Senate Discusses Rights of Gay Group, Displaced Students

~- - -------------- Women at ND - page 8 VOL. XXI, NO. 78 TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1987 . the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's ~-- Senate discusses rights of gay group, displaced students By ANN MARIE DURNING time," Acosta noted. Staff Reporter Don Montanaro, student body vice president said, "I The plight of Gays and Les wonder if you can get around bians at NDSMC was debated (the conflict of no names of wo by the Student Senate Monday men from SMC) by changing night as the group's chairman your name." petitioned the Senate to help it In response to various sug ..... ,.~ realize the aim of ''advertising gestions from Senate mem in The Observer and on WSND bers, Brian Holst said, ''I'm not ~~~~,?!~~/~· ---llllllilllli ~ and being able to meet on suggesting that we advertise > • "" campus." the group; I'm saying that we Joe Acosta, chairman of try to help the problem." GLNDSMC, was invited to the Holst asked, "What about meeting by Student Senator setting up a room under student John Gardiner. government that the group Acosta said requests for ad could use?" vertisements in The Observer Student Senator Mike Jaeger were rejected because "First, said the matter would come un the conflict of numbers--in an der the jurisdiction of Mon interview with Mark tanaro and the cabinet. Pankowski I told him there Acosta discussed a April 16; were 50 members. Second, 1986 proposal he sent to the ad there were no Saint Mary's ministration asking for "the girls on the list, and third, pre esc for meetings, a mailbox on vious ad problems." campus, announcements in Acosta said he sent a mem university-owned media, par bership list of nine names in ticipation in Student Activities September to Joe Murphy, Night, or at least a number and editor-in-chief of The Obser address in the phone book." ver. He said The Observer's ad vertising policy requires ''a full Acosta said his proposal was list of officers and members in rejected by the administration. a club (be submitted) if re "Father Tyson stated (the ad quested." ministration) felt the needs of ·- gay and lesbian students on Expressing the desire of campus could best be met by most GLNMMC members to the counseling center and remain anonymous, Acosta Campus Ministry," Acosta said the policy interfered with said. Off the wall The Observer/ Damian Chin the group's efforts to publicize The Keenan Revue gets a face-lift in its nth tional performances slated for Friday, the 30th, their meetings. "The Observer edition, which will open in O'Laughlin and Saturday, the 31st. can release this list at any see SENATE, page 3 Auditorium on Thursday, Jan. 29 with addi- Lee's Ribs raided for second time in 2 weeks Grad survey By TRIPP BALTZ to Lt. Richard Kilgore, public of The Goose's Egg more than jacket. Officers issuing cita results show News Editor relations officer for South Bend seven years ago. The tavern tions referred to a Notre • Police. was located at the corner of DameSaint Mary's telephone A raid of Lee's Ribs con- Kilgore said that police Notre Dame Ave. and Howard directory to check for names engineers ducted by three law- records show only 20 to 30 pa St., according to Capt. Patrick on the identification cards stu enforcement agencies trons in the bar were of legal Cottrell, who led Thursday's dents presented. paid highest Thursday night netted over 200 age. raid on Lee's. Arrested on charges of resist Notre Dame and Saint Mary's The citations for being a State excise police Sgt. Greg ing law enforcement was Gale By MARTIN RODGERS students. minor in a tavern were the Deitchly also led the raid. Kil Lighthall, 31, of E. Howard St. News Staff South Bend Police, Indiana highest number ever delivered gore said excise officers en Arrested on charges of van State Police and Indiana State to students in one raid in South tered Lee's undercover before dalism and minor in a tavern The College of Engineer Excise Police made 13 arrests Bend history. the raid. One police officer see LEE'S, page 3 ing provides its graduates in the 11 p.m. raid, according The previous record bust was wore a Notre Dame football with the highest starting salary and the highest em ployment success rate, said a survey of 1986 Notre Dame Notre Dame to resurrect Jerusalem program graduates conducted by the will be based at Notre Dame's and law, and Holy Land geog Charles. Office of the Dean of Admin By SEAN S. HICKEY istration. News Staff Tantur campus in Jerusalem raphy and archeology, accor The former program had its which also houses the Univer ding to Charles. beginning in 1972, when "Fat The 1986 Survey