ND Revises Ticket Exchange UN Conference on Women Will Be Using the Exchange These Changes Come As a Re New System Ticket, Scholl Reported
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----------------- -~~~- Monday, October 9, 1995• Vol. XXVII No.36 TI-lE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARYS Retiring colonel reflects on 30 years of Air Force service BY PEGGY LENCZEWSKI Saint Mary's News Editor After years of steadfast service to his country, •• ·.:o-. '•"" including time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Thomas Moe has decided to return to civilian life. Colonel Thomas Moe, Commander, Air Force HOTC, retired on Saturday, Oct. 5, ending a thirty year career. For the past three years, Moe A ~ ""': .. was responsible for recruiting lf'P and training eadel<; to be com- < · : ml.,ionod in the United States ~: Air Force. But his dossier . .·. ' could fill volumes. · . ~:~ Dancin' up a Moe's decorated career in- ·· . eludes several prestigious ,>........_ storm! awards, including the Silver Colon~l Moe Star with oak leaf cluster, which is the third highest Helping to celebrate Multicultural award for valor given out by the Air Force. He has Week, Potowatomi Indians performed also been awarded the Defense Superior Service at the Fieldhouse Mall last Thursday. Medal, which is the second highest award issued for non-combat behavior. Notre Dame and Saint Marys' students Moe says that the highlights of his eareer. were asked to participate In a friend irlcludcd "gettting the best jobs. I was able to fly ship dance as part of the occasion. lighter planes. I had a tour of duty as an attache in the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland, which was The performance attracted a large good for my family. I was also able to serve as crowd due to the loud, rhythmic head of HOTC at Notre Dame." sounds of the drums which echoed For his time spent as a prisoner of war in the richness of Native American cul Vietnam. live years and three months, Moe was awarded the POW medal. "I was honored to serve ture. in the military, and those were challenging times. The Pot ow atom! once owned the land It was the price I had to pay for military service. on which Notre Dame was founded. In and I was grateful to be able to continue with my career and to continue surviving my country. I a trade for the property, Notre Dame had to pay a high price, but it wasn't as high as supplied the Potowatoni with a free those who lost their lives during the war," Moe education at the university. see MOE I page 4 L ____________:~=============::::::::::::::::==~~========~ Holy Cross sisters observe ND revises ticket exchange UN conference on women will be using the exchange These changes come as a re New system ticket, Scholl reported. sult of the relatively high num BY MAUREEN HURLEY promote the NGO's platform. On game day, the person us ber of student-exchanged tick Saint Mary's News Editor "These women were selected ing the new ticket must go to a ets that have been found by for their knowledge of and to prevent table set up at Gate 14, on the undercover agents to have It is rare to gain a global per work with disadvantaged and west side of the stadium on the been scalped. Sl?ectivo in ministry. It is. even underfranchised women in dif 50 yard line, and provide a "Most students are using the rarer to influence world politics ferent parts of the globe," said scalping picture ID before they receive tickets exactly as they were mlating to ministry. Sister Catherine O'Brien, presi By KELLY FITZPATRICK their ticket. Scholl warned meant to be used; we're just Sister Mary dent of the that the person receiving the tightening up a little on those Turgi of Congregation. News Writer I ticket must enter the stadium that don't," said Scholl. I Covington, · T u r g i immediately after acquiring The new procedure will Kentucky and focused on Ticket scalpers, beware: the { Notre Dame Ticket Office has their ticket. Therefore, they hopefully decrease the number Sister Pauline economic is should not go to the table for of tickets sold for monetary Gomes of sues in the initiated some changes in the student ticket exchange pro their ticket until they are gain. Dhaka, conference. As far as future develop Bangladesh "The UN gram. According to Bill Scholl, ments, Scholl said the ticket represented agreed to give office is not anticipating that Gomes e c o n o m i c director of ticketing, the the Sisters of Turgl 'Most students are there will be any necessary the Holy value to the changes will take effect begin ning on Tuesday, October 10, using tickets changes in the system for some Cross at the Non-Governmental work women do in the home time. "We'll see how this just in time for the