SMC Announces AIDS Policy

Cloudy ACCENT: People in crisis Cloudy and cool with a 30 per cent chance of showers. High VIEWPOINT: Sexist signs at Cavanaugh in the lower 60s. VOL. XXI, NO. 20 MONDAY, SEPTEM BER 21, 1987 dent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary SMC announces AIDS policy By SANDY CERIMELE Campus Ministry, Health Ser Saint Mary's Editor vices, Athletics and Recrea tion, Counseling and Career AIDS will be treated like any Development, Student other health problem at Saint Activities, and Residence Life Mary’s, according to a letter were some members of the task the College’s Office of Student force also comprised of stu Activities last week. dents, faculty and two standing “We developed the policy as committees of the college, said a preventive measure,” said Jackowski. Sister Carol Jackowski, dean of According to Jackowski, the Student Affairs. “Before we AIDS policy has been in devel have to face a person who has opment for more than a year. AIDS, we will know what to do “The policy is modeled after and there will be no fear on the the Surgeon General’s policy student’s part of being thrown and the policy for pregnant out.” Saint Mary’s women in that it In the same letter, the Col deals with it strictly as a medi lege also announced the prob cal problem,” said Jackowski. lem of substance abuse will be She added that counseling is approached through voluntary also available through the col or involuntary counseling. lege network and that they will Jackowski said the AIDS encourage students with policy was the result of a task evidence of the antibodies to force that reviewed letters remain in school. from professional institutions, The policy reads, “If stu policies of other colleges and dents are unable to pursue their universities, the Indiana com normal responsibilities at the mission on AIDS, and the Sur College due to illness, assis War paint The ObservecSusan Coene geon General’s suggested tance will be provided in ar Vice President of Finance Club Joe Jansen Fleldhouse Mall raising $1400 dollars with half policy on AIDS. ranging a medical leave of ab- prepares fellow Cavanaugh Junior Lou Weber for the proceeds donated to the National Diabetes The directors of six campus the battle against Michigan State Saturday. TheFoundation. organizations, including 866 AIDS, page 3 Finance Club sponsored face painting on the Key issues yet divide superpowers in arms talks Asociated Press intermediate-range nuclear “It’s a commitment to eacn in fine print. The issues are these weaopns and the Soviet missiles covered by the agree other to work our backsides off complicated, but technical and Union has about 680 of them. WASHINGTON - Despite an ment and on a set of rules to on the details; it is not an solvable.” The discussions agreement in principle on a nu prevent violations of the treaty. agreement to sign any old thingbegin in Geneva later this The Soviets want to remove clear arms pact, the United After three days of talks, because there is to be a summit month. the nuclear payloads and the States and the Soviet Union President Reagan announced this fall,” said one of several The meat of the agreement guidance systems from all the remain divided on two imporon Friday that he and SovietU.S. negotiators who spoke is a pledge by the superpowers missiles within a year of agree tant provisions and are sendingGeneral Secretary Mikhail about the remaining differ to remove the nuclear war ment and then proceed at a their experts back to the bar Gorbachev were committed to ences on condition of heads from all ground- more leisurely pace to destroy gaining table. signing the treaty at a summit anonymity. launched missiles in the 300 the launchers; two years for Yet to be resolved are differ meeting in the United States Another m em ber of the U.S. mile to 3,400 mile range and the shorter range weapons and ences over the timetable for this year, but that details must team said, “I really think the destroy the launching tubes. five years for the longer-range withdrawal of the still be worked out. remaining issues are the ones The United States has 332 of missiles. Saint Mary’s statue Analyst: early primaries decisive destroyed by vandalsBy PATRICK O’CONNOR time Before the actual elec win the first primaries, tion. namely New Hampshire and By MIMI TUOHY as to their identity. News Staff Almost a full year prior to Iowa, receive the most at Staff Reporter A notice was sent to all Saint the election, the New tention and are considered Mary’s students Friday asking Iowa and New Hampshire Hampshire and Iowa prima most seriously by the popu Saint Mary’s Security