Thursday, March 21, 1996 • Vol. XXVII No. 109 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND honors Prejean with Laetare Student leaders to "The most pro­ focus on diversity Death penalty found moral ques­ tion of our violent Winners of the laetare Medal society," she said for the Past Ten Years in Trustees' report abolitionist's story recently, "is not what to do with the 1986 Thomas P. and Mary Elizabeth Carney, By JAMIE HEISLER inspires popular film innocent, but what chairman of the University of Notre Associate News Editor Obsrrvcr Staff Report to do about the Dame's Board of Trustees and guilty. We ask. spouse After requesting input from the student body, Sister llelen Prejean. the death 'Don't they deserve 1987 Father , educator a student government committee chose multieul­ penalty abolitionist whose autobiog­ to die?' But the 1988 . humanitarian turalism as the focus of their annual report to raphy inspired the critically real question 1989 Walker Percy, novelist the Notre Dame Board of Trustees. aeclaimed film "," should be, 'Do we 1990 Sister , Gospel singer and "We mean multiculturalism in the purest sense will reeeive Notre Dame's 1996 deserve to kill evangelist of the word-diverse eultures living together not l.1wtarn Mt~dal, them?"' 1991 Corinne "Lindy" Boggs, former just minority concerns," said Student Body aecording to As a spiritual Congresswoman President Jonathan Patrick. According to University presi­ counselor, Prejean 1992 . United States Patrick, in relation to multiculturalism, students dent Father has accompanied Senator mentioned their concerns with a lack of focus on . three men to the 1993 Donald R. Keough, chairman emeritus of different cultures, as well as certain feelings of The medal will be electric chair and Notre Dame's Board of Trustees isolation between members of diiTerent cultures. pres1-mted to witnessed their 1994 Sidney Callahan, psychologist and author These concerns were brought to the attention Prejean during deaths. And she 1995 Cardinal , of of the committee as a result of a process started Notre Damn's 151st continues her min- Chicago early in Mareh, in which student government re­ 1996 Sister Helen Prejean, social activist commencement Prejean istry to death row quested student organizations, as well as indi­ exerdses May 19. inmates and to vic- viduals, to submit applications expressing issues "To dtHtth row residents. to the tims' families today. A founder of Cabrini Parish in and as of concern on campus in order to form a basis families of rnurdt~r victims, and to our "Survive," a victims' advocacy group, a formation director for her religious for the report. whole sudety, her words and deeds she served as a member of the board community. She is now a high school A student government eommittee then exam­ proclaim the gospel of life in unmis­ of the National Coalition to Abolish English teacher in New Orleans. ined these applications, looking for common takable and twnn unsettling terms." the Death Penalty from 1985-95 and The Laetare Medal is named concerns among students and found multicultur­ Pn~jean traces her involvement in as its chair from 1993-95. because its recipient is announced alism to be the most prevalent. According to tlw issue of to her ller nationwide lectures on capital annually on Laetare Sunday, the 4th Patrick, there were many other concerns pre­ rnligious community's formal pledge, punishment brought her to Notre Sunday in . "Laetare," the Latin sented in the first round of applieations includ­ made puhlil: in l!JHO, to "stand on the Dame two years ago as a guest of the word for "rejoice," is the first word in ing academic concerns as well as women's side of the poor." Prejean initially students of . the entrance antiphon of the Mass issues. lwsitated in agrneing to this pledge, !\ native of Baton Rouge, La., that Sunday. The medal bears the The inclusion of non-student government she said in her autobiography. Prejnan, 56, has worked and lived in Latin inscription, "Magna est veritas groups in the formation of the Board of Trustees llowever. in 1982, at the request of all her life. The second of et prevalebit" - "Truth is mighty, report is an initiative begun this year in an a fri1-md, she began eormspondence three children in what she calls "as and its shall prevail." attempt to increase student body representation with Elmo Patrick Sonnier. a 27- solid and loving a family as one could Established at Notre Dame in 1883, before the Board of Trustees. In previous years, ytmr-old death row resident convict­ hope for," she joined the Sisters of St. the medal was conceived as an members of student government alone ap­ net of murdt~ring a tt~en-age couple. Joseph of Medaille in 1957 when she American counterpart of the Golden proached the Board with their report. i\s the date for Sonnier's execution was 1H. Rose, a papal honor which originated "Our first thought was just bringing more stu­ approaelwd, she became his close She graduated from St. Mary's prior to the 11th century. dent voices, but in the interest of making the friend and spiritual counselor, even­ Dominican College in New Orleans in The medal has been awarded conversation more productive, we decided to tually witrwssing his execution. Since 1962 and received a master's degree annually at Notre Dame to a Catholic focus around a certain topic," Patrick said . then, she has lwen equally outspoken in religious education from St. Paul's "whose genius has ennobled the arts Student government is now asking for a sec­ as an opponent of capital punishment University in Ottawa, Canada, in and sciences, illustrated the ideals of ond ro.und of applications from both campus and as an advocate for victim's 197 3. She has served as religious the Church and enriched the heritage organizations as well as individuals in order to rights. education director of St. Francis see MEDAL I page 4 see BOARD I page 6 • RESIDENCE HAll ASSOCIATION TeleFile alleviates tax SMC to elect executive board time stress for students By MAUREEN HURLEY platform include: an all-school vice president and secretary. Saint Mary'• News Editor event each semester, working respectively. Cernok is the By CORRINE DORAN "I think it's a system that ba­ to modify the lottery system for McCandless Hall representative News Writer sically is in the experimental Today, Saint Mary's College housing, spirit week throughout for HHA and also serves on stage," said Milani. "My major will nleet its IIJ%-97 Hesidence the residence halls, increasing RHA's publicity committee. As tax time quickly ap­ concern with the effort will be llall Association (Hili\) execu­ student support for athletic ac­ Fleming is the McCandless Hall proaches, Notre Dame and the things that are omitted that tive board. tivities, and working closer with president. Saint Mary's students may find costthe taxpayer." The sole ticket running is: the Board of Governance (BOG). "Nikki and !learned a lot tak­ it easier than ever to file with "If it works well it will help Nikki Milos, prnsident; Christine The ticket stresses their wide ing over as the new board," the IRS. those taxpayers and it will help Binsnnlwrger. vice president; range of experience gained on said Riesenberger. "/\lot of sit­ TeleFile, a new system that the IRS. It's a win-win situa­ M11g Ctwnok. seeretary; and Kim the Hili\ board. Currently, uations came up this year, and allows those who normally tion," Milani added. f."fmuing. treasurnr. Milos and Hiesenberger serve complete 1040-EZ forms to Those eligible to file by tele­ Major ideas from the ticket's on the Hili\ exeeutive board as see RHA I page 4 enter information by telephone phone will receive special Tele­ instead. will be available to be­ File instructions and a Personal tween 20 and 23 million Ameri­ Identification Number (PIN) Couple sponsors Dante collection cans this year. along with their regular tax The paperless system, de­ booklet. signed to ease the complica­ The PIN number serves as tions involved in paper filing the taxpayer's signature and, and to eliminate IHS inefficien­ along with his or her social se­ cies, will automatically com­ curity number. as identification pute the amount to be refunded if any questions arise concern­ or the additional tax due after ing the return. the appropriate information Because of its fairly simple from the W-2 form is entered. design, the TeleFile system "Filing taxes doesn't gel any makes sense for those people easier than this," said IHS Tax eligible to file with it, according Commissioner Margaret Milner to Milani. Hichardson. "TeleFile will not "It makes a lot of sense for a only save taxpayers time and lot of taxpayers if they fit in trouble but will also make the those parameters," Milani said. ms more efficient," she added. The TeleFile service is avail­ This is the first year the IHS able to single people with no has made such a system avail­ dependents who have taxable able, and consequently, an income of less than $50,000. The Observer/Dave Murphy analysis of its effectiveness To be eligible for the service, Dante endowment received University President Father Edward Malloy blessed a plaque depicting Dante's needs to be done after the tax a taxpayer must have previ- Divine Comedy as part of a ceremony in the library concourse honoring donators William and Katherine season, according to Account­ Devers. See page 3 for related story. ing Professor Ken Milani. see TELEFILE I page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, March 21, 1996 • INSIDE COI..UMN • Wmu.o AT A GtANCE Spring Suicide bomber kills Israeli soldier, seven wounded TYRE, quickly," Peres said. A suicide bomber from the Iranian- After the threat, the United States backed Hezbollah blew himself up near intervened to try to keep the violence Break an Israeli army convoy in southe from growing. Lebanon today, killing one soldier. U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk called Israeli civilian was slightly wounded, Peres on Tuesday to ask him to hold off Israeli army said. on a military strike until Washington 101 Israeli troops came under mortar could ask President Hafez Assad of Syria Okay, I admit. I didn't.~=====~ around the same time, the Israeli -the main power broker in Lebanon- get crazy for spring break said, and gunners opened up with 1 to restrain Hezbollah, two Israeli this year. I gathered up mm howitzers and 120-mm mortar newspapers reported. my laundry, tossed my against a cluster of Shiite Muslim villages President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt also books in the car, and just north of the enclave, according to sent a message to Jerusalem urging drove. Home. Lebanese security sources. L---''--~ restraint, the Yediot Ahronot and Davar Oh, yes. To the place It took place just weeks after newspapers said. where my body doesn't Palestinian militants carried out four sui- An Israeli government official who tan, my liver rejoices, and L------'~--_J cide bombings in Israel that killed 62 spoke on condition of anonymity con- the extent of my social Caroline Blum people, including four bombers. firmed the U.S. efforts. There was no life consists of trips to Saint Mary's Editor Hezbollah said its attack was in response immediate Israeli reaction to yesterday's the video store. to the international anti-terror confer- Golan Heights attack. But as I laid back on ence held in Egypt last week in responseL.J'---___.s....LL<'L.______J Ten minutes after the blast, the dusty coach in my basement, kicked up to the bombings in Israel. AP/Carl Fox Hezbollah's radio station, Voice of the my feet, closed my eyes, and forgot about the On Tuesday, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel Oppressed, interrupted its regular programming to claim paper I swore I'd write, I realized the lessons warned that guerrillas in Lebanon would pay for increas- responsibility. that spring break taught me each year. ing attacks on Israeli troops, who have controlled south- "In response to Sharm el-Sheik summit and to those My freshman year I went to Florida. I got to ern Lebanon since 1985 in an attempt to curb guerrilla who sleep on the doorsteps of the White House, a resis­ see the beach for the first time in my life. raids on northern Israeli settlements. tance holy warrior attacked an enemy convoy today," the (Step off, I'm from the Midwest. It could hap­ "He who tries to harm Israel will be punished, and very statement said. It gave no other details. pen.) It was a discovery period for me. I saw the ocean, breathed the air. Walked on the Bayh's '95 contributions questioned Cheaper drugs may actually cost more beach. Tasted salt water. Rented a wave runner. Experienced a vacation without my MUNSTER, Ind. LOS ANGELES parents. Got sick off Zima and Bud Ice. People and companies with ties to the Cheaper prescription drugs required by HMOs may ac­ (Remember when they were big?) gaming industry contributed more than tually increase the cost of medical care in the long run, a And then there was Cancun. 10 percent of the money Gov. Evan study published today suggests. The study in the Ameri­ I just want to take a moment to acknowl­ Bayh collected last year for a possible can Journal of Managed Care says the practice, a long­ edge those of us out there who have experi­ U.S. Senate run in 1998, a statewide time cornerstone of medical cost control. may mean ac­ enced a spring break in Cancun. Whoa Nellie. gambling newsletter reported. Of the cess to some drugs is restricted and sometimes the most Cancun was a discovery for me as well. I more than $1 million raised, nearly effective medicines aren't used. More than 100 million learned a lot of important lessons about life. $116,000 came from lawyers, lobbyists, Americans belong to managed-care plans that require or 1) In life, realize that even the things you accountants, engineers and investors encourage their doctors to prescribe drugs from lists of love the most are capable of being distorted. with significant gambling interests, according to Indiana "formularies." The programs also encourage pharmacists Like listening to "With or Without You" with Gaming Insight, a weekly newsletter chronicling the to recommend the less expensive, generic medications. a beat. state's gaming industry. Bayh hasn't formally announced The study covered 13 thousand patients in six Health 2) Trends never die, such as the male that he'll seek the Senate seat once held by his father, Maintenance Organizations. Thomas Purdon, medical sleeveless T -shirt. Birch Bayh, and now occupied by Sen. Dan Coats. But the director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Cen­ 3) There are certain characteristics about younger Bayh's second and final gubernatorial term ter, offered one example of how such a forumulary might yourself that you can't change. For instance, expires this year, and he created an exploratory commit­ increase health-care costs. Standard treatment for the being 5'0" tall. It's not so fun being short tee last September allowing him to raise money for a fed­ common sexually transmitted disease chlamydia is an an­ when you're fighting for your life at foam eral campaign. "With regard to people coming in from tibiotic called doxycycline taken four times a day for party. Las Vegas, or that kind of thing, whom I've had no previ­ seven days. A new antibiotic called azithromycin can 4) No matter how happy you are to see your ous connection with, who've not been supporters of mine cure the disease with one dose, but the drug costs four hotel (place of residence) at the end of the for a long time or are not longtime residents of Indiana, times as much. Some health researchers said the night, it's not such a good idea to give your in general, I have not accepted support from folks like methodology used in the study raised questions about its cab driver a kiss on the cheek when he drops that," Bayh said. conclusions. you off. 5) Don't disturb the hibernated. Those Lizard mating game discovered Funeral highlights biker gang war asleep by the side of the pool really don't want to take a late-night dip with you. NEW YORK STENLOESE, Denmark 6) Learn the language. A Margarita or two A complicated mating game is going on in California, Their faces cold and expressionless, scores of bikers sure does a lot for your Spanish speaking abil­ played by harem-keeping males. female impersonators from a Texas-led motorcycle gang buried a comrade ity. (But not so much for market shopping). and fellas who just want to get along. They're all lizards. Wednesday who was killed in a flare-up of their turf war 7) Be careful where you decide to take a Literally. Scientists studying the side-blotched lizard in in Scandinavia. Clad in black leather and riding Harley­ nap. Passing out on the beach is not a good rocky outcrops in the foothills of the Coast Range report Davidson motorcycles. European. Australian and Ameri­ idea, you might find yourself in the middle of that the male mating strategies resemble the child's can members of the Bandidos converged on Stenloese, a the ocean. (I never did get that ebb and tide game of rock-paper-scissors. They showed that the mat­ sleepy village 22 miles northwest of Copenhagen. Many stuff.) ing strategy that got the most females constantly shifted. of the bikers appeared to be wearing bulletproof vests, 8) Your old Girl/Boy Scout Leader was Males with orange throat markings are very aggressive standard equipment during a feud. All wore black arm­ right. Use the buddy system. and defend large territories, keeping harems of up to six bands, and a few wore small signs reading "God forgives, 9) Notre Dame sports will follow you for the females. They take females away from the blue-throated Bandidos don't." Dozens of police were scattered around rest of your life. And every bar in the world male, which is less aggressive and typically has only one the small church during the 30-minute service, but no has the Notre Dame VictorY. March on CD. or two females. When the orange-throats are common, violence was reported and no weapons were visible. Po­ 10) If someone asks you 1f you want to see it's a bonanza for the third kind of male, female imper­ lice said 200 bikers attended the ceremony. The Bandi­ their new tattoo, say no. sonators with yellow stripes on their throats. These dos-affiliated gangs have made inroads on Hells Angels' 12) Stay healthy. If you don't feel so good "sneakers" invade orange-throat harems for quick sex, turf in recent years, apparently leading to the recent one morning, have a Bloody Mary. avoiding harm because they look and behave like fe­ retaliatory attacks, Danish authorities said. 13) While traveling, don't give the natives males. your credit card when you've had a few Coronas. 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Via Associated Prsss GraphtcsNet Columbus 37 22 Minneapolis 45 18 St. Louis 47 25 Thursday, March 21, 1996 The Observer • NEWS page 3 Wadell: Find friend in Christ ND noted as prime By KATIILEEN POLICY soul." someone who grows with formation about their relation­ New' Writer us in the fullness of Christ, and s~ips. site for Dante research someone who shares our sense J."athr.r Paul Wadell spoke of of what is good, Wadell said. "I thought the lecture was in­ By JILLIAN PAGLIOCCA sion of "The Divine Comedy," Christ as an integral part of a teresting because it made me News Writer chosen by the Devers. "spiritual frinndship" in his lee­ These friendships are neces­ realize that I have spiritual Associate Professor of turn concerning "Our Life sary for three reasons, Wadell friends like this and I thought At the inaugural celebration Romance Language and Tngnther in Christ" at Saint explained. First, they provide a that they were just regular of the William and Katherine Literature Ted Cachey, the Mary's yestnrday. life of diseipleship. friends," said freshman Jen­ Devers Program in Dante director of the Devers 1\ mem her of the Passionist Secondly, they allow the par­ nifer Pelic. Studies yesterday, the first Program, returned from leave Community and a Professor of ticipants openness with each annual Devers visiting profes· in Florence, Italy for the Nhics at the Catholic Theologi­ other. Thirdly, these friends The next installment of the sor, Zygmunt Baranski, called commemoration. In his intro· eal Union. Wadell proposed lend support when everything Lenten Lecture Series, titled the program an "event of duction of Baranski, he that Christ walks with us in else is going badly, Wadell said. "To Lay Down One's Life for monumental importance and a praised the Devers for spiritual friendships. One's Friends," will take place key moment in the whole his­ enabling the "soul, shape and 1\ spiritual friend is sorneorw Many attending students felt next Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. tory of the Dante movement." form of Dante to touch the who is "a companion of the the lecture gave them new in- in Stapleton Lounge. Baranski's remarks hearts and lives of students." commemorated the first in a Describing Dante as the series of events organized in "greatest, best-known intelle<:­ honor of the Devers Program. tual of his time," Baranski, a The Devers Program in professional 'Dantist,' attrib­ It keeps Dante Studies was established uted the Italian poet's genius Fill Your Head ... in 1995 to promote a wide to his enthusiasm for litera­ Counseline Gives You the range of scholarly activities at ture. Speaking in the Special more than Notre Dame relating to the Collections reading room In Information You Need. • study of the great Florentine Besburgh Library, Baranski poet, Dante Alighleri. The stressed Dante's voracious ap­ memones Dantn Program furthers the petite for books and how his vision of Father John A. Zahm, extensive reading enabled him alive. who assembled one of North to create the masterpiece America's finest Dante collec­ "The Divine Comedy." Counseline: tions for Notre Dame. In addition to endowing an While William Devers, annual visiting professorship lx7793 whose only campus connec­ in Dante Studies, the Devers tion is his daughter's gradua­ Program also funds rare book tion from the Notre Dame law acquisitions and supports American Heart ~ school, seems an unlikely can­ electronic and print publicu­ Association.M~ didate to fund a program tion of current scholarly. Fighting Heart Disease based on a medieval Italian research in the field. and Stroke poet, he explains his donation Last year the Devers as a means to "get back to my Program made two significant liberal arts roots." acquisitions in the Dante col­ Counseline is an audiotape information service At a dinner on the 14th floor lection possible. The first was sponsored by the Psych Club and the University of llesburgh Library, following a 1629 edition of "The Divine a mass said by University Comedy," the last to be print­ Counseling Center. Counseline offers information AMERICAN HEART President Father Edward A. ed in the Renalssanee. This ASSOCIATION Malloy, William Devers said hand-held version of Dante's on stress, anxiety, relationships, depression, self­ MEMORIALS & TRIBUTES that he was "very happy that epic poem was the thirty-ninth esteem, eating disorders, and anger. Look around ~ my wife and I took advantage to be acquired by tlw your dorm for our list of tapes. The phones are ,.. of Monk's offer to support the University. 1-800-AHA-USAl open Mon-Thurs 4pm to 12am. We are here to program." Also acquired through the As a symbol of the appreci­ Devers Program is a fine qual­ provide you with the information you need. ation for the Devers' invest­ ity facsimile of a fourteenth ment in Dante studies at Notre century manuscript of the This space provided as a public service. Dame, a plaque has been Divine Comedy. Both are on ©1994. American Heart Association placed in the Library display in Special Collections Concourse, depicting a por­ on the first floor of Hesburgh trait of Dante in a 1529 ver- Library until May 15.

