Despite Arguments, Senate Accepts New Constitution by DEREK BETCHER the New Constitution Would Not Assistant News Editor Address
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Thursday, March 6, 1997 • Vol. XXX No. 105 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • STUDENT SENATE Despite arguments, senate accepts new constitution By DEREK BETCHER the new constitution would not Assistant News Editor address. CONSTITUTION "I felt that class government is CALENDAR A new era in Notre Dame stu being phased out by the new dent government began yester constitution. Senior leadership day when the Student Senate and class government need to Feb. 14 Amendments from approved a revamped student stay an active part of student subcommittee government constitution. government," Hammonds ex chairs due. With a 14-2 vote, the senate plained. cleared the way for implement Leen's concerns centered Feb. 16 Writing committee ing the new Student Union. around the streamlined rela The senate vote was the final tionship between the new sen completes step in a reform process that ate and the Office of Student revisions. began last November when Affairs. Brendan Kelly created the "I felt, in essence, that the Mid CCC!Student reform committee. senate was limiting itself," Leen Feb. Activities/SUB The reform process has said. "When I ran last year, my informally agree sought to address four basic slogan was 'The administration problems with the current sys may not always act, but it's stu Feb. 18 HPC proposal. tem: inaccessibility to students, dent government's job to make inability to sustain action on key them listen.' I feel very vehe Feb. 19 Reform finalizes issues, lack of organizational mently about this issue." unity, and lack of continuity. The majority of yesterday's new constitution. ''I'm proud that the student senate meeting was dominated body has finally decided to get by scrutinization of Hammonds' Feb. 25 HPC vote. together and change the system and Leen's concerns. Directly for the better," Kelly said fol after calling the meeting to Feb. 26 Proposal to senate lowing the meeting. "This is just order, Leen opened the lengthy of reform package. step one, though. Now people debate by introducing three have to use [the new system.]" friendly amendments to the pro Mar. 5 Senate vote. Student Senator Mark Leen posed constitution. and senior class president Bill All discussion centered Mar. Hammonds cast the only dis around Clause 2 and Clause 4 of lmplementatiol) .Qf The Observer/Adam Andres Sept. reforms. · senting votes. Article II, Section II. The most Both senators had specific disputed passage reads, Student Senator Mark Leen expressed concern about facets of the new constitution, saying he "felt, in essence, that the senate was limit -The Observer concerns which they claimed see SENATE I page 4 ing itself~' Poorman: Modern sex ideas not ethical By HEATHER MACKENZIE "healthy orgasm." Basically, News Writer this is the idea defines sex as a purely selfish act, a biological Sex should not be practiced need that absolutely must be outside of marriage: This basic met. The physical and emotion rule of Christianity was the the- al need for sexual release is sis of a lecture on sexual ethics encompassed in this view, by !'ather Mark Poorman last Poorman stressed, but there is night. Among topics addressed so much emphasis on the indi were modern American views vidual that the rights of the on sex and the position of the other person are lost. Church on sexual relations. "Modern insights and Freud "There's a bit of a competi- argue that sex has everything to tion in contemporary society in do with life," Poorman empha the way people think about sized. "The question within this sex." Poorman said. "The view is this: what's wrong with Christian way is recreational ddinitely not a sex if no one is univnrsal or getting hurt? even popular The trouble way of thinking. here is that The Observer Photos/Adam Andres There are hun- f ·· there is no A piece of artwork by Bruce Nauman resembling a dreds of uture... thought of the tunnel was installed yesterday between the Snite sources out of intim"'"''"'"'~'""' other person." Museum of Art and the stadium. there telling es sexual irifirntiP't1 p 0 0 r man you how to then moved to improve your the practice of sex life or how Father Mark Poorman sex if there is Tunnel stands to please your mutual con- partner... I ------------ sent. This is a always like to listen to how peo- move from the healthy orgasm pie actually think about sex." category, he clarified, because above ground Poorman based his discussion the rights of all to a free deci By MICHELLE KRUPA on the delineation of the four sion about sexual acts are con major ethical categories for sidered and human dignity thinking about sex. In this enters as a consideration. Students walking between the Suite Museum of broad outline Poorman