No More Maids For'pampered' ND Students
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VOL. XXIII NO. 2 TUESDAY , AUGUST 28, 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S No more maids for‘pampered’ ND students By JANICE O’LEARY was that out of 40 colleges and too much overtime previously, Woods said that this may be “In concept, I think it’s a Associate News Editor universities polled, no other which was an indicator of poor a potential problem, but that great idea,” he said. school had any form of per management. He said that for the students are being asked to “There could be a loss of so sonal cleaning services, said the majority, the pay raise increase their responsibility for cializing for the maids, and Many students thought the Woods. The schools polled in given to 60 percent of the em the cleanliness of their own some fun may be taken out of housekeepers left behind their cluded Ivy Leagues, Catholic ployees and the change from a room s. their jobs, but I’d be surprised cleaning supplies when they colleges, Big Ten schools, and 30 hour work-week to a 40 He said that it is “natural for if the work load had increased,” found a bottle of pink liquid, a colleges in the Indiana and Ohio hour work-week for most some resistance to change,” said Newton. bottle of blue liquid and one area. should more than compensate and that everyone should “give Sister Mary Louise Gude, rec- sponge in their dorm rooms Although Woods feels this is for any overtime. it a chance.” tress of Farley Hall, was also Sunday. a positive change, many maids However, he also added that “Beth,” another housekeeper positive about the changes. However, as they soon found and students feel otherwise. less than a dozen employees out said that the changes would in “I think it’s a good idea. It out, the maid service at the “Mary,” who asked to remain of 350 would be affected by the crease the responsibility of the will maximize the use of house University of Notre Dame has anonymous to protect her posi cutback of overtime hours, and maids who are left in the keeping personnel, ” she said. been discontinued, with the ex tion at Notre Dame, now a that the University wage scale dorm s. Father George Rozum, rector ception of trash removal. “general housekeeper,” ex is above the average of most “It is only a change in re of Alumni Hall, said, “It’s too According to David Woods, pressed concern about the colleges in the area. sponsibility, not an overload,” early to tell.” director of support services, change in hours and cutbacks “Joan,” another housekeeper said Woods. “There is no more Carla Garcia, a junior, said the changes were implemented in overtime. She said that some now on a specialty crew, said shower cleaning (for maids in “It took a fire to take away due to a lack of efficiency in the of the staff depended on that that the common rooms will be the dorms) and this will reduce laundry from guys, and only management and distribution extra $2,000 a year in overtime cleaner, but not the dorm (their) responsibility.” two days to take away maids. I of the cleaning staff. pay which they no longer re rooms which might lead to a Father Steve Newton, rector think it is unfair that they Another reason for the dis ceive. greater problem with ants, of Sorin Hall, responded favor charge us more (tuition and continuance of maid service Woods said that there was mice and roaches. ably to the changes. see MAIDS / page 12 Complaints: Dial FRED By MONICA YANT due to the assistance of Assistant News Editor William Sexton, vice president of University Relations. In what is often a rarity in The goal of the lecture series politics, Student Body President is, according to Pasin, “to Rob Pasin says he and Vice spark discussion and debate President Fred Tombar will ful about important issues of the fill th eir cam paign prom ise of a day.” corporate-sponsored lecture Pasin also revealed “new and series for the 1990-91 school improved communication be year. tween student government and The lecture series will include the student body” as another of prominent national figures, in his and student government’s cluding: plans for the year. •William Webster, director of A phone line to be dubbed the CIA; “the FRED line” after Tombar •Leslie Stahl, CBS White will serve as a sounding board House correspondent; for student suggestions, Pasin •Bruce Babbitt, former gov said. Students who dial F-R-E- ernor of Arizona and Student D will be able to leave a mes Body President at Notre Dame sage about their complaints, in 1960; concerns, or general campus •Father Daniel Berrigan, issue that student government political