burger k in g MEAT IN THE HUDDLE CD Shopping Wednesday I * # ■ Burger King and The Huddle will serve ■ Looking for a new CD? Check out our music meat during Lent. reviews. FEBRUARY 17, News • 6 Scene • 10-11 1999 O B S E R VER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint M ary’s VOL XXXII NO. 91 W W W .ND.EDU/~OBSERVER RCIA program Carroll shares selected readings By CHRIS LAWLER prepares for News Writer Displaying his hallmark of vivid and humorous Easter Vigil retelling of various personal experiences, poet, musician and diarist Jim Carroll spoke Tuesday night at the Sophomore Literary Festival in By ERICA THESING Washington Hall. Assistant News Editor Dressed in blue jeans, a black shirt and black boots, and slightly stooping over the podium, As Catholics around the world celebrate Carroll read several selections from his 1987 Ash Wednesday today, 40 people in the work, "Forced Entries." The short story “A Day Notre Dame community begin their final at the Races” offered a unique perspective on a preparations for initiation into the Catholic sexually transmitted disease. Church. 11 is next tale was a humorous recounting of an The participants in this year’s RCIA (Rite of early performance where he killed a cockroach Christian Initiation of Adults) program at with a can of Raid. The performance generated Notre Dame are split into two groups. Twelve audience and critical praise, much to the amuse­ of the participants are catechumens, who are ment of Carroll, who said he came up with the unbaptized people seeking membership in idea merely to kill time. the Church. They will receive the sacraments Carroll read a brief piece from an unreleased of Baptism, Eucharist and Confirmation at novel, then shifted gears and presented several of the Easter Vigil in the Basilica of the Sacred his works of poetry. “Facts" was a humorous 1 leart. piece marking a departure from the dry w it and The remaining 28 are candidates, baptized humor exhibited in his prose works. Christians seeking full communion in the In "Eight Fragments for Kurt Cobain" Carroll, Church. They will receive Eucharist and also an accomplished musician, empathized with Confirmation at the Vigil. the pressures of fame and the downward spiral of Each catechumen and candidate has a drug use that Cobain endured. Ultimately, he sponsor to help him or her through this jour­ questioned Cobain's commitment to the energy ney. The catechumen or candidate may and fulfillm ent of his art, and asked why such a select a sponsor, or receive one through violent final act was necessary. Campus Ministry. “Train Surfing” was another work Carroll Freshman Jason Braun, sponsor of fresh­ selected for the evening. Based on Carroll's man catechumen Keith Anderson, hopes that observations in Rio de Janeiro, the poem offered receiving the sacraments will be very mean­ ingful for Anderson. Braun spoke especially a first-person perspective of a youth who The Observer/Michelle Keefe "surfed" atop a bullet train in a drug-impaired Jim Carroll, author of “The Basketball Diaries,” read selections of his about the sacrament of the Eucharist, which state. poetry, short stories, and a piece from his unreleased novel Tuesday he called a gift. Carroll’s works have appeared in "Rolling during the Sophomore Literary Festival in Washington Hall. The "1 would hope he I Anderson I would gain a Stone" and “ Poetry” magazines, and in the film Festival continues through Friday with readings each night, including a love for the Church and the Catholic faith “Poetry in Motion." In addition to three music student reading Thursday. that will grow for the rest of his life,” Braun albums with the Jim Carroll Band, Carroll said. “ I also hope he would truly cherish that released a spoken-word recording, "Praying Mantis, in The 32nd Annual Sophomore Literary continues gift he receives.” 1991. Wednesday with author Raymond Feist. Thursday will Carroll, born and raised in New York City, is best feature readings by Notre Dame students and the T h e P rocess known as the author of “The Basketball Diaries," a Festival concludes Friday with author and poet Annie On this Sunday, the first Sunday of Lent, chronicle of his time as a high-school basketball star at Finch. All readings are in Washington Hall, followed by the catechumens and candidates will partic- Manhattan’s Trinity High School. a reception in LaFortune Ballroom. sec RCIA / page 4 Performa group meets with campus, reports findings By COLLEEN McCARTHY Maintaining a student-centered teaching space, improving residence Saint Mary's News Editor _______________________ environment was key, according to hall space and improving dining Marrow. space. The first step of defining the future “When students suggested the need Performa