ACC - page 8 tile independent student newspaper ser\ mg notri dame and saint m an s FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1985 ND attorneys ask to defend suspects in clinic bombings By JANE KRAVCIK and lieutenant colonel, has already as­ BOB VONDERHEIDE sisted Shimek and indicated he also Senior staff reporters may ask to enter the case formally. He has written books against abor­ Three attorneys associated with tion and has served as a consultant to Notre Dame have asked the U.S. Dis­ congressional committees studying trict Court in Pensacola, Fla., to help the power of federal judges in right defend four people accused of anti- to life cases. He is affiliated with abortion bombings. Right to Life of St. Joseph County, The three are: Ind. • Law School professor Charles Monaghan became involved in Rice, an out-spoken opponent of the right to life movement shortly abortion, after the Supreme Court struck •South Bend attorney Mary down anti-abortion laws in 1973. He Frances Hasson, Rice's daughter and once ran on an anti abortion plat­ a graduate of the Notre Dame Law form in an unsuccessful race for the School, and state senate when he lived in Idaho. • Frank Booker, director of the Judges had warned Shimek and Notre Dame Legal Aid and Defender the defendants of possible conflict of Association. interest in having a single lawyer Lawyer Thomas Patrick Monag­ represent all of them. Shimek has in­ han of Bardstown, Ky., joined the sisted he is the only lawyer in Pen­ others in asking to join the defense. sacola who “understands the There was no immediate action by scriptural and spiritual aspects" of the trial judge, Roger Vinson. the case. The defendants, all so far Matthew Goldsby and James Sim­ represented by Pensacola lawyer mons, both 21 and from nearby Can­ Paul Shimek, are scheduled to go to tonment, each face nine counts of trial March 11. Two are charged violating federal firearms and ex­ with a bombing last June and all four plosives laws. They are accused of are charged with the Christmas Day conspiracy, making bombings and bombings of three buildings. using them to blow up The Ladies Last night, Rice said he could not Center, a women’s health and abor­ talk about the matter because Vin­ tion clinic, last June. They also are son had issued a gag order, which charged with bombings Dec. 25 at a prevents attorneys involved from new Ladies Center building the discussing the case publicly. offices of two physicians who per­ The Observer/Vic Guarino On Monday, the five attorneys formed abortions. Tug o’ War filed a motion to lift the gag order Goldsby’s fiancee, Kaye Wiggins, Mark Ridinger, a junior from Alumni Hall, tries Lyons team defeated the Fisher-Badin team in a because they say it violates the First 18, of Pensacola, and Simmons’ wife, to hold his ground yesterday as a member of the contest during halftime of last night’s womens’ Amendment. Kathren, also 18, face seven counts Alumni-Lyons coed tug-of-war team. The Alumni-basketball game. Rice, a retired Marine Corps each. Poet says those who live by humor often die by humor By ANNE GALLAGHER in topics from Ann Landers to the el­ Other poems of Nemerov’s em­ scene from an Ann Landers column graduate of Harvard University, Senior Staff Reporter derly reading pornography. ploy the very ordinary in order to be where a mother doing laundry and Nemerov is currently the Mal- Nemerov opened with readings of specific. For example, “Pockets” wearing her son’s football helmut linkcrodt Distinguished Professor of “Anyone who is introduced as “Literature” and “Writing” works describes the intricate life of the for protection from a leaking pipe, English at Washington University in having a great sense of humor will which he thought were particularly commonplace items in a pocket, a has her privacy invaded by the me­ St. Louis. Commenting that he suffer for it later,” said Howard suited for a literary festival. life typified by “little vagarant coins ter reader. Although comical, the enjoyed himself so much last night, Nemerov, award winning poet and These were followed by a reading only passing through...over and poem ended on a thoughtful note he said, “With such a friendly audi­ last night’s guest at the Sophomore of “Reading Pornography in Old around the errogeous zone.” which quizzed the audience on the ence, maybe I ought to live here.” Literary Festival. Age, ” a poem which portrays sex Nemerov’s biting humor didn’t let purpose of life. The Sophomore Literary Festival But the Pulitzer Prize winning au­ and sexual terms as mundane and in­ up. Reading “Poetics,” a poem Thought provoking humor wasn’t continues today with a workshop in thor didn’t appear to suffer at all last