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1 ~ page 4 The Observer • NEWS Thursday, March 21, 1996 TeleFile U.S. students lag in taking placement tests continued from page 1 By DEB RIECHMANN pares tests taken by students in stakes attached. If you want to tests for that very reason. Associated Press Germany, France, Japan, go to college, you have to pass Abroad, they are college ously filed a 1040-EZ form and England and Wales with this test." entrance exams, while in the have received TeleFile infor­ WASHINGTON advanced-placement tests - "In the U.S., you clearly don't United States, they are vol­ mation with the federal tax High school students abroad the hardest exams taken by have to take any advanced­ untary, he said. Make them booklet. The entire filing take and pass more demanding American high school stu­ placement test or score at any mandatory in America, and the process should take six to 10 tests in such subjects as physics dents. particular level to be admitted results would be much differ­ minutes to complete, according and chemistry than college­ The study, financed with a to the overwhelming majority of ent. to the IRS. bound students in America, a National Science Foundation our colleges and universities." Also, while the number of Since the TeleFile system is teachers' union says. The fig­ grant, found that one-fourth to U.S. students taking the tests completely electronic, it is the ures show a need for tougher one-half of students in the for­ Gerald Bracey, director of the has risen from 98,000 in 1975 easiest way for the IRS to pro­ standards in this country, the eign countries take the exams. Alliance for Curricul urn to 463,000 in 1995, some cess refund checks. The gov­ union contenJs. The percentage of students who Reform, an Arlington, Va.­ school districts are just begin­ ernment agency estimates that pass ranges from 25 percent in based umbrella group of 30 ning to offer advanced-place­ a check should be received England, Wales and Germany educational associations, says ment courses, which tend to within 21 days of filing. The "Most states here are work­ ing on raising their academic to a little more than 30 percent it's not fair to make interna­ attract students who choose to TeleFile system appears to be standards," said Albert in France and Japan. tional comparisons of these take the tests, Bracey said. part of the IRS's continuing Shanker, president of the effort to reduce the amount of American Federation of In contrast, 8 percent of paper involved in the trans­ Teachers, which represents American 18-year-olds took the action system. 885,000 teachers. "So far, what tests in chemistry, physics or The IRS has also recently we see are mostly good inten­ some 15 other subjects in 1995, announced that it will offer tions, not rigorous standards and only 5 percent passed, the direct deposit refunds and will report said. U.S. high school greatly expand the quantity of like the ones students overseas must meet." students can earn college credit information and forms avail­ The teachers union and the by doing well on these tests. able on-line. "Why aren't we up there?" Students can access this in­ National Center for Improving Science Education released a Shanker asked. "In all the formation on the World Wide study Wednesday that com- other countries, there are high Web at http://www.ustreas.gov/trea­ surylbureaus/irs/irs.html. The Applications are being accept­ automated system is available in Spanish or English. ed from NOW until MARCH 22 for Despite the ease of the new TeleFile system, those who all positions in LaFortune owe additional taxes will not enjoy an extension on pay­ Student Center (under the ment; the IRS says the amount must be paid by the normal supervision of the Student April15 tax deadline. Activities Office) and Stepan Medal Center. continued from page 1 Applications can be picked up at the Student of humanity." It is commonly regarded as the most presti­ Activities Office, 315 LaFortune, or at the LaFortune gious honor given to American Information Desk. Catholics. Among the 117 previous re­ cipients are President John F. Apply now For a great opportunity Kennedy, Catholic Worker founder and and learning experience! Archbishop Joseph Bernardin.

The Notre Dame Council on International Business Development would like to congratulate all members who were awarded internships for the summer of 1996:

Alaska--U.S. Dept. of Commerce Ireland--Citibank Washin2ton. D.C.--Baltic-American Dean Roy, Tom Asci Mark O'Carroll Enterprise Fund Ar~entina--Qlsten Corporation Ireland--IBM Melinda LaLone Susie Yang Rebecca Calice Texas--EDS En~land--Market Access Ireland--Janssen Pharmaceutical Christopher Millins Ben Gray, Dave Buckley Kathleen Zimmer New York--AIG En~land--H&M Partners Ireland--Waterford Crystal Venta Norvillas, Kristen Bell, Holly Rick Rembusch, Pat Maciariello Erin McMahon, Kim Shiely Andrews, Keith Whelan En~land--Bank of Montreal Ireland--Jefferson Smurfit Chica~o--Productivity Point Mary Schroeder Jeremy Heckman Ben Cordell En~land--Waste Mana~ement Ireland--H.J. Heinz Estonia--Tallinn School Amanda Maurer Tom Roderick, Sarah Stock Simon McLain, Nicole Carlstrom, John En~land--MHM Limited Mexico--Hylsa Kelly, Lisa Drury Kathleen Jordan Carrie Cook, Ana Gutierrez Estonia--Parnu School En~land--Arthur Andersen Italy--Waste Mana~ement Dave Majewski, Corrine Doran Elizabeth Stroik Kirsten Harter Lithuania--Polish University En~:Iand--Merrill Lynch Russia--Aifa Capital Megan Zachow, Dana Kavorick, Dawn Brian Saldeen, Jennifer Nettesheim Denise Campbell Novak Estonia--Estonian Shippin~ Co. Russia--AT&T Poland--Ja~iellonian University T. Ryan Murphy Lisa Kackos, Katie Bellock Mary Joel, Tim Vieria, Dustin DeGrande, Estonia--Estonian Bank Russia--Morozov Project Deb Hick Carrie Stewart Catherine Mullaly, Emily Locher Honduras-- La Universidad Estonia--Estonian Government Russia--Honeywell CatOiica de Honduras Tom Snider Matt Murray Linda Tovar, Marifran Knutson, Gary Estonia--Dvi~atel Slovakia--Tatra Bank Zehrbach, Adam Salgado Chris Hanson Bob Belden Germany--ABB France--Arthur Andersen Jason Subler, R. Jacob Bump Kim Tonto r NDCIBD would like to thank all those who applied for summer internships. This year's selection process was extremely competitve with a field of highly qualified applicants. Interns were selected on the basis of Council involvement, strength of academic and professional record, and specifications particular to each firm. NDCIBD is open to students of all classes and majors--Come learn more about our organization on Saturday March 23 at 1:30 in the Knights of Colwnbus Building. The World is Waitint:l Thursday, March 21, 1996 The Observer • NEWS page 5 As he sees it. .. IDIDiigrants rush for green cards By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT her mother woke her and efits with the now-expired doc­ Associated Press rushed her off downtown. ument. "I just dropped everything The INS began the card-re­ WASIIINGTON and came down here," she placement effort in November Thousands of legal immi­ said. 1993 in an attempt to deter grants, some responding to An INS spokesman in San counterfeiting of the green rumors of mass deportations, Antonio expressed some skep­ card. rushed to federal offices na­ ticism that latecomers weren't "We feel that in the 40 tionwide Wednesday to renew aware of the deadline. "We've months that this program has expiring "green cards ... been in this roughly two years ensued, we have in fact made Immigration officials said and these folks have had a lot various and numerous attempts there was no threat of penalties of time to get in and do this," to make sure that the public against those with expired said spokesman Ray Dudley. "A understood and knew what the cards. lot of them will say 'I just requirement was and that we Since late 1993, the heard.' But actually, I think have given them ample time to Immigration and Naturalization they just waited until the last request replacement," said INS Service has asked those with minute." Deputy Commissioner Chris permanent resident alien per­ Still, there was confusion Sale. mits issued before 1979 to about which document had ex­ Of the 1.5 million people es­ renew their green cards. pired. timated in 1993 to be holders of But word apparently failed to Kim Ogden, an INS the older cards, probably reach many. spokesman in Dallas, said many 200,000 to 300,000 have yet to "I heard nothing ... whatso­ who showed up at that office replace their documents, Ms. ever, not until 6 a.m. on the worried that other immigration Sale said. radio," Larry Healy, a 67-year­ documents were expiring. Before 1979, there was little old retired railroad worker And rumors were circulating consistency in issuing green originally from Ireland, said as of "mass deportations" for cards - a misnomer as the he waited in line at the Los holders of expired cards, he cards haven't been green since Angeles INS office. said. World War II and the latest "If I had known about it, I Lack of a new green card ones are pink. would've come one month, two doesn't change a person's sta­ Often, the cards were months ago," Healy said. ''I'm tus as a legal resident. cranked out on typewriters The Observer/Dave Murphy retired. I have nothing else to But failure to obtain a new with the photograph affixed As part of Keenan, PE, Lewis, and Lyons' Human Rights Week, do." card could pose problems for with tape and then laminated. Colorado Congressional Candidate Les Franklin drew upon his Standing next to Healy, 31- those who travel abroad and The latest version, dating to public service experiences to offer students his perspectives on year-old South Korean native then try to return to the United 1990, require a thumb print achievement, employment, and education in the esc last night. Sunmi Choi said she only States, as well as for legal and a signature and can be learned of the deadline when immigrants applying for ben- scanned by machine. CAMPUS MINISTRY••• ••• CONSIDERATIONS

WHAT'S THE FUTURE OF THIS RELATIONSHIP? STATIONS OF THE CROSS: Every Friday at 7: 15 pm in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart They were both seniors. They had dated for almost two years. Graduation was looming. They both were interviewing for jobs. They felt that this relationship was special; they were serious about each other. But they just weren't sure what the next step was. Should they Senior Retreat 1996 look for jobs in the same city or should they test the relationship with Facing the Future with Hope some distance? Should they get engaged now or should they work for a year or two first and establish some career goals? Friday, March 22 (4:00PM) They came into the Campus Ministry Office hoping for some through Saturday, March 23 (6:00PM) information. Perhaps we had a compatibility test they might take to see if they were truly meant for each other. Did we have any articles they Sign-up by tomorrow at the Campus Ministry Offices. might read? Did we have any advice on what they should do? Questions? Call631-7800 or 631-5056

