Thursday, November 9, 1995• Vol. XXVII No. 53 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT !\1ARY'S • STUDENT SENATE NASAND asks Senate for support of protest Student Alliance, Asian Ameri­ But administration can Association, and Hispanic American Organization," held a may say proposals demonstration which "particu­ are too unrealistic larly targeted the murals on the second floor of the Main Build­ By GWENDOLYN NORGLE ing." Assistant News Editor In this protest, Etsitty said, NASAND was showing "another Requesting Student Senate side to the story" of what is de­ support for its recommenda­ picted in the paintings, which, tions to the administration, rep­ according to the letter, depict resentatives of the Native scenes showing Native Ameri­ American Student Association cans as "inferior." at Notre Dame made an ap­ "We're not inferior," Etsitty pearance at the Senate's meet­ said at the meeting. "This land ing last night. was here before Columbus so­ The Senate discussed a letter called 'discovered' it." written to Vice-President of As stated in the letter, other Student Affairs Patricia O'Hara Notre Dame students have from "students of Notre Dame" similar opinions. "Native that was presented at the meet­ American students, as well as ing by NASAND representatives many others, have experienced Mary Etsitty and Sharon Jack­ great feelings of discomfort and son. pain by the depictions of Native In the letter, dated October Americans, African Americans, 27, 1995, it was stated that on and Christopher Columbus. The Observer/Dave Murphy "As members of the Notre Campus Democrats Partick Lyons and Kelly Williams debated Republicans Brad Hardin, shown at the Columbus Day (October 9), podium, and Brian Hipp last night in the Keenan Hall Basement. NASAND, "with the participa­ tion from members of Black see SENATE I page 6 College pols debate budget Hispanic group calls for By DAVE TYLER Hepublicans Brad Hardin and ed that Republicans are plan­ News Editor Brian Hipp traded barbs, ning to raise taxes on the 13 boycott of Levi's jeans cracked jokes, brandished sta­ million poorest households in T-minus 363 days and tistics and shared a few America, while President By BRAD PRENDERGAST port for the protest. counting. moments of discomfort Clinton has lowered the deficit Associate News Editor The tags will then be collect­ The Notre Dame student throughout the course of the by $120 billion dollars without ed by Fuerza Unida, an body kicked otT its involvement hour-long debate program. raising taxes on the poor or The campus chapter of the organization in charge of the in the 1996 presidential cam­ Lyons and Williams opened cutting Medicare. League of United Latin Ameri­ national boycott, which will paign almost one year before the program by denouncing Hipp in turn blamed the can Citizens is calling for stu­ mail the tags and any letters of Eloction Day as Keenan Hall the "dangerous extremism" of United States' $5 trillion dollar dents to join a nationwide boy­ protest to Levi Strauss in sponsored a debate between congressional Republicans and debt on "40 years of Demo­ cott of the purchase of Levi's January, the sixth anniversary the College Democrats and the their leadership. They railed cratic rule," in his opening brand jeans in protest of Levi of the plant's closing. College Hepublicans last night against Republican spending statement. "The Democrats Strauss & Company's decision The protest has been in exis­ in that dorm's basement. plans of the 1980s and called got America into this mess, to close a San Antonio plant, tence ever since Levi Strauss One team from each side of several Republican-proposed the Republicans will get leaving 1,150 workers unem­ closed the plant in 1990, but the ideological fence present­ methods of deficit reduction America out." ployed six years ago. this year marks the first time ed arguments, fielded ques­ "cruel and heartless." "Republicans have a sensi­ LULAC is also asking students that the Notre Dame chapter of tions from panelists and audi­ "Gingrich, Dole and the rest ble plan to reduce the deficit who already own pairs of Levi's LULAC has participated in the ence members and weighed of the Hepublican party are by 2002, but Democrats don't 501s, Dockers, Brittania, Offi­ boycott. Fuerza Unida was the merits of the budget pro­ trying to blackmail America by like it because it cuts their cers Corp and Silver Tab jeans formed to help the 1,150 work­ posals of their party's national threatening to default on the favorite thing-government - all made by Levi Strauss - ers - nearly all of whom were political players. debt," Lyons said. spending," Hipp said. to turn in the tags of the jeans Chicana, Mexicana or Latina Democmtic debaters Patrick Quoting from a New York to the Office of Multicultural