sincere in “the laboring world of the which he claimed is the answer to all just found in the poems alone. night. He kept the audience laughing money and the garbage and the the questions people have been as­ Nemerov read a number of riddles as he read a variety of poems ranging kids.” king him this week, he described a he had written on a bus, stuck in a snowstorm in Maine. The point of riddles, he said, is to figure out the answers so that they O’Gara to assume Welch chair in 1985-86 are no longer puzzling but mysteri­ ous. “They are like Christmas,” he By JOHN HINES Fordham University, written Telephone Company along with said, “the farther away, the closer it Staff reporter numerous articles, editorials, reli­ his wife, an executive of the New is.” gious columns and television York public school system, the All Nemerov’s readings weren’t Following such distinguished documentaries. Currently, O’Gara Welch Chair is filled by a visiting centered around humor. Some, like men of letters as Garry Wills and is a fellow at St. John University’s professor of American studies each a poem dedicated to a friend who Max Lerner. former editor of Com­ Institute for Ecumenical and Cul­ year. died as a pilot in World War II, were serious in tone and full of emotional monweal magazine, James O’Gara, tural Research, in Collegeville, “There is a set selection process feeling. “To Joy, Our Student, Bid­ has been appointed the W. Harold Minn. we must go through,” O’Meara Howard Nemerov and Martha Welch Professor of “We were impressed by some­ said. “The recommendation starts ding Adieu,” is a personal poem in American Studies. one who spent his life editing a with the Committee on Appoint­ which Nemerov wrote of a graduate the library lounge with playwright University Provost Timothy prestigious American Catholic ments and Promotions then goes student who died tragically while Joanna Glass at 12:15 p.m. Glass will O’Meara announced the appoint­ journal and someone who’s been to the chairman of the department, still in school. read from her works tonight at 8 in ment this week. O’Gara will begin at the heart of the important issues then the dean of the college, the Yet Nemerov is best known for the library auditorium. teaching next fall. of American Catholicism,” said provost and, finally, the president,” the sense of humor in his writing, Novelist Mary Gordon is the O’Gara retired last year as editor Professor Donald Costello, chair­ O’Meara explained. which seemed to have been featured author tomorrow. Her after 32 years on the staff of Com­ man of the department of Ameri­ A candidate’s religion has no recognized by last night’s audience. workshop is at 12:15 in the library monweal, a journal of Catholic lay can studies and the Committee for direct bearing on his or her ap­ “There’s probably no lower literary lounge and her reading at 8 p.m. in opinion. He has served in editorial Appointments and Promotions pointm ent to the Welch Chair. enterprise than humorous writing - the library auditorium. There will also be a production of positions on the Catholic Worker, which decided on O’Gara. O’Gara s appointment is not there may be others, but...,” said Today, and The Voice of St. Jude. Honoring a 1924 graduate and Nemerov. “I don’t mind being funny, “Canadian Gothic” by Joanna Glass He also has taught sociology at retired executive of The New York see WELCH, page 3 but I mean it.” tomorrow at 3 p.m. in LaFortune Born in New York City and a ballroom. The Observer Friday, March 1, 1985 — page 2 In Brief No meat on Friday is simply Director of Residence Life and Housing at saint religious discrimination Mary’s, Patricia Rissmeyer, has been awarded NASPA’s Award of Merit for outstanding programming during National Collegiate Alco­ hol Awareness Week. The award was announced Jan. 29, 1985, and Religious discrimination. It’s an ugly concept, but it will be presented to Rissmeyer April 1, 1985, in Portland, Oregon. exists at Notre Dame. Tom The Alcohol Awareness Week was sponsored at Saint Mary’s Oct. No, this is not an article about denying non Catholic 1 -6, 1984. The program was part of a national effort to call attention religious groups the opportunity to gather in campus Mowle to the use and abuse of alcohol on American college campuses. The facilities, although that is a prime example. And it is not an article about the harrassment of non Catholic faculty program stressed both campus and community involvement and Day Chief was sponsored by the Alcohol Education Council, the Governors’ members, although that is something which is likely to Task Force to Reduce Drunk Driving, student government, and the adversely affect all Notre Dame students before they graduate.