Flab - page 6 VOL. XXI, NO. 77 MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1987 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Morrissey SYR lost after skit incident By CHRIS JULKA three weeks, according to Copy Editor Ryan. Ryan said the work will include acting as "big brot­ Morrissey Hall will forfeit hers and coaching basketball one SYR and will not have an­ at St. Hedwig’s,” a local parish other SYR until certain com­ that sponsors an outreach pro­ munity service work is per­ gram. formed as part of the penalties The action came in response stemming from the condition to this past year’s Christmas the Memorial Library skits performed by Morrissey Auditorium was left in after the Hall on the evening of Dec. 5 in Morrissey Christmas skits, ac­ the Memorial Library cording to Father Thomas auditorium. Streit, rector of Morrissey. "The content of the skits was Penalties for the Morrissey raised in the meeting, but Dr. Hall Christmas skits were dis­ Goldrick made it clear this was cussed by the hall government not the reason for the sanc­ of Morrissey and John tions,” Ryan said. "They were Goldrick, associate vice presi­ enacted only because of the dent for residence life, in a condition that the auditorium meeting 4 p.m. Friday, said was left in.” Jim Ryan, Morrissey presi­ Empty beer cans and dent. squashed twinky wrappers lit­ The meeting was the most tered the library auditorium recent of three conferences the day after the skits took concerning the skits, and it led place, said Streit. to an agreement that specific As a result, the Office of Stu­ performers in the Morrissey dent Activities immediately Intense observational study The Observer/Mike Ury skits will be obliged to give two banned the hall from using the Students sit back and put their feet up in trample the Denver Broncos at Super Bowl XXI to three hours in community Theodore’s to watch the New York Giants Sunday evening. service every Saturday for see MORRISSEY, page 3 Demonstrations to highlight Alcohol Awareness Week By ELIZABETH R. stay and watch,” according to they’ve been saying, giving LaFortune, according to Non­ this will keep people aware. We CORNWELL Junior Class President Cathy them tests to demonstrate the nencamp. can’t let them let it go. Staff Reporter Nonnencamp. alcohol’s effects on their motor "There will also be a lecture "Last year they ran a pretty "They’ll be run by the In­ control, speech, reaction at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the New predictable program - films The campus group Bacchus diana State Police and Notre times,” she said. Orleans room at LaFortune, and lectures that students has teamed with student gov­ Dame Security in two different but we don’t have the specifics didn’t attend. We heard it all ernment to declare this week dorms each night. First they’ll The demonstrations will take as to topic or speaker yet,” back in high school health. This Alcohol Awareness Week. The pick over-twenty-one volun­ place at 10 p.m. each night, Nonnencamp said. year we decided to take a dif­ groups are sponsoring a series teers from the audience and today in Stanford/Keenan and "We decided going into this ferent approach. Maybe by of demonstrations and lectures give them each six beers, mon­ Walsh, Tuesday in Alumni and that we’d take a risk to make using the students and using to promote the responsible use itoring them the whole time. Zahm, and Wednesday in Flan- it hit home. After the alcohol- the momentum of the of alcohol, based on the theme Then the officers will give a ten ner and LaFortune. Student related injuries of last semes­ tradgedies, we can get some at­ "Friends Keep Friends Alive.” or fifteen minute talk about the Body President Mike Switek ter, people should know, but tention,” Nonencamp said. "The demonstrations are effects of alcohol,” said Non­ and Off-Campus Commissioner they don’t. It’s too easy to for­ "The problem is not getting aimed at catching people as nencamp. Race Thoman are scheduled to get the shock - go out on a better, if anything, it’s getting they go by - hooking their at­ Finally, they’ll use the stu­ be two of the student volunteers Friday night, have two beers tention, and getting them to dents as examples of what in Wednesday’s presentation in and it’s forgotten. Hopefully see SENSE, page 3 Callers take credit for recent kidnappings of Americans New publication debuts this week By MARK DICKINSON servative. "We are just journal was formed after a Associated Press envoy Terry Waite arrived in Senior Staff Reporter trying to be thought- group of students, faculty Beirut on Jan. 12 on a mission provoking,” he said. and alumni "learned BEIRUT, Lebanon - An to seek the release of