Refugees Aided by ND Student by LIZ FORAN Deal with Refugee Situations." Derstand It Herself

~150 YEARS~ cr. tr. cr. r; c ..,~ ~ 2 >t"'" Wednesday, September 21, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 18 ~NOTRE DAME·IN ~ TI IE INDLPFNDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Refugees aided by ND student By LIZ FORAN deal with refugee situations." derstand it herself. Assistant News Editor From the main officer, Garvey "We have an arms embargo then went on a two-week tour against the Bosnian Muslims, Growing up in different Third of eastern Turkey before arriv but the Russians are supplying World countries, Notre Dame ing .at the refugee camp in the Serbs with weapons. They senior Cara Garvey was not western Turkey. really don't have a chance." shocked by the conditions at a At the camp, Garvey taught She also said that she does refugee camp in western five English classes a day to not see an end in the near fu Turkey where she spent her Bosnian Muslims children. ture. "At the end of the sum summer. "It was very frustrating Tor mer, thing were looking better, What shocked her, she says, me," she added. "I don't know and many of the refugees hoped is the apparent apathy from the how to teach, and there were they might be able to return rest of the world, and the re some who could speak a little home soon," she said. "But now fusal by the United Nations to bit and some who could speak news reports say the fighting is admit that genocide is taking quite a bit of English. I couldn't worse than ever." place in the region. speak their language at all." Although the experience was "It's basically genocide in the Garvey lived at the camp with difficult and frustrating at middle of Europe - ethnic more than 3,000 refugees in times, Garvey said it was some cleansing. They (the Serbs) conditions she described as thing she would definitely do aren't going to stop until every "not bad." again. "I made a lot of great Bosnian Muslim is killed," "They lived in small pre-fab friends, and I learned a lot. I Garvey said. ricated houses shaped like grew up in Bangladesh, so I _ Garvey, 21, spent the summer tents," she said. '"Living condi was already used to poverty, working for Development tions were not bad, but these but this summer opened my Foundations, an organization in people are Europeans - they eyes again. It makes me realize • eastern Turkey that helps im are used to living like we do. how good I really have it." prove villages and assists with Most of them are humiliated at Garvey had the opportunity to Bosnian refugee camps. they way they are living now." go because her father works for Arriving in Turkey in May, Garvey described the Bosnian World Bank and knew someone Garvey spent the first few Muslims as "great people." at the Development Foundation weeks working in the organiza "They are in a very difficult office, but she stressed that op tion's office and writing two pa situation," she said. portunities are out there for pers, both of which were used Garvey told of one woman anyone who is interested in do in the United Nations who kept asking her to help her ing something similar. Emergency Management find her son and husband. "You just have to look," she Training Program. When Garvey told her she was said. "Many of these places "I wrote one paper on the only a college student and un have internships and would Kurdish refugees (from Iraq) able to help, the woman began probably appreciate more and another on the general asking her. "Why are the help." NO Broadway TneObseNertMaureenLane refugee policies. I didn't know it Americans just sitting there? After her summer experience, Freshman Jennifer Lewis auditions for the play "A Christmas Carol," to then, but they both would be Why don't they make it stop?" Garvey said she would like to be performed by the Flanner-Siegfried Players later this year. used to train others in how to Garvey says she does not un- do similar work next year. Gabriel receives honorary doctorate • RES!DEWCE HAu AssocumoN Special to The Observer stores his title, "University postgraduate study at the Professor of Budapest." University of Budapest, he stud Saint Mary's RHA sets Astrik Because he is a Catholic priest, ied in Paris at the Ecole Gabriel, direc he was stripped of that title by Pratique des Hautes Etudes, the tor emeritus communist authorities follow Sorbonne, the Ecole Nationale activities for new year and professor ing their takeover of Hungary. des Chartres and the College de By PEGGY LENCZEWSKI improving the publicity that emeritus in ),. France. He fled Hungary in A member of the Notre Dame News Writer campus events receive in order the Medieval faculty since 1948, Gabriel di 194 7 and served for a year as a to