This was a new twist. Though we had offered programs for engaged couples for many years, we had not really thought about this category Lenten Retreat of couple. A program for the engaged would not be appropriate for this SpiritJUJI Livine in 11 SeculAr World couple. They were still exploring their relationship - the decision was Saturday, March 23 (5:30PM) through not yet made, and the decision might eventually be to not continue the Sunday, March 24 (3:00PM) relationship. Sign,up by tomorrow at the Campus Ministry Offices. After identifying their issues we put together a program and called it Questions? Call631, 7800 or 631,5056 "What's the Future of this Relationship?" It includes presentations on the stages of relationships and decision-making. While we were able to avoid "compatibility tests", we did include a marriage expectations quiz. , ·~ -· ~ ~~:!nr There is time for answering questions and a lot of time for discussing Fridays'a·t 12:15 ... 1:00 p.m. answers with your partner. There is a discussion period for questions and a folder of articles for additional information and reflection. 2nd Floor South Dining Hall

If you are in a significant relationship perhaps you'd like to attend the FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT program this semester. Weekend Presiders "What's the Future ofthis Relationship?" will take place Sunday, at Sacred Heart Basilica March 31. Pre-registration is required. Registration papers can be obtained in both Campus Ministry Offices (Library Concourse and Sat. March 23 5:00p.m Rev. Thomas O'Meara, O.P. Badin Hall). Registration deadline is Thursday, March 28. The Sun. March 24 10:00 a.m. Rev. Thomas O'Meara, O.P. [Program is limited to 25 couples. There is no cost for the program. Ifyou have any questions, please call Chris Etzel, Sylvia or John 11:45 a.m. Rev. David Schiedler, C.S.C. Dillon 631-5242. Sunday Vespers Sun. March 24 7:15pm Sister Kathleen Beatty, S.S.J. -----~------

page 6 The Observer • NEWS Thursday, March 21, 19% Kaneb Center for Undergraduate Teaching. RHA Last blast of winter Board "The Trustees are very inter­ continued from page 1 ested in what students have to continued from page 1 say and can change policy as a slams Midwest region find students' specific concerns result," Patrick said . "We we need to put that behind us hope students see this and want and continue working in a pos­ Associated Press refuge in a coffee shop in down­ in relation to multiculturalism. to take advantage of it." itive manner. town Indianapolis, where it was From these applications, the committee will choose three to Student government will ac­ "We hope to have strong The last storm of winter still snowing this morning. communication and a lot more pummeled the Midwest yester­ Up to 15 inches of snow fell four groups to present their cept applications from student concerns to the Board of organizations and individuals interaction with residence life, day with up to 15 inches of at Scottsburg, Ind., and and continue open communi­ snow and wind whistling at 57 Indianapolis got 11.3 inches Trustees. until March 29 and will "We're asking anyone who announce the groups chosen to cation with the hall councils." mph, stranding travelers in Tuesday, its heaviest one-day Voting takes place today snowbound cars and leaving total all winter. feels they represent some type speak on April 2. The report will be made to the from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.; 11 a.m. more than 200,000 customers The snow drifts were up to 6 of diversity to apply," Patrick said. " I think personal interac­ Board of Trustees on May 2 or to 1 p.m.; and 4:30 p.m. to 7 without power. feet high on some rural roads p.m. in the dining hall. Schools were closed yester­ in Kentucky, state police tions and stories are much more 3. day from Michigan into reported. "The roads that are powerful than statistics alone." Georgia. It was the first time all passable are slick and haz­ In the past, the report has FLOWERS Flowers, Roses, season that Detroit shut down ardous. Two-lane roads are carried great weight with the DELIVERED Balloons, Birthday classes because of snow. down to one lane," said Jeff Board, several times resulting in Cakes, Fruit Baskets, policy changes for the Because of all the snow and Wardlow of the Indiana State ~7 DAYS~ Plush Animals and Gifts closed schools, the National Police. University. After a 'Back to Weather Service in Indiana had Drifting snow stranded 73 Basics' report made by student to postpone yesterday's travelers along a highway 25 government, which concerned statewide tornado drill. It was miles west of Indianapolis, said the quality of the academic life reset for Thursday. Cindy Birch, a dispatcher with at Notre Dame, the trustees ~asy tatGh moved to lower class sizes as The storm that began the Hendricks County Sheriffs ctocktower Square ALL MAJOR CREDIT Tuesday was blamed for nine Department. well as to establish the John A. 51400 US 31 North Phone Answered traffie deaths: two in Indiana, South Bend CARDS ACCEPTED 24 Hours a Day one in Michigan, two in West 277-1291 or 1·800·328-0206 Virginia and four in Kentucky. And whilfl deep drifts blocked Happy 21st Birthday fire trucks and ambulances, Chrissy. Hope your fire killed a 2-year-old girl at Woodburn, Ky. ller parents '"golden" birthday and 1-yr,ar-old sister were hos­ is very special. May pitalized in critical condition. the Lord's blessings Woodburn Volunteer Assistant bring you much happine Fire Chief Garland Richardson said he didn't know if and success in the for: Savannah Akins could have coming year. The Assoclla•alon of Colleae Unllons-lnternatllonal been saved if rescuers had Reallonal Conference occurrllna on the llotre been able to reach her home Dame campus lin llowember 199 7 sponsored by sooner late Tuesday. the OHIIce of Student Actllwlltlles Spring officially began yester­ day at 3:03 a.m. EST, the ver­ much love, Rules and Regulations nal equinox or the time at • Must contain and maintain the theme "Discover Gold" which the sun was directly over Dad, Mom, Guy &Bill. • Other pertinent information: the equator. ACU-1 Region 9 Conference Some growled. "It's just been a lousy winter," Connie Smith November 7-9 1997 said Tuesday while taking • The design must be two·dimensional • Any medium may be used, i.e. watercolor, colored pencil, charcoal, etc. • The design should be in color. • The des!gn must be contained within a 8 1/2 X II inch piece of paper. • The des1gn must be adaptable for use in various formats, i.e. T-shirts, stationary, signs, promotional items, etc. • Deadline for all entries is 3:00 PM on April 4, 1996, at the Student Activities Office. • The selected logo design will become the property of ACU-1 and the University of Notre Dame.

Thursday, March 21 • 7-8:30 pm Sunday, March 24 • 7-8:30 pm More information is available from the Office of Student Activities, 315 LaFortune Student Center. Living the Social Teachings How Do I Get Involved of the Church in Service? What are the social teachings of the There are many service organizations Church? How do we make them a in the South Bend area. A panel of part of our lives as Catholics? We hear members from our Notre Dame and see a lot about social action; what community, devoted to lives of service does it mean in our daily experience? and prayer, will share with us how Rev. J. Bryan Hehir will reflect with us they answer the call to service in their on the role service can play in our own lives. Come listen to our panel lives and how each of us can better share their experiences of how respond to the message of the enriching service can be. Gospel. Panel Members Panel Members Isaac Duncan, La Coso de Amistad Rev. ). Bryan Hehir, Professor, Harvard Colleen Knight, Mexico Seminar Divinity School, formerly served in john MacLeod, Head Basketball Coach Washington, DC at the U.S. Conference of Karen Schulte, Dismas House l Catholic Bishops Music Ministers Music Ministers Pangborn Hall Choir The Campus Mariachi Band

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MARCH 21 I 24, 1996 • CHAPEL OF THE HOLY Notre Dame ub CROSS • KEENAN-STANFORD HALL, 7-8:30 PM SPRING CONCERT STUDENTS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND ALL THREE (Z\MPUS Friday, March 22 8:00 p.m. Washington Hall AD proceeds benefit Mandy Abdo Fund 'Tickets on sale att/1e LaFortune Box Office and at the door SESSIONS OR AS MANY OF THE THREE AS THEY CAN. MINISTRY Thursday, March 21, 1996 The Observer • BUDGET PLAN page 7 ------~~~~~~~~~==~~~~------~~~ GOP leaders, Clinton to talk budget balancing • Clinton for discussions just one line-item veto, regulatory re- R epU blleans dbatlydgaeftt.er he unveiled his 1997 form for small business and &'\·< '97 higher benefits for working \:il BUDGET make efforf On their way to the White Social Security recipients to House, Senate Majority Leader must-pass debt-limit extension President Clinton and the Congressional Budget Office have differing · Bob Dole, H-Kan., House legislation. views on how to balance the budget. What each side forecasts: t 0 COmprOm lSe Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., "Hopefully, we can do some 100 By DAVE SKIDMORE and House Majority Leader business," said Dole, who Estimates In billions of dollars 44 I AssodatcJ Press Hi chard Armey, H- Texas, said Tuesday night clinched the GOP they also wanted to talk to Clin- presidential nomination. 0 WASIIINGTON ton about other items that re- The leaders also said they l!epublican congressional main hung up between want to avoid a new federal leaders went to the White Congress and the president. shutdown this weekend, when -100 Jloustl to meet with President They include welfare reform, temporary spending authority Clinton today in what the overhauling immigration laws, for many agencies expires. administration said could be a product liability bill and Congress and the president are ·200 the start of a last-ditch effort to spending for the District of trying to complete a compro- 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Columbia. mise bill that will finance the compromise on a balanced bud­ '------·---··------' gill. The GOP leaders said they programs for the remaining six also wanted to talk to Clinton months of fiscal 1996. AP The GOP lawmakers re­ Curry told reporters. providing $166 billion to oper­ spondnd to an invitation from about possibly attaching the "The three of us will make the case we ought to keep the "It's not going to be open ate dozens of agencies and de­ very long. It certainly will be partments through the fiscal ..~~!1111••••1111!11!1!1•••••..,•••-,~- .. government open," said Gin- closed if we all begin campaign­ year that ends Sept. 30. A week ing by 6 o'clock tonight, so we and a half ago, the House what wi II you do after g,::it. """' .. ;d,,. mak;ng hope we don't end up in that passed a much more austere the rounds of television net- position. version. • f work news shows, said today For his part, Clinton used the Now, if they are to avoid an­ the talks may be the last release of his election-year other shutdown, lawmakers gra dUa tlon • chance this year for both par- budget earlier Tuesday to tell from both chambers must iron ties to reach a budget compro­ Republicans once again that out a compromise that Clinton mise. they could strike a balanced­ won't veto. "We have been through the budget deal if only they would That likely won't be done Why not help us change lives? 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page 8 The Observer ·NATIONAL NEWS Thursday, March 21, 1996 Court: 1990 Clinton to testify by videotape in trial By CHUCK BARTELS he got the questions in ad- census Associated Press vance. ·McDougal, his ex-wife Susan GOP appears to soften can stand LITTLE ROCK, Ark. and Gov. Jim Guy Tucker are A federal judge today said accused of arranging nearly $3 demand on Senate inquiry By LAURIE ASSEO President Clinton could testify million in fraudulent loans from in a Whitewater-related case by McDougals' Madison Guaranty Associated Press By MARCY GORDON Tom Daschle, D-S.D., told re­ videotape because traveling to Savings and Loan and David Associated Press porters today, "We've been WASHINGTON Little Rock Hale's Capital Management talking but so far there is no The Supreme Court upheld would be too Services Inc. WASHINGTON resolution." He said Dole's the 1990 census results, much of a Hale is the government's Senate Republicans appear June 15 proposal had not been rejecting a bid by local gov­ burden. chief witness and claims Clinton to be softening their demand formally presented to the pressured him to loan Susan ernments to force an adjust­ But he that the chamber's Democrats. McDougal $300,000. Clinton ment to make up for an won't get the Whitewater investigation be "We're prepared to find admitted undercount of luxury of get­ has called the accusation "a extended at least until the ways with which to end this in minorities yesterday. ting ques­ bunch of bull." The McDougals middle of July. But the a meaningful way by the end tions submit­ say only Clinton can set the The secretary of commerce Clinton Democrats rebuffed the GOP of May, but we will not go had the discretion to decide ted in ad- story straight. leader's new suggestion to end beyond the end of May. That's not to adjust the census vance. Howard said ordering Clinton it a month earlier. long enough," Daschle said. results, the justices said in U.S. District Judge George to travel to Arkansas "would be The partisan dispute has For three days last week, the unanimously rejecting a Howard Jr. denied motions by unduly burdensome to the pres­ dragged on for weeks. Republicans fell short of the challenge by New York City, defense lawyers for James and ident in the performance of his Democrats want a quicker end 60 votes they need to end Los Angeles, Chicago and Susan McDougal to compel official duties." to the special committee's in­ debate and to proceed to a other local governments. Clinton to testify in person at Clinton personal attorney quiry, which began last July vote on extending indefinitely Changing the 1990 census their conspiracy and fraud David Kendall could not be with a mandate that expired the Senate Whitewater would have stripped trial. immediately reached for com­ on Feb. 29. Committee's authority. Wisconsin of one member of The judge will preside over ment, nor could White House · Senate Majority Leader Bob The Republicans hold a 53- the House, transferring the the questioning by video con­ attorneys. Dole, interviewed Tuesday 47 majority in the Senate. seat to California. ferencing and rule on ob­ .The White House and Justice night on ABC News' Democrats have rejected as "We hold that the secre­ jections as they come up. He Department asked Howard to "Nightline," said he believes unreasonable a GOP compro­ tary's decision was well with­ also will edit the videotape if let Clinton testify on his own the investigation should be mise offer to end the investiga­ terms. in the constitutional bounds of lawyers cannot agree on what wrapped up "fairly soon." tion by mid-July, before major discretion over the conduct of is pertinent for jurors to hear. The videotape will be made in "I think by mid-June," said party presidential nominating the census provided to the Rejecting Clinton's request to private and the original tape Dole, the 'GOP presidential conventions begin in August. federal government," Chief get the questions in advance, will not be released. Howard front-runner. ''I think we can In turn, they suggested a com­ Justice William H. Rehnquist Howard said lawyers can ask said he would unseal only the come to some agreement .... promise of a five-week exten­ wrote for the court. the president whatever they portion of the videotaped depo­ (We can) try to get an agree· sion and an additional sition that eventually is played "In 1990, the Census like about allegations raised ment to end it by June 15." $185,000. Bureau made an extraordi­ during the trial. He said the before jurors. Dole's Democratic counter­ The original GOP plan was nary effort to conduct an only reason a president might Howard directed lawyers for part. Senate Minority Leader for an open-ended extension accurate enumeration, and deserve such special treatment the prosecution, defense and and $600,000 more to spend. was successful in counting would be if national security Clinton to agree on a date and was involved. time for the deposition. If they fraud and is to be sentenced cutors, said she wrote checks to 98.4 percent of the popula­ Monday. The judge's order was pay off McDougal's personal tion," the chief justice wrote. "They concern matters from cannot agree on a date, prior to his presidency, so mat­ Howard will set one, the order released just before a former American Express bill and for Rehnquist said those who Madison employee returned to renovations to his home. The challenged the census results ters of national security will not said. be concerned," Howard said. The judge said the videotape the stand in the trial, which be­ money came from an account "have not argued that the gan March 4. set up to pay construction bills secretary's decision not to Clinton had argued that the will be made after Hale testi­ process would go more easily if fies. Hale has pleaded guilty to Lisa Aunspaugh Thompson, for various Madison properties, adjust was based upon an under questioning from prose- she said. intent to discriminate on the basis of race." "Indeed, in light of the gov­ Don't Let Your Spring Break Fun Stop! ernment's extraordinary A Party to Honor Every efforts to include traditional­ Child's Favorite Friend, ly undercounted minorities in the 1990 census," Come See Showboat! Rehnquist wrote, those who sought an adjustment Enjoy the play and two hours to shop and "would have had a tough ~Franklirr~ dine in Chicago for only 25 bucks. row to hoe had they set out This loveable, childlike turtle ha~ captured the hearts of to prove intentional discrimi­ thousands of children! Franklin stories are also treasured by Sponsored by the class of 1996. nation by the secretary." parents and teachers, who find them a gentle and entertaining New York City Corporation way to help kids cope with common childhood dilemmas. An Hurry while tickets Counsel Paul Crotty said he international success, Franklin books are available in seven last. is disappointed in the deci­ sion. He contended census languages to children in nine countries. officials' recommendation to Tickets are on sale NOW at the LaFortune "Franklin fans everywhere are adjust the 1990 count to Information Desk. make up for a minority Invited to join us for a fun-filled undPrcount was overridden reading to celebrate the charming for political reasons by the y turtle-hero! The Franklin Bus Leaves at 4:30PM from . Republican secretary of com­ reading will be held on:" merce, Robert Mosbacher. If the census had been adjusted, Crotty said, New Saturday York City would have been MARCH 23rd entitled to additional tens of 10:00 a.m. millions of dollars in govern­ Notre Dame Bookstore ment aid. Book Department But he said he generally is Come see the Chicago satisfied with the Census be reading about Franklin's adventures, musical now on tour! Bureau's announced plans to doing fun-filled activities and more! find and count more minori­ The Kiltarton Rood ties in the 2000 census. 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__j page 10 The Observer· INTERNATIONAL NEWS Thursday, March 21, 1996 Germany debates limits Earthquake kills 24 in China By CHARLENE FU Many people were at home on grants for citizenship RUSSIA fujsociated Press when the quake struck at 11 for Aussiedler affairs. By PAUL GEITNER p.m. (10 a.m. EST). 'Xinjiang' Associated Press Most, however, were trapped BEIJING Seventeen of those killed behind the Iron Curtain. Until A powerful earthquake has were children under the age of BERLIN the late 1980s, only about leveled remote towns in north­ eight, said Bake Aji, director of 20,000 or 30,000 a year actu­ Germany is struggling with western China, killing at least the Kashgar Seismology CHINA record unemployment, a stag­ ally made the trip, usually after 24 people - most of them Bureau. nant economy and a ballooning West Germany paid a "ran­ young children - and leaving "They were home watching federal deficit. som" to the Soviet-bloc govern­ 10,000 homeless. television and couldn't get out So why, the leader of the ments. The magnitude 6.9 earth­ fast enough," Bake said.Most IND7<~\\(¢~ political opposition asks, should But as communism crumbled, quake late Tuesday struck set­ houses in the region are one­ / Bay of iw'\, ·· ~ ' Chma •. the country grant automatic the numbers jumped. More tlements along the centuries­ story dwellings made of baked } Bengal )) t·'{·~·:r~~) Sea .... } citizenship - and all the wel­ than 2 million have arrived old trade route known as the mud bricks and topped by • AP fare benefits that entails - to since 1988, most from the for­ could cause heavy casualties if Silk Road in China's Xinjiang wooden beams and mud that they collapsed. more than 200,000 immigrants mer Soviet Union. region. from the former Soviet Union The government estimates The quake and 68 af­ each year, just because they another 2.2 million are eligible tershocks of up to magnitude come from German stock? to come. 5.1 caused 50,000 buildings to The question, posed last Pia Hermann, 71, and her collapse and cracked a dike, Dear Shari, month by Social Democratic 74-year-old sister, Julia Jauf­ government seismologists said Party chairman Oskar La­ mann, arrived in 1994 from Wednesday. At least 78 people fontaine, unleashed a tempest Kazakstan, where Hermann were injured, nine of them se­ Loving wishes on your of criticism. illustrating the says ethnic Germans had to riously. 21st birthday!! May you always sensitivity of the subject of hide their language and culture Casualty reports, however, immigration in Germany, and do jobs no one else want­ were incomplete due to disrupt­ enjoy Happiness, Success in All where a surge of anti-foreigner ed. ed communications with the you do and Life's Contentment!! violence that followed unifica­ Standing next to their bunk hardest hit area, Jiashi county. tion in 1990 has only recently beds in a tiny room at a Red B;y late Wednesday afternoon, subsided. Cross shelter in eastern Berlin, only one village in the county Critics from across the politi­ the two women who had never had reported in. cal spectrum accuse Lafontaine before set foot on German soil Jiashi is about 43 miles east of resorting to demagoguery in said in old-fashioned German of Kashgar, an ancient bazaar the hope of winning votes in that they finally feel at home. town. Sunday's local elections in "We never felt like Kazaks," The earthquake was centered Love, three important states. A Jaufmann said. close to Artux, 15 miles north strong showing by the liberal "We were German." ofKashgar. Mom Social Democrats could endan­ ger Chancellor Helmut Kohl's conservative coalition in parlia­ ment. Lafontaine insists he's only DO NOT BE ALARMED. facing facts. With a jobless rate of more HE WILL NOT SCARE than 11 percent, "we just can't bring more and more workers YOU. ALL YOU HAVE TO to Germany," he said in a newspaper interview last week. DOISSEE AN A recent poll found 70 per­ cent of Germans supported La­ fontaine's call to limit the flow of "Aussiedler," ethnic German immigrants from the former ALL WILL BE WELL. Soviet bloc. The German-born Empress JUST WATCH IT. Catherine the Great invited German farmers and crafts­ people to Russia in 1762 to help modernize the country, YES, IS GOING TO BE granting them land, religious freedom and other special privileges. AT CUSHING F ..i. &Sat 8/10:30p. During World War II, Stalin ordered all ethnic Germans in AND Sunda .I'll. $2.00 the lower Volga region de­ ported to Siberia and Central Asia as potential traitors. Ren~.en~.be .., see it AND NO ONE Thousands died in labor camps or coal mines. Because of that persecution, West Germany's postwar con­ WILL GET HURT. GOT IT? GOOD. ~STUDENT UNION BOARD stitution included the right to au tom a tic citizenship for Aussiedler. "We have a responsibility to the people who had to suffer because they were German," The University of Notre Dame is pleased to announce that said Horst Waffenschmidt, the federal secretary responsible

