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-~~------------------- Beat Michigan Irish Extra etc. Mostly sunny and warmer today with a high around 80. Notre Dame vs. Tailgating '88 Mostly clear Friday night. Low y in the middle 50s. Saturday ex- Folkways review Michigan a in the lower 80s. VOL. XXII, NO. 14 WEEKEND EDITION, SEPTEMBER 9-11 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Soviet sociologist Kon speaks about reform By MARK MCLAUGHLIN ture, however, will take time to work Senior Staff Reporter their way to big industry. "It is impossible to solve everything imme Perestroika, the Soviet reform move diately," said K?n. "But if you wait, ment, will have world-wide impact and your problems will never be solved. should not be taken as an empty prom The fate of perestroika, according to ise, said renowned Soviet sociologist Kon, hangs on the results in agricul Igor Kon in an address last night. " ture. "It will be two or three years "Take perestroika seriously, and before the results are known. If we do don't judge the process as an attempt not improve, the situation will become to make a false impression," said Kon, dangerous. People will become disillu senior researcher at the Institute of sioned." Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Many opponents of perestroika are Sciences. not conscious of their opposition, said Perestroika began as an attempt to Kon. They are spontaneously opposed combat the "highly institutionalized in because they are people who cannot efficiency" of the Soviet Union, Kon change, he added. "This is a fundamen said. "But it was clear to the leader tal problem." ship, and the scientists also, that it was The cultural cause of opposition to impossible to make the economy more change in the Soviet Union is envy, said efficient without democratization." Kon. "Not only are party local bureaucrats afraid of losing their power, there is also opposition from en vious neighbors." People who try to im prove are seen as wanting to receive more, Kon said. Tpe opponents of perestroika, often members of the old bureaucracy, would take advantage of this disillusionment, said Kon. But he said that Mikhail Gor bachev was strong enough politically to withstand criticism of perestroika. Kon also called for reform outside the Soviet Union. "We, and this is the whole world, need new fundamental prin ciples. The world's problems cannot be solved by one nation." Igor Kon "Today's issue is independence versus dependence. But we all need to "I have taken the idea of perestroika learn about interdependence," he seriously only since ... changes in the added. political and economic sphere have Kon "is one of the founders of sociol been followed by real democratization ogy in the Soviet state," said David and increased openness," Kon said. Leege, director of the Hesburgh Pro Kon said that tkere is a psychological gram in Public Service. The Hesburgh The Observer I Mike Moran change going on in the Soviet Union Program co-sponsored the lecture with today. People are showing more initia several other groups as part of the tive. "Formerly, young people were "Yeat of the Child in Family Policy" Dome is almost done moralless and indifferent. Now we are lecture series. By MAURA KRAUSE Dedrick, director of the Notre Dame seeing the rise of many social and po Kon is visiting the United States for Staff Reporter Physical Plant. The entire dome was litical initiatives ... and the develop a three-month exchange visit. ""'It's his last regilded in 1961, and the Virgin ment of a new consciousness," he said. first visit to an English-speaking For years, the golden Lady on the Mary, herself, was last done in 1971. The changes evident in Soviet cul- country," said Leege. Dome has attentively watched over The task job of regilding the Dome students at Notre Dame. Over the went to Conrad Schmidt Studios. Ac years, however, the gold covering cording to Bernard Gruenke, Jr., the her has dulled. As a result, scaffold president of Conrad Schmidt ing was erected on July 5th, and Studios, the process is very tedious Friday, Sept. 9 renovation efforts began. and precise. The dome on .top of the Adminis In regilding, the old gold, which tration Building has been regilded 4:30p.m.: Band Rehearsal. Step off from Washington Hall. see DOME, page 6 4:45 • 6 p.m.: Glee Club (Open Rehearsal) at Crowley Hall. nine times, according to Don 4:45 ·6:45p.m.: Pep Rally Picnic in Stepan Center. 