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Chilling out ACCENT: Sarcastic Slap Colder Tuesday with a40 per­ cent chance of snow showers 0 ^ High 25 to 30. Very cold at night with a 40 percent chance VIEWPOINT: SMC Election Endorsement of snow showers. VOL. XXI, NO. 96 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's ND to increase minority aid By CHRIS BEDNARSKI tee said would enhance all News Editor aspects of minority undergrad­ uate and graduate life at Notre Notre Dame will seek signif­ Dame. icant increases in minority en­ The Univeristy will also in­ rollment in the next four years crease the number of minority through formation of a $12 mil­ faculty members, O’Meara lion endowment fund forsaid. Fourteen new faculty pos­ minority financial aid, Univer­itions will be targeted sity President Father Edward primarily for blacks, Hispanics Malloy announced Monday. and American Indians. The money, which Provost In certain disciplines such as Timothy O’Meara said is engineering and science, already available, will help the however, where there are few University increase the num­ minority professors, he said ber of minority freshman from women may be hired to in­ the present 11 percent to 15 per­ crease their presence on the cent by 1992. Minority graduate faculty. “The primary enrollment, presently five per­ objective, however, is with cent, will double, he said. minorities,” he said. “ I have great confidence in The University will also the steps to be taken,” Malloy create academic support sys­ said at the afternoon press con­tems for minorities to help stu­ ference. “But we have a long dents who received deficient way to go.” educations from urban high The announcement markedschools, Malloy said. “We find the administration’s first that the raw ability is often there,” he said. The Observer/Joann Whitfield response to recommendations by its Committee on Minority “Rather than force the stu­ Building up for the beach Students. dents with those kinds of back­ A would-be Arnold Schwartzenegger works on his Memorial. Building muscle tends to bear more weight The committee, appointed by grounds to have to compete physique at the third floor gym at the Rockne with students as spring break comes closer. Malloy in 1986, made 12 recom­ closer. mendations which the commit­ see RECRUIT, page 5 Swaggart confesses fascination with pornography Associated Press God, said late Sunday. airport aboard a van. Staffers The Washington Post re­ gelist Jim Bakker for The evangelist flew from his at the church’s district offices ported Monday, quoting a committing adultery, compar­ ALEXANDRIA, La. headquarters in Baton Rougerefused to say anything about source who spoke to a Jimmy ing him to a cancer that had to Television evangelist Jimmy to Alexandria where he was ex­ the meeting. Swaggart World Ministries be excised. Swaggart was summoned to pected to meet with the district Swaggart did not describe his board member, that Swaggart Swaggart had worked last appear before elders of the presbytery. Janway said the misconduct Sunday in his con­said he did not engage in sexualsummer to develop an ethics Assemblies of God on Monday, group would report its findingsfession, which drew gasps and intercourse with the woman code for broadcast ministries one day after he delivered a privately to the general council tears from his congregation. but “paid her to perform por­ to stem a drop off in donations tearful confession of sin andof the country’s largest Pen­ An overflow crowd packed nographic acts.” caused by the sex and money stepped down from the pulpit. tecostal denomination, inhis 7,500-seat family worship The evangelist had confessed scandal at the PTL ministry “I think he is a man of in­ Springfield, Mo. center after reports that to a fascination with pornogra­ under Bakker’s reign. tegrity. I think he made a mis­ Police kept reporters away church officials had been given phy stemming from his With tears streaming down take. I don’t think it’s a fatal from Swaggart at the Baton photographs purporting to boyhood, the source said. his face, Swaggart said Sunday mistake,” Cecil Janway, dis­ Rouge and Alexandria air­show Swaggart and a known Eleven months ago, Swag­ he was stepping down from the trict superintendent of the twoports. Swaggart had no com­ prostitute going into and out ofgart scathingly denounced fel­pulpit “for an undetermined, million member Assemblies of ment after landing and left thea motel room. low Assemblies of God evan­ indeterminate period of tim e" SMC candidates debate Faculty criticize Kaplan courses, prior to SBP elections support cheaper self-preparation By MATT GALLAGHER was devoted to questions pro­ By CHRIS SKORCZ Definitely not, said Robert $15, said Waddick. The preparatory course Kaplan Staff Reporter posed by the