activist; should be aware of, he said. •Jack Kemp, secretary of Pasin said that the phone The Observer/Kevin Weise HUD. line, as well as a student gov “We are very happy about ernment newsletter to be sent Freshman patience fulfilling our campaign promise to all students and an open fo of a lecture series,” Pasin said. rum in each dorm with him and Notre Dame freshmen waited to register for class yesterday at the Joyce ACC, undoubtedly anxious to He explained that finding the get out of line and into the classroom. Classes begin at 8 a.m. today for returning Notre Dame students. corporate funding was largely see FRED / page 11 $60 million put into Notre Dame’s fall contruction work By JANICE O’LEARY said Don Dedrick, director of deteriorating. A new carillon is Associate News Editor Physical Plant. a further addition, he said. The Theodore Hesburgh Cen “Utilities have been installed ter for International Studies for the new Fischer Graduate Bulldozers, cement trucks will also be a part of the new Housing Complex, located and jackhammers can be both quad. Three buildings will north of the O’Hara-Grace seen and heard on campus this house the Institute for Interna Graduate Residences. The de fall as more than $60 million in tional Peace Studies and the velopment, which will include a construction is being done at Kellogg Institute for Interna community center and 200 two- Notre Dame. tional Studies, at a cost of bedroom apartments, will cost The DeBartolo quad was $10.3 million, Conklin said. about $12 million. Alumnus started last spring, however Two other buildings are in Charles Fischer, a member of nothing has been completed. the planning stage, according the Advisory Council for the The foundation and footings to Dedrick. They include the College of Engineering, is the for the Edward DeBartolo College of Business Administra principal donor,” Conklin said. Classroom Facility, the most tion and the Marie DeBartolo Juniper Road has been expensive building to be con Performing Arts center. repaved, and sidewalks and structed by the University, have The DeBartolo Classroom curbs have been built. The road been begun west of the sta Facility is scheduled to be fin was closed between Douglas dium, according to Richard ished in the summer of 1992, and Dorr Roads over the sum Conklin, director of Public Rela and the Hesburgh Center is mer, but is now open. It will tions and Information. scheduled for completion by close again next summer be The building will include more Jan. 1, 1991, said Conklin. tween Dorr Road and Edison than 30 tiered seating class Extensive restoration on Sa Avenue as road work resumes. rooms, 20 seminar rooms, 30 cred Heart church has been Construction on sidewalks, lecture halls, and a 450-seat completed. The repairs took a crossing points and landscap auditorium. It is one of four total of six years and some of ing may continue to mid- buildings planned for the quad the stained glass windows are Septem ber. and is supported by a $33 mil not quite finished, said Dedrick. Bad drainage was one of the lion gift from alumnus Edward New pews, a new slate roof, reasons for the repairs, said DeBartolo, said Conklin. insulation and air-conditioning Dedrick. The road was often treated as a, country road and The Observer/Andrew McCloskey The only work that is com were added. Murals were also Upon completion this building, part of new construction that seems to pleted on the quad is the under restored and humidity and people would speed as a result, be springing up all over campus, will house the Theodore Hesburgh ground facilities such as tele temperature controls were in see / page 6 Center for International Studies. phone and computer wiring, stalled to prevent them from CONSTRUCTION page 2 The Observer Tuesday, August 28, 1990 In sid e C o lu m n W eather Forecast for noon, Tuesday, August 27. So, you’re Lines show high temperatures. Forecast: Hot and humid today with a 40 having roomie percent chance of a thunderstorm. The high temperature today will be problems... around 90. Tonight’s low in the mid 60s. Tomorrow will be cooler and less humid, mostly sunny with So you’re new here the high temperature in and you’re having the low 80s. roommate problems. You are in hell and you figure it couldn’t possibly get worse. W ell, you co u ld be living with a 300 pound strapping red- John O’Brien neck buck named “Bubba” who has Managing Editor suggested that you ~ share a bunk and insists on calling you FRONTS “Moondoggie.” If that is the case, tell that bum he owes me money! ▼ T Anyway, everybody and their brother has COLD WARM STATIONARY 100 ©1990 Accu-Weather, Inc.