Thursday, September 14, 1995• Vol. XXVII No. 19 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • STUDENT SENATE • NEWS ANALYSIS Consensus building takes priority Abortion By GWENDOLYN NORGLE dent Body President Jonathan plish this year as a Senate?" "We have here a student law spurns Assistant Nc:ws Editor Patrick. "We're not as 'empowered' a leader from every major orga­ In a discussion of the roles body as the CLC," Patrick ex­ nization on campus. We could The Student and responsibilities of the Stu­ plained. "We need to utilize our be the most creative organiza­ questions Senate must dent Senate, Patrick presented voices a lot better than we have tion on campus. What we need his views of what these roles in the past." build consen­ to ask ourselves is 'Do we want By MARY KATE MORTON sus amongst are: the Senate is an organiza­ One way for the Senate to do to just be advisors all year?' We Associate Nc:ws Editor its members tion that advises and makes de­ that, he said, is to "better for­ would be so much more effec­ before pre­ cisions about the allocation of mulate our arguments and tive as students," Lawler said, Indiana Pro-Choicers are on senting issues runds. opinions before presenting "if we came (to CLC) with one the edges of their seats these to the admin­ "We're the only truly repre­ them." voice." days, and it looks like they will istration and sentative student body organi­ Student Union Board Manger Director of Student Activities stay that way for a while. The members of Cassidy zation on campus," Patrick said Katie Lawler also encouraged Joe Cassidy agreed. He told the pro-choice Campus Life With this in mind, he asked, Senate unity and initiative to in­ movement Council (CLC), according to Stu- "What do we want to accom- crease its presence on campus. see SENATE I page 4 and abortion clinics state­ wide are Mayo: Holtz's recovery looking good waiting with baited breath on a local Head coach's condition upgraded state law that to good; will remain hospitalized will require women to Kommers through the weekend wait 18 hours after their first consultation By DAVE TYLER before having an abortion. News Editor The US District Court of Indi­ anapolis has injoined the law Lou Holtz's convalescence at the Mayo Clinic because questions arose over continued Tuesday as the Notre Dame coach its constitutionality. As a moved out of the intensive care unit and into a result, the law will remain in regular hospital room. court until the end of October, While the 58 year-old Holtz won't be back on at which time there will be a the sidelines any time soon, doctors said his hearing as to whether or not it recovery from surgery to relieve compression of upholds the Constitution. his spinal cord was proceeding normally. Clinic The law, scheduled to go into officials still expect Holtz to remain hospitalized effect on September 1, was through the weekend. successfully blocked by the "Mr. Holtz is progressing satisfactorily," said legal efforts of a group of seven Michael O'Hara, spokesman for the Mayo Clinic. abortion clinics and one doctor, "He is up and walking and his spirits are normal under the auspice that the law for a patient who has had major surgery." really set out to prevent Doctors at the Rochester, Mn, clinic have called women from getting abortions. the operation a success and upgraded Holtz's Many clinics are rejoicing over condition to good. the injunction, hoping that it By all accounts the procedure went according may ultimately lead to a rever­ to plan. Over the course of the four and one-half sal of the law; according to hour operation, two surgeons removed a disc Barbara Maze, of the Muncie, from between Holtz's flfth and six cervical verte­ IN, Planned Parenthood, the in­ brae and inserted a bone graft in its place. No junction is a crucial first step. complications or problems were reported, and "Until the court makes a final Holtz is expected to make a full recovery. No decision, the law cannot go into paralysis or permanent damaged resulted. effect. This is a positive step." The success of the operation presented a stark In addition to the 18 hour The Observer/David Murphy contrast to the confusion that surrounded the waiting period, the new law The prognosis is good for Coach Lou Holtz, pictured above with the team. Holtz is current­ ly recovering from Tuesday's spinal cord surgery at the Mayo Clinic. see HOLTZ I page 4 see ABORTION/page 4 SMC reveals its own share of alcohol problems Editor's note: This is the Twenty percent