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Z1 3D6 SUSAN SAAVEDRA Mafia - page 6 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MEMORIAL LIBRARY 46556 VOL XX, NO. 89 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1986 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Senate to see constitution SMC candidates final draft reveal platforms By MARILYN BENCHIK volved in the elections. This is the next week Staff Reporter second year that the presidential By CHRIS BEDNARSKI student body ticket has run un The role of listening, understandopposed. Senior Staff Reporter ing, and responding is not a passive "We want students to be more in one for student government saidvolved in the student government A proposal for a new student Jeanne Heller, unopposed candidatemeetings. We are going to try to government constitution is almost for student body president, last make the meetings more inviting for complete according to Brian Holst, night at the Saint Mary’s “Meet the people to come to,” added Cook. Committee on Restructuring Chair Canidates Night.” “I don’t think that we have a man, at the Student Senate meeting “We have been issuing more sur tremendous apathy problem here,” last night. veys this year to help us assess what said Cook. “People want to get in Holst said most of the w ork on the the student body feels needs to be volved, but they don’t always have proposal is finished and a new con changed. Gripe Night also helped us the time. More students come stitution will be presented for dis to receive a good student reaction,” during the year, and we create posi cussion to the senate next week. “All said Heller. tions for them as they come. ” th e major work is accom plished,” he Heller and the candidates for vice According to Heller relations that said. president for academic affairs, Betsy student government will have with Holst told the senate that under Burke, and vice president for stu the new College president will the new constitution, the selection dent affairs, Sarah Cook, answered largely depend upon who it is and of the new Student Activities Board questions from a panel of Observer w hat kind o f president it is. “We are manager each year would be done editors and reporters in anticipationall very curious about who it will be through a nominaton by the steering of tomorrow’s ballot casting. Voting and very excited about having good working relations with the new committee of the Student Activities tomorrow will also include class president,” said Heller. Board. That committee would be elections. The Heller ticket also expressed composed of five student senators. Commenting on next year’s plans, concern for the safety of the student The nominated candidate would Heller said that, “one of our long body. To rectify this problem, the then have to be approved by the range goals for next year is to ex College is awaiting passage of In senate and student bodv president. tensively evaluate the academic minors program. It seems that not all diana legislation which hopes to Currently, the SAB manager is of the different minor programs place a flashing light at the U.S. 31 selected bv the outgoing SAB steer have the same requirements. It takes intersection. Heller said, “We would ing committee and SAB controller more (credit hours) to get some like to see this light stay on for a half with approval needed from the con v minors than it does others,” said H el hour after parietals.” According to Heller, another troller. The Observer/Paul Pahorcsky ler. Holst explained the plan, saying Behind the 8-ball Heller also said she would like to safety concern involves raising stu the job of SAB manager is a unique work on the student body’s aware dent awareness of safety measures and the facilities available to them. job. “The people on the steering Junior Fritz Lupone took close aim at the cue ball as he racked ness level concerning what govern Cook added that another long committee know best who should up some time at the LaFortune game room last night. The game ment does," such as reaching term goal is to provide more student be on the job,” he said. room will continue to temporarily house the pool tables until the students through newsletters. new recreation facility is completed. Heller said that, in the future, she. see SENATE, page 5 would like to get more people in see ELECTION, pageS East-West prisoner exchange to have ended this morning Associated Press “He will be on the bridge. The ex clearly be freed before the other “The exchange was in real danger Western specialists on the Soviet change will be made and the cars prisoners.” once again in the last few days. The Union have said Moscow hopes by BERLIN - Soviet officials have will drive out, ” the official said, The newspaper telexed the report Soviets insisted that Shcharansky freeing