VOL. XXV NO. 120 The Observer FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1993 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S BOG revises Handicapped smoking students push policy administration for By GWEN DUFFIELD News Writer campus access The Saint Mary's College By NICK RIOS Board of Governance (BOG) News Writer will vote next Monday to approve a revised smoking Monday, 7:58 a.m. A student hops down the policy that restricts smoking in stairs of her dorm, races across the quad, public areas. sprints up a flight of stairs and slides into her The proposed policy, which seat in a classroom on the second floor of would take effect next year, O'Shaughnessy just as eight chimes ring out was prompted by a survey con­ from the bells in Sacred Heart. A typical way ducted on March 25, in which many students start a Monday-that is unless 73.8 percent of Saint Mary's you are a physically handicapped student at students voted to prohibit Notre Dame or Saint Mary's. smoking. If BOG votes to ap­ Handicapped students are finding some areas prove the policy, the proposal and buildings on campus difficult to access, will be submitted to the Senior according to freshman Alejandro Montoya. Officers for approval. "I would say that overall, the faculty as well "There was a lot of concern as the general population of this University voiced by students and the make it a very happy and lovable environment Board of Regents about the ef­ to live in, but as far as their efforts for making fects of smoking, so we con­ the University fully accessible to disabled ducted a residence hall survey students, they have not yet reached their full that would accommodate those potential," said Montoya, who is physically students who didn't smoke," disabled. said Karen Fordham, Resident While many of the newer buildings on Hall Association (RHA) presi­ campus can easily accompany handicapped stu­ dent. dents, many places need to undergo some sort According to the new policy, of remodeling to make them accessible for all smoking will be permitted in students, Montoya said. He cited LaFortune student rooms as agreed upon Student Center and the Administration Building by roommates and in the vend­ as two examples of buildings at both extremes ing areas of each residence of accessibility for handicapped persons. hall. There will be no smoking "Metal door knobs, special bathrooms and allowed in all other public fountains, and elevators make LaFortune fully areas in the residence halls, accessible," he said. "But the Administration including, but not limited to, The Observer/Brian McDonough Building is a constant reminder that we can not laundry rooms, bathrooms, Freshman Alejandro Montoya uses the automatic door opener to leave the Hesburgh move around the building without the help of Library. Montoya and other handicapped students expressed concern over the lack of see POLICY I page 4 facilities provided for them on other areas of campus. see ACCESS I page 4 New literature course to Conference examines sanctions By EMILY HAGE at the Sigur Center of The Ge­ Arms Control, which provides address gay, lesbian issues Assistant News Editor orge Washington University research and public education By JASON WILLIAMS conclusions they wish, the bet­ School of International Affairs, to limit the spread of nuclear Assistant News Editor ter for all concerned." Scholars and experts from will address the issue of eco­ weapons, will be giving the Dian Murray, associate dean around the world will gather nomic sanctions to prevent keynote address on Saturday. A literature course offered by of the College of Arts and Let­ this weekend to debate and dis­ the department of romance ters, had no comment on the cuss the political, economic, The conference will be di­ languages and literatures could relation between the courses and moral ramifications of in­ vided to explore different be an important step to gener­ content and Notre Dame's ternational economic sanctions. Freedom Forum aspects of economic sanctions. ating a forum for discussing Catholic character, but she did Entitled, "Economic Sanctions Friday will focus on economic homosexuality on campus, ac­ say the course outline had been and International Relations," Events Schedule effectiveness issues, while Sat­ cording to assistant professor accepted and approved by the the conference will feature urday will include speakers on Carlos Jerez-Farran. registrar and administration. keynote speaker James Ngobi, political effectiveness and Friday moral and political issues, and Despite consistent University Secretary of the United Nations 2:30 p.m. Economic Effec­ sanctions in South Africa, Haiti, denial of recognizing an official "This is a