is currently in the for Saint Mary’s came at a campus- for a multi-purpose student center on process of conducting a space utiliza­ wide meeting with the Performa campus, they were right on target. tion study at Saint Mary's. Consulting group. There is a definite need for that,” she “You have a lot of space on cam­ “This is a historic moment for the said. pus, but it is not being used as effi­ present and future of Saint Mary’s Making the campus more student- ciently as it could be,” said Marrow. College,” said College president centered also includes other facilities, Students meeting with Performa Marilou Eldred. “We are defining the Marrow said. frequently voiced a need for improv­ future of facilities needed and config­ “The recommendation in that area ing residence hall space and creating uring of current facilities." is more far-reaching than just a stu­ a more independent living environ­ The meeting was the culmination of dent center,” she said. “For example, ment, Marrow said. the first phase of the project, which Health Services is in an area that is “It’s not so much we heard as we included meetings with representa­ less than desirable in terms of being observed students need a living space tives from all major campus con­ student-centered.” that will help the transition between stituency groups. Performa both created and priori­ college living and independent liv­ Of 66 total recommendations made tized a list of needs for the College, ing.” she said. by Performa, 29 are one-percent rec­ with improved communication One option M arrow mentioned was ommendations, meaning the cost is among campus constituencies and apartment or suite-style accommoda­ under $5,000. There are 37 addition­ the outside community topping the tions. al recommendations, each having list. “This is one of the most seen things costs over $5,000, said Carolyn In response to this, Performa rec­ in higher education right now,” she Marrow, Performa representative. ommended holding a College “ media said. The Observer/Manuela Hernandez Carolyn Marrow, a representative for the Performa “Now that we have a fairly good day” in the fall to better acquaint Addressing the issue of dining Consulting group, presented the group’s 66 recom­ idea of what the needs of the campus members of local electronic and print space includes current plans to reno- mendations for improvements at Saint Mary's during are, we can pursue the next phases,” media about College events. Tuesday’s campus-wide meeting. she said. Other priorities included examining see PERFORMA / page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, February 17, 1999 INSIDE COLUMN Give it up O utside the Dom e XI Compiled from U-Wire reports Well folks, it’s here. Ash Wednesday. The beginning of the 40-day season of fish, sacri­ fice and self-righteousness we like to call Utah professor influential in reforming Miranda law Lent. ___________ SALT LAKE CITY irrelevant because Dickerson gave Remember when we Criminals w ill no longer be able to the confession voluntarily. were kids asking our claim protection on account of tech­ “The 4th Circuit said that we’re not brothers and sisters and nicalities under the Miranda warn­ going to get into technical rights schoolmates what we ing, due to the efforts of a Utah law about Miranda,” ho said. “The main were giving up for Lent? professor. issue is whether the confession was Worrying about how to Paul Cassell has been advocating voluntary." decide? Discussing it end reform for the laws governing the Cassell won a case in the U.S. lessly as the inevitable Miranda warning. Monday, the 4th District Court in Salt Lake City on a Wednesday drew ever Colleen Gaughen Circuit Court of Appeals handed sim ilar argument on Dec. 31, 1997. closer? Wondering what down the decision that defendants in top of that. Those new rules are that “It was the same issue, and the Associate V iew point the cafeteria w ill serve federal cases cannot suppress confes­ police have to give warning to sus­ court agreed with me,” Cassell said. Editor on Fridays? sions. pects,” he said. “Congress peeled “There are those who would argue Not much has “For the last seven years, I have back those additional safeguards and the other way and say the Miranda is changed. I have heard way too much talk been trying to raise the issue as a went back to the original voluntari­ a constitutional right, but the court around this overgrown parochial school lately neutral force on the court,” Cassell ness approach. The crim inal doesn’t agreed with me.” about "what we’re going to give up for Lent." said. have to say anything.” The circuit court decided the We still ask one another what the Great The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. In United States vs.