7 p.m.: Pep Rally at Stepan Center (outside). Saturday, Sept. 10 Bike theft suspects caught Dame Avenue, just southwest of Uni 9:30a.m.: Alcoholics Anonymous. A closed meeting of the AA fellowship at By ASHOK RODRIGUES News Staff versity Club Drive. the Center for Social Concerns. The other individual fled on foot and 10 a.m.: Band Rehearsal. Step off Washington Hall. was pursued by #security officers. 11 a.m.· 6 p.m.: Football Season Kickoff Party (performance by Due to the collective efforts of Notre Dame Security and several students, Several Notre Dame students, driving Shenanigans) on South Quad. a jeep down Notre Dame Avenue on Noon· 8 p.m.: Notre Dame and St. Mary's alumni, family and friends are two suspected bicycle thieves were ap prehended Tuesday evening. their way to dinner, noticed the fleeing cordially invited to the Alumni Hospitality Center for films and information . suspect and chased him to C1 parking in the North Dome of the JACC. Enter through Gates 2 and 3. Around 5:30p.m., a Dillon H~ll resi dent called Security after witnessing lot. 6 ·6:30p.m.: Glee Club. ND In Review in the JACC, North Dome. The individual was intercepted by the 6:55p.m.: Band line up and step off from Washington Hall. two individuals acting suspiciously near the bicycle rack at the north side students in the lot. Chris Brackey, a 7:25 p.m.: Pre-Game program in the Football Stadium. Notre Dame senior and the driver of 8 p.m.: Football: Notre Dame vs. Michigan. of the hall, according to Phillip Johnson, assistant director of security. The the jeep, jumped out of the vehicle and After the game: Notre Dame and Saint Mary's alumni, family and friends detained the suspect until security of are cordially invited to the Alumni Hospitality Center in the JACC. suspects fled when officers arrived. One suspect, who escaped on bike, ficers arrived. see BIKE, page 6 .~ ----·--·- ~-. was apprehended by security on Notre page 2 The Observer Weekend Edition, September 9-11 , 1988 INSIDE COLUMN IN BRIEF Over-used words The Excused Absences office has relocated to Room 119D of the Administration Building. The office is open on weekdays from 9:30a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. ~o aren't so 'special' anymore 3:30 p.m. The office phone number is 239-8041. The Trafftc Violations office, foi'merly in 119D, has ~een moved to Overkill does what it says: it deals a lethal Gate 6 of the Joyce Athletic and ConvocatiOn Center. blow. It has a way of turning something that Chris was once held in affection to mere tolerance - Mumps, the once-common-childhood disease, is declin and when things get really bad -- to the need Donnelly ing again after two years on the rise, federal health offi for distancing from the·object in order to main cials reported Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control tain one's sanity. Smurfs and the dancing Managing Editor reported that mumps was'down by two-thirds through tbe raisins fit this category for most people. But I first 30 weeks of this year, with 3,166 cases reported in also think of LP albums, music videos, TV se that time. Mumps reached a record low in the United ries, rugby sweaters and spy novels to which I States in 1985, when 2,982 cases were reported - down 98 was once devoted, even addicted, which I can percent from the 152,000 reported in 1968, the first year no longer stand to see, hear or wear. for the licensed mumps vaccine. Mumps reporting then I feel an urgent need lately to keep arm's rose over the next two years, to 7,790 cases in 1986 and length from a basic English word which has 12,299 in preliminary reports from 1987. -Associated Press been run into the ground so that to see it or to hear it (which is most often as it enters my life) is to register acute distress. The word is Walter Hudson, who has slimmed down an estimated "special." The day is not far off, I think, when 680 pounds, lumbered out of his house Thursday and either William Safire in The New York Times greeted the sunshine for the first time in 18 years. Wearing or Edwin Newmann, two renowned essayists sunglasses to protect his eyes, Hudson walked through a on the vagaries of the mother tongue, will share widened doorway and onto a specially constructed, their disgust with thi~ word, too. elevated concrete patio. Hudson's fear that his legs would Just last night I was reminded of my antipathy not support his weight kept him trapped in his house and for "special." Looking for a birthday card for confined mostly to his bed since he was 15 years old. He an old high school friend, Walgreens at Univer came to the world's attention last fall when became sity Park and Osco's at the Mall had 37 cards wedged in a doorway and had to be· rescued by firefighters to choose .from designated to "my special with saws.