Non-Catholics - pages 8,9 VOL.XX NO. 105 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1986 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Domagalski, Switek to battle in run-off election By LYNNE R. STRAND and John Kromer took 130 votes, Staff Reporter or 3 percent. Tom Grier and Steve Guenther received 88 votes, 2 per­ Jim Domagalski and Mike cent, while John Walsh and Pat Switek will face each other in a run­ Walsh received 70 votes, 1.6 per­ off for Notre Dame student body cent. president tomorrow after neither There were 106 write-ins and received enough votes to win abstentions. yesterday’s election. All 24 dorms were won by either Domagalski and Laurie Bink Domagalski, Switek or Lohman. received 2,095 votes, 47.8 percent Domagalski was supported by 15 of the votes cast. Switek and Don dorms and off campus while split­ Montanaro tallied 875 votes, or 20 ting the Howard Hall vote with percent. Switek. Both Switek and Lohman A candidate needs to receive won four dorms. more than 50 percent of the votes to Planner and Breen-Phillips Halls win the election, according to Tom supported their home candidates Brennan, Ombudsman election of­ Domagalski and Bink, while Switek ficer. and Montanaro carried the vote in Domagalski missed winning last Cavanaugh, their home dorm, as night’s ballot by 95 votes. well as Fisher, Keenan, and Sorin. Close behind Switek was the Lohman and Crandall also won ticket of Bruce Lohman and Jim their home dorms, Carroll and Crandall with 810 votes, or 18.5 Stanford respectively, and also percent. took Dillon and Pasquerilla East. With 60.5 percent of Notre Dame undergraduates voting, this year’s “We’re really excited by the tur­ turnout was significantly higher nout received; however, we realize than last year’s total of 44 percent. it’s not over yet,” said Domagalski “I’m very pleased with the tur­ after the election returns were an­ nout,” said Brennan. “I think the nounced late last night by Om­ constitution, anti-apartheid, and budsman. The Observer/Robert Jones presidential guys all brought in the “We’re taking it (the run-off elec­ Senior Bob Schushinski looks on as freshman government election and referendum. Related vote.” tion) very seriously. It’s very impor­ Mike Marshall casts his votes in yesterday’s student stories appear at right and below. In a distant fourth place was tant to get everyone who voted for Mike Millen and Sheila O’Connor, us on the first round to vote for us who gathered 312 votes, 7.1 percent Voters want Notre Dame to divest of the votes cast. Mike Torkelson sec VOTE, page 4 By ELLYN MASTAKO ed of the results of the divestment “It’s also logical that Student Senior Staff Reporter referendum. Body President Bill Healy, as a Election results “I’m glad that so many people representative of the student body, Notre Dame should divest from took an interest in the divestment should advocate the position of companies which have operations issue,” said senior John Dettling, a divestment to the Board of SBP and SBVP number percent in South Africa, according to most member of the Board of Trustees Trustees,” he added. students who voted in yesterday’s Ad Hoc Committee on South Jim Domagalski 2,095 47.8 referendum. African Investments. “I’m also Healy, however, said he was not Of the students who voted, 48 kind of surprised that it passed convinced that most students sup­ Laurie Bink percent were in favor of divest­ because I thought a lot of studentsport divestment. ment, 33 percent were against would be swayed by Father “Only 48 percent of the students Mike Switek 875 20 divestment and 19 percent voted Hesburgh’s stand on the issue. who voted at all chose divestment,” “no opinion/not adequately in­ “The results show that there is a said Healy. “The student body does Don Montanaro formed.” substantial interest and not overwhelmingly support divest­ Fifty-eight percent of all Notre understanding of the issue on cam­ ment. Thus, the Anti-Apartheid Bruce Lohman 810 18.5 Dame undergraduates voted in the pus. Our voices will now be heard Network cannot claim to be divestment referendum. by the Board of Trustees.” representative of the students as a Jim Crandall “Everyone on campus has the Dettling also said the next logical whole. right to express their opinion and step is for more students to actively “I will bring the statistics from Mike Millen I’m glad that they did,” said support the Anti-Apartheid Net­ the referendum to the Board of 312 7.1 University President Father work in the network’s weekly Sheila O’Connor Theodore Hesburgh