Overseas Students Experience ND 'Home' Game by CAROLINE BLUM of the Shamrock Classic Foot Saint Mary's Editor Ball Game Between Notre Dame and Navy
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Monday, November 4, 1996 • Vol. XXX No. 45 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Survey: Young Catholics prefer GOP Lyons 'Fun Run' By JOHN DE BOY honors Mara Fox News Writer Presidential Preference Survey By CHRISTOPHER SHIPLEY s the 1996 presidential campaign draws to a News Writer close, opinion polls indicate that Bob Dole Notre Dame Undergraduates Sponsored by: Notre Dame Pi Sigma Alpha and the Hesburgh Program in Public Service A trails President Clinton by large margins Cold temperatures and the first snow among white Roman Catholics. However, a handful - fall of the year were not enough to keep of recent studies, including one by a Notre Dame over two hundred dedicated runners professor, indicate that young white Catholics - from participating in the fourth annual and Notre Dame students in particular - are shift Dote Mara Fox Fun Run Saturday morning at ing their support to Republican presidential candi 53.5% Lyons Hall. dates despite the historical popularity of the The day's activities, which began at 10 Democratic Party among Catholics. a.m., honored Mara Fox, the Notre Dame A recent NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, con freshman and Lyons Hall resident who ducted by Democrat Peter Hart and Republican was hit by a car and killed on November Robert Teeter, showed that, although Clinton leads 13, 1993, while walking home with Dole by 29 percentage points among Catholics over friends on Douglas Road. 45, the president's lead among Catholics under 45 is "The run went really well, despite the a much smaller 8 points. Presidential preference among Percentolondergraduates wlto weather. I'm very pleased with the num those who say they intend to vote sa.v t~ey Intend to vote • ElECTION '96 or have voted by absentee ballot ber of people who turned out," said junior Jennifer Ryan, Lyons Hall co-presi- See Election coverage on pages 4 and 5 see RUN/ page 6 According to David Leege, a Notre Dame govern In end ment professor and director of the University's Dem(Jcraf . Program for Research on Religion, Church, and 24.4% Republican • STUDENT SENATE Society, Clinton's lead is likely to be even smaller 44.1% or perhaps even nonexistent - at Notre Dame, where a full 85 percent or the student body is Outside otSouth Bend Letter targets Catholk. 89.3% Lcege, whose studies indicate that "Catholic post boomers (the so-called Generation X) are every bit student rights as Republican as Southern evangelical Protestants," gave several reasons for why the current By RUSSELL WILLIAMS Republican trend among young Catholics would be Percent of "ndergraduates who say they Assistant News Editor even more pronounced at Notre Dame. intend lo.vote who are regislefe~ ; "First," Leege said, "younger Catholics in general outside Of the South Bend area "" In an action intended to stimulate con are more likely to be Republican than other structive dialogue between student lead Catholics. Second, Notre Dame draws from a more ers and administrators, the Student upper-class Catholic population, which tends to be Senate will submit a letter today to more Republican. Survey says: Dole holds Professor Patricia O'Hara, Vice-President "I think (the popularity of Republican candidates) of Student Affairs. With this letter, the is the case particularly for those Notre Dame stu Senate makes a direct appeal to O'Hara dents who are drawn from white suburban roots. It lead over Clinton at ND requesting an open discussion on student would not be the case for African-American or rights at Notre Dame. Latino students, who currently constitute a growing By BRAD PRENDERGAST conducted by Notre Dame's Currently, according to the letter, the portion of the Notre Dame student body," added News Editor chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha and rights and provisions which were allowed Leege. the Hesburgh Program in to students in the past are no longer Surprisingly, most studies suggest that the shift to Bob Dole will be the next Public Service, questioned 254 included in Du Lac. the Republican Party among younger Catholics has president. students by telephone last The Student Senate believes that specif more to do with economic issues than it has to do That would be the case if the week. ically, "the construction, revision and with social issues such as abortion. Notre Dame student body were Presidential incumbent Bill composition of Du Lac, university discipli According to John Green, a professor at the the entire voting electorate, Clinton finished almost 21 nary procedures, and student rights," University of Akron who has conducted studies on according to a survey's results points behind Dole, at 32.7 per warrant discussion. The letter highlights the impact of religion on politics, younger Catholics released yesterday. cent. Reform Party candidate what the Senate sees as the de-evolution tend to be more pro-choice than older Catholics. Dole was the selection of 53.5 Ross Perot claimed only 2. 5 of Du Lac, from 1968, when it was con "They (younger Catholics) identify as percent of students who were percent ofthe vote. structed by students, faculty, and admin Republicans," Green said, "but they do that because surveyed and said they intend The strong support for Dole istrators hoping to promote community ed to vote or had voted by see TRENDS I page 6 absentee ballot. The survey, see SURVEY/ page 6 see LETTER I page 7 Overseas students experience ND 'home' game By CAROLINE BLUM of the Shamrock Classic foot Saint Mary's Editor ball game between Notre Dame and Navy. DUBLIN, Ireland They talked about people They wore the faces of utter they knew would be over for excitement. For the first time the game- friends in the in ten months, they were going band, the Irish Guard, the to a Notre Dame football game. Notre Dame Folk Choir, and On the streets of Dublin, they students from other European outgoing Austria crowd. pointed and marveled at all of abroad programs. Filtering in were representa the people wearing Notre As they began their hike up tives from the Notre Dame Dame sweatshirts. Walking the stands to the student sec London and Angers programs. into the stadium, they sang the tion, they saw in the distance a In line for the bathroom, Victory March and cheered huge banner painted with the Ireland student Bridget with the crowd. For Notre Notre Dame leprechaun. Murphy squealed at the sight Dame and Saint Mary's stu Underneath the figure was the of friend and French student dents studying overseas, it word "Innsbruck," signifying Libby Rector. seemed like a dream. the students who had come "It's so strange to just look "So many people go abroad over for the game from over and see someone like first semester because they Austria. that," Murphy said. "At first, don't want to miss a football "We're on break for 10 you just can't believe it." · season." Saint Mary's Ireland days," said Barb Hinsman, an Libby Rector was one of 10 program student Ellen O'Toole Innsbruck program student. students on the program in said. "But we went abroad "So everybody came to Ireland Angers, France attending the anyway, and we still get to see for the game. It's so great to game. a football game." be here; I see so many faces I "We wouldn't have missed it The crowd of Ireland pro recognize." for the world," Rector said. "It's not a long trip- just three The Observer/Mike Ruma gram students walked into The students on the Ireland Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students studying abroad attended Croake Park Stadium, the site programs crowded around the see IRISH I page 7 Saturday's game in Dublin, using the occasion to save on phone bills. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Mondsy, November 4, 1996 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Something British Telecom-MCI 'marriage' concerns AT&T LONDON I Big phone marriage: what each side briugs i the world's leading long-distance British Telecommunications PLC , J phone service provider, which has d d . 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