Irish game ~ Organizations (NGO) forum and that wasn't previously counted exactly as they were works for a while, and lind out the United Nations Conference in the GDP," said Turgi, who against USC. The new system of ticket ex meant to be used; if there's a need for reassess in early Septornber, both focus said that figure totals up to ment in the future," added ing on women's issues. over $11 trillion world-wide. change will decrease the num we're just tightening up ber of students that simply ex Scholl. "The issues we were dealing "To have this counted gives on those that don't.' The changes do not repre with have become global. women an ·increased political change their tickets to scalp them. sent the ticket office's discon Women are dealing with the leverage." tent with the system or its same realities no matter where "Women can take every sin "It will just make it harder Bill Scholl for students to make a profit usage; on the contrary, Scholl they are, demanding a global gle point of the UN document, said that the ticket office is response," said Turgi, who cur and use this as an argument off of their exchanged tickets; those that use the process cor pleased that they can give stu rently works as a community point to demand results. It ready to go into the stadium. dents, staff. and alumni the organizer in Kentucky, and for gives us a focus to move for rectly will not be affected," Scholl said. This procedure, Scholl said, opportunity to acquire these merly served in campus min ward, " she said. is similar to the NCAA-recom tickets that are in such high istry at Saint Mary's College. Congregation administrators In lieu of students entering the ticket office and immedi mended procedure used by demand for friends and other According to Turgi, the NGO stress the long-range impor Notre Dame for football play fans. forum "was a grassroots gath tance of the Sisters' presence at ately getting their replacement tickets, those wishing to ex ers to receive their compli "This is the first time that ering of women around the the conference. "The Congre change their tickets must bring mentary guest tickets. The we've allowed students to ex world," she said. "It was phe gation, through this represen process used to give players change for general admission nomenal, with such high en tation, has not only had imput their identification card to the ticket office and turn in their their exchanged tickets serves tickets," Scholl said, "We think ergy and a lot of extremely pro in the dialogue on women's is student ticket on a Tuesday, as the model for the ticket we've got a good system now." gressive vision." As official ob sues, but more importantly, office's new procedure, and Students with questions servers in the UN's Fourth they have had a listening issue Wednesday, or Thursday be fore the game on the ticket to the success of the player pro about the new system of ticket World Conference on Women, to ~ world perspective," said be exchanged. Then they must gram bodes well for the stu exchange can call the ticket Turgi and Gomes lobbied gov dent system as well, continued office during regular office ernmental representatives to provide the name and address see SISTERS I page 4 of the non-student person that Scholl. hours. page2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, October 9, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE No place for Mass burial for victims as new tremors terrify survivors · suNGAIPENUH, Indonesia Indonesian earthquake family in it." Trucks carted the white-shrouded r.:::'~....,.,..,..,;::-'7';'~~__,.,.........,--:-,.:...-....,.. Local police and residents joined a cheerleaders bodies of earthquake victims through a battalion of 800 soldiers to extract bod torrential rain Sunday to the edge of ies from the rubble and bury them • town where soldiers labored to dig quickly to try to stem the outbreak of In soccer enough graves. disease. The work was slow the day after 100 Still, "they were given a decent ln the old college tra- people died in a pre-dawn quake on the Muslim burial," said a military officer. dition of sports, the Alejandro Gadala- island of Sumatra, as the downpour Meanwhile, officials said, another cheerleader has been Maria filled the graves with water and turned quake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck intertwined with the Ad. Design Asst. Manager the ground into mire. Another 700 peo about midday Sunday on Java, the large sports scene. Whether in ple were seriously injured in the magni island adjacent to Sumatra. Its center football or basketball, a cheerleading squad tude-7 quake, and 10,000 buildings col was about 120 miles southwest of shakes up the crowd in order to show sup lapsed or were seriously damaged.