election officials, Staff Reporter Waddick, assistant dean of The Observer editorial board, the College of Arts & Letters. offers prior to the LSAT Candidates for Saint Mary’s and students who attended the With students around the “Stanley Kaplan over­ costs almost $600. Similar student body officers met Mon­meeting. world scrambling for posi­ charges. He discriminates workbooks are available for day night in the Regina North The three tickets all basi­ tions in the most competitive against the kids who haven’t the Graduate Management Lounge to debate prior to the cally agreed on the problems colleges, universities and got the dough,” said Wad­ Admissions Tests (GMAT) elections. Each ticket had a facing Saint Mary’s in the next graduate schools, a large in­ dick. “The only thing you and the Graduate Record chance to express its positions year, citing student apathy, dustry has grown up around can do to prepare for the Exams (GRE) for even less on the issues raised by the elec­ lack of diversity, Saint Mary’s the standardized tests that standardized tests is relieve than the LSAT book. tions in an attempt to distin­security’s role, and the revision have become almost univer­ anxiety and the cheaper you “I’ve never told a kid, guish itself from the pack. of the Saint Mary’s mission sally mandatory in the ap­ can do so the better.” ‘Hey, don’t take the Kaplan There are three tickets in the statement as some of the most plication process. Waddick called attention course,” Waddick said. running, each of which fields aimportant issues. Leading this industry, in to the many books of sample “But if you can prepare for candidate for student body The ticket of Ann Reilly, Julie terms of reputation and tests and test-taking strate­ an aptitude test-which president, vice president for Marozas, and Kathy Connors sheer size, is Stanley H. gies available to test-takers measures the student’s po­ student affairs, and vice pres­stressed academics as an area Kaplan Educational Center at a fraction of the cost of a tential for the first year of ident for academic affairs andof concern for them. They Ltd. But are the Kaplan Cen­ single Kaplan course. graduate study-the test is college relations. noted that they would seek to ter’s services really worth Several guides containing not valid. Many of these Each ticket was given time change languages from three the several-hundred-dollar three sample Law School tests such as the MCAT are for opening and closing price tags the various Admissions Tests (LSAT) remarks. The rest of the debate see DEBATE, page 4 courses cost? are available for only about see KAPLAN, page 6 page 2 The Observer Tuesday, February 23, 1988 In Brief ‘CPA wanna-bees’: The prosecutor for St. Joseph County will defer filing charges against the man arrested by Notre Dame Security Why do they do it? in connection with a series of threatening phone calls. Security had questioned the man last month concerning CPA. threatening phone calls made to female students at Notre I have come to hate those letters. They stand Melissa Dame. Security then arrested him on warrants out of In­ for Certified Public Accountant. They should diana University at Bloomington in connection with calls stand for Crazy Peoples Association. InsanityWarnke made to that campus. The St. Joseph County prosecutor is the only reason I can think of that adequately will defer charges in this jurisdiction until after the case explains why we do what we do. Production Manager in Bloomington is over, said Rex Rakow, director of Se­ CPA wanna-bees generally fall into two curity. -The Observer categories. You have your serious candidates -the ones who spend weekend nights hidden be hind a wall of books in a back corner carrel on an upstairs floor of the library. You also have Of Interest your not-as-serious candidates -those who spend weekend nights at Senior Bar, a reputed pre­ accountant hangout, bemoaning their fate and In recognition of Black History Month, Grace Vision coincidentally making future business contacts will be airing the PBS six hour mini series “Eye on the in the process. Prize.” This is a documentary about the Civil Rights move­ Whatever their type, you surely will recog­ ment from 1954 to 1965. It will start at 3 p.m. on Feb. 23 nize the CPA candidates around campus. They and 25 and 6 p.m. on Feb. 24 and 27 on Channel 4 in Grace walk hunched over beneath the staggering Hall. -The Observer weight of the CPA review manuals (manuals! % -a stone tablet is more like it) they carry in their “Preparing for Second Interviews”will be the backpacks. They mumble incoherent phrases topic of a presentation given this afternoon by Jeff Rice, like “commercial paper” and “cost of goods assistant director, Career and Placement Services.

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