Times article, Williams assert- see D EBATEI page 8 Student Affairs as a sign of sup- Lyons and Kelly Williams and see BOYCOTT I page 8 Revision updates duLac sex harrassment policy By DAVE TYLER lines for following through on a News F.diwr harassment complaint and lan­ guage defining disciplinary ac­ In an effort to make its Dis­ tion. criminatory and Sexual Ha­ The new text does not alter rassment polieies more clear, the way the University conducts the Ollke of Student Affairs re­ disciplinary hearings related to leased a 13-page supplement to sexual and discriminatory ha­ du Lac this week. rassment, Shoup said. The supplement d'oes not The supplements were dis­ make any changes in the tributed to students earlier this specifies of Notre Dame's ha­ week by residence hall staffs. rassnwnt policy, but tightnns Shoup said the Office of Resi­ thn wording of the document, dence Life had planned to up­ aeeording to Jeff Shoup, direc­ date the policy for the 1995-96 tor of the Office of Residence edition of du Lac, but work on Life. the new version was not com­ "The new language makes plete in time for the printing the poliey more clear," Shoup deadline. When University offi­ said. "It makes the discrimina­ cers finished revising the pol­ tory harassment and sexual ha­ icy, Student Affairs decided to rassment policies more consis­ take the unusual step of issuing The Observer/Dave Murphy tent." a supplement. The beat goes on .... lneluded in the supplement Siegfried Junior Kate Hillman took the stage last night at the SUB Coffee House open-mike night in the is a more explicit set of guide- see DULAC I page 8 LaFortune Ballroom. page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Thursday, November 9, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • Wmn.o AT A GLANCE ND deserves Tornadoes cut through Georgia, South Carolina ALBANY, Ga. on the condition of a third child who un­ Storms and tornadoes that raced across derwent surgery was not released. Their better than three states crushed mobile homes, father was updated to fair condition and injured dozens of people and ripped the their mother and five other people were roof off a grocery store in a neighborhood treated and released. theWWF still rebuilding from last year's flooding. "All I saw when I got there was just flat­ "This is what you call the double tened debris everywhere and people com­ On Monday night, in whammy - when you get rebuilt and ing from all directions holding small chil­ what many consider a then get hit again," said Major Mike dren," said Dwight Burleson, a Columbus swift and stunning display Turner, who headed a police command County, N.C., emergency medical techni­ of strength and speed, center in Albany after a tornado struck GA. cian. "The Heartbreak Kid" Tuesday afternoon. The twister injured at Tornadoes also raked South Carolina, Shawn Michaels felled the least 30 people - two of them seriously where 22 people in 16 counties were immense King Mabel with -and caused millions of dollars in dam- eAibany injured, including a 15-year-old his trademark crescent age. Georgia Gov. Zell Miller declared a Williamsburg County girl trapped inside a kick to the jaw, and then state of emergency in Albany. truck by a wind-tossed mobile home. She covered him for the pin­ Dave Tyler Children at Morningside Elementary was in serious condition with head fall. Fans, and propo­ ~~ ews Editor crouched in halls while the storrr broke AP injuries. The other people were treated for nents of real wrestling, their windons and .opple<. .rees; none their injuries and released. The tornado the collegiate or Olympic styles, consider it a were injured, Superintendent John Culbreath said today destroyed a plywood shed and ripped off the front porch sad distortion of their sport. as classes resumed. Students at nearby Radium Springs and wall of the nearby Nazareth Pentecostal Holiness But unfortunately, that match ended the Middle School also took refuge in hallways as the twister Church in Lexington County, about 15 miles southwest of World Wrestling Federation's card, and the passed by. "I was scared. I thought I was going to die," Columbia. only wrestling fans are likely to see in the JACC said 11-year-old Benia Nelson. About 2,900 homes lost electricity and 700 to 800 of anytime in the foreseeable future. A line of powerful storms· also pounded North Carolina. them remained without power today, said Janice Allen, In 1992, Notre Dame's varsity wrestling pro­ Wind up to 70 mph slammed into a Brunswick trailer assistant city manager. At least 40 businesses and 150 gram was canceled. The circumstances sur­ park, crushing at least one home and seriously injuring homes were damaged. City Councilman David Williams rounding its demise have never been made four family members.