Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 136, No. 15
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THE Ii! LION KING ., 7~&S~ ., ",7d. 17 & IS' Cushing Auditorium Take your date to this movie and she'111ove you for life TttJRSDftY. ftr> 16 /'\OnT(jO/'\tQY. Ttlffll Action packed Suspense for only a buck!. STUDENT UNION BOARD 9:00 PM This and every Thursday in LaFortune Wednesday, Feb. 22 Stepan Center $3 Phone bills too high? Your son or daughter can't find SCHOLASTIC the time to keep in touch? MAGAZINE FEBRUARV16,1995 If you want to know what's going on VOLUME 136, NUMBER 15 FOUNDED 1867 at Notre Dame, subscribe to Black and White His family has lived in Africa for three genera 4 tions, but his skin is not black. But when he marked down "African-American" on his law SCHOLASTIC school application, Georgetown got up in anns. MAGAZINE Out of Luck The best way to keep up 'with The pipe is gone and his club has been taken 10 away, but the Notre Dame Leprechaun re mains one of the most recognizable mascots in the country. But are things going to Notre Dame students. change? Read about the latest campus news and sports, check out what's happening on the weekends, and enjoy some college humor. Opportunity Knocks You can be part of all this for the introductory price of $20 a year With a few early losses, the Notre Dame 13 Women's Basketball team seemed out of just a dollar an issue. , contention for an NCAA Tournament invitation. However, theirrecenttumaround Subscribe now and share in of the 128-year tradition of Scholastic has Irish fans checking their mail. Magazine. --------------------------------------- FEATURES Please put me on your subscription list for 1994-95. The Core of the Issue· Lissa Sheldon ....................................................................................................................... 3 Name: ----_____ P resI'd en t'alI H oops . Am y Ne wman .......................................................................................... ................................ 6 Address: _________ Twice in a Lifetime· Theresa Hennessey .................................................................. ~ .......................................... ~ .... 8 Taking out the Trash '. T. Ryan Kennedy ............................................................................................................... 14 Oscar by Myers . ChrisMyers ................................................................................................... .............................. 19 Salt 'n' Pepa' Kris'Kazlauskas ................................................................................................................................ 23 Rock the Vote· J. Patrick Coolican .........................................................................................................................24 Enclosed is a check payable to Scholastic Magazine for $20 x _ years = $ __ DEPARTMENTS Please send this form, with payment, to: Business Manager From the Executive Editor, 2 Play Preview ................................................................. 18 Campus Watch ··········································12 Coming Distractions, ................................................... 20 Scholastic Magazine ............................................................ , " . 1 Splinters from the Press Box 13 On Other Campuses .. ;'................................................. 2 303 LaFortune Student Center Out of Boun' ds . ······································16 Comics ......................... :............................................... 22 Notre Dame, IN 46556 ............................................................. 5 CH 0 LA 5 TIC MAG A Z I N E • FE B R U A R V 1 6 I 1 9 9 5 1 Phone bills too high? Your son or daughter can't find SCHOLASTIC the time to keep in touch? MAGAZINE FEBRUARV16,1995 If you want to know what's going on VOLUME 136, NUMBER 15 FOUNDED 1867 at Notre Dame, subscribe to Black and White His family has lived in Africa for three genera 4 tions, but his skin is not black. But when he marked down "African-American" on his law SCHOLASTIC school application, Georgetown got up in anns. MAGAZINE Out of Luck The best way to keep up 'with The pipe is gone and his club has been taken 10 away, but the Notre Dame Leprechaun re mains one of the most recognizable mascots in the country. But are things going to Notre Dame students. change? Read about the latest campus news and sports, check out what's happening on the weekends, and enjoy some college humor. Opportunity Knocks You can be part of all this for the introductory price of $20 a year With a few early losses, the Notre Dame 13 Women's Basketball team seemed out of just a dollar an issue. , contention for an NCAA Tournament invitation. However, theirrecenttumaround Subscribe now and share in of the 128-year tradition of Scholastic has Irish fans checking their mail. Magazine. --------------------------------------- FEATURES Please put me on your subscription list for 1994-95. The Core of the Issue· Lissa Sheldon ....................................................................................................................... 