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• lETTERS TO THE EDITOR • GooN liFE Academics teach Pessimism darkens American society Dear Editor: stances, as well as at voters' mism, responsibility, and eco­ Christiane Likely has done it aptness to fall prey to such nomic growth, not the party of again. While she surely desires demagoguery. It is unfortunate Buchanan. Opposition to the 'people skills' racial tolerance and accep­ that a few oversensitive leaders high taxes and crime her col­ Aeadnrnics wnre made for man, not man for academics. tance, her writings unfortu­ were able to incite the Iatino umn complains about have This variation of Jesus' proclamation ("The Law was made nately preach pessimism and community into believing this always been firm planks in the for man ... ") senms fitting, in light of where we are and what division. In her most recent column to be racist. Hepublican platform. wt~ am doing - studying, researehing and writing. It is a stu­ article ("Hepublicans whimper Furthermore, Pat Buchanan Worst of all, Likely's column dent's task to conform to what the instmetors expect (a 30- and whine," March 6) she des­ is not the Republican party and drips with pessimism. While I pagn rnport, a enrtain typP of projPct, footnotes done "just so"). perately attempts to tie the de­ has in fact been repudiated not agree that many parts of our Still, unless we plan a earenr in teaching or research, does plorable actions of "one sicko only by the vast majority ·of He­ society are sick, I believe it is knowledge of such Neo-nazi" to the "whole Hepub­ publican voters in the nation slowly but surely getting better. details have any ben­ lican Party". That connection but also by such prominent Few would deny the wrongs efit beyond college? cortainly does not exist. party leaders as Newt Gingrich, committed by the United States Even more important: Also, Likely's examples of Bob Dole, William Bennett, over its history, but despite hate and ignorance are knee­ Colin Powell, and William F. these, it is hard to forget the does this knowledge ·e Ferraro do anything to deep in false assumptions. Buckley Jr. Pat Buchanan is a advantages of living in the Jull enhance our lives as First of all, Chicago Tribune populist, not a conservative, United States. Pessimism only God's children? columnist Mike Boyko's con­ and disparages such conserva­ maintains the status quo. I suppose the point troversial piece concerning Pat tive notions as free trade and to stress in all this is Buchanan and Mexico was po­ Wall Street. The Republican JIM SCHUELLER that a lot of what litical satire, intended to poke party is the party of Lincoln Junior takns place on this campus is not "real life", and students fun at Buchanan's extremist and Reagan, the party of opti- Keonan Hall shouldn't get the impression that it is. The employers with whom a young person hires on after graduation will rarely Violence strikes: cheek grammar or spelling (many executives can't spell them­ st~lves), and thny won't really care if someone can find their way around a library. They will be more interested in "people Domers fear for classmates abroad skills" because, unless the office is a windowless room in the bottommost basement, business involves dealing with people Dear Editor: of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. evnry stt~p of the way. I am writing in reaction to several of your They must always consider which bus to take, This is where personal faith comes in. Whether one is an recent articles: an Inside Column, and a two­ they can never travel alone, and they must avoid aemuntant, a lawyer, a biologist or a diplomat, the ability to part series, both on the recent bombing of a any possible disturbances. see others as equals- all God's children - is vital. The Golden bus and its effect on NO students study­ Despite the dangers of all these programs, Hule, "I>o unto others ... " applies to everyone of all religions. No ing there. Understandably, there is much con­ though, the study abroad experience is in­ matter if a person has a college degree, or what their racial or cern for the safety of fellow Domers. valuable. Year after year students apply to study ethnic origins are, il has no bearing in business or at a social However, there are numerous other places in in Jerusalem although there is no guarantee the gathering. The ultimate value placed on any person is that he the world where NO has study programs. For program will be held until they board the plane or she is created in the image of God, and that same God loves example, ND and SMC students study in Japan, to Tel Aviv. During the intifadah (the Palestinian each individual unconditionally. where deadly fumes were released in the busy uprising that began in 1987), and during the gulf We should do likewise. If anything, that is what college Tokyo subways. NO has a program in Mexico War of the early 90's, no program was held offers the students a chance to learn. By bringing together City, where devastating earthquakes often occur. there. Those of us who are fortunate enough to pt~ople from around the world, of all races and faiths, there In France there have been numerous dangerous study in Jerusalem would never trade in the are countless opportunities to face one's own prejudices or strikes. Ironically, the London bombing occurred experience. fflars. This is where the emphasis of college should be. around the same time as terrorist bombings in Whenever friends and fellow students are in So, don't let the academics get you down. Most of what is Jerusalem, another NO study location. danger, like those in London, it is appropriate to crammed into the textbooks, then crammed into the students' As a participant in the NO Jerusalem program be concerned. However, it is also essential to be bruins will be forgotten and unused after the diploma is in last spring, it is easy to imagine what the stu­ aware of problems and situations in many other hand. What will be useful is how we've learned to relate to dents there are experiencing. The program is places all over the world. others, whieh -above wealth and power - is what "success" is centered at Tantur Ecumenical institute whose all about. wall is part of the imaginary border line between SARAH MCDONALD Julie Ferraro runs every other Wednesday. Israel and the West Bank. 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-PinkAoyd page 12 VIEWPOINT Thursday, March 21, 1996 Church and state collide in open court But fine. Like Christine Likely, I appreciate the hon­ Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf come from, anyway? When he esty of firebrands, even when it comes at little or no was Chris Jackson, it seemed to be America. So where Abdul-Rauf· cost to themselves. (Mahmoud Abdul-Kauf, for his does Christiane Likely come to write about "a nation part, certainly got tired of confrontation when it began and its flag"? I don't stand by the actions of the US at to cost him money). Malcolm X is the grea1 black fire­ every moment in its history. but there's certainly no brand, but even the lesser men who succeeded him, getting around the fact that it is my country and that I like H. Rap Brown or Bobby Seale, knew how to make am a citizen of it. That much can be gleaned from my A Likely story a point. "Violence is as American as apple pie," said birth certificate. If I really wanted to reject the US, I Brown, at the height of his celebrity. suppose I would emigrate to Israel; just as honest Like most Observer readers, I enjoy Christiane Why then do Rauf and Likely find it so necessary to black separatists from Marcus Garvey on down have Likely's "In My Neighborhood" columns a lot. You hide behind religious sanctimoniousness? Likely advocated leaving America for Africa. Likely, for her can't beat an angry victim for columnistic rhetoric, insists on quoting prayers from the Quran to us, as if part, doesn't seem to be going anywhere but Atlanta; especially when it comes straight from the mean the mere fact of holy writ justified the dubious position and Rauf has modified his "spirituality" so as not to streets of Pasquerilla West. Now that Father Griffin is of the basketball player who wouldn't stand for the interfere with the ludicrously well-paying game that is retired, she is probably my second-favorite Observer national anthem, and the columnist who feels reli­ his fortune. columnist. (Why she doesn't use a title playing off her gions, except her own, are "man-made" and "confus­ The thing that bothers so many people. I think, is last name is a mystery to me, ing," with Christianity "an insult" to that the Christiane Likelys of the world are so smug in but that's okay. Matt Apple God. their sense of victimhood. But they never have any rejected "The Fifth Column" as a Contrast this horseplay with a time for specific reforms, because that involves hard, possible title for a Common honest man like Dennis Rodman. aggravating work, and generally requires you to sub­ Sense feature. Oh well.) I bring Rodman doesn't want to play by the merge your sense of moral ascendency. It's a big up Likely for another reason. Josh rules, either, but he hasn't wrapped buzz-kill to deal with the realities of American society. In yesterday's column, she himself up in sacred scripture. For That's the appeal of the flat tax, anti-semitism, and, of makes the case for the Denver him, the existential confrontation: course, that old standby, "my own spiritual growth and Nuggets' Mahmoud Abdul Rauf Ozersky he challenged the NBA's director of development." Like their mirror images, Pat as being put upon by the \ operations like Job before the whirl­ Buchanan and Ralph Reed, Hauf and Likely advance no "eggheads" of the NBA offices. wind. "Suspend me, Rod Thorn. cause but themselves, and they don't even do a very "I fully understand what the Suspend me." Now why couldn't good job of that, seeing as how they have pointlessly Brother is going through," Likely Mahmoud-Rauf do likewise? His alienated themselves from society. says, with sisterly solidarity. "It is very difficult to try decision was plainly a political one. Why not stand by And it is their society: if Mahmoud Abdui-Hauf, to maintain your religious/spiritual ideologies when your political beliefs, instead of hiding in a religious Christine Likely, or Louis Farrakhan ever do one tenth they differ ... [from! the popular or majority religious stance which you obviously don't take seriously enough of the good work of any $20,000 a year welfare case­ systems." You know what? I don't find this surpris­ to lose by? According to Hakeem Olajuwon, a Moslem worker, or city high-school teacher, or small-town ing. Mahmoud Abdui-Rauf and Christine Likely seem so devout he fasts during the regular season, there is public defender, they should get on their knees and to have exactly the same perspective on things. This is nothing in I~lamic theology, Wallace Fard notwith­ thank Allah. In the meantime, they would all do well easily explained. Here is the explanation. They are standing, that says that a Moslem shouldn't respect the to get off their high horse and realize that, whether both self-righteous, spoiled, adolescent bullies. customs of the country he lives in. I think Mahmoud they spout scripture, "spiritual" buzzwords, or PC jar­ I don't mind being harangued on account of my privi­ Abdul-Rauf might have taken a page out of Rodman's gon, it all amounts to self-promotion in one way or leges, my real or imaginary complicity in historical vil­ book. At least then you wouldn't look like such a hyp­ another. lainies, or even the color of my skin. Even the naked ocrite when you do knuckle under. In America. we Which really is as American as apple pie. How could anti-semitism many American blacks express in pri­ have free speech. but it is only "free" legally - not in Rauf and Likely ever have doubted that they belong vate (and occasionally in public) is understandable. the sense that it is without responsibility, or conse­ here? They aren't the first, or the last, to get tricked that quences. It seems to me that only people in very shel­ way. I had hoped that calling people "eggheads" went tered environments don't understand that. Josh Ozersky is a graduate student in history. His e­ out with the fifties, but we live in an atavistic period . Which brings up another point. Where does mail address is [email protected] • lETTER TO THE Emn:m Speaking of anthems, amendments, and millionaire Muslims ... Dear Editor: NBA's announcement of the suspension All is well in the world of hoops: Notre and Abdui-Raufs concessfon. In other Dame has promising young talent; the words, after SL >era) months and 62 eventual national champion may actual­ games of refusing to stand for the ly be a team I like; the Big East is a National Anthem, Abdul-Rauf caved Beast once again (Syracuse-my favorite almost as soon as his actions would have team after NO-made it to the Sweet cost him anything; he did miss the 16); and there's a new movie about the Nuggets' game on March 12-the day greatest hoops franchise ever-the the suspension was announced. Boston Celtics. I can't even root against The ridiculousness of the whole situa­ the Knicks any more, since Jeff Van tion does not result merely from the fact Broadly-speaking, the First tant and vile bigots in recent memory­ Gundy coached my high school class­ that it was a "protest;" this country has Amendment protects freedom of expres­ recently flouted federal law by visiting mates in the mid-1980s. Over break a long, proud history of-and indeed sion: religion, speech, press, assembly terrorist nations without first notifying however, every time I turned on the tv, was founded on-protests and fights and petition. However, the First the U.S. State Department. In addition to radio or tried to read the paper, I was against injustice. What's ludicrous is the Amendment (and the Constitution itself) Farrakhan's lengthy record of anti­ besieged by "Abdul-Hauf." spectacle of this 27 -year-old criticizing limits-with few exceptions-only gov­ Semitic and racist statements, the The refusal of Denver Nuggets guard the "oppression and tyranny" of the ernmental entities. In other words, the Nation of Islam teaches racial division, a Mahmoud Abdui-Hauf to stand during United States-a country which guaran­ NBA's status as a "private" actor means doctrine not found in the more widely­ the National Anthem would have been tees the world's most profound free­ that while the suspension may well have accepted and long-standing faith of the most ridiculous spectacle of the past doms to those who protest against it and penalized Abdul-Raufs speech or reli­ Islam. week, were it not for the gaggle of com­ a country which enables Abdul-Rauf to gion, nothing in the United States While we should welcome the sincere mentators falling all over themselves to make $2.6 million per year to play bas­ Constitution prevents the NBA, the expression of religious and political defend Abdui-Hauf's "freedom of ketball. While many black Americans Nuggets or any other private actor from beliefs, we must not be cowed-out of expression." Not only does the United continue to suffer injustice, the absurdi­ so doing. Even the few Constitutional political correctness or any other influ­ States Constitution not protect this pur­ ty of Abdul-Raufs protest is that its set­ provisions enforceable against private ence-into misrepresenting the ported "protest," Abdul-Rauf's almost ting was the NBA, perhaps the world's actors (e.g., the 13th Amendment and Constitution. Having read Malcolm X's instantaneous concession on the issue most privileged collection of multi-mil­ parts of the 14th and 15th Amendments) autobiography twice, I certainly have calls into serious question whether there lionaires, most of whom are. black. are inapplicable here. Abdul-Raufs case disagreements with him; yet I am was ever any "principle" involved at all. Even given the absence of any princi­ is thus fatally nawed not only in terms of impressed by his messages of self­ Calling the American flag a "symbol of pled or intellectual underpinning, I can credibility and logic, it also has no reliance, self-restraint and respect for oppression and tyranny," Abdui-Rauf see why Abdui-Rauf may have engaged Constitutional force. Perhaps that's why women. Muhammed Ali sacrificed the initially stated that he would rather give in such a charade. A convert's zeal is he gave up so easily. best years of his career rather than up his NBA career than stand for the often the strongest (witness Saint It is understandable that many sincere compromise what he saw as his reli­ Star Spangled Banner. After the NBA Paul)-Abdul-Rauf converted to Islam in Muslims-in this country and else­ gious duty-not to serve in the United announeed (on the night of March 12) 1991 and changed his name two years where-are concerned that people like States military during the Vietnam War. his indefinite suspension without pay­ later. Perhaps the Nation of Islam's Abdui-Rauf and Farrakhan will be Next time, before Abdui-Rauf or any­ which would have cost Abdui-Rauf Louis Farrakhan preyed upon Abdul­ viewed by casual observers as typical one else-of any religion-decides to $31,707 per game-it took the Nuggets Haufs faith and manipulated him into adherents of Islam. The Houston create a public spectacle, perhaps he guard less than 48 hours to decide that this embarrassingly simple-minded and Hockets' center Hakeem Olajuwan and should study Muhammed Ali or Malcolm standing wasn't so bad after all. transparent spectacle. What I can't other devout Muslims emphatically deny X. Then again, he could just read the What is even more telling is that the understand is why many commentators that Islam requires or even allows Constitution. Nuggets had no games scheduled on insist on misrepresenting (or misunder­ Abdui-Rauf's actions. Farrakhan-a JOHN.T.REFERMAT March 13 and 14-the days between the standing) the First Amendment. charla~an and one of the most unrepen- Third-year law student ,... I Thursday, March 21, 1996 page 13 I I MIKE JOHNSON Year of Mondays I (out of five) I ark'! Yes. Dismal'! Yes. Depressing'! Yes. Good'! No felt like I was treading water because I wouldn't use my time I doubt about it. Mike Johnson's second solo project, well enough." On Year of Mondays Johnson finds this freedom D Year of Mondays, is definitely a success. allowing him to do his own thing. This is not a Dinosaur Jr. I Johnson, the bassist for alternative engineers Dinosaur Jr., album, despite the appearance of .I Mascis. It is a Mike I shows his talent on this ten song compilation that skids along Johnson album, demonstrated in the first track "Where Am the bottom of the earth in content, but at the same time soars I'!" where his voice rumbles in a deep baritone throughout. I high in the sky with musical ingenuity. And musical talent is This Leonard Cohen sound-alike makes his songs unique from abundant on Year of Mondays as Johnson moves from bass to Dino Jr. with his voice, as his music sometimes resembles that acoustic and electric guitars with great ease, clearly showing of his day-job band. how his trademark guitar-istic bass playing developed. In all seriousness, Year of Mondays is not as depressing as It is not, however, Johnson alone on this album. Instead, he it first seems. Songs such as "Circle" and "One Way Out" bring invites close friends .I Mascis (singer/guitarist for Dinosaur Jr.) an upbeat, pleasant sound to the album. For those who enjoy and Barrett Martin (drummer for Screaming Trees) to play longer jams, Johnson includes two ten minute-plus songs, along with him. Mascis ventures to play drums and Martin "Overdrive" and "Eclipse." plays bass. Johnson also incorporates a string section as well This is not a Dinosaur Jr. album, but it will appeal to the as the backing vocals of Tiffany Anders on several tracks. majority of Dino fans with its darker, heavier sound. Being in Dino Jr. is not an easy task, especially for someone who wants to explore their own creative side. As Johnson -by Christian Stein Courtesy Attanttc Records notes, "I never felt frustrated by Dino, but sometimes I just

