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Thursday, February 9, 1995 • Vol. XXVI No. 83 ·THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S FBI calls Field narrows, run-off Friday student Klau/Herczeg to face ..tcf. NOTRE DAME to testify Patrick/McCarthy .fM' ELECTIONS By lAURA FERGUSON Saint Mary's News Editor By DAVE TYLER News Editor While on October break last semester, Tanya Wilson a Saint Yesterday the tickets of Kevin Mary's senior visited Washing­ Klau and Larissa Herczeg, and ton D.C. This spring break she Jonathan Patrick and Dennis will return to testify in a trial McCarthy ·earned spots in a regarding the Oct. 29 open lire Friday runoff to determine the on the White House. student body president and On that October afternoon, vice-president. Wilson and Esti Mutidjo, also a Klau!Herczeg garnered 28.05 Saint Mary's student, were site percent of the vote (1050 votes) seeing at the nation's capital while Patrick/McCarthy took and attempting to take photos 26.82 (1004) percent. The two Klau/Herczeg of the White House from Penn­ were the only tickets in the 28.05o/o sylvania Avenue. It was there seven-way race to collect more that they encountered a man than 20 percent of the vote. Allen/Delaney wearing a tan trench coat de­ Rounding out the rest of the Mudry/Szarek Kielbasa/Leahy 6.89°/o spite the warm weather. The voting; the Montoya/Fischer ticket received 15.82 percent ( 1.98o/o man was later identified as 12.40o/o The Observer/Tom Roland Francisco Martin Duran who 592 votes), Kielbasa/Leahy re­ opened lire on the white house ceived 12.40 percent (464) Col­ 1440 off-campus student cast they would not. The dorm Klau referred to lawn. ish/Brett took 8.04 percent ballots. "We're happy to still be in it," was Flanner Hall which went Wilson received a call during (301). Allen/Delaney captured In a campus wide referen­ said Klau shortly after learning overwhelmingly for its co-presi­ the Christmas holiday from an 6.89 percent (258). and dum, students said they would the news. "We received good, dents. Patrick/McCarthy took FHl agent who said that a sub­ Mudry/Szarek managed 1.98 support the installation of cable solid support campus-wide, and their home dorm by storm, gar­ poena from the prosecution percent (7 4). in dorm rooms. 60 percent of hopefully it will still be there nering 274 of the 337 votes cast was in the proces~ of being is­ 37 43 students or 48.04 per­ those polled said they would Friday." there. The pair were encour­ sued for the March 16 trial. cent of the student body cast pay one hundred dollars a year "If you take away the support aged by the results. votes Wednesday, down from to have cable in their rooms, of one dorm, this was a very "We'd like to thank everyone last year's 4,640. Only 46 of while roughly forty percent said different race," he said. see TESTIFY I page4 see RESULTS I page 4 Resolution supports GLND/SMC By GWENDOLYN NORGLE Assistant News Editor Committee postpones The Student Senate fully sup­ ports Gays and Lesbians of Notre Dame/ Saint Mary's Col­ coed dorm discussion lege (GI.ND/SMC), according to By DEBORAH SCHl.JL TZ Chair Rich Palermo. the resolution passed at last News Writer Rather than ~Qmpletely drop~ night's meeting. ping everything; the··cowrnittee The resolution, which was Right now is not the time to plans onJorming alatger group presented by Co-Chair of fight administrations for coed with younger people to work. GLND/SMC John Blandford had dorms, the Gender Relations whh the newly.·elected· Senate two main parts. It resolved Committee decided. Due to the. officers. According to Palenno, that the Senate "recognize, sup­ present controversy over this would prove bjijl).ef!cial for port, and respect the efforts of GLND/SMC, the Committee every()ne. v . GLND/SMC" and that the Senate postponed their actions and ''Noone right now is 100% "strongly condemn the Uni­ their forum scheduled for later behind. this, so if we wait; w~ versity's action to expel in the year. wilL have more organiza:tJon GLND/SMC from campus and The committee met yesterday and therefore have a gJ'e~ter call upon the University to rec­ afternoon, following the Stu• impact" said Palt:lrrno. ognize GLND/SMC as an inte­ dent Senate meeting, to discuss Although hesitant .that the gral part of the Notre Dame the forum and other bU$iness at building of the new dorms community deserving of all hand. would ·create problems for·the rights and privileges afforded "[n order to do a project like committee, they qecided that it other campus groups." this we need enthusiasm to re· would still be better for the fo· According to the resolution, search and plan, and over the rurn to be postponed. on .January 