improve student partici Institute and rected the University's Medieval guest professor at the Pontifical Making students more aware pation. director of the Institute from 1953 to 197 4. Institute of Medieval Studies in - of campus activities is the pri Another objective of the RHA Frank Folsom During this period he oversaw Toronto before coming to Notre mary object of the Saint Mary's this year will be to work in con Am brosiana Astrik Gabriel the acquisition of 17,000 rolls Dame. He became a United College Residence Hall junction with the Notre Dame Microfilm and of microfilm reproductions of States citizen in 1953. Association (RHA) this year. Hall President's Council. Photographic Collection at the manuscripts and 2,500 slides A corresponding member of RHA also hopes to plan many Cherubini hopes for an "ex University of Notre Dame, re and 12,000 glossy photographs the French Academie des activities that will draw atten change of representatives to ceived an honorary doctorate of illuminated manuscripts and Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, tion and increase student relay information between both from the University of Budapest drawing s from the Biblioteca Gabriel is also a fellow in the participation. campuses so that there is bet on May 13. Ambrosiana in Milan. Medieval Academy of America, RHA acts as a coordinator ter communication between Gabriel, a Hungarian native Gabriel was graduated from an honorary doctor of the between Student Government both schools." who received his doctoral de the Szechenyi Real-Gymnasium Ambrosiana Library in Milan, and the student body, accord Many activities are in the gree from the University of in 1926 and entered the Order and a corresponding member of ing to President Jen Cherubini. Budapest in 1936, was particu of Canons of Premontre the the Bavarian Academy of A major focus this year will be larly pleased that the honor re- same year. In addition to his Sciences. see RHA I page 3 New co01puters offer students help outside classroo01 Editors' Note: The following is notes is just one of the many English and director of the vided by the Freshman Writing the last in a three part series educational uses of computers Freshman Writing Program, Tutorial. Also included is a examining the staus and capa that have students and profes ~ Univers!ty introduced the Daedalus writ suggestion list that provides bilities of Unviersity sors excited. Programs such as ing program to the freshman 182 ways of starting on a topic. Computing. Mosaic and Courseware have ~Computing English classes three years ago, The programs are designed to altered the way students study, and the results have been posi keep students involved and pre By Brad Prendergast making it in many instances Where We Stand tive. vent students from slipping News Writer more convenient. "I think students are writing through without learning the "It's great," Fitzpatrick said. istry class with Prqfessor Dave better," he said. "One of the necessary techniques. Whenever Brian Fitzpatrick "I can go to the computer lab Leighton in DeBartolo, where benefits of the use of computers "These programs are inter wants to review his class notes and find everything from class we could use the monitors in is that students are willing to active," Kline said. "You're not for his chemical engineering notes to the answers for home the classroom," Kantor said. do more writing. Students can just passive. These programs class and his professor is not work and tests." "We could work our way do more revisions more easily prompt you to do a task, and if available, he doesn't have to Professors have taken advan through different visual docu on computers." you don't do it, then the com wait. tage of computers as well. ments by using Mosaic on the Writing classes use the pro puter will turn itself off. All the junior has to do is go Jeff Kantor, a professor of screen. It was a vital part of grams for getting started on "When you do something," to .any of the computer clusters chemical engineering, was one the course." topics, revising, collaborating Kline continued, "the computer on campus and look up of the first professors to make While not all professors have on topics with peers, and edit will encourage you or tell you, Chemical Engineering 344 on his notes available to students made their notes available to ing, Kline said. 'Hey buddy, you're doing it the Mosaic program, and every such as Fitzpatrick via Mosaic, Mosaic and Courseware pro An outlining program called wrong.'" thing he needs to know is at his and he uses computers in class grams, the significant majority Inspiration helps students or Instructors have grown fingertips.

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