university of aca­ Sanction Committees. Ngobi tiveness Issues. Panel discus­ organization for gays and les­ demic freedom, and that's what will speak Friday evening on and Iraq. Sunday will examine sion. sanctions in former Yugoslavia. bians on campus, "Outspoken part of intellectual growth sanctions in the former 7 p.m. Keynote Address: The conference is sponsored Readings in Literature," a 400- among the students is all Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Somalia. James Ngobi, UN Sanctions by the Fourth Freedom Forum level elective course, is being about," she said. Committees offered for the Fall 1993 Harold Attridge, dean of the "The conference will examine Inc. and the University of Notre Dame's Joan B. Kroc Institute semester. College of Arts and Letters, and the use of sanctions as a means Saturday for International Peace Studies. Louis MacKenzie, dean of the of enforcing international law 10:30 p.m. Moral and Political "I'm going to approach teach­ department of romance lan­ without military violence," ac­ Issues Related to the Use of This weekend marks the first ing the course from sort of an guages and literatures were cording to a press release from Sanctions. Panel Discussion. time the two have co-sponsored academic and humane posi­ unavailable for comment. the Forum. The program will 12:30 p.m. Keynote Address: tion," Jerez-Farran said. "I also Sharon Miller, spokesperson also include discussion con­ a conference, though they plan Wisconsin Project on Nuclear on further cooperation in the plan to show what homosexual for the unrecognized organiza­ cerning sanctions in former Arms Control. experience has in common with tion Gays and Lesbians of Notre Yugoslavia, Iraq, Haiti, and future, according to Glick. 2 p.m. The Experience of The Kroc Institute was human experience in general." Dame/Saint Mary's, said she South Africa. Sanctions in South Africa and Jerez-Farran said the course was initially "flabbergasted" by "We want to explore the polit­ founded in 1986 for research Haiti. Panel Discussion. and teaching concerning the is aimed at students who have the University's contradictory ical and moral implications of 3:45 p.m. The Experience of interests in exploring the role of stance. sanctions, as well as the eco­ issues of peace and violence. It Sanctions in Iraq. Panel Dis­ offers undergraduate and homosexuality in literature. He "I was frankly amazed, but I nomic implications," said Jen­ cussion. also said the class will stress guess I'm not surprised any­ nifer Glick, Director of Infor­ graduate degrees in Peace the importance of recognizing more by what Notre Dame mation Services at the Forum. Studies, and peace research in Sunday Ph.d. programs in different sexuality as an important comes up with," she said. "They "One of the problems of 8:45 p.m. The Experience of departments. aspect of human nature. have their own logic, they have sanctions is that they punish Sanctions in fanner their own thinking." people who shouldn't be pun­ Yugoslavia; Panel Discussion. Created in 1982, the Fourth "I hope the straight commu­ ished. With sanctions, you 10:30 a.m. The Future of Freedom Forum, located in nity shows as much interest as The course itself will examine want to punish the government, Economic Sanctions. the gay and lesbian community works by Plato, Walt Whitman, not the people," she added. Goshen, In., calls itself a "not­ because we are dealing with is­ Virginia Woolf, William Shake­ for-profit, non-partisan, non­ sues that really transcend sex­ speare and other classical and Many leading scholars will be sectarian, private operating uality," he said. "Homosexuality 20th century writers. Jerez­ featured in the conference, in­ foundation" designed "to is a human reality that has Farran said he will pay particu­ cluding Robert Manning, State North Korea's development of achieve freedom of fear been and will be with us as long lar attention to the homosexual Department expert, former ad­ nuclear weapons on Friday through the large scale reduc­ as humanity exists, and the elements of their writings and visor to the Bush administra­ afternoon. tion of armaments and the sooner people are given the their universal and personal tion on Asian-U.S. policy, and Gary Mihollin, Director of establishment of enforceable facts to help them reach the see CLASS I page 4 presently a research associate Wisconsin Project on Nuclear international law." page2 The Observer Friday, April 2, 1993 INSIDE COLUMN NATIONAL Weather FORECAST The Accu-Weather® forecast for noon, Friday, April 2. Cloudy and cold today Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. with a chance of snow. 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