­ Stacey McNulty have been hard at work Stadium - has limited their role to sim­ CAMPAIGN PROMISES- all year to fullill the campaign promises ment that should include new ideas for Miller/Murray set attainable goals. From ply offering encouragement or advice to [} made last February. the University. change on its agenda. One of Student "student section" to debit cards, progress Miller and Murray campaigned on the Senate's primary functions, as stipulated has been made or the wheels are turning. Acknowledging the distinction between premise that they would be "realistic and progress and results, Miller said, "Do you by the student government constitution, ready" and would "research" their goals. is to formulate and advance the position COMMUNICATION- The officers' have a debit card? No. But the wheels promise to "connect you" has been limited. Whether or not this has translated to are turning faster now." Notre Dame of the student body on all issues. []] Organization and focus have been unclear, effective policy initiatives and deft han­ has chosen vendors, and the project will In this regard, the group has succeed­ signaling PR shortcomings. ed in key aspects, but the ride has been dling of all the major issues faced by stu­ begin next fall. dent government is debatable. "Many of the things we do are more bumpy at times. CLC PROGRESS- Despite Council The 1996-97 executives, self-titled as subtle and more long term and students Much like the U.S. Senate, the Student bickering and a split between students and "Team Connection," led a term charac­ consists of members who repre­ don't always see what they are," said Senate non-students, the CLC has effectively sent constituencies with different prima­ !3 addressed most agenda issues this year. terized by progress towards Miller and Murray. ry interests and expectations from their Murray's campaign promises. They A nine-person financial aid department actively spearheaded some campaigns, elected leaders. STUDENT SENATE- Effectively with a newsletter and peer counselors is advanced student rights issues, but hasn't like expanding the football ticket being implemented; the new gender To begin the year, the senate approved [!.] addressed majority of student concerns. exchange, while the nature of other the student government fall report to the Over-reliance on subcommittees and set relations department is gathering infor­ constitutional procedure haven't helped. issues - like the location of the student mation; a student-academic council com- section in the renovated Notre Dame The Observer/ Melissa Weber see REPORT/ page 4 • SECURITY BEAT Badin Hall celebrates centennial Robberies Dorm originally housed school of continue to manual labor plague 02 By AMY SCHMIDT News Writer By HEATHER COCKS Associate News Editor Many Badin residents may be surprised to know that Six more cars were vandal­ their dorm-sweet-dorm has ized in the D2 parking lot The Observer/Melissa Matheny not always been a quiet, tra­ Monday night, increasing the Last night, Father Edward dition -laden residence hall tally to 15 incidents in just Malloy shared stories from his with a convenient location on three weeks. tenure in Badin Hall. campus. According to Rex Rakow, In fact, the building that director of Notre Dame Malloy fondly now faces both the bookstore Security, the thefts occurred and South Dining Hall did not between midnight and 3 a.m. recalls years as come to be known as Badin Stereo equipment was removed Hall until 1917. The original from some vehicles, but win­ Badin resident Badin Hall began as a struc­ dows were smashed in all six ture which housed the incidents. By AMY SCHMIDT Manual Labor School- a "We believe that two white News Writer vocational school that trained males, older than college-age, young orphans in the mid- may be involved in these recent A time of joy, of struggle, of 1800s. Famous alumni of the thefts," Rakow reported, urging formation of close and lasting Manual Labor School includ­ student drivers to remain alert friendships. ing Joseph Lyons and John in scanning the parking lots for This is how University Zahm. suspicious people. President Father Edward In 1886 the building was Though he could not confirm Malloy described his resi­ moved on wheels to its pre­ any connection between the lat­ dence in Badin Hall during his sent location near the book­ est break-ins and the nine junior and senior years at store basketball courts. thefts from the D2 lot over Notre Dame. Malloy's "Past Christmas vacation, Rakow did as Prologue" address served acknowledge that "we think as what he called a "truthful they are related, and we are reminiscence" of his time in looking for patterns." Badin, and how those events The difficulty, he explained, have shaped the character of lies in the fact that the latest the university as it is known rash of thefts follows no appar­ today. ent pattern in relation to those According to Malloy, the in the Fall 1996 semester. "continuity of relationship" adin Hall "Some were during the day, that was and is possible in a (above}, others at night. Time of day is formerly dorm as small as Badin B different. We can't see any St. Joseph's trends appearing," he said. served as a tremendous bene­ Industrial fit to many students. School, As Notre Dame Security con­ "Badin is a reminder of how named after tinues to investigate the inci­ it was the close, intimate, and Father Stephen dents, Rakow encourages stu­ personal setting of the dorm Badin in 1917. dents with any information to life that allowed us to prop At that time, contact security immediately. each other up in many situa­ Badin's ground "We especially want to hear tions," said Malloy. floor was used from anyone who might have as the campus seen suspects in D2 on Monday Malloy also stated that bookstore Badin was the birthplace of night," Rakow specified, "but if (shown right) someone strange is wandering and cafeteria. see MALLOY I page 6 the lot, call us right away." page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, January 22, 1997 • \I!JomJl AT A GU.~CE One of the Violence continues as car bombs kill 18 people in Algiers ALGIERS, Algeria,.........--.........,,..........--------., the exact target was unclear. Shops Two car bombs rocked the Algerian and houses crumbled, balconies col­ capital Tuesday, killing up to 18 peo­ lapsed and roofs fell on people's chosen few- ple and crumbling homes and shops in heads, witnesses said. We all know the story. the latest violence blamed on the Hospital sources said 16 people died We know that at 5:52 a.m. Patsy Ramsey North African country's Islamic insur­ in the first explosion. Hescuc workers called 911 and reported her daughter miss­ gency. initially said 11 people died and secu­ Four hours apart, the explosions rity forces, who often downgrade ing. We heard rumors of a hand-written ran­ thundered across Algiers. Columns of casualties in such attacks, said five som note asking the odd amount of $118,000. smoke rose high above the city as people were killed. The sources all We listened when a mere -------- ambulances and police cars sped spoke on condition of anonymity. eight hours later her Angela Cataldo toward ruined neighborhoods, sirens At night, a second bomb exploded father found her body in Saint Mary's Assistant blaring. near the Martyrs Monument that dom­ a little-used basement News Editor The blasts came just two days after a inates the bay of Algiers. Columns of room that just days before had stored the car bomb in the city center and an acrid smoke hid the lighted monu­ family's Christmas presents. We watched attack on a village outside Algiers ment, normally seen throughout the from our living rooms as the media from not killed 78 people. Nationwide, the Mediterranean port city. only our own country, but Japan, Australia bloodletting has killed more than 120 The second blast killed two people and England, descended on Boulder and people in the past two weeks, with and injured 10, hospital sources said. planted themselves outside the Tudor style blame falling on Islamic militants try­ APf\Nm.J. Castello Sources close to security forces said home. We waited, along with the rest of the ing to topple the government and impose strict Islamic two otlwr ear bombs were defused Tuesday near a world. as the Colorado police began an inten­ law. sports stadium and in the Clos-Salembier distri<:t. sive 1 0-day search of the home looking for The first bomb exploded late afternoon near a cultural The car bombs were all within a OIH'-mile radius. clues that would solve the murder of JonBenet center and an apartment block housing hundreds, but Ramsey. While the entire world seems to mourn the Clinton makes TV-movie cameo Soft drink or milking machine? loss of the tiny beauty queen, all I can think is WASIIINGTON CIIICAGO this: what an exceptional child.

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