Tl1e ObserverTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1992 VOL. XXV. NO. 29 INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Forum: New clhild care facility ne~eded By TRACY CRINION ognizes the need for quality day News Writer care, but a new center depends on liability, quality employees A new child care facility is and clients able to pay the cost needed at Notre Dame to meet of care. the demands of students, fac­ The price of day care at the ulty and staff, said graduate present ECDC is approximately student Reynold Nesiba at a fo­ $75 per week per child, but the rum last night. committee is discussing a Although many use the Uni­ "sliding fee" program that versity-supported Early Child­ would determine tuition based hood Development Center on family income. (ECDC) located at Saint Mary's The University offers a 35 College, space is limited and percent "scholarship" for expensive. graduate students of Notre Groups like the subcommittee Dame whose children are en­ on child care at Notre Dame rolled at the center. While there and quality of life committee is scholarship money available are addressing the need for an for the staff of Saint Mary's additional day care facility on children at the Center, there Notre Dame campus, according are insufficient funds to offer a to Sister Kathleen Cannon, tuition reduction to the staff of chair of the subcommittee. Notre Dame. Nesiba said that another day As a result of cost and lack of care option on campus is nec­ space, graduate students and essary because it is "good staff in need of day care must Catholic social policy to support seek it in the South Bend com­ families." Cannon said that it is munity. in the University's Catholic One graduate student family heritage to build family found an idnal mother's helper strength. by adverti~:ing in the South Construction of a new center Bend Tribune. South Bend's The Observer/David Hungeling at Notre Dame would cost $1.5 reputation in child care is full Under lock and key million, much of which would of tragedy due to careless acci- come from fundraisers. Tom Fitzpatrick, a Morrissey Hall sophomore, hangs his bike up in his room after classes to protect it Cannon said the provost rec- see FORUM I page 4 from the weather and thieves. Military spending cuts would reduce ROTC program funding By JULIE BARRETT such severe reductions on the To ease economic hardship focuses on creating new jobs in Assistant News Editor armed forces and defense in­ ********** associated with defense con­ specific and needed areas such dustries. 1 version, Clinton proposes to as infrastructure, according to Deep cuts in military ex­ ELECTION 92 reinvest the money saved into Charles Wilbur, NO professor of With the end of the Cold War penditures would also result in job-producing public programs, economics. and the collapse of communism, significant reductions in fund­ A series on issues to train military personnel for "By rebuilding the infras­ both presidential candidates ing for ROTC scholarship pro­ affecting students civilian professions and to offer tructure in the U.S., jobs will be must face the demand for grams. tax incentives to businesses to created and people displaced reduced military spending But "there will be no great officer of Navy ROTC, said the hire people from the military from the military cuts may be while providing economic al­ impact at Notre Dame because number of ROTC scholarships and defense-related industries. absorbed that way," he said. ternatives for the millions of of the strength of the Univer­ and opportunities for future Bush's plan would provide "Bush expects the growth of the people employed in the armed sity," said Ja.mes O'Brien, chair military careers will decrease $7.1 billion in assistance to help economy, expanding already forces and defense-related in­ of the milita.ry science depart­ with the cuts. defense workers and commu­ existing businesses, to produce dustries. ment. "Many students who earn Bush's plan to reduce military nities affected by the cuts, cre­ jobs for these people. That's President George Bush and [ROTC] scholarships decide to spending by $18 billion over the ate new career opportunities in difficult to expect when we're in Democratic candidate Gov. Bill come to Notre Dame." next four years would result in teaching for former defense a recession." Clinton have both proposed Notre Dame has one of the a loss of about 900,000 military workers and expand the GI Bill However, Clinton's enormous major cuts in military spending largest ROTC scholarship pro­ and civilian jobs, while Clinton's educational opportunities and defense cuts could pose serious in their party platforms, but grams for private universities cuts of about $60 billion more options for early retirement problems for national defense, their