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News+ page 9 2000 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 99 HTTP:/ /OBSERVER.N D.EDU FACULTY SENATE SMC bans Members approve Student Life report indoor • Group also asks ND to join Workers' Rights Consortium smoking By JOSHUA BOURGEOIS By MOLLY McVOY Assistant News Editor News Writer The Faculty Senate passed two reso­ Saint Mary's administration handed lutions Tuesday dealing with a report to down a new smoking policy, to go into the Ad Iloe Committee on Academic and effect next semester, which limits the Student Life and the Progressive areas where students are allowed to Student Alliance request for the smoke. University to ta.ke further action against The policy pro­ New smoking sweatshops. hibits smoking in The committees on academic affairs any buildings on policy and student affairs drafted the report campus and +No smoking in any debated at the meeting. The report e n c 0 u r a g e s buildings on campus. intends to inform the Ad Hoe Committee smokers to on /\eademie and Student Life on the smoke only out- +Smoking encouraged faculty's role in the integration of acad­ side near the at ashtrays, away from emic and campus life. The Ad Hoc ashtrays which Committee will then write a report on will be provided. doors and tlw issue in ApriL This will ensure windows. The Faculty Senate Heport to the Ad no smoking near +Takes effect Aug. 1. lloc Committee on Academic and doorways and Student Life suggests that there should windows, be "either the reorganization of the according to the policy. Presently, smok­ Campus Life Council [CLC] or the forma­ ers are allowed to smoke in their rooms tion of a new body to replace it fthe with their roommate's permission and CLC] to oversee the integration of in provided smoking areas in the resi­ Academic and Campus life." dence halls. According to the report, some of the MIKE HARRISfThe Observer Most non-smokers are pleased with issues the suggested committee should the policy, but many smokers and non­ deal with are "Hesidence Hall Faculty Faculty Senate chair Jean Porter leads the group's meeting Tuesday. The smokers alike were surprised that this Fellows or Resident Faculty Masters Senate voted to support the PSA's campaign for Notre Dame to enter the was passed and disappointed that their and Senior Tutors; oversight of all disci­ Workers' Rights Consortium, an anti-sweatshop organization. input seemed lacking in the decision. plinary procedures involving student The decision met mixed reactions organizations. including media, After debating the inclusion of a diver­ meeting and presented the Senate a from the students. addressing politically or academically sity clause, the Senate voted to endorse proposal that asked the University to ''I'm just curious as to where this poli­ controversial issues and organization of the report by a vote of 28-3. The report withdraw from the Fair Labor cy came from," said Megan Kosel. a the system of residence halls to promote will now go to the Ad Hoc Committee on Association {FLA) and join the newly junior non-smoker. "I can see how, if specifically academic goals as well as Academic and Student Life. formed Workers' Rights Consortium you're a non-smoker, it came out of those currently pursued in the residence Aaron Kreider of the Progressive halls." Student Alliance (PSA) attended the see SENATE/page 6 see SMOKING/page 4 Community celebrates McCormick at memorial Mass He was 77 years old. McCormick's contributions to the was determined to return to his By JASON McFARLEY Father Theodore Hesburgh, public. McCormick was the recip­ work at Notre Dame, according News Writer University president emeritus, ient of many academic honors, to McBrien. said that McCormick would have was a member of the American "He never lost hope that he Family, friends and community been thankful for those who Academy of Arts and Sciences would return to Notre Dame, if members filled the Basilica of the attended the memorial services. and was a past president of the even for one more football week­ Sacred Heart to half its capacity "[McCormick] was a wonderful Catholic end," McBrien as they gathered to celebrate the friend and colleague. He was Theological "[McCormick] was a said. life and open to all ideas, all friendships, Society of Although the achievements open to everyone," said America, wonderful friend and memorial of the late Hesburgh, who presided over the McBrien said. colleague. He was open Mass was an Father Mass. McCormick to all ideas, all occasion to Richard The event drew many who was also a pub­ pay tribute, McCormick at knew McCormick, including his lished author friendships, open to McBrien