Curriculum - page 4 Overhaul resolution tabled after discussion in Student Senate By MIKE MILLEN class president, both spoke against Senior Staff Reporter the exclusion of class presidents from the proposed senate. Christy After a heated debate, the Student argued there were instances when it Senate last night tabled a resolution is was im portant classes be calling for a general overhaul of stu­ represented, citing last year’s pro­ dent government. posal to raise the student activities Presented by the Committee for fee. Restructuring Student Government, Wurth disagreed. He said the ac­ and authored by Executive Coordin­ tivitie s fee was no more a class issue ator Doug Wurth, the plan calls for a than any other. Senator Tom Abood new senate to be composed of 24 also thought class officers had no hall senators, devoid o f class officers place on the senate. “I don’t think and hall presidents. It also contains class presidents need a vote,” he provisions to make the Judicial said. Council and Campus Life Council Senators were generally divided There are only two on the map purely advisory bodies. on the issue of reducing the Campus Life Council to an advisory body. Lee Broussard, w ho was unani­ Wurth said, “We don’t see the logic St. M a ry ’s a n d St. Joseph’s are the tw o lakes on the parking lots was one o f many caused by yesterday’s mously approved by the senate as of student referendums being voted map of Notre Dame, but this one seen in the rainstorms. the 1985-1986 Student Activities upon by faculty and administrators." Board Manager, was unhappy with Senator Javier Oliva was not in favor the proposed removal of Ideas and o f that part o f the proposal. He said Issues and Campus Services from his the opinions of faculty and adminis­ jurisdiction. Claim of commissoner clarified trators on some issues are im p or­ “ Student A ctivities Board has a tant. By CHRIS SKORCZ for and with him, she does not serve classified advertisement said, “ Elect certain rol^ on campus. It’s perform­ After more than 70 minutes of Staff Reporter as the off campus commissioner,” current O.C. Commissioner Tracy ing that well. I don’t see why we debate, the entire proposal was David said. (Race) Thoman for another year of need to break it up,” he said, adding tabled. It w ill be discussed in a spe­ Tracy ‘Race’ Thoman is not the “No, I’m not the OC commis­ O.C. Freeedom!" “ if you look at other schools, are stu­ cial senate meeting scheduled for off-campus commissioner as re­ sioner,” Thoman said, “I’m acting in Tom ‘Beaver’ McDonald, w ho is dent governm ent and student activi­ this Thursday. ported yesterday and stated in her Doug’s place. It is not a re-election. also running for the position and was ties one big organization, or are they campaign posters and classified ad­ “He still attends the HPC was unavailable for comment on his separate? I thin k you’ll find the lat­ Karen McCloskey and Ed vertising in The Observer. meetings. I’m just acting.” unavailable for comment on his plat­ ter.” Augustine, chairpersons of the Com­ “ Race Thoman is not the off- She explained that she got a letter form yesterday, said, “people move President-elect Bill Healy said the mittee to Lobby for Student Finan­ campus commissioner," said Cathy from the student body treasurer (A1 off campus for both social life and plan’s purpose was to “provide ac­ cial Aid, said they will make David, student body vice president Novas,) which was addressed to the community service. I spend most of countability.” Currently, the Stu­ postcards available, which students and chairwoman of the ad hoc com­ “acting OC commissioner.” “ I didn’t my tim e off-campus, so the fact that I dent Senate is inform ed o f the concerned w ith President Reagan’s mittee controlling elections. just make it up,” she said. don’t live OC now won’t really mat­ board’s expenditures only at the end proposed budget cuts could fill out. “Doug Honeywell is the off- In Thoman’s posters, the fourth ter too much. of each fiscal quarter. The pre-addressed, pre stamped campus commissioner and while paragraph begins, “I am currently Honeywell was unavailable for Jim Domagalski, sophomore class cards w ill be in the dining halls Sun­ Race has done a good deal o f w o rk the acting O.C. Commissioner. ” Her comment on the discrepancy. president, and Dean Christy, senior day and Monday. Program provides an alternative for off-campus housing By TIMOTHY GIANOTTI Both o f these areas are "target purchased a house in the near- Senior Staff Reporter areas" for NHS, a non-profit corpo­ northwest