Saint Mary's Ready to Welcome Eldred Caplan to Discuss Euthanasia

I O B S E R V E R Monday, October 6, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 31 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Saint Mary’s ready to welcome Eldred Students gather to Eldred officially offer blessing and to become 10th present inquiries president today By ALLISON KOENIG By SARAH CORKREAN Saint M ary’s News Editor Saint Mary’s News Editor Saint Mary’s students gathered yester After more than a year of day evening to share an outdoor dinner searching for a candidate and with and to offer a blessing upon Marilou numerous interviews with Eldred, who will be inaugurated today as prospective individuals whose the College’s 10th presi- goals are similar to the Saint dent. SEE ALSO Mary’s mission statement, it Various faculty and w ill all come to a celebratory staff members served • Coverage of ending this afternoon. students and guests of Marilou Marilou Eldred w ill be inau the Eldred family Eldred’s inau gurated as the 10th — and under a tent on the guration in first laywoman— president of Library Green. After tomorrow’s Saint Mary’s College in dinner, Ellen Coleman, Observer. O’Laughlin Auditorium in the the student representa Moreau Center for the Arts. tive of the presidential inaugural commit The public is invited to attend tee, who coordinated the evening’s the event and the reception events, introduced Eldred, who agreed to The Observer/Kevin Dalum following the ceremony. Marilou Eldred will be inaugurated this afternoon as Saint Mary’s 10th president. see ELDRED/ page 6 see PREVIEW/ page 6 HOLOCAUST PROGRAM PREVIEW Caplan to discuss euthanasia Hope dwindles ... as losses climb By ERICA THESING eugenics, and he’s been try ing that the very basis, the News W riter ing to do this in terms of eth very root, of Hitler’s argu ical theory. This, along with ment was science, particular World renowned bio-ethi- his extensive number of pub ly racial science,” Signer cist Arthur Caplan w ill speak lications, has led to his said. “ One of the firs t things on the relationship between prominence.” Hitler did once he established the Holocaust and euthanasia his power was to establish a at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the program of euthanasia for llesburgh Library lounge. kite o f the most people the Nazis said were Caplan, the director of the not fit for life.” important things to Center of Bioethics at the ‘O According to Signer, this University of Pennsylvania, is look at in the Holocaust is included people with mental best know for his work on the the understanding that ... retardation and mental disor ethics of health care and in ders like schizophrenia. The eugenics, which deals with the very root if H itler’s argu families of these people, selective breeding in humans m ent was science, particu along with the Catholic and to favor specific traits. Protestant Churches, led suc The subcommittee on sci larly racial science.’ cessful protests against this ence for the Notre Dame practice. Holocaust Project invited Rabbi Michael Signer “Prior to 1939, Hitler didn’t Caplan as a s ch o la r-in -re s i- want that kind of dissent, so dcnce. Rabbi Michael Signer, co he began to stop those pro “lie’s a very dynamic per director of the Holocaust je cts,” Signer said. son,” said Professor Phillip Project, feels that it is essen Signer is excited about Sloan, who serves on the sci tial to study the Holocaust Caplan’s visit because of the entific subcommittee. “He’s from a scientific angle. ethical aspects Caplan spe The Observer/Kevin Dalum been engaged in questions “One of the most important cializes in. Alumni sophomores (from left to right) Tom Dietrich, Mike Aubry, like euthanasia, abortion, things to look at in the Kerry Cavanaugh, and Cass Schneller watch this weekend’s game in agony. and positive and negative Holocaust is the understand see CAPLAN / page- Family opens home to underprivileged children By LAURA PETELLE mother and a student of Langford’s at News W riter the time, seemed an ideal person to talk to about raising biracial children. “The whole thing,” ,)im Langford After hearing Zorich’s stories of his said as he hoisted a log onto his childhood, the Langfords adopted a shoulder with a grunt, “is about hap mixed race 7-week-old boy named piness.” Trevor. Trevor acquired a little sister Langford, director of Notre Dame three years later, a biracial infant Press, professor in the College of Arts named Emily. Zorich is the godfather and Letters and long-time Cubs fan, of both children. seems an unlikely hero. But with his It was then that “There Are No wife Jill, Langford has opened a day Children