.----~--------------------------------~~--~---- Monday, February 24, 1997 • Vol. XXX No. 97 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND hopes to improve teaching with new Kaneb Center By CHRIS SHIPLEY need for a center which can . paper titled "Back to Basics" Gulf Oil endowed the center at Center this fall, and I decided News Writer deal with the daily concerns of criticized Notre Dame for its Notre Dame after seeing its with the encouragement of students and faculty had lack of student-faculty rela­ success at his alma mater, everybody around here that it In the world of higher educa­ become apparent to adminis- tions. Since then, the adminis­ Harvard University. would be good for me to just tion. many believe that student trators over the past few tration has taken steps to fos­ Walvoord, a 27 -year veteran listen for a semester. We need involvement has proven itself years. The Academic Council ter the relationship between in developing faculty teaching to figure out what this place is as the number one factor and other campus organiza- teacher and pupil. The Kaneb skills, comes to Notre Dame all about first and how to use affecting student learning. To tions had officially called for Center is the University's after spending five years at the its resources in the most effec­ ensure that Notre Dame facul­ the creation of such a center largest undertaking in its hope University of Cincinnati, where tive way," Walvoord said. ty and students can achieve since 1994. to improve in-class relations. she coordinated a project to "This spring we have set up this goal, the administration "People have been talking The Kaneb Center, located in enhance faculty teaching and workshops and are construct­ has created the Kaneb Center about and hoping for a center 353 DeBartolo Hall, was made student learning. The Hope ing plans about other things to for Teaching and Learning. like this for at least ten years," possible by the generous con­ College graduate was named d0. " Though the Kaneb Center is said Barbara Walvoord, tribution of John A. Kaneb, a the Maryland teacher of the The most recent workshop, entering only its second Director of the Kaneb Center member of the Notre Dame year in 1987 during her time held Feb. 14 in the Center for semester of service to the and professor of English. board of trustees since 1980. at Loyola College in Baltimore. Notre Dame community, the Five years ago, a research The chief executive officer of "I started at the Kaneb see KANEB I page 4 CIGNA exec advises Profs analyze global economy By BILL IRVINE new international hires News Writer By MICHAEL LEWIS countries," Olsen said. Three Notre Dame professors News Writer Until 1993, international elaborated on the effects of operations was a self-con­ economic globalization in a The Notre Dame Council on tained organization within discussion Saturday afternoon International Business each country with its own titled "Comparative Nco-liberal Development could not get director, she said. There was Economic Reforms." Edward Hanway. president of little synergy, little globalism, The discussion was part of CIGNA Healthcare, to speak on and the company wanted to the 1997 Intercollegiate Saturday morning, but they got offer the same services in all Consulting Conference spon­ the left half of his brain. countries. sored by the Notre Dame Senior Vice President of "We put in place global prod­ Council on International Human Resources Carol Olsen, uct managers who had to work Business Development. who has worked with Hanway with country general man­ Professor Kwan Kim of the for over 10 years, filled in and agers," she said. "We actually economics department discussed what large compa­ had a three dimensional addressed two features of glob­ nies are looking for in new matrix organization," with the alization - the liberalization of hires for international business headquarters, product man­ trade and the mobility of inter­ positions. Before she moved to agers, and country general national capital. Kim attrib­ health care, Olsen worked in managers. The Observer/Michelle Keefe uted these two features to Three Notre Dame professors gathered Saturday for a seminar titled the international division of the Olsen said the key to success post-cold war ideology and the was getting the right people. "Comparative Nee-liberal Economic Reforms." The discussion was company, which gave her growth of technology. sponsored by the Council on International Business Development. experience in international Only 70 of the international "Computer systems have business. employees are not local facilitated the movement of will survive. nomic inequality," Goulet said. "He says I'm the left side of employees. capital and thereby eliminated "If you look at empirical "It has produced jobless, voice­ his brain," Olsen said of CIGNA established an inter­ international boundaries," Kim data, globalization