The Observer VOL. XXV. NO. 84 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1993 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Clinton meets with governors Field of candidates to debate WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi­ work critics said was missing out, and that is what we are go­ By EMILY HAGE dent Clinton is asking some old during the aborted nomination ing to give them if we can get News Writer friends to help him sell unpopu­ of Zoe Baird for attorney gen­ the support across the country lar choices needed for deficit eral and his steps to end the and makes these changes,” Student body president and ND reduction while brushing aside m ilita ry’s ban on gays. Clinton said Monday night. vice president election debates early controversies by saying “He wants and recognizes the With his economic plan to be will be held today at 7:30 p.m. ELECTIONS 1993 his new job isn’t just “to do importance of having the unveiled in two weeks, and his in the Ballroom of LaFortune. things that are easy.” governors’ bipartisan support budget in March, the adminis­ Each ticket will be given two beyond 8:30 or 9 p.m., but be­ “I know it defies the momen­ with the people and with tration has raised the minutes for an opening state­ cause there are six tickets, it tary conventional wisdom, but I Congress,” said Illinois Repub­ possibility of a new, broad- ment to be followed by two w ill be difficult. think we’re off to a pretty good lican Gov. Jim Edgar. based energy consumption tax rounds of questions from The Sullivan also said that start,” Clinton told a friendly On Monday, Clinton played and some cost savings in Social Observer, WSND and The according to elections audience Monday night at a host to the governors at the Security, either by raising taxes Scholastic, according to elec­ regulations, Michael Connelly Democratic Governors Associa­ White House and promised the on benefits to the wealthy, tions commissioner Andrea and Tom Kovats cannot run as tion dinner, shrugging off federal government would raising the eligibility age or Sullivan. co-presidents as they had bumpy moments of his first make is easier for states to use reducing annual cost of living In the first round, a repre­ originally planned, but must days in the White House. Medicaid money for local increases. sentative from each organiza­ determine a presidential and “We need to shake things up needs, part of his campaign tion w ill be able to ask one vice presidential candidate. in this country and have a de­ pledge to “reinvent govern­ Even as the White House says question, and each presi­ Kovats said that Connelly will bate again,” Clinton said to ap­ ment” by giving states greater no final decisions have been dent/vice presidential ticket will run as president and that he plause. “Let people argue.” leeway in using federal dollars. made, each of those possibili­ have 90 seconds to respond. w ill run as vice president. Still, the former Arkansas ties, and others, have drawn In the second round, each Student Body president and governor was using the gover­ Today, Clinton was visiting criticism from a Congress that questioner can ask two ques­ vice president elections will be nors’ winter meeting in Wash­ the NGA to discuss his promise traditionally has been reluctant tions, directed to one or two held on Feb. 8. ington to shift focus onto staple to “end welfare as we know it” to tinker with Social Security candidates. Each ticket will Candidates are, in alphabetical campaign promises and to by providing expanded educa­ and other programs with pow­ have one minute to respond. order: garner grassroots support for a tion and training to recipients erful lobbies. No interruptions are allowed. • Michael Connelly and Tom deficit-reduction plan that even in exchange for capping bene­ So just as critics have not The floor will then be opened Kovats; in the drafting stages already is fits at two years in most cir­ waited for Clinton’s final plan to to the general audience for • Frank Flynn and Nikki stirring opposition in Congress cumstances. complain, Clinton isn’t waiting questions, each of which must Wellmann; and elsewhere. Afterward, Clinton was going to try to line up political be answered in one minute. • Stephanie Gallo and Christo­ In lining up the support of to Capitol Hill to meet with support from governors for Students are encouraged to at­ pher Browning; governors for economic initia­ Democratic leaders of the sacrifices, still unspecified, he tend. The debates w ill close • Joseph Karian and Samuel tives crucial to his presidency, House and Senate. says will be needed to cut the with a one-minute closing Thomas; Clinton’s