when inform­ rallies. see DIVEST, page 4 Mike Torkelson 130 3 New constitution comes up short John Kromer By CHRIS BEDNARSKI happen,” said Student Senator Jim “If the HPC passes it, it is. Tom Grier 88 2 Senior Staff Reporter Hagan. adopted,” said Healy. Brain Holst, chairman of the According to the present con­ Steve Guenther The student body rejected a pro­ Committee on Restructuring, stitution, an amendment proposed posal for a new constitution yester­agreed with Hagan. “I’m disap­ by the senate may be adopted by a day, leaving student government pointed because I think the issue two-thirds vote of the HPC. John Walsh 70 1.6 restructuring in a state of confu­got confused by the other pro­ Although the senate did not vote sion. posal,” he said. to propose the amendment, “It is in Pat Walsh Although more than half the effect a proposal by the student Opponents of the proposed con­ senate,” Healy said. The student students voted for the constitution,stitution said they were glad the senate had no say on it because the it failed to obtain the two-thirds proposal was rejected. “I’m glad it student body (by presenting the Divestment majority needed for adoption. didn’t go through,” said Carroll petition) “forced the hand of the Now, another constitutionHall President Steve Kern. “I don’t student senate.” Healy said no one Yes 2,082 48 proposal will be presented to the think the senate would be effective opposed his interpretation at the No 1,417 33 Hall Presidents' Council tomorrow in a 28 to 30 person body.” night. Whether or not the HPC has senate meeting. Undecided 807 1 9 the power to adopt this proposal, Many said the latest constitution Maher Mouasher, chairman of proposal, presented to the Student however, is the focus of some Ombudsman, disagreed with debate. Senate Monday night, confused the Healy’s interpretation. “It is not a Nevertheless, proponents of the students and helped defeat the pro­ proposal by the senate, it is a pro­ posed constitution. original proposal said they were posal by the student body,” said New constitution upset by the proposal’s defeat. Student leaders disagree about Mouasher. He said because it is a Yes 1,957 53 “I didn’t expect it to pass, not whether the HPC has the power to proposal by the student body, the with the circulating petition adopt the latest constitution pro­present constitution does not allow No 1,770 47 misrepresenting what was going to posal. the H PC to adopt it. The Observer Wednesday, March 5,1986 - page 2 In Brief Some words for the losers: Lombardi was a psychopath “My pig fell down the furnace, and i had to take I rad for student body president once. It was in it apart to get him out,” won a contest for the best excuse for being grammar school and there were several other can­ late. David Klee, of Brown City, was awarded $100 for giving his didates running, but people considered me among the Dan bosses the best reason for being late for work, the Detroit Free favorites. And for an eleven-year-old politician it’s Press reported Sunday. Other entries came from adults and school not easy to keep these king of things in perspective. McCullough children, and included fear of spiders, falling into a “black hole” It’s not easy for a 58-year-old politician. and being questioned by aliens, and this one by nine year old Wen­ Swollen with the encouragement of my friends, I News Editor dy Hausseler of Manchester: My tongue got stuck on a metal pole convinced myself I had it made. My campaign slogan and my mom didn’t notice me not getting on the bus.”-AP was, “He’ll keep us out of war.” I made my best friend campaign manager and together we made these cam­ paign buttons and hung them with yarn around the You just missed a bargain! a collection of Indian necks of just about everybody in the school. sitarist Ravi Shankar’s greatest hits sold for $30 at an auction held I gave a speech in front of the entire school to raise money to pay legal expenses for the Bhagwan Shree Ra- assembly and paraphrased John F. Kennedy: “Ask not jneesh. The guru left Rajneeshpuram, his Oregon commune-city, what your school can do for you, but what you can do after he pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud charges and for your schoo.” All the other candidates used the was deported to India. He also paid a $40,000 fine before he left. same line in their speeches. Also on the block Sunday were an 18-karat gold enameled decora­ Well, I lost. I was so sure I was going to win and 1 tion that had been a part of a chair he used, a silver Indian flute lost.