International Summit Examines Justice, Trade

i O B S E R V E R Thursday, April 16, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 125 HE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S International summit examines justice, trade Meeting aims to promote peace, SECOND SUMMIT OF THE AMERIC Chile hopes for SANTIAGO, CHILE • APRIL 18-19 ---- economic benefits THEMES OF THE SUMMIT: By MICHELLE KRUPA • Education — Voting on the Hemispheric Action Chile Correspondent Plan of Education, which advocates the use of student Santiago, CHILE exchange programs for students and teachers o f other This weekend, presidents and gov ernment representatives from 34 coun countries, strengthening teaching conditions. tries w ill meet in Santiago for the Second Summit of the Americas in an — Pushing for fair and universal effort to promote hemispheric peace. • Judicial Reform For Chile, the conference is a chance access to justice, improvements in prison conditions and not only to welcome through its doors requiring convicted minors to do service in lieu of some of the most influential political representatives in the world, but also imprisonment. to promote a specific agenda that includes many of the country’s own interests. • Economic Integration & Free Trade — The Summit will help “extend our Attendees will consider the proposed Free Trade Area of capabilities, intelligence and knowl the Americas, which proponents suggest might increase edge, besides developing the produc tivity and competitiveness of the economic growth; also, they w ill discuss establishing open economies, boosting the growth of a stock markets. democratic and solidary culture, imbued with the values of liberty and responsibility,” according to Chilean • Eradication of Poverty Discrimination — President Eduardo Frei in a Nov. 26, General encouragement of "justice for all," especially for 1997, conference invitation. Chilean President the poor and for children. The five main themes of the confer Eduardo Frei ence are education; judicial reform; preservation and strengthening of democracy and human rights; econom “The Ministers w ill discuss the way Democratic Corps and representatives ence in the neighboring and regional ic integration; and free trade andto achieve a sustained developmentof in international organizations lastam bit,” Frei said. “On numerous occa eradication of poverty and discrimina a world that is becoming more and December, Frei focused on Chile’s own sions, we have insisted on our interest tion. Much literature and news pro more integrated and to build, in the stake in the economic outcomes of the in carrying out a strategic alliance’ gramming in Chile, however, has hemisphere, more open, transparent Sum m it. with Latin America for we are con focused on the economic opportunities and integrated stock markets,” accord “During 1997, our country has con vinced that the future of Chile is indis- that the conference w ill bring to the ing to a January press release. tinued moving forward in search of the country. More specifically, in a speech to the goal of achieving a very active pres- see C H ILE / page 7 Home sweet home... » STUDENT SENATE Members recommend student involvement in speaker selection process By TIM LOGAN Nolan. “ [The letter was] lost in News W riter the shuffle of [student govern ment] turnover,” she said. The selection process for Six names are known to have commencement speakers and been submitted to the campus parking and security University, including Secretary issues dominated last night’s of State Madeline Albright, Student Senate meeting. Secretary of the Interior Bruce These two topics were the Babbitt and former Irish subjects of the senate’s weekly President Mary Robinson. “ P o d iu m , ” T h e which brings names in c a m p u s w e re s u b < r p i h e U n iv e r s it y is g o in g t o m itte d to The observer/Michelle Keefe leaders to Farley Hall residents studied floor plans of their dorm yesterday as they searched for the rooms for the discuss cur DOM I WHAT THEY’RE GOING Matt coming year. rent issues. TO DO, BUT THE MORE YOU RAISE C u llin a n , Beth A s s is t a n t Nolan, presi A FUSS, THE BETTER IT’S GOING to th e dent of the TO BE.’ President, Club sponsors sports symposiumc la s s o f w h o s a id , 1 9 9 8 , “We’ll take a d d r e s s e d B e t h N o l a n it fr o m By SARAH J. H ILTZ Nike, the National Basketball knew there would be a lot of the senate PRESIDENT, CLASS OE1998 here,” Associate News Editor Association, NASCAR, Major interest [in the symposium],” on the issues a c c o rd in g League Soccer and other she said. surrounding Notre Dame’s to N o la n . On A p ril 1, K e rn a n Notre Dame’s student-run groups are among the speakers Earlier in the semester, the selection of Indiana Ft. Gov. was announced as this y e a r’s Marketing Club w ill seek to scheduled to appear at the club held an inform ational Joseph K crnan as com m ence commencement speaker. combine students’ interests in symposium . meeting for students interested ment speaker. Nolan was invit Some senators were disap marketing careers with their Melissa Kell, president of the in learning about sports mar ed to speak after a resolution pointed with the process in love for sports in a day-long Marketing Club for the 1998-99 keting. was proposed last week general, which does not allow symposium tomorrow in the year, explained that Notre “There was a really big protesting Kernan’s selection for a great deal of student Jordan Auditorium at the Dame’s students and faculty turnout,” said Kell. “We were and lack of student input in the involvement. College of Business are the perfect audience for really pleased with the interest selection process. “Many people in my dorm Administration. such a combination. we’ve seen in sports market- A letter was sent to the class were upset with the lack of Representatives from the “Notre Dame is such a of 1998 last March asking for Chicago Bulls organization, sports-oriented university; we see M A R K E T IN G / page 8 suggestions, according to see SENATE / page 9 Thursday, April 16, 1998 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE INSIDE COLUMN On a Sunday O utside the Dom e Afternoon Compiled from U-Wire. reports It was a Sunday Northwestern police begin search for false IDs afternoon. In fact, it C.R. Teo Teodor Illustrator “I’m using the information from stu was Easter Sunday. EVANSTON, 111. dents to make my case against My friend, Kevin, had Northwestern University Police have just recently picked me up from campus, as begun to contact more than 100 people Blundell,” Godby said. “That's the main reason I’m not citing them, his family had invited me for the Easter meal. who reportedly purchased fraudulent a because they're helping my case. ” Visiting him for the weekend was a friend, New York drivers licenses from fresh Christina by name. I was feeling slightly crazy man David Blundell, police said. Police Godby warned that he will continue to call students on the lists for ques and quasi-philosophical, so I had asked are interviewing the dozens of Christina w hat she thought o f life. She was a Northwestern students on the lists of tioning. bit confused at first, but I explained that she Blundell's customers, asking them to Godby said students could be just had to say how her life was. turn in their IDs and referring them to charged with felonies if they refuse to She responded, “ To me, life is like a pic Student Affairs, said Detective Ronald searching his room, Godby said. About talk or if they lie to officers. “If someone really gave us a hard ture.” Godby of the university police. 100 people were on the lists, and not “A picture? Hmm... and a picture is worth a Between April 7 and last Tuesday, all of them were NU students. But an time, we’d probably give them the thousand words...” police had interviewed about 30 stu NU student whom Godby interviewed felony,” he said. It was at this time that we were thinking of dents, Godby said. Students who coop Tuesday said the detective told him Godby reported he would seek spe explaining the meaning of life in a thousand erate will not face greater punishment there were 180 names on the list. cial protection for students who volun words. First, we had to decide on a language. than the referral. Vice President for Students called into the university tarily tu rn in their fake IDs. Depending on which language we used, the Student Affairs Peggy Barr said police Tuesday were asked how they “If they come in on their own, they're word count changed significantly. If we Tuesday night she had not seen the contacted the suspect, how much they golden,” he said. “I’ll try to help how thought of using the hypothetical “first lan reports and she could not speculate paid for their IDs and whether the sus ever I can with student affairs.” guage,” the Indo-European proto-language, about what disciplinary action the pect solicited them to buy anything Three NU students have been arrest we would probably come to about 1000 words. administration will take. Police found else, Godby said. All the students said ed in connection with possession of However, if we decided to translate it into lists of people who reportedly bought they paid $50 for the New York drivers fake New York drivers licenses they other languages, we could lose something of fraudulent IDs from the suspect when licenses.

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