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a c H OBSERVER Monday, November 6, 1995 • Vol. X X V II No.50 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Resurrected Guide takes case to Faculty Senate By DAVE TYLER News Editor ________________________________________________ It’s not dead yet. The publishers of The Guide, are trying to resur­ rect their troubled student opinion-based evalua­ tion of professors and courses, and project coordinator Andrew Eifert is cautiously optimistic about their chances of succeeding. Eifert said organizers have developed two plans of attack, and he believes one will work. “There will be an edition of The Guide in the spring," Eifert said in an interview yesterday. The new edition would include evaluations for fall 1995 courses, so students could use the inform a­ tion to make their fall 1996 course selections. According to Eifert, organizers will set their first plan in motion almost immediately. Student Government will petition the Faculty Senate at its meeting this week to consider support a measure that would include The Guide evaluation form in the same packet that contains the University- developed Teacher Course Evaluations. Eifert said he hopes the Senate w ill respond pos­ itively to the petition. “We’re going to give it a shot and see what happens. The second possibility would entail passing out The Guide forms directly to students. Eifert said packets might be offered to students at Dining Halls, at the Student Government office or another central location. Students would be asked to dis­ tribute the forms to their classes and return them to a drop off point. Publicity for the project would be handled through advertising or word-of-mouth. The Observer/Mike Ruma While details still need to be hashed out, Eifert Semper Fi! is certain an issue can be published. “ One of these ideas will happen,” he said. The United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Team performs at halftime during the Notre Dame-Navy football game this past Saturday. see GUIDE / page 4 Israelis mourn slain leader, country in turmoil By KARIN LAUB York. Yaakov Geneck, quietly lages by the end of the year. Associated Press sat in a corner, with a sign an­ Some delays were possible as Rabin shooting scene nouncing he was on a hunger Rabin’s successor, Shimon © Rabin speaks at podium at 8 p.m. JERUSALEM strike to protest growing vio­ Peres, puts together a caretaker Tens of thousands of Israelis, lence. government. ® He stands waving to the crowd City Hall many weeping, many bearing Geneck said he opposed Ra­ Born in Jerusalem in 1922, ® He walks down stairs to get to car, flowers, silently filed past the bin’s peace policies, but could Rabin was the nation’s first na­ amid crowd of dozens at 9:30 p.m. simple wooden coffin of Prime not condone the behavior of tive-born prime minister and at @ Shot entering car Minister Rabin’s opponents. “ 1 am here the center of its history for more © Assailant pushed by dozens of police Yitzhak Rabin to say that the hatred of so than 50 years. He joined the against wall on Sunday, in many people led to this. 1 have elite Palmach unit of the © Assailant taken to police car a final salute encountered this hatred and I Haganah Jewish underground to the as­ did not speak out,” said Geneck, in Palestine, and fought in the Kings of Israel Gan Hair square siege of Jerusalem during the shopping center sassinated sol­ who moved to Israel two years crowd of 100,000 dier, states­ ago. 1948 war. man and man Rabin’s assassination at a He was the m ilita ry chief of of peace. pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv on staff when Israel defeated three ■ m.lafcs The parade Rabin Saturday night stunned a nation Arab armies in the 1967 of mourners that, despite increasingly bitter Mideast war, Israel’s ambas­ came from all over the shocked divisions over peacemaking sador to the United States, and saddened country to a with the Arabs, had somehow prime minister in the 1970s, AP/C. Sanderson courtyard in front of the Israeli denied that such violence could and defense minister in the rael is hurting and crying,” up to Jerusalem through the happen to them. 1980s. read the headline in the Yediot rocky, eternal hills. Thousands The suspect, Yigal Am ir, a 27- He was appointed prime min­ Ahronot newspaper. of cars were parked along the H see RABIN, page 5 year-old law student with links ister again after his Labor party Tens of thousands stood highway as Israelis strained to to the Jewish extremist fringe, won the 1992 elections, and his silently Sunday at the site of the catch a glimpse. parliament. The procession was told interrogators he wanted