effects have less, ruthless, rootless growth." Hanway. national vision and set of val­ said. been very uneven," Kim stated. Goulet even found tremen­ Olsen said that CIGNA's pri­ ues as well as a list of critical Kim related several problems "East Asia has been the main dous human problems in coun­ orities for hiring and develop­ competencies each worker with the nco-liberal economic beneficiary of globalization, tries such as Brazil, where the ing new international busi­ must have, she said. People model. while Eastern Europe has not economy has improved statisti­ nesspersons are similar to learn through experience, so "As nco-liberalism leaves restructured their economies cally. those of other companies. She the company needed good everything in the hands of pri­ to meet the problems of free "This development places a said the company's changes in training programs and on-the­ vate sectors, trickle-down markets." premium on maximum aggre­ recent years have made the job training with teams work­ income distribution is a very Another Professor of gate economic growth without company global, not just inter­ ing on the same project. important issue," Kim said. Economics, Denis Goulet, fol­ a concern for social issues," national. New hires have to be aggres­ "Trickle-down is not going to lowed Kim by discussing the Goulet said. "We need the kind "We are an insurance com­ sive, focused on profit, and happen internationally or even global social effects of nco-lib­ of development that won't pany, we provide financial ser­ willing to take risks. They also within countries." eral economic reforms. destroy the culture. We can't vices throughout the world, have to satisfy customers and By analyzing the economies "The nco-liberal economic treat people as moveable com­ we've been in business for 204 be attuned to cultural differ- of countries around the world, model has resulted in lopsided modities, as interchangeable years, we're number 42 on the Kim found that only the fittest development with a tremen­ Fortune 500, and we sell to 55 see OLSEN I page 4 dous amount of social and eco- see REFORMS I page 4 RFK, Jr. calls for environmental awareness •SJmnMArtv'sEtEcrmNs By GITA PULLAPILLY date that included the Private SM c tickets News Writer Property Protection Act, which, according to Kennedy, gives A complete commitment to "protection but with a right to prepare for science and nature made pollute. The mandate said that Abraham Lincoln the greatest the government could not pass United States president, or enforce a law if it diminishes elections according to Robert Kennedy someone's property value." By LORI ALLEN .Jr .. who spoke to a large audi­ "All laws cost property own­ Saint Mary's News Editor ence at Stepan Center Friday ers money," Kennedy said, night. adding that laws could not exist Budding Saint Mary's politi­ Kennedy, a professor at Pace if people had to be paid to obey cians gear up for class officer University, is very active in the the law. elections this week as the National Resource Council and In addition to fighting to pre­ campus once again finds itself the Riverkeeper program, vent this mandate from being decorated with multi-colored which aids the Hudson River passed, Kennedy also fought flyers. The elections will be community in protecting their against the Regulatory Reform held on Tuesday when Saint river from polluters. Bill, which gives corporations Mary's students will decide Kennedy said that the Hudson veto power over environmental which individuals will repre­ River was blessed with a strong laws. According to Kennedy, sent them as their class offi­ environmental community, many of the bill's advocates in cers for next year. which was one of the reasons Congress say that the bill would The Observer/Michelle Keefe In an unusual occurrence, he spent two years lobbying in be a good economic policy. But Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke Friday on "A Contract with Our Future" at there are three tickets running the 104th Congress. Kennedy Stepan Center. Kennedy highlighted the importance of environmental awareness and responsible citizenship in his talk. wanted to stop the superman- see RFK I page 6 see ELECTIONS I page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, February 24, 1997 • INsmE CoLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Atlanta authorities contemplate serial bomber Nice guys ATLANTA "I ran out immediately and we heard A bomb blast that injured at least five shrapnel landing on the ground in our people at a crowded nightclub - the parking lot." finish last ... fourth to rock this city in seven months - Memrie Wells-Griswell of Snellville, the has forced authorities to consider the pos­ most seriously wounded with a 3- to 4- sibility of a serial bomber. inch nail in her arm, was-in stable condi­ There is a serious tool "Clearly, we believe that we are dealing tion Saturday.