White House is doing “What the American people deficit and ultimately to control statement from each ticket. • Christopher Murphy and the sort of aggressive political want is a hand up, not a hand- health care costs. Sullivan said that debate or­ Emily Bloss; and ganizers have tried to reformat • David Reinke and Lara Murray: Archives release dispels the debates so that it will not go Dickey. beliefs of Chinese mafia origins Miss Indiana By KRISTIN MCGOWAN responsible for the misconcep­ News Writer tion, according to Murray. addresses Around the turn of the cen­ The opening of archives kept tury, the time of the Chinese eating disorder locked up by the Chinese gov­ revolution, Sun Yat-sen joined ernment until the late 1970s the Tian di hui in an attempt to By KATIE CAPUTO has led to the release of infor­ secure its financial support for Saint Mary's News Editor mation about the Chinese mafia his cause, M urray said. which undermines long-stand­ Trying to identify himself Eating problems are ing popular beliefs about the more closely with the secret so­ symptoms of deep-rooted organization’s origin, according ciety by finding in their past “a problems, which often due to Dian Murray, an associate precedent for his own activi­ to the extreme emphasis history professor and associate ties,” Sun Yat-sen promoted the on perfection and dean of undergraduate studies. legend which depicts the competition in our society, According to Chinese legend, organization’s founders as po­ according to Shell! Yoder, the Chinese mafia, known as litical revolutionaries, said Miss Indiana 1992. the Tian di hui (“Heaven and Murray. Yoder spoke at Saint E arth Society” ), was founded This legend, known as the Xi Mary's last night on her with political motives in mind, Lu legend, describes how a struggle with an eating dis­ said Murray in a lecture enti­ community of monks came to order as p a rt of Eating Dis­ tled “The History, Mystery, and the aid of the emperor and de­ order Awareness Week, Historiography of the Chinese feated barbarian enemies, she But Yoder's problem did Mafia.” said. They then returned to not begin as an eating However, newly accessible their monastery, accepting no disorder. Rather, she historical documents under­ reward for their services. When simply began to start mine this legend, according to a traitor lied to the emperor, making healthy eating Murray. telling him that the monks were decisions. She said she did The documents indicate that rebels, the emperor had the % not realize, however, how the mafia was initially not a po­ monastery burnt down. Many of much pressure she was litically-based organization at the monks were killed or inflicting on her body and all, but rather “a mutual aid scattered, but the five mind, and the possible brotherhood,” established in remaining formed a secret so­ consequences. 1761 by and for “people who ciety bent on revenge. After her first were displaced - migrants in According to the legend, competition for the crown need of protection,” she said. Murray said, these five were of Miss Indiana, she began “Why this is interesting and the original members of the to deprive herself of problematic is in part due to Tian di hui. certain foods, and was on the fact that the question of this The documents recently re­ her way to becoming an origin has gotten intertwined leased indicate that a few of the anorexic. through the years in the Chi­ characters in this legend may "Every thought in my have been based on actual his­ nese political struggle,” she The Observer/Michelle Dire mind had to do with food, said. torical figures, even if the Dian Murray, associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters and the way I looked, and Nationalist leader Sun Yat- story’s political basis is exag- associate professor of History, lectures last night on “The History, losing weight,” Yoder said. sen and his followers are most see MURRAY / page 4 Mystery and Historiography of the Chinese Mafia.” It was not until a friend of hers expressed concern about her weight loss that One-third of vote in Saint Mary’s elections Yoder even perceived her­ self as having a problem. By CHRISTINA CANNON Wilkinson/O’Donnell ticket won the beginning of March. “I had it all under News Writer a landslide victory of 75.5% in “Our first order of business control on the exterior,” In Student Body elections held contrast with the 20.3% that will be the increased student she said. “ On the inside, it yesterday at Saint Mary’s, was received by the Whe­ activity fee. Funds are impor­ was out of control.” roughly one third of the campus lan/Peters ticket. tant. We need the money to Although Yoder had ad- cast a ballot.