Paradise Lost Variable cloudiness and much ACCENT: Rockne: a personal view - cooler today; 40 percent chance of showers. High in the mid to upper 40s. Mostly VIEWPOINT: Rebuttals to Pettifer letter sunny Thursday. VOL. XXI, NO. 106 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Notre Dame readies for Reagan visit By CHRIS BEDNARSKI M arch 4 to coincide with Stamps will also be sold until News Editor Rockne’s 100th birthday, the 3:30 p.m. from special booths ceremony was delayed to ac­ outside the Alumni-Senior 8,000+ tix Thousands of Rockne stam ps commodate Reagan’s schedule. Club. have been shipped in for sale, In addition to Reagan, the The stamp is the sixth issued given out Reagan protesters have made ceremony will include remarks in a Post Office sports series their plans and the Secret Ser­ from Postmaster General An­ and the second to honor a foot­ By BRADLEY GALKO vice has scoured the campus. thony Frank, former ball player. Staff Reporter Everything is set for today’s Postmaster General Preston Postal officials expect about The Notre Dame students unveiling of the Knute Rockne Tisch, Andrew McKenna, vice 10,000 people to buy the stamp were given first priority for commemorative stamp at the chairman of the Notre Dame today, Sniadecki said. The post tickets to today’s Joyce ACC. Board of Trustees and Mrs. An­ office will place first day can­ ceremonies with President President Reagan will be the thony Kochendorfer, one of cellations on any stamp, he Reagan at the request of the principal speaker at the mid­ Rockne’s daughters. added. White House and the Univer­ day ceremonies. Reagan The stamp, available today sity, said Mike Bobinski, portrayed George Gipp in the only on the Notre Dame About 10,000 first-day en­ who was in charge of ticket 1940 movie “Knute Rockne - campus, can be bought at the velopes and m essage cards will distribution for the event. All A m erican,” the character Notre Dame post office until be on sale today, said Charles According to Bobinski, who inspired the movie’s most noon and from 1:30 to 5 p.m., Lennon, director of the Alumni ticket manager and assis­ KNUTE ROCKNE famous line, “Win one for the said Paul Sniadecki, manager Association. First day covers, tant business manager at G ipper.” of retail sales and services of Originally scheduled for the South Bend post office. see REAGAN, page 5 see TICKETS, page 6 Dancin’ Irish to be restructured, says committee 1 m By JIM RILEY News Editor The Dancin’ Irish will no longer exist in its current form, Father Peter Roc ca, vice president for student services, said Tuesday night. The decision was made earlier Tues­ day by a board composed of adminis­ trators and students, said Dancin’ Irish co-captain Cailin Stubbs. Rocca said the board decided that “the group as presently constituted is not something that should be continued. “It was the consensus of the commit­ tee that it was not at all a question of the quality of their performance,” said Rocca, but that “there were other is­ sues that also needed addressing.” Rocca said he is scheduled to meet with the co-captains and members of the board Thursday. He said the stu­ The Observer / Jim Carroll dent members of the board can present the viewpoints of the student body on Sun worshippers? the Dancin’ Irish and say whether the Christopher Reardon and Veronica Weadock greet the sunset and more w eeks, though, a s today’s forecast calls for rain and tem ­ the coming of spring at the New Buffalo municipal beach, 35 miles peratures in the mid-40s. see DANCIN’, page 4 northwest of campus. Real sunbathers may have to wait a few CLASS ELECTION RESULTS Class elections all result in runoffs Junior Class 3 By REGIS COCCIA Timons received 24.3 percent of Sophomore Class Senior Assistant News Editor the vote while Pasin garnered 17.1 percent, according to a Class The winners of sophomore, OBUD’s results. junior and senior class offices Matt Breslin and Bill will be determ ined Thursday in Fitzgerald will face each other a run off election, said John in the run-off for junior class R Wilson, co-director of Om- president. Fitzgerald received 3 3 3 budsman, the campus organi- 24.8 percent of the votes, and a & o.c. Breslin received 23.4 percent. FOR NATIONAL ELECTIONS The run-off for senior class CO see page 3 president will pit Don Diebel S against Tom Tisa. Tisa zation that oversees the received the most votes with elections. 