Catholic Battle Remember when ... Irish football faces long time rivals, Boston Several alumni look back at their days under Friday College this weekend in the last home game. the Dome. Check out their stories from the See the insert for details. 195o's, 6o's and 7o's. NOVEMBERlO, Irish Insider Scene+ page 16 2000 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV NO. 53 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Brow-nson Hall serves as home to many since 1855 orne to nuns, graduate students. first year of students and printing presses during the last 150 years, First Year of Studies and Brownson Hall will be undergoing major changes Hin the next year as organizations housed in these two buildings are moved to the new Coleman-Morse Center on South Quad. All First Year of Studies offices, the Learning Resource Center. the First Year Writing Center and Academic Services for Student Athletes will be moved to the Coleman-Morse Center during the spring, said Joseph Schellinger. director of academic space management. Previously the old Hammes Notre Dame bookstore, the Coleman-Morse Center has been under renovation for the past two years. Some offices located in Brownson will not move immediately. Offices of organizations currently housed in Brownson Hall, the Center for Sport, Character and Culture, the London Stage Program, the Office·of Information Technologies, Pre-College Programs, Psychology Research Labs and Upward Bound, will expand for the time being. Other open space in the building may be used as temporary space for organizations whose offices are being renovated. No decision has been made about the long-term future of the three­ building complex including Brownson Hall, the First Year of Studies building and the Earth Science Building in the long term. "There has been no decision on whether the buildings will be reno­ vated or torn down." said Schellinger. "There are definite plans for the buildings until 2003, but if the officers of the University want some­ thing different before that. we will do that." Campus Ministry will also have a new office in the Colem11n-Morse Center. The offices of the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), which shares Campus Ministry's current office in Badin Hall. will grow to include Campus Ministry's space after the move is completed. A long history behind the Dome In 1855. under the direction of Father Sorin, Brother Francis Patois designed the complex of buildings and work began on two buildings behind the Main Building the same year. One was a convent for the Sisters of Holy Cross (now the Earth Science building and First Year of Studies building) and another was the Ave Maria Press (now Brownson Hall). story by The sisters, living in a convent that is nDw the First Year of Studies and worshipping in a chapel that is now the Earth Sciences building, SCOTT prepared food for all students in a kitchen facility behind the main BRODFUEHRER building from 1849 until South Dining Hall opened in 1927. In addition to cooking, they aided sick students, tended to gardens, set type at the press facility next door and did laundry. The convent closed in 1965 after the remaining sisters, who were • graduate students. moved to Lewis llall, which was home to both lay photos by graduate students and nuns. KYLIE CARTER Ave Maria Press printed The Scholastic and Ave Maria, along with other publications, in the building that is now Brownson Hall from 1855 until 1940. when it moved to its current location on Douglas Road. In 1941, the Hall was renovated so that it could be used for food storage. see BROWNSON/page 4 COURAGEs~ersupports Bush lead slips in florida recount chastity for homosexuals Ill, the secretary of state in the "We're raising some very Associated Press Bush administration brought . serious questions and legal wearing rainbow armbands. in to protect the Texas gover­ actions will be taken," Daley By TIM LOGAN George W. Bush's lead over nor's interests. said at a Florida session with Morrison told his story of AI Gore in ali-or-nothing Senior Staff Writer growing up as a troubled ado­ Gore wants a follow-up Warren Christopher, the for­ Florida slipped beneath 300 recount in four Florida coun­ mer secretary of state acting lescent, and realizing he was votes in a suspense-filled David Morrison was once an gay in high ties and perhaps a new elec­ as Gore's recount consigliere. recount Thursday, as tion in the Palm Beach area - The Bush campaign fired outspoken gay righl'l activist at s c h o o I · See Also Democrats threw the presiden­ ideas the Bush camp said back by staking its own claim the University of Maryland. When he tial election to the courts Then he spent seven years in was a stu­ Address