;;· (out of five) here are many things that make Sting one of the Winter," follows the same path. preeminent of his generation. Among them The rest of the album is not as memorable. Gratuitous horns T are his unpredictability. Dream of the Blue Turtles was combined with a mystifying taste for country kill songs like jazz-pop . ... Nothing Like the Sun was politically charged jazz­ "All Four Seasons," which sounds like it was written in about non-pop. Then came 1991's The Soul Cages. Written in the ten minutes. "You Still Touch Me" is, lyrically, an update of wake of great personal tragedy, as were many of Sting's "Every Breath You Take." Musically, it's totally disposable. greatest works, it is still the greatest album to not receive a And then there's "La Belle Dame Sans Hegrets." It's won­ Grammy. Then came Ten Summoner's Tales, a much lighter derful that Sting can write nightclubby faux-Latin music and pop album that was happier than Cages and much less musi­ all-French lyrics, but that doesn't mean he should. cally fulfilling. There were a few masterworks, but it was evi­ The country flavor works on "I Hung My Head," mostly be­ dent that the catharsis that was Cages was a one-time mas­ cause of the song's odd time signature. Make no mistake terpiece. Sting's new album, Mercury Falling, shows that the about it, on his worst day, Sting would not write "Only Wanna sequel to Cages has yet to, and may never, appear. Be With You." But the poetry, the emotion, the pure feeling of Sting is no longer "the brooding young man." At least, not Cages reflects Sting at his songwriting apex. Mercury Falling always. "Valparaiso," a travelogue augmented by the shows Sting for what he is-a happily married, enormously Northumbrian pipes that colored Cages, is a hauntingly at­ successful middle-aged pop star. Personally, that's great for mospheric ballad. "I Was Brought to My Senses," a tale of him. Musically and lyrically, it sounds as though Sting's muse love's discovery, is lyrically and musically evocative, just like has flown .. .for now. courtesyA&MRecords "." The album's lead track, "The Hounds of -by Kevin Dolan

Too Young To Die- Singles 1990-1995 SAINT ETIENNE (out of five) his compilation was released to encourage people to interesting new subtlety and admirable degree of restraint. saint etienne check out one of London's most loved yet not-as­ This latter track is one of the highlights of the album; a work T famous-as-they-deserve-to-be groups. It includes some encompassing the sadness of loving and losing set to a dynam­ of their best tracks; there can be fewer more joyous pop songs ic backing overlaid by lush vocals. than "Pale Movie," and 's voice is a sublime Saint Etienne are one of those groups who gleefully provide ("'""' a..,c.·.,.,,\.,.,.\ Ju" tJ..,. presence throughout the album. However, the principal defect many memorable and quotable lines; from the mournful "she '"V lUI ...... 1ft \'--"~ ... ~' -·It - dull, gray and long," and 1 f"lt1 IIV\·'"' classics from two of their previous albums, and the intimate "he shows dreams like a movie, she's the softness

