VOL. XXIII NO. 119 WEDNESDAY , APRIL 3, 1991 · THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND honorary degrees to be given to U.S. leaders Special to The Observer of psychology at Mercy College, in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., will re­ ceive a doctor of laws. The au­ ln~land's head of government thor of numerous books and Charles llaughey, U.S. Surgeon articles on religious, social and Gerwral Antonia Novello, NBC ethical issues, Callahan is asso­ News correspondent Jane ciate director of the Institute for Pauley and former the Study of Ethics at Mercy Congresswoman Corrine Boggs College and a consultant for the are among 13 people receiving Hastings Center. honorary degrees at the • Raymond Chambers, chair­ Univllrsity of Notre Dame's man of the board of the Amelior commencement May 19. Jane Pauley Antonia Novello Charles Haughey Foundation in Morristown, N.J., Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, will receive a doctor of laws. editor of Commonweal the lay-edited Catholic journal • Caroline Leonetti in a special election in March Chambers is .chairman of the magazine, previously an­ of opinion in 1988. Ahmanson, a Los Angeles phi­ 1973, Boggs succeeded her Points of Light Foundation, nouneed as the speaker at the 2 Notre Dame's 146th lanthropist active in business, husband, House Majority which is directing a national p.m. (EST) graduation exercises Commencement, its 19th since cultural, civic, national and in­ Leader Hale Boggs, the victim effort to stimulate voluntarism. in the Joyce Athletic and admitting female baccalaureate ternational affairs, will receive of a plane crash. After serving • Alvah Chapman, Jr., chair­ Convocation Center. will r.ece.ive students in 1972, reflects the a doctor of laws. Ahmanson has nine terms representing man of the executive committee a doctor of laws degrne. "Year of Women" theme as­ held three Presidential ap­ Louisiana's 2nd Congressional of Knight-Ridder, Inc., will re­ Stninfels graduatl~d from signed the 1990-91 academic pointments, including national District, she announced last ceive a doctor of laws. In 1962, Loyola Univnrsity, Chieago, and year on campus. Steinfels be­ councils on the humanities and July that she would not seek Chapman became vice studil~d at Columbia Univnrsity comes the fourth woman to ad­ on the Peace Corps. She also another term. president and general manager and thP Sorbonne. in Paris. be­ dress spring graduates at the served as chairman of the As well as receiving her of the Miami Herald and 11 fore meniving a rnastnr's degree University; nine of thirteen of board of the Twelfth District honorary degree, Boggs will years later became president of in Arneriean history from New the honorary degree recipients Federal Reserve Bank in San accept Notre Dame's 1991 Knight Newspapers. He retired York University in 1971. are women. Francisco. Laetare Medal, the oldest as its board chairman in 1989. She wrotn for and editnd sev­ In addition to Steinfels. re­ • Boggs, a former Louisiana award given to American • Marva Collins, founder of eral publications dealing with ceiving honorary doctorates will Congresswoman, will receive a Catholics. Chicago's Westside Preparatory rnligious and public affairs be­ be: doctor of laws. Joining Congress • Sidney Callahan, professor see DEGREES I page 4 fore assuming the editorship of USSR hikes prices MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet than usual because shoppers shoppers complained, cursed had emptied the shelves in re­ and even cried .Tuesday after cent weeks and shipments of the government increased goods with new prices had not prices on many goods for the arrived. first time in 30 years, but in the That seemed to surprise some end they dug deeper in their shoppers, who believed that of­ pockets for more rubles. ficials might try to increase the "We are becoming beggars, selection of goods to soften the real beggars," lamented Na­ blow. There also had been ru­ talya Antonova, coming out of a mors that goods were being bread store crowded with early­ stockpiled in recent weeks be­ morning shoppers. "Our fore the price increases. sa.laries are not going up; the Mikhail Gorbachev's govern­ only thing that awaits us and ment ordered the austerity our children is poverty." measure as a step toward mov­ Price increases ranging from ing the Soviet Union toward a 250 percent to 1.000 percent market economy and bringing went into effect nationwide on artificially low, state-supported AP Photo about half the food and con­ prices closer to production A Moscow resident carries loaves of bread under his arm Monday at a state food store as Muscovites do their sumer products sold in state­ costs. last shopping before the drastic price increases which will begin Tuesday. run stores. Many stores seemed