of Future The University of Notre sity's Ecumenical Institute for Although Notre Dame her Hesburgh, in cooperation Plans of Notre Dame Dame, Fordham, Georgetown, Theological Studies, said already has a program at the with the Pope, offered to devote Graduates took place from and Villanova are sponsoring a Charles. Tantur campus for the aca an institute for ecumenical mid-March through the first new program for students of "Faculty professors from demic year, the curriculum of studies," Charles said. This week of April of last year, these universities to study in (the four universities) and the new summer program dif prospective institute became according to Charles McCol Jerusalem. people locally will provide the fers significantly, according to the Tantur campus, on the road lester, the Coordinator of "A first ever in foreign instruction," Charles said. Charles. "Biblical studies are betweem Jerusalem and Beth Analytical Studies. Two study," said Dr. Isabel Students will register for 12 studied during the (extant) lehem, she said. thousand and ninety-nine Charles, Director of Foreign credit hours from a curriculum year-long program, while an Despite the concern over ter degree recipients responded Studies and Associate Provost. including courses on Arabic, Arab-Islamic program is of rorism in the Middle East, to the survey, which has The ten-week session will run Middle Eastern history and fered in the new 10-week see PROGRAM, page 5 see GRAD, page 3 from June 6 to August 15 and politics, Islamic philosophy summer program," said The Observer Tuesday, January 27, 1987 - page 2 In Brief• .. Student's trip to Soviet Union A nun was fatally stabbed in the neck and found brings church metaphor to mind dead early Monday, police said. Police spokesman Sgt. Diane Kubler said the body of Sister Virginia Thomann We hear a confusion of views on the Soviet 65, was found in street clothes propped up at her desk i~ Union nowadays, even with kremlinologists and My Brother's Place, a halfway house in the Mott Haven Peter Jennings. Chris section of the Bronx. - Associated Press First, the news media tells us the Soviet Union is not very different from the U.S. at all, though Julka ~~arged .with att~mpted _murder for allegedly Copy Editor sp1ttmg at pohce, a man mfected w1th AIDS virus received somewhat entrenched in conservative ways. two years probation Monday on a reduced charge. John Fortunately in this last respect, a vigorous ' young reformer named Mikhail Gorbachev has Ric.ha.rds, 28, of Davi~on, had pleaded guilty Aug. 4 to res1stmg and ob.st;uctmg a police officer after a judge come on the scene, who not only has had it with threw out the or1gmal charge because many experts dis the fogeys, but whose wife supposedly stuns the puted the contention that AIDS could be spread by spitting. West as some sort of new Jacqueline Kennedy. -Associated Press Then from our leading businessmen there is the refrain about how low the Soviet standard Ac~ress Jane F~nda said she wept after seeing of living is. This is often used to justify why we the V1etnam War mov1e !'Platoon," but adventure film fight wars, plot insurrections and form al star Chuck Norris calls it "a slap in the face" to honored liances against them. Amazing, isn't it, that we veterans. Norris said the movie failed to reflect the make all of this fuss in geopolitics just because camaraderie described in letters from his younger brother we think their standard of living should be Wieland, who died in Vietnam. "If I was a Vietnam vet higher. who put my life on the line over there, and went to see Finally, if we are to believe and the thousands 'Platoon,' -with those scenes of G .I.'s tormenting villagers toting AK-47's in this world, the Communist and raping young girls -I'd be furious. -Associated Press Bloc embraces an epic movement of altruistic heroes about to liberate us from our chains and usher in a age of utopia--if only we'd let them. In all of this, however, there is one important aspect of this subject to which the media and Of Interest academia give surprisingly little attention: the Soviet Union and its bloc behave almost precisely as a church does. Nazis, and everybody lived happily ever after, . A required rotation of classes treating the except the Germans of course. Never mind that 1ssues of alcohol, drugs, and eating disorders will be given What? Is this guy missing a few cards? The obvious question is, How can the Soviet bloc be Nevsky later betrayed his people and his own by .No~re _Dame's Department Of Physical Education brother to the Mongols, whose domination was begmmng m the fall of 1987.

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