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;_j The state of affairs in South Dining , Home Football Weekend I _ j N D assistant volleyball coach Elaina j Oden will face a familiar nemesis on North Hall will change again after fall break as ! □ Check out the Schedule of Events to i Carolina’s coaching staff when the teams construction continues. I see what’s going on around campus, I face off tonight — her sister. Back page p. 3 i where it’s happening, and when. p .7 W X H OBSERVER Friday, O ctober 17, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 40 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARTS SECURITY BEAT Police: Imposter officer pulls over ND student Observer Staff Report Security/Police report. report said. The student, thinking the vehi­ At that point, the student Douglas Bd. Site where a Notre Dame A Notre Dame student driving cle was in fact a police car, found the registration, and the near campus was pulled over by pulled to the side of the road man let her go, the report con­ College Park student was pulled over a man claim ing to be a St. near the intersection of Bulla tinued. early Thursday by a man Joseph County police officer and Ironwood roads. The driver “We don’t believe [the man’s Bulla Rd. allegedly posing as a early Thursday morning. of the other car allegedly vehicle] was a police car,” said police officer At 12:45 a.m., the student was approached her vehicle and Chuck Hurley, assistant director turning onto Ironwood Road requested her driver’s license of Notre Dame Security, who after stopping at the Burger and registration. noted that St. Joseph County King at the intersection of that When the student said she police reports indicate that no road and Indiana 23 when she could not find the registration, one was pulled over by county Campus View noticed a vehicle with flashing the man told her that she would authorities at that location at lights on its grill following her, have to get into his car and “go according to a Notre Dame down to the police station," the see SECU RITY / page 6 F riday Feature Malloy, alums try to aid girl’s quest for visa Filipino student hopes to attend ND in August ’98 By KRISTINA ZURCHER News Writer The U.S. Embassy in Manila has repeatedly denied a 15-year-old Filipino girl access to a student visa because she is poor, according to Commander Vincent Converse, a 1976 Notre Dame alumnus. Jenalee Aimes received a full scholarship to St. Gregory’s Preparatory School in Arizona and intended to come to the U.S. in August. She had planned to apply to Notre Dame for further study in the area of computer science. However, the U.S. Embassy refused her request for a student visa, Converse said. Many poor foreign students remain in the U.S. after their instruction because the opportunities are greater here than in their own countries. The embassies assume that most poor students will stay in the U.S. instead of returning to their homes and thus deny their visa requests. W o rkin ’... in a van dow n “The situation is a catch-22. If you’re a poor student overseas, you have to stay that way because there are no opportunities available to you,” said Converse, who is trying to help by the Joyce C enter Aimes. Converse stayed in the Philippines while with the Navy and employed members of the Aimes GTE Road Trip brings family for a time. According to Converse, he and his wife “adopted” several Filipino families, on-site college football including the Aimes family. Converse contacted University President coverage to Internet Father Edward Malloy regarding Aimes’ visa problem, and both men wrote several letters to congressmen about the case. Several Indiana By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN Associate News Editor see ALM ES/ page 6 | ho heavily decorated rec­ reational vehicle parked by Gate 10 of the Joyce Center is the office of two men who call themselves This is the last issue of "Road W arriors.” Matt Thomson and Bill Emkow, The Observer until Tues., in town for the Notre Dame vs. USC football game on Saturday, Oct. 28. started the season at Notre Dame The Observer/Kevin Dalum vs. Georgia Tech; drove to West Pat Garrity of Notre Dame’s men's basketball squad participates in an on-line chat Lafayette for the Purdue game the Tuesday night in the GTE Road Trip RV. The chat is still accessible on the Web. following week; and to Columbus At each stop along the way, the “We roll into town on Sunday Cheer on the Irish football for the Ohio State vs. Arizona two write pre-game features, a and try to get the phone lines set game in week three. story about the game and post­ up so that we can go on the team when it plays USC Their job? To travel to the game features, all of which are