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Bleech ACCENT: New classes next year? Possible rain or snow showers today with highs in the upper 30s. Lows tonight from 25 to 30. Highs tomorrow in the low BUSINESS: The business of food sales 40s. VOL. XXI, NO. 55 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1987 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Council RELATIONS PROHIBIT „ Dorm choice not postpones ENTIFICimON IN THE ARENA SEATING AREAS SMOKING @ RERWiTTtO MwiNO Tw* w m fo tM i BLEACHERS LOWER - w. M U CALL IN THE CCMC019SE decision r/a M iftiaiH iH M Sri b on reply cards By KARIN YOUNG By ERIC M. BERGAMO “They still can tell us what N ew s S ta ff Senior Staff Reporter hall they prefer, and it’s indi cated on (the card) that for The HPC will hold off any fur Starting with next fall’s special requests please con ther discussions about the freshman class, the card in tact the housing office by May $1,400 bill from the food fight coming freshman use to indi 1,’ ” she said. “But we’ve also until the Senate meets next cate their decision to attend the added we do not guarantee that week with John Goldrick, asso University will no longer in (freshman) will be assigned to ciate vice president of clude a place to state their first (their) hall preference.” residence life, announced HPC and second choices for “I really expect to get enough Co-chairman Bob Daley at residence halls, said Evelyn letters to indicate real strong Tuesday’s meeting. Reinebold, director of student preferences,” Reinebold Daley said the HPC has no residences. added. opposition to paying the bill but Reinebold said that having a Those students who do not would like to make that deci place to express a preference w rite with their preference will sion in a combined effort with on the card gave incoming be assigned to a hall at random, all of student government and freshman the impression that she said. the student body. they would receive their first With the old policy, some Daley and Co-chairman Tim or second choice. dorms had too many requests Salmon said they hope to meet “We have gotten some really for the number of openings with Bill Hickey soon to obtain vivid letters because available, she noted. a general idea of his feelings (freshmen) were not given concerning the student body’s their first or second choice,” “There were . many response to the proposed food she added. people that had it set in their bill. The policy had freshmen mind that that was their choice In other business, Liam Can being placed into a dorm on the and that was what they were ny, president of Pangborn, is basis of when the confirmation going to get,” Reinebold said. drafting a proposal to increase card was received, she ex the number of tickets that are plained. Those returning the “It may sound like we re available to students for away card earlier usually received taking something away from football games. Canny told the their preference, while those them,” she continued, “but I Council he hopes to meet with who sent their cards later were really don’t feel that we are. Michael Bobinski, manager of less likely to get their choice. We re just, I hope, eliminating ticket sales at the Joyce ACC “We decided that it might a problem in their thinking that on Thursday to discuss a eliminate a lot of hard feelings they will get their first or change in the present ticket ... if we took that first and second choice.” policy. second choice factor off the Only 250 students received tick card,” Reinebold said. Many universities do not ets to the Michigan game, ac rnad rush? The Observer/ Suzanne Poch The new policy doesn’t mean even give a choice in housing incoming freshmen won’t have matters, but Notre Dame does cording to Canny. Daley said Even though she is presently the last in line, junior Donna Renaldo, see HPC, page 6 a say in where they live, she what it can to place people in right, will not have to wait very long to get basketball tickets for this noted. their preferred halls, she said. season. Report criticizes president Rosenthal speaks about Associated Press reviewing in detail the story of portray the administration as importance of integrity how administration officials if it were behaving with wanton sold arm s to Iran in hopes of WASHINGTON - The con disregard for the law.” Rosenthal said he believes freeing Americans held By MICHAEL DUNCAN gressional Iran-Contra report But the minority dissent that it is not always easy to hostage in Lebanon, then News Staff paints a picture of a Reagan found that conclusion, as well avoid breaking some viola diverted some $4 million of the adm inistration at odds with the as many others in the docu Athletic Director Dick tions by mistake simply be law and the Constitution, but profits to the Contras, is due to ment, based on selective use of Rosenthal stressed his sup cause there are so many minority Republicans dis be released Wednesday. testimony and dubious inter port in maintaining a high But glimpses of its findings missed it Tuesday as a partisan pretation of the law. standard of integrity in were gleaned Tuesday from a indictment of the president that The document was signed by Notre Dame inter-collegian report of minority Republicans ignores foreign policy ques all six Republicans on the athletics when he addressed on the House and Senate inves tions raised by the affair. House committee-Reps. Dick the fellowship of Christian tigating panels and from com The report says President Cheney of Wyoming, William Athletes last night in Stan mittee sources. Reagan flirted with constitu Broomfield of Michigan, Henry ford’s 24-hour lounge. % “Clearly, what went on here tional crisis by creating a Hyde of Illinois, Jim Courter of Rosenthal, formerly the was not what the founding fat White House atmosphere that New Jersey, Bill McCollum of Chairman of St. Joseph encouraged evasion of legal re hers envisioned,” said a source Florida and Michael DeWine of Bank, likened his effort to in familiar with the report, who quirements and flouting of Ohio-and two Senate sure integrity in the athletic spoke only on condition of proper procedures for reaching Republicans, Orrin Hatch of department with his past ef anonymity. “It paints a picture foreign policy goals. Utah and James McClure of forts to enforce honesty of a government out of con It also says the administra Idaho. among the bank’s tellers. trol.” tion violated the Constitution The GOP members did find “There is no way to guaran In its broadest criticism of by going to third countries to numerous mistakes, most of tee that the teller won’t take Dick Rosenthal the president, the Democratic- solicit donations for them errors of political judg money, but a process can be directed report concludes that Nicaragua’s Contra rebels at a ment, including an 11-month provided that will help en NCAA rules. He expressed Reagan failed in his constitu time when Congress barred delay in notifying Congress of sure that it won’t occur.” discontent that the tional duty to “take care that even indirect military aid to the Iran arms initiative. “In the same way, there “philosophy of being good the laws be faithfully ex them. is no way we can insure that isn’t as important as follow ecuted.” However, they wrote, “ We And it is sharply critical of the individual, whether it’s ing a very narrow prescrip In the introduction to their emphatically reject the idea Attorney General Edwin a coach or player, won’t tion, the rules.” He cited, as own dissenting version of the that through these mistakes, Meese III, questioning why he break any (rules). However, an example, Digger Phelp s report, the GOP members con the executive branch sub delayed launching a criminal we can create an atmo inability to drive a few team tended that the Democratic verted the law, undermined the investigation of the affair when sphere where violations are members to a funeral be Constitution or threatened it became public a year ago. report also attempts, “almost not condoned or tolerated.” cause of NCAA rules.______ The voluminous document, as an overarching thesis, to democracy.” Wednesday, November 18, 1987 page 2 The Observer In Brief Would being in top 25 really be worthwhile? The U.S.-Soviet treaty scrapping intermediate- “ The only thing I don’t like about Notre Dame range nuclear weapons will be ready for President Reagan is the football team.” and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to sign in Washington “It ruins the academic credibility of the Uni Chris next month, both sides seem to believe. A Kremlin versity,” continued the visiting professor. Ad Bednarski negotiator said that work on the 120-page document was mission standards are lowered to admit ath in the final stage and should be done by Nov. 23. He said letes, he said. Millions of dollars spent to build that snags developed in the arms control talks when the the team’s new indoor sports facility should News Editor Americans raised what he called “artificial issues” about have been used to improve academics, he verification provisions to be included in the treaty, but added. that they will probably be resolved before the summit. - Was the professor right? Associated Press Through a survey of 760 college and univer sity presidents, U.S. News and World Report’s Oct.