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~-------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- IU2· 1992 SISQUICINYENNIAL VOL. XXIV NO. 3 8 rNo. z, c;] Thursday, October 17,1991 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S The Faculty Senate requests better representation sisting of administrative, faculty ner the l'aculty Senate does "populist" to saying that 10 dations to the dean. after both By SANDY WIEGAND and stud1111t representatives. now. In faet, some Senate more members would make the the departmnnt ehair and de­ Associate News Editor members suggested, the Senate Council "unwieldy," Senate partmental Committee on Ap­ The resolution also rnquested eould be setting up its own dis­ members said, but Malloy pointments and Promotions A eall by llw Faeulty Smwto that University Prnsidcnt Father solution. promised to bring his own rec­ have sent the dean their rec­ for lwttor n~pn~sentation on the Edward Malloy, who presides ommendations to the next ommendations. Antd om i e Co u nr.i I reeei ved over the Aeademie Council. he But Frank Connolly, associate meeting of the Aeademic Coun­ mixed to negative rnaetions stripped of the privilege of professor of Mathematics, said cil which will take plaee Decem­ The resolution was a wa­ from the same administrative appointing the three faeulty it might be five years or more ber 3. ternd-down version of a resolu­ body rnnmtly, Snnate members members on the executive before the Senate would be­ tion passed by the Senate last said Wednesday. committee of the Council. come obsolete if the recom­ In other business, the Faculty year, which Malloy said he mendations were adopted. Senate approved a resolution would veto. according to David Tlw Stmatn's resolution asked Tho new Academic Council stating that department chairs O'Connor of Academic Affairs. for I 0 additional tdected faeulty would also be able to establish Administrators' objections to are permitted to inform candi­ The new proposal must be nwmbnrs on the Aead11mie standing subeommittees to ad­ the resolution ranged from dates for tenures, renewals or passed by the Academic Council Council. a governing body eon- dress issues in the same man- calling it "radical" and promotions of their recommen- to be effeetive. GSU talks about an on campus smoking policy limiting smoking to spneilk ar­ By JULIE BARRETT eas on campus is scheduled to News Writer come out on Nov. 21. aecording to .Joel Barstad, the (iSU repre­ Women's resources and sentative on the Smoking Task smoking on campus were Force. This nnw poliey is a con­ among the various issues dis­ scious niTort by tlw task foree to cussed at the Graduate Student encourage smokers to quit and Council meeting last night. Up­ to protect non-smokers from coming activities planned for secondhand smoke. grad students include a llal­ All grad studPnts are invited loween costume party and the to a llallowenn costume party formation of a Wilson Commons on Oct. :{I. Students are asked Committee. to bring canned goods for The GSU Women's Hesource charity. Committee recently mailed out The first deadline for appli­ a directory on women's re­ eations for thn Travel (irant sources available on campus to Fund is NoVPmber 15, accord­ all female students at SMC and ing to GSU Prnsident Kurt Mill. NO. Grad students arc needed to "(Female) students don't real­ volunteer to help the GSU exec­ ize how many women's re­ utive committee evaluate and sources there are on campus," recommend improvements for said Patricia Quattrin, ti~JC the ' Wilson Commons. graduate student rnpresentativn scheduled for Sunday. Oet. 27. for the Faeulty and Student For more information about The Observer/Tim Farish Committee of Wom~n. which GSU plans and activitif1s or any Pizza Talk put together tho booklet. "I was concerns. fen! welcome to stop even surprised at how many by the GSU office. located in Engineering students discussed important issues yesterday as part of the Engineering Activities Fair. were listed." room 200 in LaFortune. or call A finalized smoking policy 239-(,963. Rezoning petition is unfavorable By DAVID KINNEY the petition must still get tho parking on the street. Associate News Editor approval of the County Coundl Tim llartzer, lawyer for the and Mayor .Joe Kernan. Kugler Notre Dame-Howard Partner­ A nmming pPtition by Pan­ said that it is difficult to de­ ship that owns Pandora's, and dora's Books rPrPiwd an unfa­ termine whether the petition City Attorney Hichard Nuss­ vorablP rorommPtHlation from will pass in thn eouncil. "We'll baum spoke in favor of the ex­ llw A n~a PI an Co mm issi on have to wait and stw," he said. pansion of the bookstore, Ku­ TuPsday night. areording to KugiN said that a number of gler said. platliiN Srott KugiPr. residents of the northeast