policies differ concerning with about 625 ROTC students would mean a loss of an from the Defense Department. according to Darcy Campbell of how much, how fast and how to attending. additional 100,000 to 150,000 Economically, Clinton's plan deal with the ramifications of James Patltison, commanding jobs. seems more effective because it see ROTC I page 4 :1 ;:;~% Dailey beats McCarthy in mock presidential debate By ALEX MONTOYA concentrated on Clinton's pro­ News Writer choice abortion stance and the controversy surrounding the Junior Bill Dailey, represent­ draft issue. He said Clinton's ing Democratic presidential proposal to raise taxes on the candidate Bill Clinton, defeated wealthiest two percent would Student Union Board Manager "run this country into the Pat McCarthy, posing as Presi­ ground with spending." dent George Bush, in a mock Dailey said he could cut the debate last night. deficit in half by regulating According to a poll given to health care costs and reducing those present after the debate, military spending. He touted his Dailey beat McCarthy 26-20, college loan plan which would with 16 tie votes. Those polled allow students to obtain a indicated they'd choose Clinton federal loan and pay it back on election day by a margin of through service or as a portion 28-21. with 10 undecided. of income after graduation. McCarthy criticized Dailey He also cited Bush's 1987 for much of the debate for not comment that Clinton was "a being specific on plans to leader in education" and the eliminate the nation's deficit. recent commendation by fellow The attacks grew more intense governors as the nation's best as McCarthy deflected criticism governor. about the Bush administration. McCarthy was slow to re­ Dailey drew applause when spond when Dailey asked him he accused McCarthy of trying to explain his reversal of his to derail the debate and called "no new taxes " pledge and The Observer/David Hungeling Bush "President Flip-Flop." 1988 promises of 31 million Bill Dailey and Pat McCarthy (left to right} represent Democratic candidate Gov. Bill Clinton and President McCarthy did not defend new jobs, environmental and George Bush, respectively, at a mock debate held last night in the LaFortune Ballroom. Bush's economic policies, but health care improvement. - -~-------~- ---------------- ---- --- -~----------~~~-w-~-------- page 2 The Observer Thursday, October 1, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST At least the Mostly sunny and warmer today. High knights knew in the lower 70s. Cool tonight with wflat to do lows in the 40s. Chivalry is dead, at TEMPERATURES least in America, and H L perhaps it is a good 44 33 thing. 75 63 66 39 That once so revered 75 60 gallantry of the knights of 82 64 yesteryear, fallen victim 59 36 73 46 to changing cultural 83 60 norms of our day, 67 37 Indianapolis 77 38 submitting to the will of John Rock Jerusalem 84 63 the feminist movement M . Ed' London 68 55 and the fact armour is anagmg ltor 93 69 77 52 definitely no longer in fashion, has all but 77 56 disappeared. What woman has not dreamt o 61 48 FRONTS: 75 48 being the Disney princess swept off her feet into New York 70 55 the arms of her chain-mailed man? What man Paris 70 52 't' • does not yearn to test his masculinity by just • • 't' 't' Philadelphia 69 57 •COLD WARM STATIONARY Rome 77 64 once trying on a suit of armour? Seattle 78 55 Alas, despite our wildest dreams, suit armour Pressure South Bend 60 36 is out of mass production and one cannot park a Tokyo 66 63 L t~:~:l ~ [±}] Washington. D.C. 70 56 horse in D-2 without a permit. ~ The still-evolving place of women in our society is obviously freeing, and changing, them. Although blame cannot be placed on a particular sex for failed marriages, since women have restarted the engines of upward mobility, their independence, the notion of "family" has TODAY AT AGLANCE changed in life, reflected in TV, from June and Ward Cleaver to Murphy Brown. As a result of this, and other culturally WORLD ingrained notions, it can be expected that more and more people will forego formal marriage for Yugoslavia agrees to pull some troops Girl seeks divorce from parents common-law marriage. With over fifty percent •SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Serbia-domi­ •DETROIT- A juvenile judge today granted a man of marriages failing, serial monogamy will some nated Yugoslavia agreed Wednesday to pull its army temporary custody of his 13-year-old niece while the girl day be the norm. from a strategic peninsula in Croatia by Oct. 20 and said seeks a legal separation from her mother and stepfather, There are still some, the "old fashioned," that it would enter talks on recognizing Croatia, a former who is awaiting trial on charges that he sexually abused hope for something different.