, I Thursday, March 3, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 102 Tl-lr INDEPI~NDENT NFWSPAPI:I\ Sli\VING NUTIU DAME AND ~AINT MARY'S Jamaican project to offer more than just a vacation By MEREDITH McCULLOUGH News Editor For many students the word "Jamaica" brings to mind a tropical island paradise - an exotic Spring Break vacation ground where the sun always shines and the beach is a welcome dis­ traction. But by August of next year, six Notre Dame graduates may feel a bit differently about Jamaica. By August, these graduates will find themselves no longer students but teachers, and may no longer see Jamaica merely as a resort country, but as their home. Under the leadership of Paul Chang, a 197 5 graduate of Notre Dame, the Jamaican chapter of the Notre Dame Alumni Club is in the process of developing a post-graduate volunteering pro­ gram in Kingston, Jamaica, with a focus on teaching. Chang, who recently visited the University to recruit students and work out administrative details, said he sees education as a means of combating poverty and underdevelopment by providing previously unavailable opportunities to those who need them most. "Through most service experiences you can touch maybe 50 people," said Chang, "but through teaching you might touch more like 200 and see real, leng term effects." The new program will be similar in structure to the Jesuit International Volunteers (JIV), and participants will have interaction with and guid­ ance from JIV volunteers who are already in Kingston. The need for Notre Dame volunteers in Jamaica is great, according to Chang. Although tourism attracts a fair number of wealthy visitors to Jamaica, it is still considered a third-world country. One will find the very Photo courtesy of Paul Chang rich and the very poor in Jamaica, but as Chang These and other children of West Kingston, Jamaica, will be benefiting from a new post-graduate teaching program sponsored by see JAMAICA I page 4 the Notre Dame Club of Jamaica, educating students during a year long program. Hatch, Hyder urge ethical research practices Malits: Cross By DAVE TILER sity, one judged by both its un­ If that animosity is to be wards careerism," a condition offers faith News Writer dergraduate and graduate pro­ avoided, Hatch said is the re­ where academics are so far grams," said Hatch. "In order search should be looked at as a removed from the student body As Notre Dame evolves into a to do that," he added, "We must profession, rather than an oc­ that they cease being teachers experience truly national university, it be strong in our research." cupation·. "We hold our profes­ and become self-absorbed. must not be Hatch and Hyder spoke at the sionals, doctors, and lawyers, to Researchers, he said have an negligent in student government sponsored a higher level of expertise, a obligation to not only them­ ByAMYCODRON its pursuit of "Campus Conversation" entitled higher degree of excellence, selves, but their community as News Writer an ethical "Understanding Notre Dame and a commitment to the public well. research Mission in Graduate Studies good. Researchers fall into that Hyder took the discussion a People can experience the paradigm, and Research," at Siegfried Hall category." step further by analyzing the Cross through the acceptance said Nathan last evening. Hatch drew on his own expe­ research process in terms of of their failures, the Hatch, dean According to Hatch, Notre rience in the history depart­ Notre Dame's Catholic mission. endurance of their power­ of the Dame must meet this challenge ment at Harvard for an illustra­ He is surprised that current lessness and the faith that Graduate without losing sight of its united tion. debate on research ethics fo­ God needs this consent from School, and Nathan Hatch character. "There is almost an "While I was there, I had an cuses almost exclusively on bio­ us for him to save us with his Anthony animosity between the gradu­ intellectual feast," he com­ medicine. "The field of ethics love, according to Saint Hyder, associate vice president ate and undergraduate worlds. mented. "But the personal re­ extends much further, to all Mary's alumna and professor for research. We must overcome that, and lations were just poison." He areas of not only research but of Religious Studies Sr. Elena "Notre Dame has decided it avoid the pitfalls of research called on Notre Dame to fight Malits. wants to be a national univer- academia." what he called "a tendency to- see RESEARCH I page 4 Her lecture, "The Cross: Letting God be God," was the second in the Saint Mary's College Sesquicentennial Kmetz, Neidlinger tickets win run-offs Lenten Lecture Series, "A Celebration of the