They pointed out that it is Tlw bookstorP rPenntly struck neighborhood spoke in opposi­ generally considered good a tPntatiw eompromise with the tion of the expansion request, planning practice to blend resi­ city that would allow it to induding Art Quigley, president dential and commercial areas. Pxpand. Tlw city would rezone of the Northeast Neighborhood Kugler said that the commission a par<~el of land from 'A Hesi­ Association. did not necessarily agree with dPntial' to 'C Commercial.' In Opposition to the petition this premise, because a return. tlw owners of Pandora's cited a number of disadvan­ commercial hub is located only would sell a pim~n of land on the tages to the expansion. Kugler a few blocks from the area. eorrwr of lloward St. and Notre said, including: Hartzer and Nussbaum said Damn Aw. and drop a lawsuit • the possibility of increased that the expansion would be against the city. commercial spot zoning in resi­ beneficial to the neighborhood, Tlw owrwrs of the bookstore dential rwighborhoods in the aecording to Kugler, because it plan to 1'!1plaee the present city. would involve tearing down the Pandora's and two other houses Pandora's is one of several current bookstore and two on the corner of Howard and St. non-conforming commercial other houses, which are consid­ Petnr's St. with a two-story, establishmAnts and student ered eyesores. 6,200-square-foot building. A housing in the area. If the city This is the most current in a parking lot would be placed on grants the 'Commercial C' re­ number of attempts since May a parcel of land aeross the zoning request to the bookstore, 1990 by Pandora's to either ex­ street from the new bookstorn. other establishments could also pand or move. In each case, Kugler said. request rezoning, according to pressure from the neighbor­ Thn commission votnd 9-2 to Kugler. The city could not hood and city restrictions have snnd the n~quest to the council accept the rezoning petition of led to the failun1 of the owners' with the recommendation that the bookstore and reject a attempts. it not pass the petition; six petition from a similar Residents of the neighborhood The Observer/Dave Hungeling members were not present to establishment, he added. believe that this proposal is Neither rain nor shine participate in the vote, said • the proposed building on the more dangerous than other Kuglf~r. site is twice the size of the attempts by the bookstore to Sally Lochmonday had all shine and no rain yesterday as she The vote of the Area Plan original plan. expand and move in the past, picked up the mail from in front of South Dining Hall. Commission is not binding, but • the plan would encourage said Kugler. page 2 The Observer Thursday, October 17, 19~ .. :· INSIDE COLUMN A look inside a FORECAST: Sunnier Thursday and much warmer. Notre Dame High in the mid 70s with cooler temperatures at photo album night. TEMPERATURES: Flash! City H L Everywhere I go, Athens 64 55 everything I do, I bring my Atlanta 71 46 camera with me. National Berlin 64 50 Boston 59 55 Championship? Captured Chicago 49 28 on film. Circus Lunch? Dallas·Ft.Worth 82 50 Denver 79 41 Commemorated in color. Detrok 52 28 Allow me to share with Honolulu 84 75 Houston 86 50 you some select excerpts Paige Smoron Indianapolis 56 26 from my photo album, London 57 55 pictures I will no doubt Assistant Accent Los Angeles 81 62 Madrid 66 46 someday treasure as visual Mlarri Beach 77 72 proof of my idyllic life at Editor New Orleans 79 58 New York 61 50 Notre Dame. Paris 63 52 •Here's a shot of the Dome. I love the way the Phllade_,hla 67 52 Ronne 68 61 sunlight glistens on its glossy surface, making it St. Louis 57 39 seem almost... golden. San Francisco 72 55 •This is my freshman friend, Donnie, dancing Seanle 77 53 South Bend 75 48 on top of a radiator with an empty case o Tokyo 71 55 Meister Brau on his head. Donnie is having Washington, D.C 76 50 trouble adjusting. •That's my best friend, Chris, at our Indiana tailgater, holding a beer. •Here's Chris again, getting a hot dog, holding the same beer, but in her other hand. •Okay, this is Chris, this time with a com­ pletely different beer. TODAY AT A GLANCE •There's Chris, over by the Hibachi, holding a-badger? Oh, no, wait, it's just a beer. WORLD the pulpit at Family Worship Center," Donnie Swaggart •Here's my friend Nicole, hugging me. said. The younger Swaggart said he will take charge of •This is a picture of the Dome I took with my Jimmy Swaggart Ministries in the interim. Swaggart, zoom lens-looks like it's right there in the room Soviet economy suffering • BANGKOK, Thailand - Offering Western leaders 56, was stopped by Indio, Calif., police on Friday and with you, doesn't it? ticketed for traffic offenses.

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