is confor “any information leading to will have a greater influence ries invariably determine lation and media, he said. tinuing its investigation of the the identification of the persons on determining who be who will be the next presi Shields said the impor destruction of a statue of the responsible for damaging” the comes the next president dent, Shields said. Since tance of this factor has in Virgin Mary located inside statue. than California and New 1952, when the first modern creased because “for the Lemans Hall. Information about the York, said noted political primaries began, all nine first in the history of broad The statue was destroyed at suspects should be directed to humorist Mark Shields in a presidents have been win cast journalism, the budgets about 2:30 a.m. Thursday mor either Saint Mary’s Security or packed Hesburgh Library ners of their respective New of news departments at the ning when it was knocked off the Residence Life Office. Auditorium Friday. Hampshire primaries. Cali networks have been cut its pedestal on the first floor of A 1959 Notre Dame fornia, with its primary in down.” He stressed that “in Chlebek said attem pts will be the hall, said Saint Mary’s Se graduate, Mark Shields June, occurs too late in the in order to have a crew and made to repair the statue al curity Director Richard spoke on the contemporary process to make any differ a camera and a correspon though it will be “quite expen Chlebek. American political scene, ence, Shields said. dent with you by late Although there were no wit sive,” he said. highlighting its often Shields contended that a February of 1988, you had nesses to the incident, three wo humorous aspects. field of 7 or 8 candidates is best have won the Iowa men, whom Chlebek believes The statue “Our Lady of the Although Shields said he tdo large for the American caucuses or the New are Saint Mary’s students, Blue Mantle” has been in the foresees no landslide for people and mass media to Hampshire primary.” were seen by a desk clerk run hall since the early 1920s, ac either party, he maintained cope with. “We only under A distinctive feature of the ning up the stairs of the hall. cording to the notice. that whoever wins the stand a race with 2 or 3 can 1988 election will be the lack Chlebek said these women Saint Mary’s yearbook, The presidential election will didates,” Shields said. As a are suspects in the incident, al Blue Mantle, was dedicated to have been determined a long result, the candidates who see SPEECH, page 3 though he said he has no clues the statue in 1926, Chlebek said. page 2 The Observer Monday, September 21, 1987 In Brief Opponents of Bork The Chevrolet Sprint has captured the top rating have made an about-face in the annual gasoline mileage tests of the Environmental Protection Agency for the third year in the row. There Many are talking now about what a terrible was no change in the second spot, either, held by a Honda blow to Western civilization it would be if Chris Civic. The 1,875-pound Sprint Metro model was rated at Robert Bork got appointed to the Supreme 54 miles per gallon in city driving and 58 mpg on the Court. Julka highway, the sam e figures recorded for the Sprint ER last His opponents in the senate, like Joseph Biden year. The Honda Civic CRX hf tested out at 50 mpg city, of Delaware, admit Bork is a “ brilliant” scholar Assistant News Editor 56 mpg highway. and say they don’t question whether his views accord with the Constitution. What they object to is Bork’s ideology, they say. Even one of N.D.’s very own pointed out that Bork, being the extreme advocate of judicial restraint he is, fails to recognize that values of Of Interest equality and justice exceed in importance either the intent of the Constitution’s authors or the text of the Constitution itself. Pure Washington semester information meeting at 4:30 majoritarian democracy must always give way p.m. in 131 Decio. For more information, please contact to ethics, this Viewpoint writer said. “The Con Dr. Frederick Wright in 345 O’Shaugnessy or 239-5628. - stitution in its original form was not completely The Observer democratic,” she pointed out. Bork’s opponents say they cannot allow a man to become Supreme Court justice who believes in adhering simply to the Constitution without Future diplomats and debaters are encouraged to any attention to ethics. Moral convictions do come to the Model United Nations Club meeting at 7:30 belong in politics, they assert, and ideology is p.m. in 123 Nieuwland. The meeting will be brief but cru a basis for legitimate discrimination.

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