--~-------------------------------------------------~------------------------------- Tuesday, November 18, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 56 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • ~AMPUS liFE COUNCil Student publication reps speak with council By MICHELLE KRUPA that." doing so brings an inaccuracy Associare News Ediror Morrissey senator Matt Szabo, into public record as well as to often criticized by "the Gipper," the attention of the newspaper Following up on the issue of stated that he has problems staff. general campus media cover­ with inaccuracy in the column. "The bottom line is that we age, Campus Life Council invit­ "As a public figure, I'm willing make mistakes. Every newspa­ ed n~prnsentatives from The to take whatever comes with per makes mistakes. What a Observer and Scholastic the territory. I don't oppose it newspaper should be is a Magazine to its meeting last [the column! in theory. The record of the truth, and if we night. problem I have with 'the don't get the truth out the first The Observer editor-in-chief Gipper' is with factual check­ time, we're willing to get the Brad Pn~ndergast. Scholastic ing." truth out the second time," he editor-in-chief Kristin Alworth Downes affirmed that all said. and Scholastic managing editor statements made by "the "At The Observer, we have W. Patrick Downes always striven to be lidded questions about accurate," Prendergast the rights and responsi­ continued. bilitins of their publica­ A PUBLIC RG­ Ava Preacher, assis­ tions to the Notre Dame 'As tant dean of the College URE, I'M WILLING community. of Arts and Letters, "Our job is to inform TO TAKE WHATEVER reminded meeting our rnadership. We COMES WITH THE TERRI­ attendees of the bene­ wouldn't be informing fits of campus media. our rnaders fairly and TORY.' ''I'm a little worried accurately if we weren't about having these pea­ rPporting the 1wgative MATT SZABO pie in the hot seat," she things," Alworth said. said. "Every newspaper This camn after MORRISSEY SENATOR has a voice. I don't Fatlwr William Snetch think you can ask peo­ The Observer/Anthony Shaker notnd an apparPntly negative Gipper" arc "double and triple ple to hide their voices. We have The effects and strategies of student-run media institutions were on slant on campus issues in some checked" and that any misrep­ to remember that these are stu­ the forefront of the CLC's agenda last night. stories and columns. specifically resentation is taken seriously by dents. A Jot can be forgiven. We in Scholastic's "Campus Watch the magazine. need more warring newspa­ dents over 21 to attend the Affairs, in response to the dis­ by tlw (;ipper." an anonymous "Embarrassment is a big pers. More power to them all." Alumni Senior Club on campus cussion. "I ask that the mem­ column that occasionally targets incentive not to make mis­ In other news, the four CLC but prohibits University faculty bers consider tackling the issue campus officials. takes," he said. sub-committees reported on members from allowing alcohol of binge drinking and underage '"The Gipper' often has no Prendergast welcomed any their discussion and progress to be part of a responsible intoxication on campus. I would proof. It is cowardly to not have feedback, in letters to the editor since the last meeting. drinking atmosphere on campus appreciated any help on the somPoJW 's nanw thPre," Seetch or personal meetings, from • The alcohol committee will at an event that involves stu­ part of the University in that said. "Wp arc Plected officials, readers having problems with look into the "double standard dents over 21. task." we are fair gam(~, but we are The Observer's accuracy. lie for legal use of alcohol on cam­ "I am a little discouraged to The committee will continue lwre to make this a better place. noted the importance of run­ pus," according to McGlinn sen­ hear of the broadening use of working in conjunction with the I fepJ that our campus media ning corrections in the newspa­ ator Heather DeJesus. They will alcohol," said Bill Kirk, assistant Faculty Senate, particularly sometimes doesn't portray per if neecssary, saying that tackle the issue that allows stu- vice president for Student see CLC I page 4 Saint Mary's choir ''To be white in this country is to be born biking 1 with the wind at your back, not in your face. " releases first CD By ARIANN BUTLER Ignatiev compares blacks and Irish NewsWtiter Add a name to the list of campus bands and musical By SEAN O'CONNOR basic human rights of Irish groups who have released CDs. News Writer Catholics. Every realm of Irish The Saint Mary's Women's Choir recorded their first Catholic life, ranging from CD entitled "Ave!Ave!" in the Church of Loretto last "How did the Catholic Irish, spiritual to civil to domestic, May. Featuring