Saint Mary's Ready to Welcome Eldred

Monday, October 6, ·1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 31 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Saint Mary's ready to welcome Eldred Students gather to Eldred officially offer blessing and to become 1Oth present inquiries president today By ALLISON KOENIG By SARAH CORKREAN S;~im Mary's News Editor Saint Mary's News Editor Saint Mary's students gather:ed yester After more than a year of day evening to share an outdoor dinner searching for a candidate and with and to otTer a blessing upon Marilou numerous interviews with Elch·cd, who will be inaugurated today as prospective individuals whose tlw College's 10th pres;_i---P'!I"!!'!!..,...,,.____, goals arc similar to the Saint dent. ~~-e =-::tr·l~ •RI Mary's mission statement, it Various faculty and will all come to a celebratory staff memb!~rs served • Coverage of ending this afternoon. students and guests of Marilou Marilou Eldred will be inau the Eldred family Eldred's inaugurated as the 1Oth - and under a tent on the guration in first laywoman- president of Library Green. After tomorrow's Saint Mary's College in dinner. Ellen Coleman. Observer. O'Laughlin Auditorium in the th!~ student representa- '-----~----.J Moreau Center for the Arts. tiVt~ of the presidential inaugural commit The public is invited to attend u~n. >vho coordinated the evening's the event and the reception <wnnts. introdueed Eldred. who agreed to The Observer/Ke•in Oalum following the Ceremony. Marilou Eldred will be inaugurated this afternoon as Saint Mary's 1Oth president. see ELDRED/ page 6 .see PREVIEW/ page 6 • -lotOCAUST PROGRAM PREVIEW Hope dwindles ... as losses climb Caplan to discuss euthanasia By ERICA THESING eugenics, and he's been try ing that the very basis, the News Writer ing to do this in terms of eth very root, of llitler's argu intl theory. This. along with ment was science, particular World renowrwd bio-ethi his extensive number of' pub ly racial science," Signer rist Arthur Caplan will speak lications. has led to his said. "One of the first things on LIH~ relationship lwtween Hitler did once he established tlw Holocaust and euthanasia his power was to establish a at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the program of euthanasia for llesburgh Library lounge. e people the Nazis said were Caplan, the director of the not fit for life." CPnter of Bioethics at the important things to According to Signer, this University of Pennsylvania, is look at in the Holocaust is included people with mental lwst know for his work on the the understanding that ... retardation and mental disor ethics of health care and in ders like schizophrenia. The eugnnics, which deals with the very root if Hitler's argu families of these people, selective breeding in humans ment was science, particu along with the Catholic and to favor specific traits. Protestant Churches. led suc The subcommittee on sei larly racial science.' cessful protests against this Pnce for the Notre Dame practice. llolocaust Project invited Rabbi Michael Signer "Prior to 1939, Hitler didn't Caplan as a scholar-in-resi want that kind or dissent, so denen. Habbi Michael Signer, co he began to stop those pro "lie's a very dynamic per director of' the Holocaust jects," Signer said. son." said Professor Phillip Project, feels that it is essen Signer is excited about Sloan. vvho snrvns on the sci tial to study the Holocaust Caplan's visit because of the nntif'ir subrommittee. "lie's from a scientific angle. ethical aspects Caplan spe The Observer/Kevin Dalum j bn!~n Pngaged in questions "One of the most important cializes in. Alumni sophomores (from left to right) Tom Dietrich, Mike Aubry, likn euthanasia. abortion. things to look at in· the Kerry Cavanaugh, and Cass Schneller watch this weekend's J game in agony. i and positive and negative Holocaust is the understand- see CAPLAN I page 4 I By LAURA PETELLE mother and a student of Langford's at News Writer the time, seemed an ideal person to talk to about raising biracial children. "The whole thing," Jim Langford After hearing Zorich's stories of his said as he hoisted a log onto his childhood, the Langfords adopted a shoulder with a grunt, "is about hap mixed race 7 -week-old boy named piness." Trevor. Trevor acquired a little sister Langford, director of Notre Dame three years later, a biracial infant Press, professor in the College of Arts named Emily. Zorich is the godfather and Letters and long-time Cubs fan, of both children. seems an unlikely hero. But with his It was then that "There Are No wife Jill, Langford has opened a day Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz was camp for at-risk children called added to the curriculum in the