emptier see HIKES/page 5 Steinfels, editor of Commonweal: Saint Mary's student wins Catholics must reassert liberalism Truman Foundation grant By BRADLEY GALKO means to an end. "The mass is By MAUREEN laws on a national basis. News Writer not a political tool," she said, but rather "a rich reminder of SCHNEEBERGER In addition to volunteer work who we are, what we are doing Saint Mary's News Editor and her father, VanDersarl said Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, or should be doing, and where her Saint Mary's education editor of Commonweal we are going." Elizabeth VanDersarl, a ju­ influenced her greatly. rnagazinn and the speaker for In addressing the question of nior at Saint Mary's, has been "This community Notre Dame's 1991 com­ why someone would choose to selected a winner of the Harry encourages you to take action. mencement exercises, said be liberal Steinfels described S. Truman Scholarship, which It says to look for problems in Ttwsday that Catholics must the political left as a "vehicle of carries with it a $30,000 grad­ your own backyard and solve reassert their interests in liber­ reform" for the failures of what uate study grant. them-don't let them go." she alism in a lecture entitled "The she called "ten years of a VanDersarl, an English liter­ said. "Saint Mary's is Heturn of the Catholic Liberal." Disneyland version of social ature major from Colorado challenging and provides a "The unhappy state of Ameri­ Margaret Stelnfels Darwinism." Springs, Colo., was selected subtle but important impact on its students' lives." can politics does not excuse us The Church must "make lay She said that deregulation from 1,100 applicants to be a of our responsibility as people smarter," said Steinfels, and other policies of the last finalist representing Colorado­ Catholics," said Steinfels, to decade have not done as well as the first finalist from Saint While domestic violence "about how to integrate theol­ problems in our public policy is support liberal values "in a ogy into their everyday life." the New Deal, the Fair Deal, Mary's since 1985. There were more forthright way than we and the War on Poverty; exac­ 80 finalists competing for 10 to a major concern to VanDersarl, She added that "lay people it is not the only challenge she an1 right now." must be prepared to make a erbated economic problems on 15 scholarships, which were American Catholics are a long-term basis; and created sponsored by the Truman has chosen to become involved case on many levels and in in. She was an Andrews "uniquely positioned," said Ste­ many places ... including this an "underclass." Foundation in Independence, infels, to support a new liberal­ She also said that historically Mo. scholar in the Notre Dame ser­ University." vice project last summer, a ism in this country. She also suggested that "the American community is a VanDersarl plans to get both Steinfels offered four sugges­ liberal community ... born out a law degree and a masters de­ translator for the World "American Catholics ... need a Cycling Championships. and tions on how Catholics could theology of accountability" in of a liberal set of values: gree in national policy, with an accomplish such an objective in equality, tolerance, and respect emphasis on domestic violence. will be the 1991-1992 senior their everyday roles "to aug­ class president at Saint Mary's. the face of what she described ment our professional skills," in for human rights." Ultimately, she would like to as a twenty-year "bad turn" for Steinfels added that as a re­ write national policies for striving to advance liberal VanDersarl said of her fu­ liberalism which she descr.lbed principles. sult of Vatican II and other such tougher laws and stricter as "radical individualism" and penalties for domestic violence, ture, "I just want to make a Lastly she recommended that see STEINFELS/ page 5 difference." "anarchical." Catholics use the mass as a eventually implementing these ... ---~~-------- -- ......... --------·-------------~---~ -------------------- ,~.- ---- page 2 INSIDE COLUMN If I were a king for a day I'd ... Everyone has thought-------------­ H L about it once in a while. 55 50 78 47 Admit it. Someone or 48 36 something really irks you 51 37 to the point of homicide or 51 26 71 54 fratricide or germicide, 56 40 and you think, "Person! If 49 24 79 69 I were king for a day, I'd 74 54 fix that!" 54 30 Well, I'm honest enough Florentine 55 41 70 50 to admit that I've thought Hoelker 57 43 about it. There are lots of 80 70 43 37 things here on campus News Writer 76 45 and around the world that _....:..:;:::..:.:.:::....:.::..:..:.::::!....- 51 39 I'd like to see changed. 64 41 51 35 So strap on a pair, get a sense of humor if 51 47 you don't have one, and read. And if you don't 64 34 like what you read, find someone who cares.