Jubilee 2000 Offers Giving and Forgiving
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Merry Christmas! Appeal Denied A The Observer staff would like to wish everyone D. //. Fleenor's request for a stay of execution Wednesday 1 T r V a wonderful holiday season. The next issue will was denied by a federal judge. be Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2000. DECEMBERS, News ♦ page 10 1 9 9 9 O BSERVER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VO L X X X I11 N O . 64 HTTIV/OBSERVER.ND.EDU Jubilee 2000 offers giving and forgiving ♦ Catholic Church sets example of forgiveness for world powers L' By T O M E N R IG H T News Writer While the new millennium may find many people prepared for the worst, a number of devoted students and faculty on Notre Dame and V6-r Saint Mary’s campuses will mark the Great Jubilee with celebration and reconciliation. The Jubilee toncepl dates back to the days of the Old Testament, when every .10 years was called a Jubilee Year. Under this tradition, crops were not harvested for the entire year, debts were forgiven and slaves - " '. I - and prisoners were released. KATIE MILLER/The Observer Jubilee celebrations also included a “Some people feel part of the power of the labyrinth is that it contains energies from the past and the present, propelling feast and property returns to previ us into the future," said Sister Marilyn Zugish of Saint Mary's rock garden. ous owners. The Catholic. Church revived Jubilee celebrations in 1.300. The students and members of the Marilyn Zugish. “There’s ing mind — allowing time for upcoming Great Jubilee year in par ♦ Saint Mary’s South Bend community a seven energy centers in the reflection. ticular will reflect many of the gives millennium place of solitude and reflec body and seven spheres in “When you are walking same ideas practiced by the gift to South tion as the new millennium the universe according to the into the center of the Hebrews of the Old Testament. approaches. ancients.” labyrinth, you might be According to Frank Santoni, coor Bend community Releasing, illumination and “Some people feel part of thinking, ‘What do I need to dinator of special projects for union are the three steps to the power of the labyrinth is let go of?’ And then you let Campus Ministry, the year 2000 walking a labyrinth accord that it contains energies go of it [in the center of the By KATIE MILLER Jubilee will focus on four main ing to a sign near the from the past and the pre labyrinth] and see if there News Writer themes: letting the land lie fallow, entrance. Built as a celebra sent, propelling us into the are any new feelings. And answering the call to forgiveness, tion for the Jubilee 2000, the future.” when you walk out, it’s kind holding a great Eucharistic feast The ringing of wind chimes labyrinth consists of white The “seven-circuit of like getting committed to and proclaiming liberty and free echoes through the trees stepping stones in the shape labyrinth” is the most com doing what you need to do,” dom. bordering the labyrinth built of the “seven-circuit mon and ancient of labyrinth said Zugish. President Bill Clinton announced by the Sisters of the Holy labyrinth” and surrounded patterns. Unlike a maze, When used as a spiritual that the United States will forgive all Cross in a quiet place next to by darker rocks. there are no dead ends in a tool, the labyrinth can open debt owed by 36 of the world’s Dalloway’s. “There’s lots of symbolism labyrinth, allowing the user users to healing and growth, This new addition to the to the seven [in the to think with an intuitive Saint Mary’s campus offers see CHURCH/page 4 labyrinth],” said Sister mind rather than the think see LABYRINTH/page 4 Faculty S enate Members support Observer, affirmative action policy The resolution asked “the administration By JOSHUA BOURGEOIS to develop [an affirmative action in faculty Assistant News Editor hiring] plan ... if one docs not already exist; to publish the new or existing plan in the The Faculty Senate passed resolutions Notre Dame report.” dealing with The Observer advertising poli Ava Preacher clarified the meaning of the cy and affirmative action in faculty hiring at resolution, referring to the Accreditation its Wednesday meeting. Report that the Commission on Institutions The Executive Committee proposed a res of Higher Education of the North Central olution in support of The Observer’s editori Association of Colleges and Schools wrote al board in its decision to publish the ad when they evaluated the University in 1994. submitted by OUTreach ND in the Nov. 19 In the evaluation, the group reported a edition. need for the University to develop an affir The resolution commended The Observer mative action plan to show their commit for printing the OUTreach ND