···"~• Tiger Bay. Instead of being a gem, it leaves the listener feeling of cinema seats," to the bizarrely cryptic "he said her skin ...... 1-'4 ..... ;1'" smelled just like pebbles." These ensure that whatever the 11\·. fl,..,, •. t-. .. I'' I, something is missing. Including tracks such as "I Was Born 1.\ ..... t ..... On Christmas Day" and "Nothing Can Stop Us" hurts an other­ status of the group, they will be remembered for a long time. I ,..,llo•· ti\.l.\\•1"••1\c. wise a great compilation, and as with all collections, a certain We are left with an album that could have been stunning t.\ . .I u..... • continuity and coherence is lost. If one can put up with this, but is merely very good. If classic and subtle English pop tolyiiJ '•••' f,\ • • ~. ~~ I Auuo howevr.r, what remains is hugely enjoyable. music is to your taste, then this compilation will serve as a As the tracks span five years, the maturing of Cracknell's useful introduction. The group's previous works are all of voice can easily be traced. Her youth is evident on the earliest exceptional quality, and Too Young To Die represents an ade­ song, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," as fine a piece of quate and rewarding ensemble of them. energ1~tic singing as one could hope to come across. Four -by Julian Elliott Courtesy Epic Records years later in "Like a Motorway," her approach gains an • WVFI CORNER Bad Religion ARCHERS I I The Gray Race OF LOAF fter recording their break­ ~~-tc The Speed A through hardcore (out of five) first LP, How Could Hell Be Any Worse? in the early Baker is reluctant of Cattle eighties, Bad Religion decided to take a turn in direc­ to discuss his days tion. Lead singer/honor student Greg Graffi, invested in the eighties glam ~c~-tc-tc in some keyboards to further the band's success. After hair-metal band, all, it worked for BowWowWow. Fortunately, guitarist Junkyard, when he (out of five) wrote rocking Brett Guruwitz had the soul to call it quits in the stu­ Atlantic Records he Arc:hers of Loaf sound like no one else you've dio. The band dissolved, each member going back to anthems like evflr lward. Tht)y an1 musical freaks, but in a their respective. universities, but that funky keyboard "Blooze." T good way. Lead singer Eric Bachmann strings album, lnlo the Unknown, was released. Bad Heligion, The Gray Race has its moments, but they come his guitar like no other guitarist, and he has a very dis­ a bastion of punk rock, is so embarrassed by the sporadically. The title track, "Them and Us," tinctive voiee. Archers songs are typified by album that it's about as easy to find in stores as Alanis "Parallel," "Ten in 2010" and "Nobody Listens" should Bachmann's grave vocals with lyrics that walk a line Morissette's first "Debbie Gibson of Canada" album. satisfy the most avid Bad Heligion fans with their line between the metaphorically beautiful and the Obviously, Bad Heligion deCided to strap the instru~ quick pace, hummablo choruses, and brevity. After nuHwingless. 'J'tw melody is backed up by an energetic ments back on. After live alburris for the indie label .first listen "Parallel" ,and "The Gray Hace" will be the bassist and a lead guitarist who makes sounds you Epitaph, Brett Guruwitz hit theroadagain. Bad ones still swlmmhtg in your brain and humming in n1wer thought would come from a guitar. Heligion had just finished a major label debut for your lips. "Punk Hock Song" is a few tempo notches The Speed of Callie is a eollection of re-recordings Atlantic. Apparently, Mr. Brett knows when to rethink slow from a classic Bad Heligion anthem. and Peel Sessions of previously released material, with those luxury cruise tickets for the USS Titanic. Unfortunately, these songs constitute the bulk of good one new song. Since many of the songs arc from eso· The Gray Race is by no means another Into the tracks on the album. On other songs, Greg Graf!in terie 7" mcords and compilations, they will bo new to Unknown. Fret not young punkers, you'll find no synth departs from his intellectual barking and attempts to all but thr. most die-hard of Archers fans. The songs jams here. However, The Gray Race is by no means "sing" too often, and his harmony was never very span the four years the Archers have been around, and fresh or inventive. The drum rhythms keep getting good. The typically rousing cheers of "Lets Go!" on show thoir musical growth through that time. ever so slower on each successive album. Bobby "Them and Us" and "Hey! Hey!" on "Spirit Shine" are While some may call the Archers freaks, tho bottom delivered with all the acting fervor of Keanu Heeves as Shayer may one day soon drop to the sub-Max I line is that people like them. Despite their distinctive Jonathan Harker in "Dracula." Weinberg rhythm level. New guitarist Brian Baker • I sounds, the Arctwrs appeal to the mainstream alterna­ seems to possess an itchy whammy-bar finger, as The Gray Race is a decent album, but a better Bad Heligion album to purchase would have to be Suffer I tive listener because of their ability to write infoctious lengthy, noodling solos spoil several songs. It's hard to I pop songs that you'll be humming for days. believe Baker grew up playing bass for the most influ­ or No Control. -l1y /Jan Connolly, WlPI ential hardcore band ever, Minor Threat. However, -by Brent DiCrescenzo ' "' page 14 Thursday, March 21, 1996 by tim bayne reg a Zlggy Marley and the Melody Makers Aragon Ballroom, Chicago March 9, 1996 he Windy City was truly miser­ Generation (will make the change)" able but Ziggy Marley and the which transformed itself into the pulsat­ T Melody Makers turned on con­ ing dance-hall workout of "Live it Up." scious party for those who came in from And then it was time for the proclama­ the cold. While the stern visage of Halie tion of the gospel of ganja: "You got the Selassie kept a watchful eye on the pro­ apple tree, you got the mango tree, you ceedings the Aragon crowd skanked to got the orange tree, and you got the the positive vibrations of one of the marijuana tree, and God made them all I tightest reggae acts in the business. good. I and I smoke the herb of Mt. I -- True to their Rastafarian roots, Ziggy Sinai, I and I are in the flow." All this by 1.,_ way of introduction to "In the Flow," a and the Melody Makers put on a right­ Photo counesy of Tim Bayne I eous performance that bore witness to, track which was included in last year's I and to some degree embodied, their release, Hempilation. Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers brought their unique combination of dance hall and I vision of cosmic unity. Not to be constrained by the laws of reggae to Chicago's Aragon Ballroom. I Julian and Damion Marley, supported logic, "Tipzy Dazy" was prefaced with a I by the fantastically tight Uprising band, lesson on the evils of drugs -"No crack, ing energized. Stephen Marley, who the party was not over yet as the band I were the opening act. After the compul­ no morphine, no cocaine" -and con­ shared much of the singing duties with broke it down for a tougher-than-tough I Ziggy, turned on a truly inspiring cut of mix of "Look Who's Dancing" with some I sory greeting "in the name of his cluded with the chant "Strictly Majesty Haile Selassie I", they launched Marijuana." The fact that Ziggy was "No Woman, No Cry," which featured of the wildest on-stage dancing one is I the soulful voice of Cedella Marley. likely to see this side of Shiloh. The irre­ I into an hour of fine one-drop, ragga, sporting a checkered shirt a la Lamar and soca riddims. Julian's attempt to get (that polytrickster!) did nothing to From here on in the hits just kept on pressible positivity of "Could You Be I rolling down as the energy-level went Loved?" sent the crowd back into the I the crowd singing along with his diminish the irony of the moment. I "Blossomin' and Bloomin"' fell flat, but a At this point in the proceedings some up. The failsafe "I Shot the Sheriff' was cold Chicago night. four-on-the-floor version of "Exodus" of my fellows started to leave the flow. followed by a soca reworking of the Ziggy Marley may not have inherited I and a take-no-prisoners cut of "War" The fresh-faced youth in front of me be­ 1988 classic "Tumblin' Down" and a his father's genius but he has surely I both went down like cold Fosters in a gan convulsing -the result, no doubt, of very livicated treatment of "Get Up, inherited the Marley gift of touching the humid Wollongong woolshed. too much in the way of the sacred herb Stand Up." The tour moniker, 'Free Like heart by moving the dancing feet. After I By now the crowd was well and truly and too little in the way of a high-fiber we want 2B," came across with passion the lewd slackness and superficial sen­ I livelied up for Ziggy and the Melody breakfast. As his friends said, "The dude and urgency, while "Move it" persuaded suality which characterizes ragga and I the crowd to do just that with the fattest dancehall, Marley's spiritual connected­ I Makers. In crystal-clear sound they wasn't, like, totally cool." Then the giant effortlessly performed material drawn of a man to my left decided that he was funk groove Chicago has seen since ness, as naive as it undoubtedly is, is I George Clinton became a grandaddy. welcome relief. For three hours the I mainly from their last album, Free Like going to enjoy his conscious party while We Want 2 B. interspersed with a good sitting on the floor. But everyone was Ziggy stripped things back with the bare crowd at the Aragon, black, white and I and honest cry of "Justice," a stand-out every shade in between, was jammin' in ~,.. number of songs taken from the corpus fairly happy at this stage and they didn't I of that more famous Marley. really mind. Meanwhile the energy from track from One Bright Day cut from the a spirit of unity (or 'inity'). And that I First up was the hopeful "My the stage was keeping those still stand- same cloth as "Redemption Song." But must surely count for something. I I I 1. Tripmaster Monkey - Practice Changes 1. Sting -Mercury Falling 2. Too Much Joy - .. .finally 2. Oasis -(What's The Story) Morning Glory? 3. Siberia - Damage 3. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill 4. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom 4. Everclear - Sparkle and Fade 5. The Presidents of the U.S.A. - self-titled 5. Kiss- Unplugged 6. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele 7. Possum Dixon - Star Maps 6. Surrender to The Air -Surrender to The Air 8. Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and·the 7. No Doubt- Tragic Kingdom Infinite Sadness 8. Spacehog - Resident Alien 9. Bad Religion - The Gray Race 9. 7 Mary 3 -American Standard 10. Lush - Last Night 10. Celine Dion -Falling into You I I I I CONCERT REVIEWS I t w experiences in life withstand before the P-Funk proper began, Clinton funksters know that, but they also know Things heated up a little when the I omparison to seeing George led the crowd of racially diverse funka­ that funk is its own reward. natti dread on percussion stepped o I F Clinton and associates open their teers in a chorus of random P-Funk from behind his congas to toast I bag of party tricks. Seeing Clinton give it chants: "S**t, go**amn, get off your ass ne might wonder how a reggae skank, but it was the hit "Baby I Love I up for the funk is a little like what one and jam; If you ain't gonna give it up, band came to playing on St. Your Way" that really got the audience I might imagine snorting Vegemite to be. take your dead ass home." When the O Patrick's day in an 'Australian' on their feet and moving to the reggae I The sheer metaphysical mayhem of funk finally came it was loud, heavy and nightclub located in the heart of beat. I Parliament Funkadelic rivals that of the definitely chased away any egocentric Arizona, but such mysteries are not to I Kabbalah, while uncut P-Funk often unsatisfunktion that was in the house. be solved by such cognitively im­ Halfway through the set, the lead I lives up to the press reports that it is poverished creatures as ourselves. The singer introduced a song with the state ~ ~- indeed the ultimate force in the Sure, the sound was pretty terrible lead singer explained the connection ment that the band stood in and the band was a little unsettled, but thus: "You know, mon, St. Patrick was a with all native peoples. As he wa !

I I I The Mothership was an hour and a someone forgot to tell the audience. The rebel like us, and this is rebel music 'cos speaking, the 'friendly' security threw late because George and his freaks ten member band forged a mothership we fightin' for freedom too." Maybe the only identifiable Native American re stuck in Vail by very unfunky connection from one Parliament he's right, but the crowd was there to out of the house for being a little over­ er (caused, no doubt, by the evil Funkadelic classic to another -"P. Funk hear sweet reggae sounds, not a lesson zealous in his appreciation of the "rid­ Nose D'VoidofFunk). The crowd was (Wants to Get Funked Up)", "Give Up the in Irish history. dim" and rhyme. Not surprisingly, the stless as they waited for Dr. Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)", irony of this seemed to be lost on unkenstein and his extraterrestrial "Up for the Down Stroke"-that, for And if Big Mountain knows how to do crowd composed of people taken from thers-they had waited a long time three precious hours, united one nation one thing it is surely to produce sweet population that had almost given their funk and they wanted it bad. under a groove. There ain't nothing like reggae sounds. Unfortunately much of Buchanon the Republican primary. The finally came on at 11 pm to tell a P-Funk party, but the P-Funk is not their material was unknown to the sweet St. Patrick's Day reggae contin 's weird and wonderful starchil­ just a party. Indeed, the apparent psy­ crowd and their performance, while pol­ ued, but the positive vibration had a hol­ that the Funkentelechy would soon cho-babble of Clinton's cosmos is actual­ ished and precise, lacked a certain low ring to it after that. flowing. And indeed it did as the P­ ly a very clever commentary on the ills degree of intensity. Funk Allstars wandered on stage. But of American society. Of course, -by Tim Bayne I ' I I I CONCERT REVIEWS C NC T I Thursday, March 21, 1996 The Observer • SPORTS page 15 • MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALl Lieberthalleads Phillies as Cards continue to struggle A.. odatcd l'ress subbml for the second time for Huskey, continuing to fill in and Mike Munoz then held the one and walked none. Heynoso Alan Benes, who's day-to-day for injured first baseman Hico Padres to two hits over the final has given up just three earned ST. PETEHSBUJH;, Fla. with a stilT neck. Busby worked Brogna, had a solo horner in three innings as the Rockies runs in 14 innings, and hasn't Hooldt~ Mikn Lidmrthal homn­ four innings, allowing a run on the second. Huskey had two won for the seventh time in walked a batter. rt~d and had two HBls as the two hits. hits in the game while raising eight games. l'hiladt~lphia Phillins beat St. Zeile's HHI single in the lil'th his spring RBI total to 14. Galarraga's two-run homer, Dodgers 7, Expos 4 Louis 3-2 Wednesday. handing made it 2-0. Jeff Bagwell had a three-run his fourth of the spring, gave tlu~ Cardinals their seventh David Bell had an RBI double homer in the eighth for the Rockies a three-run lead A two-run homer by Mike straight nxhibition loss. in the bottom of the fifth, and Houston. after three innings, but the Piazza capped a live-run first l.iPlwrthal. the Phillies' back­ Urbani followed with a single, Jerry DiPoto pitched a perfect Padres scored once in the fifth inning, and Isrnael Valdes up c:atdwr. had a saerifiee fly but Bnll was easily thrown out fifth, and got the victory and twice more in the sixth pitched well as the Los Angeles in tlw sc~eond a 11 d lod off the at the plate by right fielder because Hundley's horner off thanks to wildness by Colorado Dodgers beat the Montreal ninth against Dennis Eekerslny Mark Whiten. loser Scott Bankhead broke a 4- reliever John Burke. Expos 7-4 Wednesday. with his seeond home run of the The Cardinals tied it 2-2 on 4 tie and put the Mets ahead to Burke, who walked all five The Dodgers scored all their spring. Ecknrsley, who pitched doubles by Hay Lankford and stay. batters he faced Sunday, runs in the first two innings ofT in the ninth for the first time John Mabry in the seventh. Both teams had 16 hits, but walked Chris Gwynn to open Expos starter Rheal Cormier. this spring, has given up two the Astros made four errors the sixth and later gave up an Raul Mondesi, Mike Blowers home runs in nine innings. Mets 15, Astros 12 that contributed to four HBI single to Scott Livingstone and Hoger Cedeno had HBI sin­ Mikn c;raeo allowed thrHe hits unearned runs for the Mets. and a bases-loaded walk to gles in the first before Piazza in six innings, his longest outing Todd Hundley hit a decisive Rico Rossy. hit his his fourth homer of the of the spring, for the Phillies. three-run homer in the sixth Rockies 5, Padres 4 San Diego starter Fernando spring. c;raee allowed a run, lowering inning, and Butch Huskey con­ Valenzuela gave up four runs in Valdes allowed live hits and his EHA to 4.50. nected for the sixth time this Andres Galarraga, who hit six 4 1-3 innings and has allowed two runs in live innings while Winner Dave Leiper allowed spring as the New York Mets homers against San Diego in 10 earned runs in 8 2-3. lie walking three and striking out a run on two hits in one inning. beat the I Iouston Astros 15-12 1995, got another one gave up back-to-hack RBI dou­ seven. Mike Harkey allowed Tho Phillies snapped an Wednesday. Wednesday when a split squad bles to Larry Walker and Vinny two runs in two innings, then eighth-inning tie when Gregg Hoberto Petagine added a of Colorado Rockies beat the Castilla in the second and Todd Worrell and Mark Guthrie .JeiTt~rins seored from third on two-run homer in seventh, Padres 5-4. Galarraga's homer in the third. held Montreal hitless over the Todd Zeile's double-play when the Mets were in the After losing a 4-1 lead, the Colorado starter Armando last two innings. grounder . .ldTerit~s and Mark midst on 11-run outburst over a Rockies pushed across the go­ Reynoso continued his stellar Piazza also doubled in the Whiten had opnned tlw nighth three-inning span. New York ahead run in the sixth inning spring. The right-hander first, and Brett Butler and with singlns ofT Torn Urbani. also scored six runs in the on a hit batsman, two singles allowed two runs on five hits Roger Cedeno added two sin­ Cardinals slarlt~r Mikn Busby eighth. and a grounder. Lance Painter over live innings. He struck out gles apiece for the Dodgers.

