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Pearl jamming Home repairs The origonal boys of Seattle sound returned to Notre Dame pledged an annual $150,000 to the Tuesday the road this summer to promote their new Northeast Neighborhood Revitalization album “Binaural. ” Organization to revamp the area. AUGUST 29, Scene ♦ page 12 News ♦ page 3 2 0 0 0 O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIV NO. 6 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D .E D U C a m pu s Life C ouncil Professor, author Members approve new structure dies at 74 By HELENA PAYNE Special to The Observer and ERIN LaRUFFA Assistant News Editors James Carberry, 74, professor emeritus of Notre Dame, passed away during his sleep in his Student body president Brian home on August 27 following a brief illness. O’Donoghue challenged the Campus Carberry was born in Brooklyn, NY on Sept. Life Council (CLC) M onday to 13, 1925, and graduated rebuild a “viable and worthwhile” from Brooklyn Technical council with a new structure. High School. Following his “This is one of the strongest voic service in the Navy from es for the students if we use it 1944-1946, Carberry effectively,” said O’Donoghue, who attended Notre Dame and also chairs the CLC. “We can come received a bahelors in sci together and rise above mediocrity ence In 1950 and an mas ters in 1951 in chemical ... Consider it a challenge.” S£L The council voted unanimously to engineering. While an Carberry close its current session, which had undergraduate, he devel been running for 23 years. oped a devotion to Italian Therefore, existing standing com opera and participated in football, classical mittees — small groups of council music and the humanities. members dedicated to specific Carberry received his PhD in fluid dynamics at issues such as alcohol — were dis Yale in 1957. While at Yale, he was received solved. into the Third Order of St. Dominic. Carberry The new formation would add an joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 1961 as an executive committee to determine assistant professor. For more than 20 years, he meetings and approve new task coached intramural football at the University. forces. The purpose of the task In 1964, Carberry conceived and developed forces would be to take a more in- the “swirling and catalytic reactor” known as depth look into campus life issues the “Carberry Reactor.” He was a National affecting students. Once the issue is Tony Floyd/THE OBSERVER Science Foundation Senior Fellow at Cambridge brought before the council, its task Student body vice president Brooke Norton and student union secretary Trip University from 1965 to 1966. In 1968 he force would be dissolved. Foley voted to close the Campus Life Council’s current session. received the Yale Engineering Association Although the details of the exact Award for Advancement of Pure and Applied structure are not definite, task including differences between male Student Affairs does listen to CLC Science, and in 1974 he was named Hays- force members received the con and female residence halls and the resolutions — no matter how small Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of cept of developing task forces posi need for more 24-hour space, in an issue may seem. Rome. tively. addition to causes for so many stu “When this body sits authorita In 1972, he co-founded the U.S.-Soviet “Task forces are effective,” said dents moving off campus. Other tively on issues, it gets heard,” Kirk Working Committee on Catalysis following the Saint Edward’s rector Father Dave possible topics include sexual said. bilateral agreement regarding the exchange of Scheidler. “They’re so well-direct assault resources, discrimination, Taskf orce groups will begin purely scientific information. A recipient in 1976 ed, pinpointed by the council.” the honor code and the role of the forming this week. of the R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical The council brainstormed possi Student Union Board. Other issues the Council Reaction Engineering, he was named Sir ble topics task forces could study. Bill Kirk supported the task force addressed included the role of fac Winston Churchill Fellow and Richard K. Mellon Several topics focused on drinking, idea but warned that the CLC ulty on the Council and ways to get Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge including underage, off-campus and should maintain a clear focus on more student input when deciding University in 1979 and again Churchill Fellow in binge drinking. Other ideas issues pertaining to student affairs, what topics the Council should 1982. involved life within residence halls, lie also said that the Office of address. Carberry was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists in 1986 and in 1987 a Visiting and then Life Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. In 1988 he was recipient of the first Autoclave Engineers’ Award. During 1991 he was visiting professor & fellow at Students: WRC sets functional agenda Cambridge University. Author of the text “Chemical and Catalytic duties of the WRC. Reaction Engineering” which has been pub By MYRA McGRlFF “All the goals were put back on the table,” said lished worldwide and former co-editor of News Writer Maureen Capillo, also a senior at Saint Mary’s and a “Catalysis Reviews — Science and Engineering ” USAS member. “The WRC will provide the involved he published more than 120 technical papers. In In one of the first steps necessary to function as a schools with information on the condition of factories 1996 Carberry was made an Honorary Alumnus sweatshop monitor, the Worker’s Rights Consortium making college apparel.” of Princeton University. In 1993 Carberry was (WRC) set up its governing board The WRC will act as monitor, work elected to the National Academy of Engineering. and approved its constitution over ing with corporations and some 55 Carberry is survived by his daughter, Alison the summer. “The WRC no longer colleges and universities, to look into Carberry Kiene, Rockford, 111.; his grandsons, At the end of the WRC’s first meet exists [just] on paper. It the treatment of the people working Damian and Nicholas Kiene; sisters Jeanne in factories around the world. Carberry Brady, Hyde Park, NY and Alice ing in April they laid a foundation has a budget. It has a for the future of their non-profit Questions still remain, however, as to Romanelli, Huntington, NY; five nieces and organization, but a proposal detail board. It is a functioning how the WRC will set up its monitor nephews and 13 great nieces and nephews. Predeceasing Carberry were his wife, Margaret ing the specific function of the outfit non-profit organization. ing” system. still needed to be drafted. “The WRC hopes to meet in October Bruggner Carberrin in 1994; his daughter, “The WRC no longer exists [just] and hire an executive director whose Maura O’Malley Carberry on Jan. 1, 2000 and on paper,” said Katie Poynter, a Katie Poynter job will be to basically run the orga his uncle, John Joseph Cardinal Carberry, for Saint Mary's senior and also a mem member, United Students nization,” Capillo said. mer Archbishop of St. Louis in 1998. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. today at ber of the United Students Against Against Sweatshops The WRC has already started set Sweatshops (USAS). “It has a bud ting up communication and outreach the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The funeral get. It has a board. It is a function with factories in El Salvador and mass will be at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 30 at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. ing non-profit organization.” other South American countries. The WRC also hopes In July, two months after the first meeting, the to meet with apparel-producing corporations during In Lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice of St. Joseph’s County, 111 members of the WRC sat down to come up with a con Sunnybrook Court, South Bend, IN 46637. stitution, a governing board, as well as outline the see WRC/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Tuesday, August 29, 2000 Inside C olumn T his W eek in M ichiana W ednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ‘Cosby* conflict ♦ Art: Northern Indiana ♦ Music: Front Porch ♦ Hobbies: 2000 Gem and ♦ Pet Adoption: Adopt a Remember the Huxtables — OUT, Clare and the Center for History hosts Music: Featuring Open Mineral Show and Sale, 2 Homeless Dog or Puppy: live kids? 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