said it (sec- ~ *: lholl ft...ll fourth of a five-part series Part 4 of 5 ond hand drinking) prevents ....ildt IDIItJI SA~ rWJ examining the use of alcohol on them from enjoying events like our campuses. football games and concerts; 19 '' H ft d , h kd d • k? By PATTI CARSON Under the Dome • percent felt it "messed up their ow 0 en unna t ewee 0 you rln • physical living space." Eleven Don't Drink f-2 days 3 or more Saint Mary's Editor &Under the lnlluence percent said that others' drink- "It's a reward. I work hard ing makes them feel unsafe. days In addition, the poll showed But not everyone on the SMC all week so I can go out for a that 49 percent of Saint Mary's drink or two on the weekend." campus drinks. In fact, Vance students own a fake I.D., found that 20 percent of the "It relaxes me." whereas 51 percent do not. "I like the way it tastes." students she surveyed said they Last year, Susan Vance, asso­ would prefer not to have alco­ That's why Saint Mary's ciate professor of business ad­ 26o/o 60o/o 14 o/o women drink, or so they said hol at parties; another 20 per­ ministration and economics at cent indicated they would like when asked in an informal Ob­ Saint Mary's, took her own de­ Havewyou ever been. sick due to. alcohol? server poll of 100 Saint Mary's to live in an alcohol free/drug tailed alcohol survey of Saint free residence hall. students. NO .YES Mary's students. Vance's inter­ "But you've got to translate Of those surveyed, 60 percent est in the subject inspired her of the students responded that those percentages into real to work for a fellowship from numbers," Vance said. "That they drink one to two nights the Center for Academic Inno­ twenty percent is really 300 per week. Twenty-six percent vation, with which she con­ drink three or more nights dur­ students. My point is this: ducted her survey. That is a huge number of stu­ 38o/o 62°/o ing the week, and 14 percent of The statistics Vance found those polled do not drink alco­ dents who consider themselves surprising were those as­ abstainers or nondrinkers." lfiinderage, do you have afake ID? hol at all. · sociated with "second hand Sixty-two percent of those Vance indicated that these drinking," or "the conse­ people should know that they, ~ NO .YES questioned have gotten sick at quences of other students' too, have a voice on the SMC least once due to consumption drinking." Her survey showed campus. of alcohol; the remaining 38 that 22 percent of students sajd "It's important to empower percent have never experi­ other students' drinking inter­ enced alcohol-related sickness. feres with studying. see ALCOHOL/page 4 49o/o 100 people polled page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, September 14, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORlD AT A GLANCE I 00 Rwandans massacred KIGALI, Rwanda A kinder, Soldiers massacred more than 100 men, women and children during a hunt through three villages for attack­ ers who killed a fellow soldier, a U.N. official said gentler Wednesday. Human rights and military observers went to the villages in northwestern Rwanda, and said they were still trying to determine the exact circumstances of campus the deaths. The slayings apparently took place over a tO­ hour period Monday evening and early Tuesday after an Don't call me Emily army patrol was ambushed near the border town of Post, and please don't Gisenyi, said a U.N. statement. It said an army lieutenant confuse me with Miss was killed. Residents of neighboring towns said the sol­ Manners, but it is time to diers then swept through the villages of Kinama, get on my high horse and Kanama and Kayove. The villages are about 10 miles preach about etiquette. south of Gisenyi, just across the border from refugee Allow me to begin with camps in Zaire. Most of the victims were shot in the head one of my biggest pet and their bodies were found inside and outside their peeves: elevator eti­ homes, said Lee Woodyear, spokesman for the U.N. High quette. Michael O'Hara Commissioner for Human Rights. Another 14 people sur­ Working at The Viewpoint Editor vived with wounds that appeared to have been made Observer and being as with machetes and clubs. "We consider it a massacre," lazy as I am, I take the Woodyear said. But Maj. Wilson Rutayisire, an army elevator quite a lot. I cannot muster the spokesman in Kigali, said most of the victims were slain energy for that three story climb to the office, accidentally during frrefights between soldiers and gun­ so I ride the elevator.