said a memorial three sisters ~nd other extended and made reg­ everyone. Tuesday's ser­ Mass held family members. Friends, col­ ular appear­ vices were Tuesday. leagues and people from ances on televi­ intended to McCormick, McCormick throughout the area were also in sion news pro­ Father Theodore Hesburgh call attention a professor attendance. grams. presider to a life of emeritus of Father Richard McBrien, a fel­ "Many bene­ accomplish- Christian ethics, was a world­ low theology professor, delivered fited from his ments, not renowned moral theologian who the homily. He called McCormick wisdom and counsel," McBrien death. The bonds of friendship specialized in biomedical ethics. an integral part of not only his said. "Now that he has left this and love that McCormick stood He had been a member of the immediate family but also of the earth, his renown will not cease." for are not broken by his passing, Notre Dame faculty since 1986. Notre Dame community and the Both McBrien and Hesburgh McBrien said. Theology professor Father A Toledo, Ohio, native, Society of Jesus to which he had remembered McCormick as a "Father McCormick's presence Richard McBrien gives the McCormick died of natural caus­ belonged since 1940. courageous man. Last June, homily Tuesday. es on Feb. 12 in Clarkston, Mich. McBrien recalled some of when McCormick first fell ill, he see MEM 0 RIAL/ page 4 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Wednesday, March 8, 2000 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN MICHIANA Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday It's just a + Watercolor class: + Entertainment: "Evening + Flea Market: Collectibles + Performance: "Dance Nappanee Public Library, at Moon tree," music, show and sale, Pierre Kaleidoscope," ELCO place, right? Nappanee; 9:30 a.m. to dance and visual arts, Moran Mall, Elkhart; Performing Theater, 3:30p.m.; (219) 773-7919. Moo~tree Lodge Cafe, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Elkhart; 7:30p.m.; 1-800- 9802 Upas Rd., Plymouth; +Theater: "Clue," Battell 597-7627. In three months, I'll be gone. I realized that the other day when an envelope filled with com­ 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Community Center, 904 N. mencement information met me at the mailbox. Main St., Mishawaka; It was a sign of my collegiate mortality. And when I opened that envelope, and read 8 p.m. such dry material about how exactly Notre Dame is going to kick me out, I began to cry. It wasn't a sob event. It Compiled from U-Wire reports was just a smdl trickle, OUTSIDE THE DOME enough to make me notice a change in my emotional well-being, but not so much FDA denounces Penn gene study, won't lift ban that I couldn't weasel my way out of explaining why PHILADELPHIA Federal regulators refuted nearly there was a tear running In a scathing letter to Penn's all of the responses offered by the down my cheek. (It was a Institute for Human Gene Therapy Institute concerning the gene thera­ piece of dirt, I would proba­ Mike Vanegas on Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug py trial in which Jesse Gelsinger, bly say.) Administration rejected the who died last September, was Anyway, I suppose it's just Institute's defense of its handling of enrolled.Wilson and his researchers the sentimentalist who's Scene editor the clinical study that cost an 18- later determined that Gelsinger died been hiding deep down in year-old man his life and refused to of multiple organ failure induced by my soul for such a long time. lift the ban on gene therapy at the the gene therapy. I've never pretended not to university. The Institute - which until be a sensitive person. But I've never pretended In the 20-page warning letter Pennsylvania officials said in a writ­ recently had been considered one of addressed to IHGT director James the top gene therapy research cen­ to be a big fan of loving Notre Dame and every­ ten statement issued Friday. thing attached to it. Wilson, who led the study, federal The warning comes six weeks ters in the world - now has 15 regulators charged the researcher I've visited the Grotto when I needed spiritual after the FDA charged the Institute business days to inform the FDA with having "failed to fulfill the mending. I visited the Main Building when it with 18 possible vioiations of federal about any corrective steps that will obligations as the sponsor" of gene reopened. I went to all the home football games. research protocol breaches and be taken and submit any data and But really, I would have made those trips ifl therapy studies, and accused him of placed a ban on all gene therapy at documentation for which the letter were at any other school.