Internet,” Emkow said. “Then we biggest college football game in then posted to the World Wide look for stories about the town, and Boston College, and the country every week of the sea­ Web. Thomson takes pictures of the people and the experience of son, an operation called the GTE the game and Emkow writes the have a safe October break. Road Trip. stories. see FEATURE/ page 12 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, October 17, 1997 (f- INSIDE COLUMN Outside the Dome Change the compiled from U-Wire reports Cheer Lawsuit against U of M may reach Supreme Court ANN ARBOR, Mich. ruled on affirmative action in higher law professor at Michigan State As the daily editor of this column, I have The lawsuit filed Tuesday against education was Bakke vs. University of University, said there are currently no the opportunity to read about some wide the University claiming that under­ California in 1978. guidelines set by the Supreme Court ranging topics expressed by our Observer graduate admissions policies blatantly “It seems clear to me that the court regarding affirmative action in admis­ staff — whether I want to or not. discriminate by race has the potential will have a case before it to clarify sions. Some of my favorite of setting Bakke,” said University of Alabama “Bakke does not answer the ques­ columns, and most fre­ preced en t in Law Prof. Bryan Fair, who recently tions of affirmative action that current quent I might add, deal wrote a book supporting affirmative lawsuits produce,” Allen said. with such issues as Supreme | Ml £ H I C A N j action. “It seems unavoidable. The liti­ In the Bakke ruling, Justice Lewis stress, friendship, idiots Court, some l_\ AJ gation is mounting.” Powell wrote that admissions policies riding on golf carts, and legal experts Opponents of affirmative action that use racial quotas are unconstitu­ my personal favorite — say. agree that the Supreme Court must tional, but universities may use race campus squirrels. The Center for Individual Rights, the hear a case involving affirmative as one of many factors to determine This is all well and same law firm that won the ground­ action in admissions to colleges and admission if it rectifies past discrimi­ good, and believe me Eduardo Hull breaking Hopwood affirmative action universities. nation. these columns are nec­ Associate case in the 5th Circuit Court of “I don’t normally think we need to Those are not specific guidelines, essary every once in Viewpoint Editor Appeals last year, filed a class-action have one solid ruling for everything Allen contends, but only Powell’s opin­ awhile. But the problem lawsuit against the University, the across the board,” said David Boaz, ion. is that we are avoiding the crucial issue on College of Literature, Science and executive vice president of the Cato “There is a need for the Supreme campus. Arts, University President Lee Institute, a conservative think tank. Court to set concrete guidelines,” No, I am not talking about the “Spirit of Bollinger and former President James “But in these circumstances, there arc Allen said, adding that lawsuits such Inclusion,” or Saint Mary’s rights, or that Duderstadt. The suit claims that race fundamental rights being violated.” as the one against the University business is a shallow major. These issues is a deciding factor in admissions. William Allen, former chair of the would not occur once the Supreme have been covered. What I am referring to The last Supreme Court case that U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a Court rules definitively on the issue. has been weighing heavily on many a stu­ dents’ mind: the changing of the Lou Holtz cheer. 0 YALE UNIVERSITY * COLORADO UNIVERSITY For years the 1812 Overture has been a fixture at Notre Dame sporting events. In District Court scrutinizes housing policy Sports, sweatshops, and the swoosh the early 1980s, at basketball games, it was played frequently. At football games in the NEW HAVEN, Conn BOULDER, Colo. late 1980s it developed into a tribute to Lou The four Orthodox Jewish students’ civil suit, filed yes­ Varsity athletes have many anxiety-creating responsibili­ Holtz — and will always be remembered as terday afternoon in the New Haven U.S. District Court, ties to fulfill on game day. They must get enough sleep, cat such. claimed that Yale’s mandatory housing policy violates the right and they must remember to bring all of their Nike We are all very aware that at the end of students’ federal constitutional rights and contractual apparel. Nikc’s $5.6 million contract with CU requires varsity the third quarter at football games it’s time agreements between the students and Yale.

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