. Irish Draftees — p a g e 12 VOL XV, NO. 136 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1981 Reagan invitation draws disapproval By TOM SHAUGHNESSY Reagan administration’s policies News Staff concerning El Salvador, the economy, and human rights. Ms. A crowd of about 800 students Manier asked the crowd to “give us and faculty members gathered on the chance to freely express our the South Quad at a rally held to viewpoints and listen with an open protest the choice of President mind to what we have to say." Her Ronald Reagan as this year’s com ­ appeal was met with boos and mencement speaker and as the hisses from the pro-Reagan mem­ recipient of an honorary degree bers of the crowd. from the University. Following her comments. Bob The crowd appeared to be even­ Heineman, a 1968 graduate of ly divided between demonstrators Notre Dame, recalled the protests wearing white armbands and pro- and turbulence of the sixties and Reagan counter demonstrators expressed concern over the bearing pictures of the President policies o f the Reagan Administra­ and a banner which read," Don't tion. Reagan’s dream “is a Give the Glpp No Lip.” The walls of nightmare for the majority of Alumni, Dillon and Badln halls Americans," he said. According to were draped with more pro- Heineman, Reagan’s "nightmare" Reagan banners. entails the reduction of public fun­ William O'Brien, a senior from ding for meal programs in public schools, the reduced educational Stanford Hall, opened the rally, ter­ Students Concerned About Commencement held a rally outside the South Dining Hall to protest ming It "a serious examination of See INVITATION, page 4 President Reagan’s scheduled appearance at Notre Dame's graduation. (Photo by Rachel Blount) Ideals " O'Brien stated that the ral­ ly represented a choice "to take our ideals seriously" in the face of "the harsh political realities of our world."" Resigning ourselves to realism,' suggests that there is real­ ly no need for an institution like Conservative Dems pledge budget support Notre Dame," O’Brien stated. He closed his speech by saying, “The WASHINGTON (AP) - House budget plan still being pieced to­ that they will suffer only two or to follow later in the year on only true patriotism is the one that Democratic leaders scrambled gether by the Democratic leader­ three defections would give spending and taxes. The precise sincerely and constructively ques­ yesterday to hold the party’s ranks ship. Reagan a stunning victory in the shape of spending cuts and tax tions, analyzes, criticizes, en­ for a looming budget showdown, In addition, Rep. Charles Democratic controlled House- reductions themselves will not he courages. The only true patriot but rebellious conservatives Stenholm, D/Texas, predicted that next week. worked out for weeks or months. acts out of concern. and we are stressed their determination to six to 10 Democrats who arc not The Senate Budget Committee Opponents of the president's called to care.” join the Republican minority to members of the forum also will go approved a plan drawn to White plan in the House, including Rep. The next speaker was senior pass President Reagan’s package. along with Reagan, who addressed House specifications Tuesday and Richard Gephardt, D/Mo., Maureen Manier. Ms. Manier One congressman said as many Congress Tuesday night in a na­ a final vote in the GOP dominated conceded that Reagan had helped clarified the stand of the Students as 35 of the 44 members o f the tionally televised appeal for enact­ Senate is expected within two his cause with the speech, his first Concerned About Commence­ Conservative Democratic Forum ment of his program. weeks. since surviving an assassination at ment, citing the sharp contrast be­ probably will support the presi­ If correct, Stenholm’s count At issue is a budget outline that tween "the principles and values” dent’s proposal over an alternative coupled with Republican claims would set guidelines for Congress See DEMS, page 4 of the University and those reflected in Reagan's policies as the reason for their objection to the President's appearance at this Foreign aid year's commencement ceremony. “We feel that the choice of com ­ mencement speakers and Development B recipients of honorary degrees are unique opportunities for the Uni­ HONOLULU (AP) — The Asia Development Bank, set up 15 years ago to By holding its 14th annual meeting in Honolulu at a time when U.S. con­ versity to express the principles better Asian and Pacific nations economically and socially, meets on tributions to multilateral lending institutions are under study, the bank and values which it embodies. We American soil for the first time this week, emphasizing its worries over hopes to attract the attention of the American government, especially that of simply do not