36.5 percent. Diebel was I ™ Unofficial election results for nearest to Tisa, with 19.6 per­ 2 2 s c c o class offices were announced cent. Tuesday night by OBUD. There will be no run-off in the IS Voting indicated the run off race for off-campus commis­ coPIP ® 5 election for sophomore class sioner. Ed Chestnut defeated 2 m m § il m 03 o president will be between Rob 2 Pasin and Frank Timons. see CLASSES, page 5 page 2 The Observer Wednesday, March 9, 1988 In Brief The time has come for Nice Guys’ revenge In Fairbanks, Alaska, at the Pike’s Landing bar, the regulars have a curious way of telling spring is near - - they wait for the first truck or car to break through the At long last, Nice Guys are about to get ice of the Chena River. Gary Halmstad earned that dubious their revenge. Mark distinction Monday. His 1979 van broke through 8 inches For a long time now, Nice Guys, and Nice of ice as he started across an ice bridge used as a winter Girls for that matter, have been getting sand Pankowski shortcut by many residents. The dunking was the earliest kicked in their faces. that bar patrons could recall. -Associated. Press Nice, it seems, was not hip. Nice was out. Managing Editor Mean was in. “Listen up, all you Judeo-Christian people out V o there,” Ben Stein wrote in the October 1987 issue of Elle magazine. “We have a new command­ Of Interest ment, passed down vaguely but unchallen- geably to all Americans. It goes like this: ‘Thou shalt not be nice.’ Or, in this case, thou shall not be too nice.’ ” Benjamin Bull, legal counsel for Citizens for Decency The new meanness was everywhere: Pit bulls Through Law, Inc. will speak on “Brian T. vs. Pacific were replacing Cocker Spaniels. Joan Rivers Bell: Is Civil Redress Possible for Victims of Pornogra­ had her own show. Spiked hair was in. The phy?” at noon Thursday in Room 110 of the Law School. Beastie Boys were hot. -The Observer And Nice People were being bashed. “When the question is asked, ‘What’s so nice Bridge Club will m eet tonight from 11 p.m. to midnight about being a Nice Guy?’ the answer is, ‘Not in the basement of Alumni Hall. Beginners are welcome. much,’ ” Steve Levin wrote in a Sept. 4, 1987 -The Observer Chicago Tribune article. “Today, being a Nice Guy brings one close to falling over the edge GreatHungerClean-Upsign-upsforthose interested into wimpdom.” in cleaning up South Bend on April 16 for the hungry will Even Notre Dame was not immune to the be in the dining halls during dinner tonight. -The Observer meanness trend. Now, at the time, Dole might have thought Nice Guys sent flowers to their Dream Girls growling was a good strategy - appeal to the Humanitas will be accepting submissions for the spring only to be called “Goobers.” Nice Girls brought popular trend toward meanness - a sure way, 1988 issue until March 31. Please give essays, fiction and cookies to bedridden guys only to have them it seemed, to the nomination. recent book reviews to the English Office in 356 take out other girls when they got well. But Dole was in for a mean surprise: It’s nice O’Shaughnessy Hall.-The Observer Yes, Nice Guys were finishing last. And so to be nice again. were Nice Girls. His standing in the polls fell. And he got An Tostal mud volleyball team sign-ups are But there was hope. bombed on Super Tuesday. Wednesday, March 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in 307 LaFor- The trend toward meanness could not last, Dole is now destined to lose the Republican tune Student Center. There must be seven players per Stein wrote. “There are just too many people nomination. He’s just too mean to win. team with a minimum of two women and a maximum of out there who are nice, and want others to be The Senator’s impending loss is just the one women’s varsity or men’s club player. There is a 128 nice. (After all, it’s nice to be nice, and it’s beginning, though. Soon, niceness will spread team limit. Call Michelle Gund at 284-5184 for more infor­ wonderful to be wonderful, even if those are outside the world of politics. mation. -The Observer subversive words today.) We nice people may It will be chic to adopt stray cats and dogs. be down today . But tomorrow the worm It will be cool to give money to beggars. It’ll Graduate Student Union general elections will be m ay turn. be hip to stop in traffic to let cars out from held tonight at 8 at Wilson Commons. -The Observer “Holding doors may be hip,” he wrote. parking lots.