Tuesday, April23, 1996 • Vol. XXVII No. 129 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Alumni continue active role • SMC HAll ELECTIONS Holy Cross residents Group sponsors Alumni Association picnic to meet Sponsored Activities return for third run-off Class of 1996 By LAURA SMITH Holy Cross between upper­ • Senior/Alumni Picnic Assistant Saint Mary's Editor class residents and freshmen," By KELLY FITZPATRICK said MeDonald. "We also want News Writer • Latin Expressions The future residents of Holy to have a computer contact in • Summer Service Projects Cross Hall will return today to the hall to ~~•i!iiiii•iiiii"il H you enjoyed yourself at • Habitat for Humanity the polls for the third time to help if stu­ Latin Expressions or have ever vote for their Hall Council dents have partidpated in a Summer Ser­ Representatives. computer IN THE DINING vice Projeet, then you already Three tickets are competing problems. know a little about the involve­ Alumni also advise: HAll FOR THE ment of the Alumni A<;sociation for the positions of Holy Cross Finally, we HOLY (ROSS Hall Council. want to in activities around campus. HALL RUN·OFF. Continuing its involvement, • Shenanigans Running under the slogan, increase "There Is No Udder Choice for fund raising 7:15·10 A.M. thn Alumni Association is spon­ • NAACP llA.M.-1:30 P.M. Holy Cross," the Erin Battison for charity." soring an alumni picnic this 4:30·7 P.M. Friday, April 26, from 5-7 p.m. • The Pom Pon Squad ticket includes, Bridget Sulli­ The Anna Along with thn Antostal • Other continuing education~..· van, Melissa Lind, and Megan Antes, Gina ll======dl Committ!le and Student ;\clivi­ McLaughlin. They hope to in­ Drew, Kristi Dawson, and tins. thn Alumni Association has and community service fQ& crease community service Hachael Krouse ticket is run­ sclwdulfld the picnie to takn l{J>" activities, improve inter-hall ning under the slogan, plaee at Stepan Fields behind < .••• relations and dorm unity, and "Experience Is Key." Antes StPpan Cnnlllr. If the picnic l! .:~-;' implement hall improvements. said that they hope to make must bn moved due to rain, then '.!;/"" "We are really excited that one of the Holy Cross parlors : ~ . r:luhs lor:atfld west of the three tickets are running," said into a quillt, smoke-free study Mississippi Hivllr will meet in ) Battison. "They all have great area and continue the Hall South Dining Hall, while clubs platforms. Regardless of the Spirit Week begun this year. nast of the Mississippi Hiver will J outcome, I think next year will They also plan to recognize nwet in North Dining llall. be a great year for I loly Cross lloly Cross athlntes. Student Alumni Helations I Iall Council." "We're really excited about (;roup is also involved. and acts "The Past Is History, The the elections," said Antes. "All as tlw I i aiso n be twefl n tlw Alumni Assoriation and the stu­ Future Is A Mystery - Vote for of us have been really involved dents. "IS;\({(;1 is our arm to the Us In the Present, It Will Be in Holy Cross, and we look for­ arnas that they will be heading their areas. Seniors will be able Our Gift," is the slogan of the ward to continuing our in­ studnnt body." said Francis to after graduation. to find out information about Shavers of the Assoriation. Allison Holloway, Mia volvement." There will be seminars, meet­ activities of the club like com­ Hinehold, Jamie McDonald, "I hope to see a great voter Although everyorw is invited, ings, and opportunities for the munity service projects and tlw purposn of tlw IWnnt is pri­ and Kelly Meyers ticket. turnout," said Hesidence Hall alumni who want to meet the other activities that members of "We hope to institute a Big marily to allow graduating sn­ seniors who will be coming to niors to meet alumni from the see PICNIC/ page 4 Sister/Little Sister program in see ELECTION/ page 4 Panel discusses Africa's plight Students advance Speakers stress in design contest By WENDY GRZYWACZ importance of News Writer cultural identity Utilizing a communal approach to design, By DAVID FRF.DDOSO rather than an individualistic approach, two N,•w; Writl'r groups of Notre Dame architecture students have advanced to the international levnl of the For yPars, Afriea has bnen American Society of Heating. Befrigerating, and plaguPd by war, corruption, opprns­ Air-Conditioning Engineers (1\SIIHAE) student sion. powrty, and starvation. The design project competition after winning at the solution to tlwse ongoing problnms regional level. was sought last night in a pam~l dis­ Six groups from Notre Dame of six students cussion that toudwd upon Africa's each entered the competition, sponsored by ~~conomir, sorial. and cultural prob­ ASIIRAE, as part of their fourth-year heating, IPms in today's post-eolonial