Arts "There Are Children Here." and Letters Core class. The book, Langford was preparing to retire which tells the story of two boys when he and Jill decided to adopt a growing up in Chicago public housing, child to fill their newly empty nest. helped convince the Langfords to con "It was then," Langford said, "that vert their farm into a day camp where the madness set in." children could go to "just be chil They chose to adopt a biracial child, dren," in Langford's words. because biracial children are often "There Are Children Here" began to The Observer/Laura Petelle difficult to place with families. Chris raise money three years ago, securing Steph Schleef, a Farley Hall freshman, and a Boys and Girls Club member share pizza Zorich, the son of an African and soda at the day camp "There are Children Here," founded by Jim and Jill Langford. American father and Yugoslavian see LANGFORD/ page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, October 6, 1997 • INSIDE COlUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Long Live Race, sex issues top Supreme Court agenda for new term WASHINGTON University. Disputes over affirmative action and "It is inevitable, because we rely so sexual harassment - two cases that Supreme Court ~ much on solving our problems in courts of Marilou could affect every American workplace law, that the Supreme Court will have a - await the Supreme Court as justices Some issues the Supreme Court lot to say on most of the important issues meet to start their new term Monday. will decide in its 1997-1998 term: My four and a quarter we face," she said. "The court is passive Mary Beth Ellis The court also will wrestle with legal and cannot reach out for them, but every semesters at Saint Did a New Mary's College have Accen' Copy Editor tangles involving televised political Jersey school board violate a great controversy will get there." provided me with end- debates, lie-detector tests and police '',··. federal anti-bias law when it laid After getting a head start last week by less opportunities for education and personal chases that lead to fatal accidents. ., off a white teacher and retained agreeing to hear arguments in 10 new Based on cases the court already has I~'•· a black one solely to promote cases, the justices have 58 controversies growth. racial diversity? I've learned to sleep with my head approxi agreed to hear, the new term does not on their decision docket. That's four more mately two micrometers from the ceiling. measure up to the blockbuster 1996-97 than they had at the start of the last term. I've been in a bomb threat. term. It produced a number oflandmark ~- Sorting through thousands of appeals, Through a highly beneficial co-exchange rulings, including striking down a con the court is likely over the next four program with the University of Notre Dame, I gressional bid to keep smut off the months to add about two dozen more have discovered testosterone. Internet and ruling that terminally ill cases to review and decide by June. And yesterday afternoon - and this is the people do not have a constitutional right to doctor-assisted Looming largest among those vying for the court's atten one I've been waiting for - I have been suicide. tion is a challenge to California's Proposition 209, which granted the opportunity to holler random "But who knows how many sleepers are lying in wait?" bans considering race or sex in filling state jobs or admit Latin phrases in unison with 34 other asked Mary Cheh, a law professor at George Washington ting students to college. women. Here I refer to the Saint Mary's Women's Allen speaks out in rare interview Gunmen attack U.N. office in Baghdad Choir's performance of "0 aula nobilis" on · the occasion of the inauguration of every NEW YORK BAGHDAD, Iraq one's favorite first female lay president, Woody Allen is still bitter about the r--:::;;:;;;::;s;-1 Gunmen hurled grenades and fired bullets at a U.N. Marilou Eldred. The piece ends with a rous scandal that cost him his children, but building in Baghdad, destroying one vehicle and damag ing, non-pitched "Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!" loves his life with ex-girlfriend Mia ing two others, ollicials said Sunday. One attacker was After we first ran the Vivats in their entire Farrow's adopted daughter and mak injured. The wounded gunman was overpowered and ty, several altos and sopranos raised con ing movies just like he has for decades, taken into custody by the Iraqi army, said U.N. cerned hands. As a nervous newcomer to the the reclusive director said in a rare spokesman Eric Fait. The remaining three gunmen fled, choir, I expected the comments concerning interview.

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