Shcharansky along with im agreed to release dissident Anatolyspeaking on condition of anonymity. in advance to other news media. Itwould be swapped as an agent, like prisoned spies to convey to the Shcharansky moments before three did not identify its sources, but the the others,” Bild said. The world its position that he is a spy, Western spies in the expected East- He indicated Shcharansky would newspaper has had other exclusive Americans objected, saying too. West prisoner exchange because leave Berlin immediately from the reports from the Soviet Union that Shcharansky is a human rights ac the United States insisted he not beU.S. military’s Tempelhof airport and have turned out to be accurate. tivist, according to Bild. Bild quoted an unidentified West treated like an undercover agent, a head for Israel. Bild said the swap will begin at 11 Shcharansky, 38, was convicted in German official as saying, “Whether newspaper said yesterday. A U.S. diplomatic source in Berlin, a m. (5 a m EST) today. 1978 on a charge of spying for the the Soviets stick to the plan (to free A U.S. official, meanwhile, con speaking on condition of anonymity, “U.S. and Russian military vehicles CIA and was sentenced to 13 years Shcharanr'"y first), only God firmed at a news briefing that told The Associated Press, “It will will drive to the middle of the bridge in prison and labor camp. The knows.” Shcharansky would be part of the happen on the bridge before noon.” from both sides - then the pas United States denies he was an agent. swap, expected to take place today The Hamburg newspaper Bild sengers will be handed over,” Bild Shcharansky, a mathematician and U.S. sources, speaking on the con on the Glienicke Bridge between said in an article written for today’s said. “The East bloc will let Soviet computer scientist, has said his only dition they not be identified, have West Berlin and Communist East editions, “An agreement has been rights activist Shcharansky free crime was seeking to emigrate from confirmed the West will trade five Germany. reached so that Shcharansky will first.” the Soviet Union to Israel. people. Landers: world filled with turmoilRacism, Reagan views By CHRIS SKORCZ “Alcoholism has reached spinal columns. The primary cause targeted by Gregory Senior Staff Reporter epidemic proportions. There is of this particularly American By MARK PANKOWSKI saying he wouldn’t watch college cocaine on college campuses and malady is a pervasive attitude in Assistant News Editor athletics because he viewed them as “The world today is ambivalent teenage suicide has become the which “people know the price of being a system of slavery. and - conflicting,” said syndicatedsecond leading cause of death for everything but the value of not Gregory, whose speech was the advice columnist Ann Landerschildren between the ages of 16 hing” in a “money oriented We live in a racist society and it’s before a predominantly female and 23. Does this mean that there culture for which we are paying the fault of both blacks and whites, second event of the 1986 Black Cul audience at Notre Dame’s Was is more stress out there? You bet!” dearly.” said author, comedian and human tural Arts Festival, told the crowd hington Hall last night. said Landers. rights activist Dick Gregory, speak they could go to New York City and Responding to charges that she Landers, whose column appears “We rant and rave about pollu ing in front of a crowded Memorial see 800 black youths playing basket is merely an opinionated, out in over 1,100 newspapers tion yet we allow television to Library auditorium last night. ball, yet “only two of them will get spoken lay advisor, Landers worldwide and is read by 85 mildump garbage into our living “We’ve got a racist... vicious sys through.” defended herself by asserting that lion people daily, was at Notre rooms. The security director at the tem,” said the best-selling author. “Do you have any integrity at all?” she taps “the best brains in the Dame to speak on what it means to airport asks you about cuticle scis “Some of you get recruited to Gregory asked the black athletes, country for my column.” be an advice columnist in a worldsors yet they give you a steak knife come here and you wouldn’t give a who he called “gladiators. ” she believes is increasingly on the plane. The poor want to be “I go to the top authorities in all Catholic the time of day, ” said Gregory, however, said the new wrought with social and personal rich; the rich want to be happy.” fields ranging from politics to Gregory, speaking to a NCAA rule requiring athletes to turmoil, especially in this country, Landers said she feels that religion and from psychology to predominantly black crowd of 250, have a C grade point average and a the moral fiber of which Landers America has contracted “spiritual etiquette.