feel President declining U.S. foreign aid. Treasury Secretary Ronald Reagan, who is the U.S. governor on the board. He Reagan's policies accord with the In the past, the United States has set the pace for contributions to the ADB. will be represented at the meeting by Deputy Secretary R Tim McNamar. image of the University which we But with the Reagan administration plans to review U.S. foreign aid, there is Two matters are to be discussed by the 43 national representatives on the as students are taught to represent now concern about future cuts in aid — and that such cuts would be hoard of governors: replenishment of society at large,” Ms. Manier said. mirrored among the bank’s 16 other donor members, including 14 in the Asian Development Fund, due to She referred specifically to the Europe and North America. run low on funds in 1982, and an in­ crease in the bank's ordinary capital to THURSDAY cover conventional loans for the four- Meet next Thursday year period beginning in 1983 ^FOCUS The Manila based bank provides two main types of assistance. The Asian Development Fund is the “soft lending" arm of the bank. It Murday prepares makes so-called concessional loans to Asia’s poorest nations, loans which typically carry no interest charges and require only an annual service charge By JEFF CHOPPIN second proposal recommends that proposal requesting that a student o f 1 percent. Bangladesh and Burma were the largest borrowers from the Sen tor Staff Reporter the Board of Trustees amend the sit on the Board. fund in 1980. constitution of the Campus Life “It has been talked about a lot, but Conventional loans from the bank’s capital stock are made at 9 percent Student government will present Council to include the Chair of the it has never been tried before. It will interest to the better off developing nations such as Taiwan and Korea. four Senate approved proposals to Faculty Senate as one of the two be very interesting to see what hap­ These loans are for specific projects such as port improvement or expansion the Student Affairs Subcommittee of faculty representatives. An ex­ pens.... They will either squash it im­ of a region eletric power grid. the Board of Trustees next Thursday officio member of the Faculty Senate mediately or they will listen to our The Reagan administration has indicated it will continue to meet its inter­ at the Center for Continuing Educa­ would also sit in CLC meetings. input." The reason for the proposal, national obligation while overall foreign aid policy is under review. tion. The third proposal suggests that Murday said, is that the students Specifically, it will expedite the remaining installments of a four-year com­ The major thrust of the presenta­ the University complete the need quicker feedback pertaining to mitment to the development fund made by the Carter administration in tion will focus on the Notre Dame Chautauqua project In La Fortune. the discussions on their proposals. 1979, according to Lester Edmund, the outgoing American member of the social life. Overcrowding, the off- The fourth proposal requests that a He said that the average time be­ bank’s board of directors. campus Issue, and a lack o f social student sit on the Board o f Trustees. tween presentation and response is The bank was founded by the United Nations in 1966 as "an international space will be among the subjects dis­ Student Body President Don Mur­ about five months. The other reason partnership devoted to the econom ic and social advancement o f Asia and cussed In the proposals. day said that the townhousc and for the proposal is for “someone to the Pacific, ” bank president Taroichi Yoshida said. Since then it has lent The first proposal recommends Chautauqua proposals will each express the views of the students.” more than $8 billion for some 455 projects, leading to overall capital invest­ that the University commission a take up a “considerable" amount of Murday reported that he had con ment of some $21 billion. study into the feasibility of on- time. The most interesting one, See CLC, page 4 campus senior townhouses. The according to Murday, will be the See BANK, page 3 News Thursday, April 30, 1981 — page 2 by The Observer and The Associated Press P o p C J o h n P illll 1 1 joins Jewish religious leaders in a historic interfaith prayer during his forthcoming visit to Switzerland, Remember Cynthia Dwyer the visit’s Swiss organizers said yesterday. They said the prayer scheduled during the pontiffs five-day visit beginning May 31 has no precedent in the history of the papacy, and will follow ecumenical Cynthia Dwyer, a 49-year old Amherst, New York, meetings between the pontiff and Protestant and Jewish groups.— AP native, was arrested last May 5 as she attempted to leave Tehran’s Hilton Hotel to return to the United States.