■ Third Eye Blind comes to Stepan Center ■ Snow? Already? Parts of the Midwest and Plains lor a concert tonight. Go prepared: check out were shutdown by a snowstorm. Wednesday some background information on the group. NOVEMBER Scene* 12-13 World & Nation • 5 11, 1998 O B SER V ER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint ’s Mary VOL XXXI1 NO. 50 WWW.ND.EDU/~OBSERVER B r i n g i n g S pirituality a n d S e r v i c e t o t h e C l a s s r o o m remaining dedicated to serv­ ACE member. Students serve ing the needy, growing spiri­ Stashis credits the commu­ tually and living in a Catholic nity atm osphere of ACE for Catholic schools com mu nity. the 98 percent member reten­ Seventy-five positions are tion rate from year to year. after college awarded each year to stu­ “The first year or so of dents from Notre Dame and teaching can be challenging By MIKE ROMANCHEK Saint Mary’s. so they have a peer support News Writer “We are very concerned group built into their home and careful about the size of life," Stashis said. After completing their our program so that we can Groups of four to six mem­ undergraduate education at really take care of our mem­ bers live to g e th e r in ACE Notre Dame or Saint Mary’s, bers," Stashis said. houses. Members share some students seek programs ACE thrives on three main chores and are encouraged to that will allow them to devel­ ideals: community life, spiri­ hold weekly prayer sessions. op their knowledge in a spe­ tual growth and professional ACE also fosters the spiritu­ cific field as well as giving development. al growth of its members. back to their communities. “The people in ACE provide Participants spend two sum­ The Alliance for Catholic support through community mers at Notre Dame honing E ducation (ACE) p rog ram and faith and that makes the their teaching skills as well as provides students from both transition from college that nurturing their spiritual rela- schools with this opportunity. much easier,” said Anne see ACE / page 4 A two-year post-graduate Napierkowski, a second-year program, ACE develops young educators and sends them to needy parochial schools in nine southern states. The program serves 25 dioceses in the South where there is a great need for Catholic edu­ cators. “We do the best we can to meet the needs of those dio­ ceses but it is not always pos­ sible,” said A1 Stashis, an associate director at ACE and a 1996 Notre Dame graduate. “We try to recruit people from a broad range of majors since we don’t have an educa­ ' ”3 *3 tion major here at Notre ****** Dame." Students earn master’s Photos courtesy of ACE degrees in education through Photo courtesy of ACE The ACE program allows students to teach in Catholic schoolsthe ACE program while Former Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s students are taking part in ser­ while working toward their master’s degree in education. vice opportunities in education in schools throughout the country. Student leader: Adopt- A H e a l i n g A-Team unorganized By LAURA ROMPF onship-caliber sports teams News Writer and we want to increase sup­ port for these students," he Campus Unity, in cooperation added. with Student Government, is Jordan Curnes, chairman of sponsoring an “Adopt a Team " the Campus Unity committee program to unify the campus sees the "Adopt a Team" effort by encouraging each dorm to as a way to show the student choose a body’s apprecia­ Notre Dame tion of its ath­ sports team letes. T S A GOOD IDEA, JUST and support “All the Notre it throughout INOT VERY ORGANIZED.’ Dame athletes the season. pul in long hours S p o n s o r of hard work and dorm s are C o l l e e n B e v e v in o deserve the enrouraged L e w is II a i .i. P r e s id e n t respect and to m ake appreciation of posters and the entire stu­ banners for the games, have dent body,” said Curnes. “This team/dorm cookouts, and travel program is designed to bring to the nearby away games. attention and support to some "We have fulfilled our cam ­ of the non-traditionally popular The Observer/Lauren O'Neil paign promise in increasing sports." Fen Chulski, a Saint Mary’s sophomore, savors a moment of relaxation while she receives a massage from a support of all our athletic But some dorm presidents I representative of “The Healing Touch” at a health fair held in Le Mans Hall. The massage is used as a teams through the student see organizational weaknesses tetnod of non-medicinal healing for illnesses. Other services offered included blood pressure screening, flu body," said Peter Cesaro, stu­ as hindering the program’s shots and blood sugar monitoring. In addition, information was available to students about diet and nutri­ dent body president. Jtion, headaches and antibiotics. “We have national champi- see TEAM / page page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, November 11, 1998 ■ In s i d e C o l u m n The pressures O utside the Dom e N Compiled from U-Wire reports of greatness African American studies proposal to go through final stages Here comes the feeling again. You know the feeling. It's that horrible sink­ BIRMINGHAM, Ala. “We have no idea how long it will ing feeling — you’re stuck. You become over­ UAB is on its way to becoming one take, but we are hoping it [the pro­ whelmed with the thought that no matter what of the first schools in the Southeast to posed major] will go into effect Fall you do, there is no way ----------------------------- offer a degree in African American 1999,” Smith said. o f getting out. Christine Kraly studies. For many years, UAB has offered It’s the acknowledge- Copy Editor The proposal is to create an inter­ African American studies as a minor ment of your workload, disciplinary major for the study of only. your committments, your never-ending respon­ African American music, literature, However, a 1997 survey of 250 UAB sibilities. art, health and politics. students shows that students are It hits you at midnight on Sunday, when you In August 1994, Associate Professor studies program at UAB. The propos­ interested in obtaining a bachelors realize that you haven’t started a two-page Virginia Whatley Smith and a small al went through a few revisions, then degree in the program. Core paper due Monday; you work from 6 p.m. committee looked to see if having a headed to the Undergraduate In the study, 81 percent had a “high till 2 a.m., you have a quiz on Thursday; you African American studies major Programs Council, in June of this degree of interest" in a bachelor of arts degree in African American stud­ have a paper due Friday on a 298-page book would be feasible at UAB. When they year, where it was approved. you haven’t cracked open yet; and, oh my God, sent in the proposal recommending a The proposal then went to the UAB ies. Sixteen percent of those surveyed let’s not start with how messy your room is. new major, they were told to proceed. Faculty Senate, which gave the pro­ had interest in the degree while only It is the ultimate realization that you are, Three years later, an expanded posed degree its unanimous approval two percent was unresponsive. indeed, a Notre Dame student. nine-member committee worked to in August. “1 have a lot of interested students,” Coming out of high school, it’s likely that refine the proposal. The proposal must now face the UA said Smith. most, if not all Notre Dame students carried The proposal was first submitted to Board of Trustees and the Alabama Not all those interested are under­ with them a slight air of confidence. Okay, we the deans of the schools of Arts and Commission on Higher Education. graduates. Smith expects the major to were cocky. We can act like we were modest Humanities and Social and Behavioral ACHE has to approve the program draw graduate students as well as about the whole thing — we were happy to be Sciences. Both of these schools helped before it will be able to be offered as candidates from all over the states. accepted and chastely told our parents that to co-found the African American a major at UAB. we’d do our best. But the fact of the matter is, this is Notre Dame, and who among us didn’t get an extra 0 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY 0 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ego boost just to feel the thickness of the enve­ lope and realize we were going to one of the Student is killed traveling back to school Dining halls are cleared of illness blame best (THE best, in my opinion) schools in the nation? NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. PHILADELPHIA, Penn. Reading my acceptance letter, thoughts ran Rutgers College junior Frank P. Thomson — on his It's looking less and less like food poisoning. Preliminary wild through my head: Finally. I've worked way back to Rutgers after visiting a friend at the results from laboratory tests of stool samples from students four long years for this. Sweet revenge for all University of Maryland — was fatally struck by a pass­ who fell victim to a mysterious illness last week have turned those who said I couldn’t make it.