ad which “fits ment to increasing diversity. the editorial policy of The Observer,” and it According to the report, “The University expressed the senate’s “complete solidarity should develop and implement a plan for with the relevant policy and action of the filling the projected new 150 faculty posi editorial board of The Observer.” tions that is sensitive and responsive to eth After debate on wording of the resolution, nicity and gender concerns. The absence of the resolution passed 31 votes in favor and such a plan or an affirmative action office one vote against. questions the seriousness of the The second resolution proposed by the [University's] commitment to increasing fac Executive Committee called for an affirma ulty diversity.” MARY CALASHZThe Observer tive action plan in hiring to increase diversi The Faculty Senate passed the resolution A member of Faculty Senate discusses recent Observer ad issues and ty at the University. by a 29-to-three vote. affirmative action hiring policies Tuesday. page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Inside C olum n T his W eek in S outh B end Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Choose wisely ♦ Musical: “Joseph and ♦ Art Exhibit: “Bygones;” ♦ Play: "Miracle on 34th ♦ Christmas Open House: images and photographs Street;” Osceola Players; Farmer’s Market, 7 a.m. to Life is full of choices. More than just a clever the Amazing Technicolor catch phrase for beer posters and T-shirts, the Dreamcoat;” Ramada by Ryan Flatau; Monroe Battell Community Center; 3 p.m. motto makes a lot of sense. Whether it’s deciding to wear plaid or stripes, Wagon Wheel Theater; Museum; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 8 p.m. ♦ Play: “Cinderella;” shower or not shower, we make important deci 8 p.m. ♦ Concert: Grace ♦ Exhibit: “International Footlight Players; Footlight sions every day. While some decisions have bigger impli Community Wind Trees;” Northern Indiana Theater; 8 p.m. cations than others (every Ensemble; Rodeheaver Center for History; 10 a.m. one knows one must choose carefully in the dining hall), Auditorium; 7:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. these choices affect our lives on both a daily and long term basis. Take, for example, one’s choice to not do one’s home O utsid e the D o m e Compiled from U-Wire reports work: short-term effects 4 Christine Kraly include relaxation, napping, possibly even a seeing a movie or two; long-term MIT questions use of dorm funds for strippers effects include guilt, home associate news editor CAMBRIDGE,C' A \ 4 R R TTAfTR Mass.\/1 q c c bEEEE ilEEE EEEEEEE10EEEEEE nOther t h o r rxparty o t x; attendeesottnnrlnne who\xt Ft work build-up and lowered Should residents of a dormitory be declined to be named said that the grades. Did this student forced to fund activities to which show was more intense than in prior choose wisely? Who knows? they might object? years. Choices in one’s life are made solely on one’s Reflecting national discussion over Defenders of the party stated that innermost desires and feelings. Whether moved funding in American universities, every hall at East Campus has the by want or even guilt, life’s decisions represent a residents of East Campus raised this right to use its apportioned money person’s whole character. In that respect, how question following a stripper party in the way it chooses. Jennifer can any choice be wrong? held in Talbot Lounge in November. Frank, president of East Campus I’ve questioned my choices a lot this semester. Under East Campus’ social pro and the Dormitory Council, argued From first applying to study in Washington, D C., gram, each of the dorm’s ten floors man of Second West, stated that, that the advantage of East Campus’s next semester, to writing an antagonistic column is asked to host a party in Talbot although support for the party was social program is that each hall has criticizing the University, my decisions have often Lounge during the term. Each floor not unanimous, “it was a foregone autonomy to decide what type of been based upon passion and emotion, not rea receives funds collected from East conclusion that [the stripper party] party it will hold, exposing the son. Campus’s mandatory house tax. was going to happen.” entire dormitory to the diversity of Never once, though, have I regretted anything Funds are allocated by the East A total of four female strippers its residents. I’ve done. Because of my actions, I will spend a Campus house government. were present at the party. Mary Ann Rasku objected to hav full semester in one of the most (if not the most) East Campus’s Second West floor Segments of the audience were ing a portion of her house tax fund influential cities in the world, and I’ve met some took its turn hosting on Friday, Nov.