Reagan Supports GOP's Jobs Bill HPC Warns Campus Lottery Threat Is Real

. Kissing rec VOL. XVII, NO. 98 the independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint man 's WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1983 Reagan supports GOP’s jobs bill WASHINGTON (AP) — President The Democrats, said House Reagan gave his first pu blic blessing Majority Leader Jim Wright ofTexas, to a multibillion package of emer “ have no intention of sabotaging the gency jobs and recession relief yes package." terday, as Republicans moved to House Democratic leaders in protect their party’s $4.3 billion sisted, however, that they may want program from Democratic to revise the president’s proposal, “tinkering." either by switching some of the Reagan conferred w ith funds from one program to another, Republican congressional leaders, or by increasing the overall amount. who then cautioned that adding. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill provisions opposed by the president Jr., D-Mass., said Monday that — and more spending — could sink Democrats might want to add as the entire effort to pass emergency much as $1 b illio n to Reagan’s $4.3 jobs legislation quickly. billion for summer employment, The House Republican leader, nutrition programs for women and Robert Michel of Illinois, said the children, and weatherizing low GOP program could could provide income housing. N the first of “several hundred And D em ocratic Party W hip Rep thousand jobs" by this spring. Thomas Foley of Washington said “ We must resist build-on, pump White House aides clearly under up, Christmas-tree” legislation, said stood that may be the case. ( Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Foley and White House Chief of Baker Jr. of Tennessee, who told Staff James A. Baker 111 were ex Anxious jo b seekers jam a state employment showed up at the employment office, many of reporters that departing from what pected to meet today about specific office in Kansas City Monday after the Radisson them vaulting counters and climbing desks to gel Reagan sees as “ socially useful items in the legislation. applications. (APPhoto) Muehlbach Hotel announced it was taking ap jobs . would sabotage the Baker, meanwhile, sought to dis plicants fo r 250 new jobs. More than 3000 people package.” courage Democrats from increasing the administration’s proposal by suggesting other legislation could be used later in the year to increase spending on jobs programs. HPC warns campus lottery threat is realReagan, Baker, House M in ority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois, and By MIKE KRISKO Residences must he notified of such move off-campus in order to avoid a tion, Ray Wise, Valencia announced other Republican congressional News S ta ff a change by March 30, 1983. After lo tte ry.” that there w ill be an open house for leaders met for more than one hour March 30, the forfeiture of the “There have been many warnings students considering moving off- w ith Reagan, w ho told the group HPC President Mike McAuliffe, deposit and the $1 50.00 fine w ill be in the past, but this time there is a campus next Thursday from noon that he hoped “we can pass on a bi warning that the threat of a housing enforced,” he said. real chance for a lottery, ” em until five in the LaFortune Student partisan basis a bill that does not lo tte ry is real, last night encouraged Copies of Heppen’s letter were phasized McAuliffe. “ I’m afraid that Center. contain any make work jobs but students who are considering placed in campus dormitories over not enough students are taking this Landlords from various housing does provide on an emergency basis moving off-campus to attend an in the weekend. seriously," he said. complexes, including the Campus real jobs and on a one-tim e basis formative open house for them next Valencia indicated that not as Reading a letter from the Student Thursday in LaFortune. many seniors are planning to move Government Director of Informa See LOTTERY, page 3 See REAGAN, page 5 McAuliffe made the comments at off-campus as had been expected. As the Hall Presidents Council meeting, a result, students who were con after hearing the Student Govern templating moving off-campus are In Latin America ment’s Housing Commissioner, again given the option to move. Jorge Valencia, announce that Direc Valencia was not able to reveal tor of Student Residences Father precisely how many students must RenovatedChurch awaits Pope M ichael J. Heppen has cancelled move off-campus in order to avoid a MEXICO CITY (AP) — A renovated Latin American nuns quit to get married with or without dispensation, “the forfeiture of room deposit and lottery, but he agreed that the num Church, more sensitive to social issues and with a more organized social protest movements, advocated mar the $150.00 fine for any on cam- ber is large. disciplined clergy, awaits Pope John Paul 11 when he riage