hostages. A new student monthly ad­ Common Sense operates through painful firsthand ex­ anonymous caller Sunday dressing social issues will on financial donations from perience that no adequate claimed the weekend abduc­ The Christian Voice of appear on the Notre Dame students, faculty, and others forum exists at Notre Dame tion of three American teach­ Lebanon radio station said it and Saint Mary’s campuses outside the University. Mer­ for the dissemination of a ers and an Indian professor in received the two calls Sunday, Tuesday. chant said the printing is wide variety of viewpoints the name of an underground but it was not clear if they were The editor of Common donated by “a friend” in on controversial issues,” ac­ group linked to Iran and made by the same man. Sense, Joe Merchant, said South Bend. Common Sense cording to Merchant. threatened to kill them if the the journal will be circulated receives no money from Stu­ United States helps Iraq. The calls could not be aut­ in a similar manner as The dent Activities because the Merchant said he believes henticated. The extremist Observer and The Scholas­ journal formed too late to Common Sense will be An earlier caller, also claim ­ Shiite Moslem group usually tic, but he emphasizes that, apply for assistance. "received well” by the com­ ing to speak for the Organiza­ delivers statements to local unlike these two publica­ munity, especially by fac­ tion of the Oppressed on Earth, newspapers or Western news tions, Common Sense will Articles in Common Sense ulty and graduate students said the educators were agencies when it wants to not cover campus news. are written by Notre Dame whom he thinks lack a grabbed on Saturday to publicize a claim, and the Voice undergraduates, graduates, campus publication oriented prevent the extradition from of Lebanon has been known to Instead, he says Common faculty and alumni. Mer­ toward them. The adminis­ West Germany to the United be inaccurate on Moslem- Sense contains essays meant chant said he hopes this tration “quite willingly” States of Mohammed Ali related affairs. to "stimulate discussion on diverse group of writers will gave its approval for the dis­ Hamadi, a Lebanese man issues of justice and peace appeal to a cross section of tribution of the journal on sought in a 1985 TWA hijacking. The first caller said the group in a wide range of areas” in­ the campus and will help campus, he said. would kill a hostage if Hamadi, cluding economics, culture, "bind the community to­ Twenty-three foreigners now 22, were extradited to the and politics. gether.” The journal is named after are reported missing and United States, where he is According to Merchant, The first issue of Common Thomas Paine’s eighteenth- believed kidnapped in wanted on charges of air piracy the journal will not particu­ Sense will state as its century pamphlet “Com­ Lebanon, including eight and murder in the June 1985 larly aim to be liberal or con­ "editorial purpose” that the mon Sense,” Merchant said. seized since Anglican Church TWA hijacking to Beirut. The Observer Monday, January 26, 1987 - page 2 In Brief Gipper, elusive quarterback Lee’s Ribs was raided for the second time in two key to Super Scandal Sunday weeks early Sunday morning. Three arrests were made by South Bend Police in the 12:42 a.m. raid. Further in­ The Iran-Contra arms scandal has been formation on the bust was not available from police brewing for nearly two months and already the records Sunday. - The Observer spectators are getting restless and bored. Pol­ J a m e s lsters now estimate that only twenty percent of the American public is following the issue with C arroll Notre Dame partially closed down at 3 p.m. Friday, daily interest, and this of course could lead to Photography Manager as some staff members were allowed to go home early, second rate commercials between newscasts. said Provost Timothy O’Meara. Classes, however, were Some say that the scandal has become noth­ not canceled, and Security officers and dining hall ing more than a feeding frenzy for democratic employees stayed to work their normal hours, he said. media sharks, while others argue that a ple­ Staff members were allowed to go home early in order to thora of legal investigations threaten to prevent avoid congestion on the slippery roads, said O’M eara, add­ a timely and just resolution of the controversy. ing that he couldn’t recall the last time the University had What is certain is that the fans want quick ac­ closed down early. - The Observer tion and a big play. To see the Reagan admin­ istration stalled over an objectionable call seems to many fans a waste of precious sports- “Winter Comfort for the Cold” is a student spectating time.