neighborhood more ration w hich has been dedicated to than a year ago, and has since Neighborhood Housing Services the revitalization of South Bend become a showcase example of of South Bend is offering a new al­ neighborhoods since 1979. The NHS success. He now lives in his ternative to students who wish to near-northwest neighborhood was restored home on Cushing Street live off-campus: the purchase of the first community in the city to and rents out the second story. their own home. be targeted, and while work is still Kennedy now sits on the Near- Especially in the northeast and going strong there, NHS has Northwest Neighborhood Advi­ near northwest neighborhoods - decided to move into the north­ sory Com m ittee and is a big the two most popular student east as well. supporter o f NHS. He admits that neighborhoods - NHS is ready and “We want to promote home- buying a house as a student can be willing to help prospective ownership,” Hardy said, and he a frightening prospect, but he en­ homeowners buy and restore saw no problem in supporting sin­ courages it nevertheless. “It’s houses. cere students who are interested w o rth it,” he said. “Housing can be acquired at in what NHS has to offer. “ We are He sees the present dilapidated rental market rates," said NHS Ex­ concerned about the housing con­ condition of both neighborhood ecutive Director Bill Hardy. “It is ditions for students, and we are target areas as a great o p po rtu nity an excellent way to get started, and getting students who are inter­ for the Notre Dame/Saint Mary’s then you can start building equity. ested in buying houses.” community. The prices are “very It is very affordable housing with John Kennedy, a graduate eco­ tremendous potential.” nomics student at Notre Dame, see NHS page 4 Community revitalization is NHS goal By TIMOTHY GIANOTTI representatives, educational and Financial assistance, said Hardy, Senior Staff Reporter medical institutions, government involves working with lending in­ programs and officials, and com­ stitutions to design loans which Community revitalization is the m unity residents, he said. w ill conform to the needs of each fire Neighborhood Housing “I think we have really individual, a factor which makes Services is trying to spark in South broadened our focus since we NHS programs available to lower Bend, and it goes far beyond the started in 1979,” he said. “ O ur mis­ income families and individuals renovation of houses and low- sion is to leave a community w ith a who would otherwise fail to interest loans, said Executive strong group of leaders and a com­ qualify for a loan. Director Bill Hardy. munity that can deal with all The O bserver/Nicholas G riffin “ It is a complete neighborhood aspects of neighborhood life.” Financial assistance also in ­ Neighborhood Housing Services Executive Director B ill Hardy program, ” Hardy said. It involves “Basically, we offer two things,” volves personal budget and finan- stands in front o f one o f the refurbished homes in the Northwest the participation of local financial he said, “ financial assistance and Target area o f South Bend. Stories a t left. institutions, businesses, real estate technical assistance.” see GOALS, page 4 The Observer Tuesday, March 5, 1985 — page 2 In Brief Elegy for a brutish Saint "But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I ’ve been doing When Putnam County,Tenn. officials want to talk a ll my life after people who interest me, because the Dan to County Attorney Jerry Burgess, they have to let their feet do the o n ly people fo r me are the m ad ones, the ones who are walking. And they’re not happy about it. Burgess, an elected official, mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous o f McCullough had the telephone removed from his office last fall. His home phone everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn News Editor number is unlisted. “ He doesn’t have a phone, he doesn’t have a CB, or say a commonplace thing, but bum, bum, bum like he doesn’t have a satellite. You have to go to him, ” said Jim Copeland, fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders chairman of the county planning commission. “ If he’s not there, you across the stars and in the middle you see the blue cen- Frank was a w ily old man. He w ould w ink at the w his­ leave a note and hope he’ll get back in touch, ” Copeland said. Efforts terlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’ " -Jack key women. Even into his final days he still was tossing to reach Burgess for comment were unsuccessful.