Here” by Alex Kotlowitz was camp for at-risk children called added to the curriculum in the Arts “There Are Children Here.” and Letters Core class. The book, Langford was preparing to retire which tells the story of two boys when he and Jill decided to adopt a growing up in Chicago public housing, child to fill their newly empty nest. helped convince the Langfords to con “It was then,” Langford said, “that vert their farm into a day camp where the madness set in.” children could go to “just be chil They chose to adopt a biracial child, dren,” in Langford’s words. because biracial children are often “There Are Children Here” began to The Observer/Laura Petelle difficult to place with families. Chris raise money three years ago, securing Steph Schleef, a Farley Hall freshman, and a Boys and Girls Club member share pizza Zorich, the son of an African- and soda at the day camp “There are Children Here,” founded by Jim and Jill Langford. American father and Yugoslavian see LANGFORD/ page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, October 6, 1997 0 INSIDE COLUMN » WORLD AT A GLANCE Long Live Race, sex issues top Supreme Court agenda for new term WASHINGTON University. Disputes over affirmative action and “ It is inevitable, because we rely so sexual harassment — two cases that Supreme Court much on solving our problems in courts of Marilou could affect every American workplace law, that the Supreme Court will have a — await the Supreme Court as justices Some issues the Supreme Court lot to say on most of the important issues meet to start their new term Monday. will decide in its 1997-1998 term: we face,” she said. “ The court is passive The court also will wrestle with legal Affirmative action Dld a New and cannot reach out for them, but every Mary’s College have Accent Copy Echtor tangles involving televised political -— Jersey school board violate a great controversy w ill get there.” provided me with end debates, lie-detector tests and police 1 federal anti-bias law when it laid After getting a head start last week by j off a white teacher and retained less opportunities for education and personal chases that lead to fatal accidents. agreeing to hear arguments in 10 new Based on cases the court already has KA a black one solely to promote cases, the justices have 58 controversies growth. racial diversity? I’ve learned to sleep with my head approxi agreed to hear, the new term does not on their decision docket. That’s four more mately two micrometers from the ceiling. measure up to the blockbuster 1996-97 than they had at the start of the last term. federal law that bans on-the-job I I’ve been in a bomb threat. term. It produced a number of landmark Sorting through thousands of appeals, rulings, including striking down a con sexual harassment apply when | the court is likely over the next four Through a highly beneficial co-exchange the alleged harasser is the same program with the University of Notre Dame, I gressional bid to keep smut off the gender as the alleged victim? months to add about two dozen more have discovered testosterone. Internet and ruling that terminally ill cases to review and decide by June. And yesterday afternoon — and this is the people do not have a constitutional right to doctor-assisted Looming largest among those vying for the court’s atten one I’ve been waiting for — I have been suicide. tion is a challenge to California’s Proposition 209, which granted the opportunity to holler random “ But who knows how many sleepers are lying in wait?” bans considering race or sex in filling state jobs or admit Latin phrases in unison with 34 other asked Mary Cheh, a law professor at George Washington ting students to college. women. Here I refer to the Saint Mary’s Women’s Allen speaks out in rare interview Gunmen attack U.N. office in Baghdad Choir’s performance of “0 aula nobilis” on • the occasion of the inauguration of every NEW YORK BAGHDAD, Iraq one’s favorite first female lay president, Woody Allen is still bitter about the Gunmen hurled grenades and fired bullets at a U.N. Marilou Eldred. The piece ends with a rous scandal that cost him his children, but building in Baghdad, destroying one vehicle and damag ing, non-pitched “Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!” loves his life with ex-girlfriend Mia ing two others, officials said Sunday. One attacker was After we first ran the Vivats in their entire Farrow’s adopted daughter and mak injured. The wounded gunman was overpowered and ty, several altos and sopranos raised con ing movies just like he has for decades, taken into custody by the Iraqi army, said U.N.

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