con- However, Poorman ques Art and the stadium will have "the imaginary trasted the Christian view of tioned whether this type of sex experience of being placed within ... subterranean sexuality with societal defini- ual practice was really ethical: pathways and tunnels," according to ariist Bruce tions of love and commitment. "Is sexual activity really cap- Nauman, as they pass his nine-foot sculpture " We draw verbal blanks in tured by a kind of contracted which will be on loan to the University for the next describing relationships... mutual consent?" six months. when you press for a verb, Poorman went on to stress The piece, a 1/60th scale model of a hypothetical especially at a place like Notre that the mutual consent defini underground tunnel is the third in an edition of Dame, the most you will get is tion of sexual ethics is the one three and is composed of two nine-foot circles con 'seeing.' The words 'dating' most cited in modern American nected to a seemingly suspended central pyramid and 'boyfriend' or 'girlfriend' culture. by diagonally attached shafts. Made of Cor-ten, are almost never heard." "A personal choice for sex or the steel used for its fabrication does not require The first category of sexuality Poorman discussed was the see SEX I page 4 see SCULPTURE I page 4 ~------------------------------------------~ page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, March 6, 1997 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GlANCE No damage, exploding device baffles police MERCER ISLAND, Wash. windows were broken. The Food A device equipped with a timer explod- Nonetheless, Sgt. Dennis Wheeler ed outside the Jewish Community said, "Potentially, it could have been Center, rattling occupants and police but very damaging if people had been near- Gestapo causing no damage or injuries. by." No threats were received before the The explosion occurred in a parking blast in a parking lot Monday evening, lot some distance from the 90,000- So I went to South Laura Petelle nor did anyone claim responsibility square-foot building while parents were Dining Hall with my News Copy Editor afterward, police officer Jennifer picking up pre-schoolers. older children friend Kate. Franklin said today. were at a youth theater rehearsal and Kate prefers her She described the force as "probably a still others were working out in the apples cut in half. I don't know why- maybe little stronger than an M-80," an illegal~._ _________c ______ __,_ _ ___J gymnasium. she feeds half to the mutant squirrels on the firecracker packing the punch of about AP/Carl Fox The police station is just down the quad or something- but she does. So, not one-eighth of a stick of dynamite. block in one direction and Herzl Ner Tamid owning a stolen SDH paring knife of her own, Bits of plastic, a mechanical timer and plywood were Conservative Congregation in the other. she cut the apple in half before we left the blown 150 feet from where the explosive device was Activity at the center was uninterrupted, director dining hall. left. But two cars 20 feet away were untouched and no Gary Pollack said. Follow my logic here: two halves equal one whole. One whole apple. As we walked out of the dining hall, we Healthy Yeltsin returns with speech Republicans renew abortion fight were accosted and stopped by the Food Gestapo. MOSCOW WASHINGTON "You can only take one piece of fruit out," Boris Yeltsin is looking to reinvigo Emboldened by the admitted lie of a key abortion they said. rate his presidency with a shakeup and rights supporter, congressional Republicans renewed the "Oh, I just cut it in half," Kate replied, a major speech Thursday, itching to push Wednesday for legislation banning a certain late putting the two halves seamlessly together. drop a political bombshell or two after term abortion procedure. A principal GOP leader in the "You'll have to leave one of those pieces months on the sidelines. After recov anti-abortion movement said President Clinton, who here." ering from heart surgery and dishing vetoed the bill last year, should "have a chance to get it "It's just one apple." out a series of tongue-lashings. the right" now that activist Ron Fitzsimmons says that he "You'll have to leave one here," the Food healthy "new" Yeltsin again resembles lied. Abortion rights supporters pledged to keep fighting Gestapo maintained. the battling Boris of old rather than a the bill. "The facts have not changed; they've just been Stumped and befuddled, we considered our shuffling, absent leader in decline. Thursday's new discovered by the media and now the general public," options. Now even I, who barely survived beginning - a state-of-the-nation address and govern said Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla .. the prime House spon Calculus for Weenies, know that 1/2 plus 1/2 ment reshuffling - may or may not make a dent in the sor.