to p eacem aking w ith the PLO assassination. A sea of memo­ Rabin’s coffin was placed on a expected to continue all night stop Rabin’s peace policies. He earned him the 1994 Nobel rial candles, bouquets, hand­ black bier in the plaza outside until the start of a state funeral reportedly said his actions were Peace Prize, along w ith Peres written prayers and Rabin pho­ the parliament. Rabin’s widow, Monday attended by dozens of based on rabbinical rulings that and PLO chief Yasser Arafat. tographs covered the spot Leah, supported by her son, world leaders, including Presi­ permit Jews to kill people who Dubbed “ Mr. Security,” Rabin where the prime minister was Yuval, and daughter Dalia, dent Clinton. gave away parts of the biblical was the one politician Israelis shot. A sign in Hebrew read, slowly walked toward the coffin. Even as Israelis mourned, Lpnd of Israel. trusted enough to take the risks “ Why?” From time to time, she buried they tried to grasp the enormity “ There were many writings involved along the rocky path “ Rabin was looking to the fu­ her tear-stained face in her of the upheaval thrust upon on the wall, but still we felt this toward peace. ture. He was looking out for us, hands, and slumped on Yuval’s their country when a Jewish could not happen to us,” said But the political climate had the younger generation,” said shoulder. opponent of Rabin’s peacemak­ Chaim Ramon, chief of the pow­ turned unprecedentedly ven­ Amir Shavir, an 18-year-old Yuval quietly recited the ing gunned him down. erful Histadrut Trade Union omous in recent months, and from Tel Aviv. “ They killed him. Kaddish, or prayer for the dead. Many gently placed bouquets Federation. Rabin personally had become They killed my hope.” Tens of thousands of Israelis of flowers on stone tiles near Rabin’s death raised imme­ the target of increasing vitriol Rabin’s coffin, draped with then filled the Knesset plaza the flag-draped coffin in which diate questions about the future by Israel’s right wing, which the blue-and-white flag bearing and spilled out into the streets lay the 73-year-old slain leader. of Middle East peacemaking, called him a traitor and com­ the Star of David, was placed in for miles. Others gently placed flower especially the israel-PLO auton­ pared him to a Nazi. an army truck Sunday morning Parents brought their chil­ bouquets on stone tiles nearby. omy agreement on the with­ A stunned nation tried to and, accompanied by six army dren, carrying them on their A Jewish settler from New drawal of Israeli troops from come to grips with the killing generals and two police chiefs, shoulders. One man hobbled most West Bank towns and vil­ Sunday. “ Rabin Murdered, Is- was driven slowly from Tel Aviv along on crutches. page 2 The Observer • IN S ID E Monday, November 6, 1995 ■ I nside C o lu m n WORLD AT A GLANCE Confessions Floods, winds and waves bring fishing town down CALAUAG, Philippines About 100 of the dead were from the Inside the village hall, a middle-aged Typhooti Angela fishing and coconut farming town of of a draft woman wept openly as she squatted n \ Luzon / Calauag, a Quezon province town of before a row of four whitewashed coffins. PHILIPPINES 60,000 about 100 miles southeast of “ These are my children. They’re Manila. junkie Philippine Sea gone,’’ Marina Regencia said Sunday Like so many other families there, Mrs. As I read the story on between sobs, pointing to the coffins of Regencia did not expect the storm to be Opus Dei in the her 10- and 8-year-old daughters, 4- so deadly — after all, the town is battered Scholastic a month ago, year-old son and month-old boy. A fifth by about five storms yearly. I became aware of a sad child still was missing. Only three of Mrs. Regencia’s sons and and disturbing reality. The bodies were among 37 fished out daughters survived. Her husband, Pablo, As much as we hoped it of Calauag Bay on Friday and Saturday, said there were just too many children to would, Notre Dame does after the 140 mph winds of Typhoon save. not protect us. Opus Dei Angela lashed the northern Philippines, “ We held on to a tree in the yard until is not the only cult on killing at least 500 people. 100 miles the floods subsided, ” he said. Two hundred others were reported Pilino Romero, 57, thought he could campus. There is one Thomas Schlidt 100 km missing after the country’s strongest save his daughter and three grandchil­ greater, and, I am a Assistant Sports Editor part of it. storm in 11 years hit with 12-foot-high PHILIPPINES dren by making them climb on top of the For three years now ----------------------------- waves and flash floods.

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