-"""7"--~-~--.,-;;:-,.. ~ .. ~... ~---------- ---------- ---- --------~.-~--~--~ ((G:...LlCTlor-1 IACCENT: Encounters with a superstar Beaming Mostly sunny today with a high of 55 degrees. Sunny again IVIEWPOINT: Our propensity to write tomorrow with a high of 58. VOL. XXI, NO. 51 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1987 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary·s Accusations Students to pay about SUB $1 ,400 in plan are leveled By JIM RILEY dent government to help foot By LIZ PANZICA News Editor the bill. Copy Editor "We want to include student Members of the Hall Presi­ government and the class of­ The Student Senate is con­ dents' Council are scheduled to fices in this," said Winkler. ducting an investigation into meet today at 4 p.m. to form­ "<The classes) each represent the Student Union Board activ­ ulate a plan to pay the $1,400 in a fourth of the student body, so ities and their alleged viola­ damages resulting from the they should take part in coming tions of the Student Govern­ food fights earlier this semes­ up with some of the money." ment Constitution, according ter, said Susan Coene, Farley One member has suggested to student government mem­ Hall co-president and member a fundraiser be held, according ber Mike Jaeger. of the HPC. to Winkler. "The first $1,400 Jaeger said he is "currently raised would go towards the putting together an explana­ HPC members met Friday bill," he said. "The extra would tion" of the senate's investiga­ with John Goldrick, associate then go to a charity.'' tion. Jaeger would not give vice president for residence The $1,400 would be used to details of the investigation at life. Goldrick said the student cover ''the cost of broken this time, but he did say that a body as a whole should take re­ dishes, food wasted . and full explanation will be issued sponsibility for the action be­ paying the <University Food at the end of the week. cause about 800 students were Services) employees who Jaeger did explain, however, involved in the food fights, HPC stayed to clean up," HPC Co­ that the investigation is an as­ members said. Chairman Bob Daley said ear­ sessment of the Constitution Attempts to reach Goldrick lier. pertaining to SUB activities. were unsuccessful. The damage bill was first He said, "Parts of the consti­ Members of the HPC will presented to Goldrick by tution are not being obeyed by bring payment proposals to the William Hickey, dire~tor of SUB and the senate is now meeting this afternoon, said University f'ood Services, said aware of it." The senate would Coene. One plan will propose Jim Winkler, co-president of like to see SUB pay closer at­ that the money be apportioned Alumni Hall and HPC member. tention to the Consitution, he between each hall, based on its Goldrick then contacted the co­ The Observer I John Studebaker . said. size. chairmen of the HPC, Winkler Life after NO? At Monday's senate meeting In addition, she said, the HPC Chuck Nevins takes time out to contemplate a possible future as one will ask the the classes and stu- see DAMAGE, page 6 of Forbes' Four Hundred Richest People in America. see SUB, page 4 Co-ed dorms among residence task force topics By REGIS COCCIA advantages and disadvantages Student Body Vice President "We're finding a lot of stu­ tiality affects a whole lot of dif­ Assistant News Editor are," said Firth, task force Laurie Bink, one of several stu­ dents saying (a co-ed dorm) ferent groups." chairman. "It's certainly been dent members on the task would be a nice option, but Bink said task force discus­ Co-ed dorms at Notre Dame? an issue that has come up." force, said co-ed housing is when you ask them if they'd sions with both faculty and stu­ The possibility has been dis­ Firth said the task force is being seriously considered, but like to live there, or if they'd dents have been positive. "We cussed before but lately is get­ gathering information for a only as a recommendation in like to have their hall con­ have great discussio»s and the ting serious consideration from report it will present to Univer­ the report to Father Malloy. verted, they say no,'' Bink said. faculty are very open-minded. a task force on residentiality, sity President Father Edward "Because we recommend it, "We're still gathering infor­ It's very cooperative," she said Ann Firth, director of Malloy in March. "We won't doesn't mean it's going to hap­ mation," she said. "W~'re said. "I think it's progressing residence life. come up with a conclusion until pen," she said, adding that stu­ talking with students, other ad­ quite well." "We are taking a serious look (we deliver the report)," Firth dent opinion on the issue has ministrators, a wide range of at that question and what the said. been mixed. people," Firth