3 Name: ----_____ P resI'd en t'alI H oops . Am y Ne wman .......................................................................................... ................................ 6 Address: _________ Twice in a Lifetime· Theresa Hennessey .................................................................. ~ .......................................... ~ .... 8 Taking out the Trash '. T. Ryan Kennedy ............................................................................................................... 14 Oscar by Myers . ChrisMyers ................................................................................................... .............................. 19 Salt 'n' Pepa' Kris'Kazlauskas ................................................................................................................................ 23 Rock the Vote· J. Patrick Coolican .........................................................................................................................24 Enclosed is a check payable to Scholastic Magazine for $20 x _ years = $ __ DEPARTMENTS Please send this form, with payment, to: Business Manager From the Executive Editor, 2 Play Preview ................................................................. 18 Campus Watch ··········································12 Coming Distractions, ................................................... 20 Scholastic Magazine ............................................................ , " . 1 Splinters from the Press Box 13 On Other Campuses .. ;'................................................. 2 303 LaFortune Student Center Out of Boun' ds . ······································16 Comics ......................... :............................................... 22 Notre Dame, IN 46556 ............................................................. 5 CH 0 LA 5 TIC MAG A Z I N E • FE B R U A R V 1 6 I 1 9 9 5 1 , " ! ." 1.." - \ • _ ~ " • \ The .second .week of controversy has begun. In the February 2 issue, Scholastic Magazzne published a Campus Watch column that the Directorof Student Activities called '~e last nail in the Gipper' s coffm.' The situation has presented a test of First Amendment nghts at a private institution. The university states in writing that "Student media should The CORE be free of c~nsorship and advance approval of copy, and their editors should be free to deve~?p ~err own editorial policies and news coverage." In addition, the university states that ~tors and managers of student media ... should be protected from arbitrary SUS~nSI?n an~ removal because of student, faculty, administrative, or public disapproval ?f editorial poli~r ~d co~ten~" :n: same du Lac that is often used to limit student rights of the m the name of a unIversIty mISSIon now seems to be conveniently ignored. Not only do thes~ ~ords s~m empty now that they are challenged, but they also exemplify the admmlStrators lack of trust in the student body. - students," according to Father DavidBurrell, For ~ome, campus controversy has entered into its third week. GLND/SMC, the C.S.C., who has taught Core since its incep unO~Clal stud~nt-~n support ~up for homosexual students, was told it could no longer by Lissa Sheldon tion and the Collegiate Seminar before that. m~t m the un.lverslty counseling center. The organizers of the two unofficial protests Issue Another purpose of Core is to provide all agamst ~e actio? may now face disciplinary action. Both of these debates illustrate the he Arts and Letters Core course is Arts and Letters students with a common ~nd ofnghts bemgerodedin the name ofanebulous"greatergood." Denyingpeople their T notatypicalNotreDameclass. Offi body of material, according to Johansen. nghts to free press and open meetings portends further limiting of freedoms. cially entitled "Ideas. Values and The debate over Notre L'1lages," the year-long course is organized "Professors are encouraged to follow the in a seminar fashion with texts ranging from Dame's Core class department's syllabus and not change more This Week's Cover Story than a couple of works," she the dialogues of Socrates to Al Notre Dam~' s ~prechaun turns 30 this year, and despite its short existence, the logo has said. "But we have to have a Gore's Earth in the Balance. becometheubI~Ultouss:mboloftheuniversity. Somepeople,however, think thatit'stime little latitude. Most profes According to its statement of ~ change. I? ~IS w~k .~ cover story, Mark Mitchell relates the history