Cross." By KATIE MURPHY "The Cross is the experi­ News Writer Clay /Harron ence not only of enduring 35.09% powerlessness, but of recog­ The Kmetz/Klausner ticket for nizing one cannot escape it sophomore class officers and and should stop trying. The the Neidlinger/Reh ticket for Cross is the experience of otT-campus co-presidents hand­ learning how to accept every­ ily defeated their opponents in thing we would not accept if yesterday's runoff election. we could avoid it," Malits The sophomore class office explained. ticket of John Kmetz of Fisher, Through her own personal Brian Klausner of Flanner, Neidlinger/Reh experiences, Malits has Andrea Smith of Siegfried, and 64.91% learned to consent when fail­ Deborah Hellmuth of ure exists in her life, without Pasquerilla East earned nearly Off-Campus Sophomore Class knowing why that failure 56 percent of the electorate happens or its ultimate out­ with 564 votes. Their oppo­ Co-Presidents Runoff Office Runoff come. nents Bob Ryan of Morrissey, "Accepting is a mode of Janine Van Lancker of received 445 votes, or just over and Matt Reh captured nearly votes, approximately 35 per­ participating in a reality to 44 percent of the electorate. 65 percent of the electorate cent of the electorate. Siegfried, Katie Flynn of Farley, with 209 votes. Chad Clay and and Pat Abell of Morrissey In the runoff for off-campus The new officers will take of­ co-presidents, Nikole Neidlinger Brian Harron received 113 fice April 1. see CROSS I page 4 - ·---------------- page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, March 3, 1994 INSIDE COLUMN · · NATION AT AGLANCE Highway sniper targets South Carolina interstate An unexpected GREENVILLE, S.C ......... ----n-...-------.------.::~----, Morris said. "This is one guy with a BB gun." A pellet gun sniper targeting cars The Greenville County sheriff's along Interstate 85 struck again department has increased patrols, and Wednesday, in spite of deputies used unmarked cars, bloodhounds and fareW"ell patrolling on the ground and in the air. a helicopter, but the sniper keeps slip- In 10 days. someone has shot at least ping away. Senior year. Oh what -------­ 26 cars, most on a mile-long stretch of Authorities have said there may be expectations we all had highway bordered by pine trees, a river, copycat snipers now. Most vehicles for this year. a sewage treatment plant and a televi- have been hit around the Mauldin This was the year we sion factory. Road exit on Greenville's south side, went to the 'Backer Deputies in camouflage suits are hid- L__,[L____ =----=L _ __J where the latest vehicle was shot at every Thursday night no ing in the trees, and spotters with binoc- early Wednesday. But two others were matter what test we had ulars are on the high ground along the NORTH CAROLINA hit Tuesday about five miles away. the next day. This was highway, a major business route "It's driving us crazy," said sheriffs the year we traveled between Charlotte, N.C., and Atlanta Lt. Sam Simmons. "It's become impos- everywhere within 100 .,~:-r>5\ that the AAA Carolinas motor club says •Greenville sible to tell which reports are real and miles of South Bend Kenyajohnson is used by 64,000 vehicles daily. which ones are just rocks hitting wind- just for the hell of it. Accent Editor The only injury has been to a teen-age OColumbia shields." It was the year to girl hit in one eye by glass when a shot SOUTH take advantage of all we could, knowing that went through a van window, but drivers CAROLINA On Monday, a driver whose truck our time together would soon come to a splen­ are getting jumpy. JoAnn Surrett, a was hit chased a man he said was did yet, sorrowful end. This was the year to reservations clerk at a nearby motel, •Charleston about 20 years old. The man escaped say good-bye to four great years and hello to said she's started taking a different exit through a swamp behind the sewage 'the real world.' off the highway to get to work. GEORGIA Atlantic plant and bloodhounds lost his trail, I knew the time to say good-bye would ''I'm not as afraid as if it were a real Ocean Simmons said. come, I just never thought it would be this gun, but I still don't want my car to get 100milas The AAA told motorists to be careful early. hit," she said. but was holding off on a national alert. iOOkm. For some of you it may seem strange, almost The situation is different from 1-295 at L---~...:....·'·--.: "We're telling them not to panic and ghost-like, to see me doing an inside column, Jacksonville, Fla., where a series of AP not to avoid the area .... We're just considering I am no longer at Notre Dame. sniper attacks in 1992 led the national AAA to tell saying, 'Be alert."' Morris said.