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- J page 16 The Observer· SPORTS Thursday, March 21, 1996 l •NBA I Rivalry is renewed as Knicks down Pacers, 102-99 r By CHRIS SHERIDAN sion set at the end of the first Indiana, which got 20 points 3-pointer and a free throw, wrap up the victory. Associated Press half after missing another pair from Derrick McKey and 16 sandwiched around a turn­ NOTES: Charles Oakley prac­ r of 3-pointers. from Dale Davis, lost its second around jumper by Ewing, to cut ticed with the Knicks for the NEW YORK "It's always going to be straight. the deficit to 91-87. second straight day. A roster John Starks pointed at his intense when these two teams The Knicks had an 8-2 run Starks drove the left baseline spot will open Thursday when chest, nodded his head and get together. This was good for early in the fourth quarter to go on New York's next possession Ronnie Grandison's 10-day con­ pranced downcourt in an exag­ both teams because it's getting ahead for good. Indiana pulled and passed to Harper near the tract expires, and Oakley could gerated gesture after making a close to that time {playoffs)," within one, 82-81, on the sec­ 3-point line for an open jumper be activated for Thursday crucial 3-pointer. Miller said. ond of Mark Jackson's consecu­ that made it 93-87. night's game at Chicago .... Reggie Miller punched a Patrick Ewing scored 31 tive 3-pointers with 4:54 left "John's defense was solid Starks started for the second television set. points for New York, which and again 38 seconds later on until that final minute and a straight gallle as Hubert Davis Obviously, things went better plays at Chicago on Thursday Miller's two free throws. half. Reggie had too many good sat out with a hyperextended for the New York Knicks on before heading to Texas for But the next possession led to chances at the end," Knicks knee .... Brad Lohaus was in Wednesday night than they did three more games by next Starks' 3-pointer from in front coach Jeff Van Gundy said. uniform for New York after for the Indiana Pacers. Wednesday. of Indiana's bench, and he ges­ New York hit 7 of 8 free missing two games with a sore Starks made two clutch plays New York, which won its tured at the Pacers bench after throws in the final minute to foot, but he did not play. in the final 3 1/2 minutes and fourth in a row, was playing for the shot went through. Miller didn't, and the Knicks only the second time in nine "I didn't see that, but its good began a tough stretch of five games. to know John is feeling his games in eight days with a 102- The Knicks moved within a oats," Miller said. 99 victory over the Pacers. game of the Pacers for the third E-wing followed with a left­ "It felt like a playoff atmo­ seed in the Eastern Conference handed layup over Rik Smits for sphere here tonight," said playoffs. a six-point lead, but Miller hit a Starks, who has engaged in several playoff duels with Miller and the Pacers in recent years. "It felt good to be getting back Happy 21st! to the way we're used to play­ ing." made it. Starks and Miller refrained from any trash talk this time, but still tried to outdo each other. Starks got the better of this one, scoring 19 points on 6- of-8 shooting, including 4-of-6 from 3-point range, and getting a key assist in the final two minutes. Miller had 25 points, but he missed wide-open 3-pointers with 1 :04 and 50 seconds left when the Pacers had a chance e Ya' Kid Register a Team in Advance at RecSports to get within two points. Miller, Deadline is Wednesday, March 27 who finished 8-of-22 from the ASR field, also punched the televi-

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By TIM DAHLBERG the license months ago to join a big game. Assoiciated Press Las Vegas casino owner in the "If your team competes and company that operates a lucra­ doesn't play to the caliber that tournament play LAS VEGAS tive string of 1,000 slot ma­ it's capable of playing, there's Vaughn's defensive toughness? Georgetown basketball coaeh chines at McCarran going to be the question of By PAUL NEWBERRY Associated Press Would Massachusetts be No. 1 .John Thompson, bowing to the International Airport. whether or not the game had without the stability and 3- wishes of his university presi­ But news of his planned entry been fixed," Dempsey said. "It ATLANTA point shooting of Edgar Padilla dent, today said he will drop his into the gaming industry was just opens up a tremendous Allen Iverson springs toward and Carmelo Travieso? applieation for a Nevada gam­ greeted icily by both the uni­ suspicion, I think, that is not the basket, propelled by the "Nine times out of 10, the ing license. versity and the NCAA. necessary." qltickest feet in the country. guards are going to be put in a Thompson had plannnd to op­ NCAA executive director Gaughan said Tuesday he has Kareem Heid fearlessly ven­ leadership role," Iverson said nrate slot machines at the Las Cedric Dempsey said it would known Thompson for 15 years, tures into the land of giants, Wednesday at the Georgia Vegas airport but was told by be "ill-advised for anyone con­ and the Georgetown coach is a flipping in acrobatic shots or Dome, where his team will play the Hev. Leo O'Donovan, the nected to college sports to be regular slot machine player at creating easy baskets for his in the East Hegional semifinals university president, that he involved, even peripherally, the Gold Coast hotel-casino, teammates while defenders Thursday. "I think teams are couldn't do that and remain with gambling interests." which Gaughan owns. stand around dumbfounded. looking for guards who can lloyas coach. "He loves Las Vegas. He Dempsey also said he had Stephon Marbury bounces play physically and stay out "Our position is that it is "strong concerns about the comes here for recreation," the ball leisurely at the top of there on the court. They have inappropriate for an active image statement that this Gaughan said. "He wanted to the key when - boom! - his to know when to slow it down, Georgntown University coach to know if there was something he makes about the sport and powerful legs propel him in the they have to know when the havn investments in the gaming about him as a coach." could get involved with here." air for a 3-pointer while every­ opportunity is there to run. " industry," said the Hev. Leo McCarran business manager Thompson wants to own 10 one else remains firmly planted Georgia Tech wound up in O'Donovan, Georgetown's pres­ Larry Larson said the slot ma­ percent of a company con­ on the ground. the round of 16 by turning its ident. trolled by Michael Gaughan chine concession is the airport's They have taken the NCAA team over to not one, but two Thompson, in Atlanta to that runs the slot machine con­ most lucrative, bringing in tournament into their hands natural point guards. Drew eoaeh Georgetown in the NCAA cession at the Las Vegas air­ some $20 million to airport cof­ with the deftness of a crossover Barry led the Atlantic Coast East regional, said he had fers last year. Gaughan, howev­ port. Gaughan is the principle dribble. They are the Conference in assists for the reeonsidernd after speaking er, said it was a minor business stockholder in a company that UnGuardables. third year in a row, freeing up with O'Donovan. compared to the casinos. owns two casinos, but the slot "If you don't have any Marbury to develop as a scorer. "lin is a person who has been "John just loves to play machine concession is separate guards, baby, you can forget "They're definitely one of the extrnmely supportive and a slots," he said. "I've got 1,000 from the casinos. it," said Arkansas coach Nolan keys to winning," Georgia Tech person who I love very dearly Gaughan's son, Brendan, is a little old ladies out there who Hichardson, who has turned his coach Bobby Cremins said of beeausn he's permittnd me to know him by his first name. senior walk-on guard on the team over to the freshman his guards. "There's no ques­ be nw," Thompson said. "I They talk slot talk, which one's Georgetown team, which Heid. "You can have the big tion the guards are going to havfl dedded to drop it." ready to hit, that kind of thing. Dempsey said could be a fur­ guy, the aircraft carrier, but if handle the ball most of the time Thompson, an avid Las Vegas He's an entirely different per­ ther invitation to controversy if you ain't got a guard who can and take most of the shots." slot machine player, applied for son here." the team doesn't play well in a play defense and get the ball to A natural shooting guard those big people, on time, it when he came to Georgetown, won't matter." the 6-foot, 165-pound Iverson HousE FOR RENT Guards have produced the was moved to the point STUDENT GOVERNMENT IS seven highest-scoring games because that's the position he '96-'97 thus far in the NCAA tourna­ will have to play in the NBA. NOW ACCEPTING ment, but their importance "Last year. I used to rush a •5 Bedrooms goes beyond the points that lot," he said. "I wanted so NOMINATIONS FOR THESE wind up in their name. much to contribute to this team •Furnished How many teams, wary of and try to do things on my own. 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page 18 The Observer • SPORTS Thursday, March 21, 1996 • NCAA TmJRNAMENT Majerus, Crum fear Kentucky's depth and speed By OWEN CANFIELD healthy this week- last week­ with them." juries, academic disqualifica­ in his 25th year at Louisville. "I Associated Press end, he missed the first-round Maybe not, but Van Horn said tions and an NCAA investiga­ think most of it has to do with game due to the flu. the Utes will have to attack the tion during a season that al­ their effort and their attitude." MINNEAPOLIS In Brandon Jessie and press and then try to do what most ended in the first round of The Cardinals have some Utah coach Rick Majerus Michael Doleac, the Utes have has worked so well all year - the tournament. pretty good players, too, most thinks he knows how to combat enough size and strength to get to the foul line. The Utes led Instead, the 11th-seeded notably DeJuan Wheat and Kentucky's depth. present problems for the nation this year, hitting 78 Cardinals rallied from a late Samaki Walker. Wheat leads "Food poisoning," he said. Kentucky's frontline. The percent from the line. 12-point deficit to beat Tulsa. the team with 18 points per The coach who's always unknown - as it is with just That, and Utah's size advan­ then knocked out third-seeded game and has led the Cardinals quick with a one-liner wasn't about everyone who plays tage up front, are what most Villanova in the second round. in scoring and assists the past joking however when he really Kentucky - is whether Utah concern Kentucky coach Rick This from a team that entered two years. assessed the Wildcats, the top will be able to handle the Pitino, who noted that the Utes the tournament having lost four Walker, who missed 10 seeds in the Midwest Regional Wildcats' pressure and then get ranked No. 3 nationally in re­ out of five. games while the NCAA looked and strong favorites to reach good shots. bounding. "I've never had a team I think into his dad's purchase of a car, the Final Four. Virginia Tech did a good job '"I think they have strengths that is as short-handed as this gives Louisville size and scoring "We have a good team. We've against the press in a second­ over us, and I think we have team play as well as this team inside. played a good schedule," round game last week, but got strengths over them," he said. has played," said Crum, who is Majerus said Wednesday. "But worn out by Kentucky's parade "Which strengths win out?" we've not played the likes of of players and wound up losing Crum might argue that • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • these guys." by 24. strength of character is what • Kentucky (30-2) went through "It'll be something we haven't has carried his Louisville team • the Southeastern Conference faced much this year," said to the regional semifinals: regular season undefeated, guard Mark Rydalch. against No. 2 seed Wake • ARCHERY something that hadn't been "We can't run up and down Forest. The Cardinals (22-11) • done in 40 years. The Wildcats the floor and exchange baskets have had to contend with in- : .... have good size, great quick­ • M.1n1 Course ness, can shoot the 3-pointer • - and have more quality depth • than anybody around. "If anyone beats them this Tuesday & Wednesday year. they will have earned March 26 & 27 • their title," said Louisville coach Denny Crum, whose 7:00- 9:00 PM team could wind up facing Joyce Center - Gym 1 Kentucky in the regional finals, "because I still think they are All Equipment Will be Provided by far the best team." Utah (27-6) will counter Thursday night with one excel­ Class Size is Limited lent player in forward Keith Van Horn. plus a solid group of Register in Advance at RecSports supporting players. Morch 29, 30 at Bpm; March 31 at 2:30 pm $8.00Fee Van Horn is a second-team All-American and two-time little Theatre For ticket information call Western Athletic Conference 219/284-4626 Mon.-Fri., 9am · Spm fo?~~~ player of the year who is •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

AUDIT SHOR ,I...... I I I I Thursday, March 21, 1996 The Observer • SPOR-._:T~S::______page 19 seek to continue that on-field whether or not the games will •NBA Irish improvement. Despite their be played as sr.heduled. newly-attained national rank­ Whether they play these two continued from page 24 ing, the Irish vow not to take games or not, Notre Dame must Game highlighted anyone for granted. r.ontinue their improvement if starts, Bessolo improved her "Any team we're going to they are to have a strong sec­ rm:ord to 5-3 by winning 5 of 6 play will be a tough game, in ond half push. They must get starts on tho trip. our minds, no matter who they the encouraging play from by heated tempers "I felt mow r.onlident," said may be," said Bessolo. underrated players like Associated Press got into it on the baseline earli­ Bessolo. "I was a little nervous It must be noted, however, Bessolo. More importantly, the at first, but the more I get to er in the game," said coach that the possibility of a post­ stars, such as All-American SALT LAKE CITY play, tlw more eomfortable I Jerry Sloan, whose Jazz won ponement still remains. Coach pitcher Terri Kobata and sec­ The Philadelphia 76ers have fenl out them." their 15th straight home game. Miller told her team last night ond baseman Meghan Murray, struggled this season even c;oing into today's double­ "The mental attitude and en­ at practice that she and other have to continue their strong when they were at full hnadnr with Purdue, whom the ergy level jumped up after the officials will make the final de­ performances. strength. Wednesday night, Irish lHlVe never met in softball, incident." For Utah, that is. cision this morning as to The Irish may not be back in they lost their starting back­ all nwmbers of the Irish squad After Sean Higgins hit a top form, but are on their way . court and fifth straight game. technical free throw on They know they are improving, Jerry Stackhouse was tossed Hornacek's ejection, Utah but still want to achieve the out of the game with 9:39 left outscored the 76ers 21-9. high goals they have set for in the third quarter for fla­ "After the fight broke out, themselves this year. Bessolo grantly fouling Utah's Jeff they responded and we didn't," offered her final explanation as Hornacek as the Jazz guard said Philadelphia coach John to why the team's success is went for a layup. After the foul, Lucas. "Losing Stackhouse and picking up so much. both players scuffled and Maxwell makes it tough for us "I think, because spring Hornacek was also ejected. when it's already tough being break is such a long trip, we Vernon Maxwell was ejected as shorthanded as we are. got to be closer off the field. with 4:38 left in the second What disappoints me is that, if This off-the-field chemistry has quarter after being assessed a fight breaks out, you're sup­ made us better on the field in two technical fouls for arguing posed to attack, not retreat." games. We're definitely start­ with referee Leroy Richardson. Jazz teammates claim ing to click." "Hornacek and Stackhouse Hornacek didn't throw a punch and shouldn't have been eject­ ed. "There were Live, six seven shots thrown at our team­ The Observer mate," said John Stockton, who scored 12 points and handed out 15 assists. "Jeff didn't is now accepting applications for: throw a punch, not even close. But, yeah, it (the Light) got us up." Stackhouse had a different Saint Mary's Day version. "He (Hornacek) came back with an elbow at me, and then he walked up to me and that Editor was it," said Staekhouse. "I re­ gret the whole situation. It was Call Caroline Blum at 284-4349 or 631-4540 in the heat of the moment. I for information. wish I could have it all back, but I can't." ***Coming This Friday***