world, ventilation, and air-conditioning (IIV AC) course, and in particular focused upon taught by Professor Mohamed Gad-EI-Ilak. The construl'ting a 1ww cultural idnntity students had the option of submitting projects for tlw rngion. for a campus library in Chieago in the categories Nalova l.yonga. a visiting pro­ of either mechanical or architectural design. fi~ssor llw in English departnwnt of One group lead by Andrna Pesehel earned the Saint Mary's College, voiced her first place $500 prize in the architectural design eoncflrll ovllr thn tendnncy of well­ The Observer/Mike Ruma educated Afrieans to look outward A panel of professors tackled problematic issues in modern-day Africa,highlight­ sec AWARD/ page 4 in snareh of a modnrn Afriean eul­ . ing the aftermath of war and famine, in search of a viable solution. tuntl identity. Afrieans, she said, Damn anthropology department pro­ eess. should not try to b1~ Freneh or eneded to explain the nature of the Psychology professor De Bryant of Duerson to speak t·:nglish, hut should instnad look to eeonornie dillkulties in Africa. Bel­ Indiana University - South Bend out­ their own heritage. lis said that the small family farmer lined the major problems concern­ l'llter Walshe of Notre Dame's gov­ will necessarily represent a large ing the development of a modern at COBA ceremony ernnwnt department highlighted the portion of the African economy in cultural identity in Africa. Deciding dil'l'ieultins ereatnd by the end of the future. Some businessmen have exactly which traditions and norms Special to The Observer colonialism. "Afriea is beginning to attempted to establish large cor­ should be included in this modern massBss what has happened to it," porate farms in Africa, but Bellis, identity and which periods of Dave Duerson, a Notre Dame alumnus who tw said. who has a great deal of experience African history should be consulted later starred for the Chieago Bears. will give the Walslw said that the advantages of in measuring the fertility of farm­ is no easy task, she related. But keynote address at the first annual College of eolonialism have been lost, whnreas land, believes that the ecology of Bryant pointed out that a fresh and Business Administration recognition ceremony most of thn disadvantages have Africa will not allow such farms to yet traditional cultural identity in Monday, April 29. rmnained and are further perpetrat­ succ11ed as they have in the United Africa will. do a great deal to help The ceremony, which will honor undergraduate IHI by the post-colonial elite. "The States. · solve many of the problems which business students in the areas of leadership and days in which one could hope to go In the same way, Bellis said, many face the continent's population academics, will begin at 5 p.m. in the Jordan through a standard colonial ed­ factories which have been built in today. Auditorium, located in the COB;\ building. A ucation systmn and expect salaried Africa by Westerners have already The discussion, entitled "Western reception will follow in the COB/\ atrium; both Brnploymnnt are over," he added. failed or are soon bound to fail, due Education and African Realities," events are open to the public. Meanwhile, Walshe said the colonial to the fact that both the African centered around the movie "Gito Duerson, a 1983 graduate, played for the Bears eeonomy which remains "is not environment and the mind-set of the I'Ingrat," which was shown prior to and the New York Giants during a decade-long doing very well." people are often hostile to their sue- the discussion. Professor James Bellis of the Notre see CO BA/ page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, April23, 1996 • INSIDE COlUMN • Wom.. o AT A GLANCE Defending Tornados ravage Arkansas for second consecutive week FORT SMITH, Ark. MISSOURI The tornadoes were part of a series of Firefighters went from house to . storms that moved into Arkansas from demolished house Monday, searching ~ Oklahoma. the Garden for more victims of tornadoes that killed o In Oklahoma, severe storms and flash four people, including three children, floods Sunday and Monday were blamed and smashed hundreds of homes. for five traffic deaths. Two tornadoes State "I just started praying," said Leisa touched down in McAlester on Sunday, Didway, who rode out the storm Sunday 0 injuring nine people and damaging I don't usually do this. I~~~~~~ night in her closet with a friend and the 1· Little Rock about 350 buildings. don't usually use my friend's 1-year-old son. "I held her and ARKANSAS MISS. In Arkansas, radio and TV reports opportunity here in the the baby. I was just praying to God .. " warned that storms were coming, but a Inside Column to express because I didn't know what else to do." en '1 \ .