all amounted to "politicizing and to a Florida victory and ques­ claiming "an injustice unparal­ distorting" the electoral sys­ tioning Gore's motives. Still, a successful. monogamous gay dent at the issues of leled in our history." The Bush relationship. tem. Republicans eyed recounts University of homosexuality campaign was considering But now the 37-year-old Maryland, Amid a campaign-style flurry elsewhere~in case Gore pre­ recounts in two other close­ of charges and counter­ vails in Florida, raising the writer spends his time ealling on Morrison page 14 voting states .. homosexuals to live cha'ltc lives. found a charges, Gore campaign chair­ specter of a lengthy. multistate Chaos reigned. It may take man William Daley said his battle. lie carne to Notre Dame homosexual community and weeks to untangle the thicken­ Thursday to do just that. and to became involved in the gay party will support legal actions "One of the options that they ing legal and political webs by voters and supporters who seem to be looking at is new tell about his transition, speak­ rights movement there. lie went and determine the nation's ing before a DeBartolo Hall on to become a writer and spent say a confusing ballot may elections. Our democratic 43rd president. have led them to vote acciden­ process calls .for a ·vote on crowd which included about 30 seven years in a monogamous "The presidential election is skeptical OutreachND members tally for Reform Party candi­ see CHASTITY/page 4 ... on hold," said James Baker date P.at Buchanan. see ELECTION/page 3 r page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, November I 0, 2000 ! INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN NOTRE DAME/SAINT MARY'S HISTORY Marijuana crop offers harvesters free high Cavanaugh men face dorm change Juice and a bagel Nov. 17,1975 Nov. 19, 1993 Marking the beginning of harvest time for Hoosier mari- Cavanaugh residents were informed that their dorm For 15 years. my family had a ritual. Every Friday night, my mother would stand juana, state authorities and individual entrepreneurs were would be converted to a female residence effective in the over a pot of spaghetti, check the bread in the racing to reap the illicit weed. The high price of marijuana Fall of 1994. Although many dill'erent factors were taken oven. and make sure my favorite Lemon Icc Gatoradc was in the refrigerator. As a swim­ on campus is one reason given for harvesting local patches into account, the final decision to convert Cavanaugh came mer, my weekend races of pot. "I would say at least half of the students here who down to beds. said Patricia O'Hara. vice-president for stu­ usually dictated the family's schedule- and our menu. smoke try to grow their own," an anonymous student said. dent affairs. The dorm was chosen because it has the 242 My carbohydrate and high­ l1uid pre-race diet wasn't "But most the good stuff comes from Ann Arbor, Mich." beds which would be needed for incoming females. the typical family meal, but in my house, it was the unbreakable norm. My mom's preparations OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U.Wire reports didn't end there; she would set her alarm to wake me Noreen up at the crack of dawn on Gillespie Saturday morning, make Networks predict Gore's future as Harvard pres sure a bagel and juice were Managing on the table, and warm the CAMBRIDGE, Mass. view. referring to l1ying rumors that car for whatever location Editor There's more than one presidency President Clinton would be consid­ WI~ werp voyaging to that at stake here. As Vice President AI ered. weekend. With coffee bal- Gore waited for the recount But Noah says the vice president is ancing dangerously on the dashboard of our Wednesday, pundits were already a much more realistic prospect than Buick station wagon, she would never show speculating that he could be in the his boss is. Gore is a former member signs or fatigue as she drove me to a pool in running for the nation's second most of the Board of Overseers, the uni­ some foreign corner of the state for my compe­ highly contested presidency - versity's second-highest governing tition. Harvard's. board. And despite the fact that after a night of Tuesday night, as networks goofed, "lie has a great affinity for the cooking, a morning of driving, and long hours rhetoric shifted and fickle Florida academic life," Noah says. "It is sitting in the humid bleachers of a strange fluctuated, NBC news anchor Torn Gore and the Harvard presidency. entirely speculation on my part, it's natatorium. when I stood up on the blocks, Brokaw tossed off a comment about Noah said a list of possible presi­ probably unlikely, but it's at least as she'd always be cheering the loudest.