among the clergy and quick divorces and abortion mpus student who returned a valid Heppen, however, was quoted in visits Central America next month. for others. contract and who decides now to Monday’s O bseri’er saying that The visit — the pontiffs fourth to Latin America — is Since then, church conservatives have turned more move off campus. The only provi “approximately 200 men and 75 expected to emphasize the Church's commitment to liberal and the hierarchy has been interceding in social sion is that the Office of Student women . would have to decide to human rights, individual liberty and spiritual freedom, a issues it had ignored for centuries. The “Theology of message to be repeated even more strongly when he Liberation” has lost its radical edge and become a visits his native Poland later this year. fractured element. The message w ill take on special significance in tur Chilean theologist Segundo Galilea in his book Theol- bulent Central America, where civil war and factional ogy of Liberation after Puebla says the m ovem ent has Soph., junior officers violence plague most countries and threaten the rest. split at least four ways, and it persists only in a more The C hurch al- ------------------------------------------------------- moderate form. most always is in WEDNESDAY! “ It’s the law o f the pendulum . A fter an epoch o f crisis, elected at Saint Mary’svolved. today we have a re b irth o f m ystique,” the Rev. At least half a Guillermo Melguizo, Secretary General of the Colom By ANNE MONASTYRSKI dozen priests are bian Bishops Conference, said in an interview in Campus Campaign Reporter fighting Bogota. alongside guer- “ Maybe it is because evangelization has intensified, Michelle Manion, Maureen Karnatz, Patty Nolan and Janet Saas rillas in El Salvador and Guatemala and five hold public something the Puebla conference emphasized.” said were elected junior class officers in Saint Mary’s runoff elections office in Nicaragua in defiance of a papal ban on such Melguizo, who keeps in close touch with the Bogota- yesterday, defeating the ticket of Cara Hagemaln, Michelle Lopez, activity. based CELAM. Mary Ann Potter and Martha Jones in what Manion called “such a By contrast, a reawakened spirit is visible elsewhere As evidence of changes in the Church, Melguizo and close race.” in Latin America, where half the world’s 780 million others cite “a very notable resurgence of the priestly Julie Harmon, Mary Sauer, Theresa Hardy and Janet Biegel were Roman Catholics live, churchmen say. vocation, not only in Colombia but through Latin elected sophomore class officers. Duringjohn Paul's first Latin American pilgrimage — America” and a sharp increase in attendance at Mass. The Harmon ticket defeated the ticket of Anne Marie Kollman, a 1979 trip to Mexico — he found a church deeply John Paul's March visit will include stops in Costa Sheila Flood, Gretchcn Wroblewski and Kathi Hartweger. divided over ideological issues, experiencing grow ing Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Panama and The Saint Man’s Election Committee would not release any radicalism among both priests and faithful Belize, followed by a visit to the impoverished Carib figures concerning the election At a meeting of the Latin American Bishops Con bean nation of Haiti to address a CEIAM conference “We re going to put all our effort into our class." Manion said ference, or CEIAM, in Puebla, the pope reaffirmed the there. about her ticket’s new post. Manion's priorities as president of the Church's commitment to social justice, helping the Church leaders in Central America say they have junior class are to “push Junior Disorientation Week,” and to work to poot and the oppressed — but ordered clergy to stay gone through considerable soul-searching in defining improve Junior Mother's Weekend, she said. out of politics and public office their role in the midst of violent change. For centuries, Harmon said her ticket is “excited to get going. We hope to ac Only the Church itself has the weight and authority the Church in Central America was identified with the complish all our ideas and to do the job the ones who elected us to push for reforms — individual clergymen do not, he ruling classes." 1 expect us to do," said Harmon. said. Priests and nuns also must stay single and chaste. Now priests have died fighting alongside rebels, and The runoff was held because none of the tickets received the Abortion and artificial contraceptives are forbidden at least 30 church workers or members of the clergy majority needed in last Thursday’s election. John Paul’s guidelines appear to have ended the crisis of the 1960s and 1970s, when dozens of priests and See C H U R C H , page 4 News Briefs Wednesday, February 16, 1983 — page 2 By The Observer and The Associated Press President Reagan w ill hold a news conference tonight at 8 p.m.

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