music from their 1997 spring break an oppressed race in Ireland, was regulated, Ignatiev said. tour. the CD includes Spanish, Latino, French, and become part of an oppressing He insinuated that when English music. race in America?" these Irish Catholics reached "!The recording session) was kind of funny because we Thus began Noel Ignatiev of America, they found them­ had to stop ever time a plane new overhead," Saint the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for selves in conditions similar to Mary's music major Eileen Nieli said. African-American studies at the free Negroes of the period. The Women's Choir had the opportunity to rework and Harvard University in a lec­ Forced into physieal labor on re-record the songs to the utmost perfection according ture entitled "Running the the railroads and canals when to junior Amy Noppenbcrg. "It was a luxury of technolo­ Film Backwards: Ethnics and such employment was even gy. At our concerts, it's one shot and that's it." Whites in the Making of available, these immigrants "Ave!Ave!" was produced hy the Women's Choir in America" last night in .Jordan lived together with blacks in only three recording sessions. Auditorium. what Ignatiev called a "com­ The CD was not ready for sale, however, until the Ignatiev, author of the con­ mon culture of the lowly." group's first concert last week in O'Laughlin Auditorium. troversial book, "How the Irish It was even speculated that The additional time was required over the summer for Became White" and editor of a if racial amalgamation was to choir director Nancy Menk to choose the best versions of collection, "Racial Traitor," occur in America, it would the songs recorded and Fred Hohman, the producer, to which won the 1997 American begin with the Irish and the piece all the songs together. Book Award, spoke on sub­ blacks. The appropriation of funds to produce "Ave!Ave!" was jects ranging from racial rela­ Such was not the case, a len!-,>i.hy and detailed process. Approval of the project tions in 19th century America Ignatiev said. Although Irish n~quired the board to continuously petition the adminis­ to challenges of racial classifi­ patriot and leader of the tration. cations and calls for a restruc­ Catholic independence move­ The Women's Choir choral board, consisting of two turing of American society. ment Daniel O'Connell issued elected representatives from each class, began work on According to Ignatiev, the an appeal in 1841 signed by the project last October. Irish who immigrated to the 60,000 Irish urging Irish­ "!The petitioning processl took a long time," said United States in the first half Americans to join the anti­ senior Jill Switzer. of the 19th century came from slavery movement and thus do After several proposals, the Women's Choir gained the a condition of oppression simi­ Ireland honor, Irish immi­ backing of the Student Activities Board, and completed Jar to that which affected grants in this country never the petitioning process with final approval from Dorothy American blacks of the time. adopted such a campaign. Feigal, dean of faculty. Ignatieve spoke of the so­ The Irish gradually became A portion of the proceeds from the CD will be used to The Observer/Anthony Shaker called "penal laws" imposed assimilated into the "white Noel lgnatiev spoke on American racial reimburse the College for the cosi of production. The by the Protestant power struc­ race" of America as the coun­ remaining monies will be used to help fund their tour struggles in the 1900s and current stratifica­ tion issues. ture in Ireland severely which, try moved from an Anglo- with the Notre Dame Glee Club to Jerusalem next year. in his opinion, restricted the see IGNATIEV I page 4 -------------------------- page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Tuesday, November 18, 19,97 • INSIDE COLUMN Keeping my utside the Dome promises• Compiled from U-Wire reports Yale University bans intercourse between profs, students NEW HAVEN, Conn. administrative approval by Jan. 1. What was the last book you read out of Yale will ban all sexual relationships The faculty and student committee your own free will that was not required for between teachers and students, admin­ convened last March to analyze Yale's a class or assignment? Can you remember istrators announced Friday afternoon. sexual relations policy created the ban when you had the time to do such a thing? The ban comes one year after a Yale by instituting a new "conflict of inter­ My CORE professor Anne Rosinski College sexual harassment grievance est" rule separate from the current sex­ suggested to our class Wire Editor board found assistant mathematics pro­ ual harassment policy enforced by Title last spring that if we did fessor Jay Jorgenson guilty of sexually IX.