said. "Residen- see CO-ED, page 3 Reagan 'a bit wiser,' nominates moderate Kennedy Associated Press Kennedy is considered to his earlier promise to give it," Reagan said in answer tion, he called for a biparti­ be a moderate conservative, the Senate a nominee that to a reporter's question. san effort to fill the opening, WASHINGTON President less ideologically rigid that "they'll object to just as "That's one for me." created by the retirement in Reagan, saying he was "a Reagan's two earlier much" as Bork, his first can­ The president announced June of Justice Lewis Powell. bit wiser" after two failed nominees, Robert Bork, who didate, who was rejected on Kennedy's selection in ana­ On Capitol Hill, the reac­ attempts to put a hardline was defeated by the Senate, a 58-42 vote. tionally broadcast appear­ tion echoed Reagan's at­ conservative on the Su­ and Douglas Ginsburg, who ance in the White House tempt to overcome the bit­ preme Court, picked federal quit after revealing he had briefing room, accompanied terness generated by the appeals judge Anthony Ken­ smoked marijuana. by the judge, his wife, Mary, Bork and Ginsburg nomina­ nedy for the bench Wednes­ The new choice drew fa­ and their three children. tions. day and dropped his par­ vorable comments from The choice appeared to be "I can't see any good rea­ tisan attacks against the Democratic and Republican a clear effort to end a politi­ son for anyone opposing this, Democratic-run Senate. senators across the political cally embarrassing episode from Jesse Helms to Teddy Reagan said Kennedy, 51, spectrum. for Reagan, who once said Kennedy," said Sen. Pete has earned a reputation as Mindful of the problems that winning Bork's con­ Wilson, R-Calif. Sen. Ken­ "a courageous, tough but he's had for more than four firmation was his No. 1 nedy, D-Mass., had led the fair jurist" in his 12 years months in trying to fill the domestic priority. fight against Bork, while on the 9th Circuit Court of court opening, Reagan said Abandoning any pretense Sen. Helms, R-N.C., once Appeals in San Francisco. he would not actually submit of confrontation with the had threatened to filibuster "He's popular with col­ Kennedy's nomination until Senate over filling the va­ against Judge Kennedy as leagues of all political per­ completion of a full-field Anthony Kennedy cancy, the president said: not sufficiently conserva­ suasions," Reagan said. FBI background check, "The experience of the last tive. "And I know that he seems which could take weeks. "Sometimes you make a several months has made all Sen. Joseph Biden, 0-Del., to be popular with many And, in a conciliatory tone facetious remark and some­ of us a bit wiser." chairman of the Judiciary senators of varying political after months of tough rheto­ body takes it seriously and Invoking the spirit of the persuasions as well." ric, the president abandoned you wish you'd never said bicentennial of the Constitu- see JUDGE, page 4 -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--- -- - ---- ·---~---~--~----- --· ----------------------- page 2 The Observer Thursday, November 12, 1987 In Brief No humming allowed SylvesterStallone,filming''Ramboiii''intheisraeli resort town of Elat, reportedly fled his hotel room Sunday at NO football games night when security guards told him machine-gun fire had broken out nearby and he was in danger. But police and With the advent of the last home football army spokesmen said there was no gunbattle in the area. game of the season this Friday, I think that we "' Stallone's head security officer, Tony Maffatone, disputed shoul~ get athfe~ thinhgs cleared upf.tShe~iors wm • _ the Israeli statements, saying he witnessed a four-minute experience e1r 1ast ome game o e1r co 11 ege battle in which hundreds of rounds of machine-gun fire careers. were exchanged. "There is no question about it. This was a real battle with heavy machine-gun fire," Maffatone As usual, emotion and nostalgia will run ram­ said. "The Israeli story is completely implausible." - pant at the tailgaters and in the senior section. Associated Press And wherever there is emotion and nostalgia M at Notre Dame, there is the urge to sing our L. inspiring school songs. This, however, presents 6 a problem. Of Interest After almost four years, I now realize that I am one of the only fools who actually knows all of the words to the three main school songs. As Grace Hall debates continue at 9 p.m. in the Grace an incoming freshman, I thought knowing the Hall pit. Tonight's topic will be: "The personal morals of Victory March, Notre Dame Our Mother and presidential candidates do have a bearing on their the Hike Song were prerequisites for admission suitability for high office." This debate will be judged by to the football games.