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Win Free Admission Passes for Fridays! ***So come join the "PARTY" only at Heartland*** page 20 The Observer • SPORTS Thursday, March 21, 1996 • SPORTS BRIEFS Davis • fiGURE SKATING ARCHERY CLINIC RecSports will be sponsoring continued from page 24 an Archery Clinic on Harding ignores USFSA ban excited because the races are Tuesday and Wednesday longer in the outdoor season. March 26 & 27 from 7·9 By WILLIAM McCALL speculation for weeks she will Harding, 25, was stripped of "It is my goal to get better Associated Press p.m. All equipmenrwm·be do so. her national title and banned every time," Davis said. "I try provided and the fee for the "Tonya is in the best shape for life by the USFSA for her to concentrate more on PORTLAND, Ore. she's ever been in," Schmidt role in the attack on Nancy class is $8. Class size is lim­ Tonya Harding's lifetime ban ited and you must register in improvement more than win­ said. "She's five pounds less Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. ning." by the U.S. Figure Skating advance at RecSports. than when she won U.S. na­ championships. Davis will have a chance to Association apparently isn't tional in 1991. "We'll deal with it if and HOOPS SHOOT OUT " stopping her from planning a RecSports will be sp(ll)$oting race again Saturday at the "She's practicing two to three when it comes up," said USFSA Wabash Invitational. Coach return to competitive skating. hours a day, seven days a president Morry Stillwell. a Hoop Shoot Ollt on She has been training hard Wednesday, March 27, at 7 Szczechowski is uncertain week. She's just more serious Bill Hybl, who chaired the about the other teams entered and might apply for reinstate­ p.m. in the Joyce Center about skating than she's ever disciplinary panel that barred in the tournament, but looks ment to the association, possi­ Arena. The Shoot Out will been." Harding from the USFSA for forward to the competition. bly by next month. consist of a One"on;,.Qne con­ He said Harding will hold a life, said today that he doubted "For most girls, this will be Her new publicist, David test. a Three Point contest news conference in early April the association's board of direc­ the first meet," Coach Hans Schmidt of Phoenix, and a Free Throw contest. to announce her intentions. tors would vote to let her back Szczechowski said. "It is hard would not confirm or deny that "We're going to unveil Tonya in. Advance registration in the Harding will petition the USFSA RecSports office is required to judge how we will do II," Schmidt said. "It's a whole "Based on the totality of the because we are very young." to have her ban lifted, or at new Tonya. And it's the right circumstances, that would seem and the deadline is Tu¢sday, least shortened. There has been March 26. There is no fee time." very unlikely," he said. for this event. 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CASTING AND ANGLING COURSE - Course includes four sessions which meet on Tuesdays from 6- 7:30 p.m. The dates are April 2. 9, 16, and 23. Classes are held in the Joyce Center, Rolfs, and campus lakes. Equipment is provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own. The fee is $8 for the class. Advance registra­ tion in the RecSports office is required.

l ~ Thursday, March 21, 1996 The Observer • S-=P'---O-=--R--=-T--=-S ______:_pa...::g:....e_2_1 • • COllEGE BASKETBAll Bowling down under Kruger rumored to coach Illini Alscx:iatrd Press who was born in Christchurch, Associated Press Guenther said Tuesday he Marty Kaufmann, an lllini New Zealand. asked permission to speak to spokesman, said Wednesday Bowl games named for "This will mark the first CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Kruger. Illinois assistant Jimmy that no press conference had fruits, nowers and even yard­ overseas college bowl game Florida coach Lon Kruger will Collins, who played for Henson been planned regarding the care products have come to be and we are thrilled to bring succeed the retiring Lou at New Mexico State, was also a hiring of a coaeh. accepted by football fans. A the game to my homeland," Henson as Illinois basketball candidate for the job. Kruger, 43, has a 104-80 bowl named for a Maori war said Ellison, the former line­ coach, according to broadcast Kruger and Guenther did not record in six years at Florida. danee is the latest to be added backer who won three Super reports Wednesday. immediately return telephone His 1993-94 team was 29-8, the to the list. Bowl rings with the San Illinois oflieials denied the re­ calls seeking comment. winningest record in the The llnka Bowl. pairing the Francisco 49ers during a 10- ports on Chicago radio stations Collins had been at a junior school's 76-year basketball his­ third-place finisher in the Pac- year NFL career. WGN-AM and WSCH-AM, say­ college tournament in Kansas tory, and reached the NCAA 10 against an at-large team, Haka is an ancient Maori ing no decision had been made on Tuesday when Guenther tournament's Final Pour. will be played in Auckland, war party's drumatic wur and no announeement was asked him to return to Before coaehing the Gators, New Zealand, on Dec. 27. dance performed in prepara­ planned. Champaign early to discuss the Kruger was 81-46 at Kansas Teams for the game, the first tion for battle. It has been syn­ Illinois athletic director Hon coaching situation. State, his alma mater. non-All Star football bowl out­ onymous with New Zealand side the United States since rugby for more than a (:entury. • NFL fOOTBAll 1937, will split $3 million. The "It should prove to be u bowl ganw will be played at 50,000- unlike any other and an event seut Eden l>ark and televised that will be a great experience Irvin involved in drug case by ESPN tl>ec. 26, 8 p.m. EST). for not only the Pac-1 0, but all The creator of the game is parties involved," Pac-1 0 com­ Associated Press "At the time the drugs were reported. former NPL player Hiki Ellison, missioner Tom Hansen said. found, , Angela Irvin's attorney, Kevin DALLAS Beck, (former Cowboys' tight Clancy, did not immediately Prosecutors say Dallas end) Alfredo Roberts and an­ return a call from The Troop Notre Dame presents Cowboys wide receiver Miehael other young lady by the name Associated Press today. Irvin will be subpoenaed to tes­ of Jasmine Jennifer Nabwangu A Cowboys spokesman who tify Thursday before a grand were present in the room," first deelined to be identified said The 3Ro Annual Campus­ jury about why he was in a assistant district attorney Norm the team had no official com­ motel room where a woman Kinne said today. ment about Irvin. Wide Talent Show was arrested on drug eharges. Subpoenas have been issued "lie is a witness" to the While investigating a motel for Irvin, Hoberts and arrest but was not himself March 23rd, I 996 manager's complaint early Nabwangu, who could faee arrested, the spokesman said. Hall at 7:30 March 4 about possible prosti­ charges, he said. "That's all I know at ·this tution and drug use, police in "It's possible that any of them point." suburban Irving said they dis­ could depending upon what the According to a 911 transcript E.nlly Lord covered marijuana, cocaine testimony shows," Kinne said. obtained Tuesday, the motel & and drug paraphernalia in a "We're not satisfied at this manager complained: room occupied by four people. Sabor Latino time as to who all is responsi­ "We have two individuals ~ A woman id.·ntified as Angela ble. They are going to be asked who keep clleeking into our v.es\S Henee Beck, 22, of Cedar Hill, a to give their statements so that hotel. ... They've been renting south Dallas suburb, was the we can see who is criminally the rooms and when we have to c\'3\ ~ only person arrested. S\Je J L J L-::::> c_-_J- ~ ~ responsible for the narcotics," clean up after them, we've "The narcuLics were found tn he said. been finding cocaine and crack Sgt. McCarthy, Jerome Bettis her property or immediately Irvin could not be reached for and marijuana. Well, they're & other campus celebrities around her" and she claimed comment Tuesday. At their back on our property tonight all the drugs belonged to her, home in suburban Carrollton, a and their room is getting Lt. Jimmy Perdue of the Irving woman identifying herself only noisy." • special ouest host • Police Department said as his wife said that she was Irving police chief Lowell Tuesday night. unaware of the incident and Cannaday said the circum­ Now, Dallas County prosecu­ that her husband was out of stances appear suspicious, but Tickets arc $3 avail­ tors say they want statements $4 at tile door. town, The Dallas Morning News that department able in the clining from the three others. doesn't have enough evidenee 11<~lls tl1is week to arrest or charge the wit­ nesses involved. 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"I definitely plan to step into Kurowski the two spot," Kurowski added. "Whether it be to start or to continued from page 24 come off the bench, I plan to After starting the first three play a significant role." games, Kurowski's role became "Also from a leadership severely limited, not even play­ standpoint, I can provide lead­ ing in many contests. ership for the younger players "After those three games, because I'll be the only player coach {John MacLeod) decided in the program to have been to shake the lineup a little bit here five years." and I just wasn't in his plans In his fifth year, Kurowski be­ the rest of the year," Kurowski lieves the Irish can get over commented. that proverbial hump and win Behind senior captain Ryan the games that slipped away Hoover there were not many this season. minutes to be distributed and "We pretty much have solid Kurowski experienced the play at every position," brunt of this situation. During Kurowski said. "We were able the season, however, MacLeod to compete this year, but we slated that he had not given up were unable to win games. on Kurowski. Next year, we should be able to "To look at what he's gone win those game we should have through and see that he's still won this year." playing says a lot about him," Of course, Kurowski's deci­ MacLeod said. "It's very diffi­ sion was not a simple one, but t one he hopes will provide a fi­ . . . . . The Observer/David Murph~ I cult for him to be in the posi­ Th. e .b ench became a familiar s1te for Ke1th Kurowski as he spent much of last season watching from the I tion he's in. He was the 25th nal year to remember. Sidelines. "I believe I'll have one good best senior in his class in the Calif. and Todd Palmer of year before I leave this place," energy I country, and it just hasn't hap­ Ramsey, N.J. as part of this pened the way he thought it he concluded. "After a lot of .... r' year's Irish recruiting class. 0 was going to happen. It's been games I didn't play in, I would I talk to my dad and he would I upsetting to him and upsetting The South Bend Tribune con­ tell me to keep my head up and I to us, but he's just had that bad tributed to this report. I luck." next year would be my year." "Basically the coaches lost confidence in my play," *** Kurowski said. "Sometimes they would say your not the Future Prospects: On the re­ Recycle same Keith we recruited and cruiting front, Notre Dame re­ that I was a step slower. I ceived its third commitment guess the coaches just decided last week from Keith Friel of to go with some of the younger Oyster River High in Durham, The players." N.H. In his senior season, the Kurowski encountered bad 6-foot-3, 195-pound Friel aver­ luck even before his first game, aged 28 points, 10 rebounds Observer missing his entire freshman and seven assists. Friel joins season with a stress fracture he David Lalazarian of Tustin, suffered during preseason drills. During his sophomore year, he would undergo arthro­ scopic knee surgery and last year was diagnosed with Wolff­ Parkinson-White syndrome in . EB-­ his heart. "The first five or six garnes it was just weird being out there Saint Mary's College again after the year before with my heart," he noted. "But I o made it through the whole year NOTRE DAME INDIANA and I didn't miss a practice. I suited up for every game and it was the first time in four years I was able to do that, so from a health standpoint, I feel great." , With better health, Kurowski Applications For The '96 '97 looks to next season to finally make the impact he wants. After being red-shirted fresh­ Board of Governance man year with the stress frac­ ture, Kurowski has one more year eligibility left. He will be are student-teaching and taking graduate courses, while trying available at the Haggar Desk. to earn a starting spot on next year's squad. That spot will most likely be .. at shooting guard with the departure of Hoover. Like Hoover, Kurowski has shown that he has the touch and range Applications are due on March 25, 1996 to the to fill this vital role in the Irish rotation. Haggar desk by 5:00 PM.

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• SOFTBALl • ME~'S BASKETBALL Returning for redemption An optimistic Keith Kurowski plans on fifth-year revival

By JOE VILLINSKI Associate Sports Editor

There are basketball values senior Keith Kurowski holds which made this season an es­ pecially difficult one. "My dad always told me to go out and work as hard as I could," he reflected. "All you can do is when you step off the court is to be honest with yourself, knowing you did your best." Problem was that the injury-plagued guard spent a majority of this past year on the bench. The Observer/Angela Addington This permanent seat on the sidelines was a Starting pitcher Terri Kobata continues to lead the Irish as they look change after being the third-leading Irish scor­ to improve after a cold start. er over the past two years. Kurowski, however, would not be a major part of Notre Dame inau­ gural season in the Big East. Surging softball squad In light of this transition, that walk off the court was never an easy one. looks to maintain pace "From a personal standpoint, it was very dis­ appointing," Kurowski said. "Things just didn't By TIM MCCONN they had moved into the USA work out. It was just a tough year for myself all Sports Writer Today/NSCA Top 25, with a around." national ranking of 24, on the The Observer/David Murphy Following their spring break Irish head coach John Macleod had difficulty finding eve of that Florida State see KUROWSKI/ page 22 room for Keith Kurowski in last season's line-up. road trip, game. These wins demon­ the Notre strated the Irish's ability to Dame soft­ handle the big-time pressure ball team, situations. which owns "Our team has been playing a 14-10 great," explained freshman record so pitcher Angela Bessolo. "We far, knew it felt a little more relaxed be­ was back in cause of all the games we've Bessolo business. played. Those games, espe­ The busi- cially Florida State, were real ness of winning softball exciting. We just had a noth­ games, that is. ing-to-lose attitude that Despite a rough early-going, helped us play real well." which consisted of a 4-6 start, This ranking was, however, the Irish appear to be back on only one tangible sign of the their game, and improving in team's progress. The im­ the meantime. provement of the Notre Dame According to Coach Liz was especially evident on the Miller, the team, near the field in the Irish 1-0 victory halfway point in their 1996 over FSU last Thursday. campaign, "has a long way to Throughout that Florida go, but [they] seem to be on State game in particular, and the way to a successful sea­ the trip as a whole, Bessolo son." Their 10-4 record on epitomized the team's success the recent road trip should of late, by displaying her own attest to this continual personal improvement. She improvement. put on a clinic, by pitching Included in that period of seven shutout innings to get time were wins over #18 the win. After struggling at University of Illinois-Chicago, the outset of the season with #21 Oklahoma State, and #9 The Observer/Rob Finch an 0-2 record in her first 4 Keith Kurowski, after enduring injury and lack of playing time, hopes that returning for a fifth year will salvage Florida State. As a matter of his career at Notre Dame. fact, the team found out that see IRISH/ page 19 BOOKSTORE XXV Davis sets SMC precedent By KATHLEEN POLICY has seven more tries at Nation­ Davis attributes her slower Sports Writer als," Coach Szczechowski said. time to a poor start. With her LAST CHANCE!! "It was great for her to just concentration effected from the Despite her 13th place finish make it there." beginning of such a short race, Sign Ups are in LaFortune Lobby at Division III Nationals last It was a momentous event for Davis could not make up the week, freshman Stacy Davis Saint Mary's because no runner time at the end. Price: $13.00 feels that her 55 meter run was has made it to Nationals since ''I'm going to chalk this up to a positive experience. the school became a member of experience and work harder to She ran the 55 meters in 7.48 the NCAA. better next time," Davis said. Thursday Friday seconds. Though not her best According to Szczechowski, Davis and the rest of the team p.m. p.m. time this season, Davis is still Davis does not like to lose. lie now look forward to the out­ 11-2 OR 11-3 satisfied with her appearance feels that she will keep working door season. She is especially 6-9 p.m. at Nationals. harder to get better. "She is only a freshman, and see DAVIS I page 20

Softball • NCAA Tournament coverage at Purdue, Thursday, March 21, 4 p.m. Baseball see pages 17, 18 at Boston College, Saturday, March 23 Men's Tennis at North Carolina, Friday, March 22 Saint Mary's • New bowl possibility Tennis vs. St. Joseph's, Thursday, see page 21 Lacrosse March 21 at Butler, Saturday, March 23 Softball vs. Oliver, Thursday, March 21 • John Thompson's second career

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