23, GLND/SMC, was past year I have personally The group also discussed the "barred by the Office of Student watched our spirit die,'' said Affairs from further use of the Hall Presidents' Council Co" see DORMS/ page 4 University Counsding Center." "GLND/SMC has been allowed by the University cannot ad­ sponse to GLND/SMC, Bland­ to ment in thn University Coun­ vertise, _receive funding, re­ ford said that there was "a ba­ snling Centnr since 1986 and serve space for meetings, or sic sense of fairness, a really had used this privilege respon­ sponsor lectures because they good heart to this place," but sibly," aeeording to the resolu­ cannot put their names on that there was a negative mes­ sage being "sent from the tion. "As an intellectual insti" posters. While speaking to the Senate, Dome." tution, Notre Dame has an obligation to recognize the Blandford made reference to Blandford mentioned the equality of all people regardless other colleges and universities Church's teaching about homo­ sexuality, saying that the of gender, race, class, religion, which have recognized gay and Church recognizes a distinction ethnic, or sexual orientation," lesbian groups. Blandford said that Notre Dame is "trailing the between homosexual persons the resolution reads. and homosexual acts. "GLND/SMC has, beginning in pack" on this issue. Blandford 1985, repeatedly sought to reg­ mentioned Georgetown Uni­ "Notre Dame is not the Vati­ can," Blandford said. "We're ister as a campus group and, versity, Fordham University, Loyola-Marymount, DePaul the research branch. We just as often, has summarily been denied recognition," University, and the University should be leading the Church in of Dayton as having gay and examining these issues." according to the resolution. The Observer/Mark Alexion lesbian groups. The resolution, which was Aecording to Student Body Thomas Arndorfer, Notre Dame Class of '85, spoke last night at the In speaking of Notre Dame President David Hungeling, a Zahm Hall Forum on life after Notre Dame. group that is not recognized and the administration's re- see SENATE I page 4 -------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------~---------------------------------------- page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, February 9, 1995 • WORlD AT A GLANCE Wake up, Three small earthquakes rattle California, Oregon Three small earthquakes shook Northwest quake at 12:46 a.m. PST was cen­ parts of Oregon and California within quakes tered about 15 miles north of Los an hour early this morning, but there Three small earthquakes Angeles, according to the California let's get shook parts of Oregon and were no immediate reports of injury California early this morning, Institute of Technology in Pasadena. but there were no immediate or damage. The three earthquakes reports of injury or damage. David Hugunin was watching televi­ were unrelated, the U.S. Geological sion when he felt the Salem temblor. passionate! Survey said. The strongest, of 4.0 "It wasn't a rolling tremor .... It felt magnitude, was reported at 1:36 a.m. like a shaking," he said. "I heard the PST, in Eureka, Calif., about 70 miles walls creaking and it was fairly south of the Oregon state line, said sharp." On Jan. 28, a 5.0-magnitude Injustices .. .injustices, Pat Jorgenson of the geological survey earthquake centered 10 miles south you say? Melanie Laflin in Menlo Park, Calif. A Eureka police of Seattle was felt as far north as What?! Where?! How News Copy Editor operator said only a few people had Canada and as far south as Salem, can this be! Don't we called and that no damage had been Ore. It was the largest earthquake to have a say anymore? reported. A 3. 7 -magnitude quake at hit Puget Sound in 30 years, but Shouldn't these injustices be stopped? Let's 1:10 a.m. PST was centered 20 miles caused no serious injuries or dam­ pick a cause! Let's be passionate about some­ northeast of Salem, Ore., the geologj" age. thing, for crying out loud! Let's make a differ­ cal survey said. And a 3.2-magnitude ence somewhere, somehow ... We're sick of standing back and watching Peru rejects counter-proposal Clinton names Carns new CIA head life, its injustices, and its avoidable tragedies just pass us by. Granted, South Bend isn't a QUITO, Ecuador WASHINGTON mecca for cultural diversity, social uprisings, Peru has rejected an amended cease-fire proposal President Clinton's choice for CIA director is described massacres, chaos, or even minor misde­ made by Ecuador, which is under pressure from Latin by colleagues as a defense intellectual with a flair for meanors. But hey, something must be going American and U.S.

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