-- - -·-------~---------- - l Monday, September 23,1996 • Vol. XXX No. 21 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Gathering together South Bend mayor honors POWs, MIAs By SASKIA SIDENFADEN the 27th of Mareh, 1973, I just News Writer rof1ected over tho past ynar." "I put into a box all of my There is a saying, "Dead men losses - my friends, my mem­ hear not the rain that falls." ories - so that I could wrap it The thunderstorm warning last up and deal with it," Kornan Friday should have seen the recalled. The most striking of cancellation of the closing cer- those memories worn thosn of emony to last week's POW and three fallen eomrad<~s. includ­ MIA Observance Day vigil at ing his elose collnge friend, the South Quad 11agpole. Mike McCormick. Instead, Col. Thomas Hunge In the most moving part of opened the ceremony to an the speech, Kernan rnlat!ld audience of Notre Dame HOTC how on Thanksgiving Day 1973 students from he roeeived within the ------------ news that auditorium of ' h h MeCormick had He s burgh w en I got orne not returned Library. (after Vietnam), home. Hunge intro- · fl d h "Mike hadn't duced the I JUSt re ecte overt e been in my keynote speak- past year. I put into a box," admitted er, Jon Kernan, box all of my losses_ Kernan with mayor of South t r e m b I i n g Bend and for- my friends, my memo- voice. "lie mer POW. ries _so that I could hadn't beon in Kernan gradu- , d d I my paekage ... ated from wrap It up an ea and 1 had to Notre Dame in with it.' l'igure out how 1968, to fly for Maz1or Joe Kernan to deal with it." the U.S. Navy ----....:..:.:=~....::...::.:;;_:..:..::;.:.....:..;=. It is beeause in the Vietnam of memories he University celebrated the War. He was shot down in like these that Kernan has 1972 and was a POW for one vowed to "rnmember those that official opening of the year until he was repatriated did not eomn home." Today, in 1973. Kernan servos the South Bnnd T school year with a campus - After finishing his service, community not just as a mayor, Kernan went on to several but as a former POW. wide Mass at the Joyce Center yester­ senior-executive jobs until he The ceremony endnd with a day. Father Edward Malloy (left) was was elected mayor of South piercing rendition of Taps, Bend in 1987. echoing Kernan's last words: the celebrant for the Mass, which "Even now," Runge attested, "Do not forget until that full "he (Kernan) continues to look and final accounting is made was sponsored by Campus Ministry for a broader outlook to give for each and evnry one of the very best his soul can give them." and Student Government. An all­ to the South Bend community." Kernan's tribute was the cli- Kernan delivered the keynote max of a two-day ecremony in campus picnic followed the service. addrBss on a more emotional honor of POWs and MIAs. A note. "Only three decades ago prayer service at the Grotto on we were in the midst of a war," Thursday and a 24-hour vigil said Kernan. He remembered at the Fieldhouse Mall also the date of his return to the provided HOTC cadets and vet­ United States with amazing crans with an opportunity to clarity: "When I got home on remember fallen comrades. State legislature seeks Walvoord heads learning center By JUSTYN HARKIN Father Timothy Scully, vice Walvoord added. "To help pr,o­ interns for '97 session News Writer president and associate ple know what others are provost, commented that doing, to be kind of a facilitator Spocial to The Ohserver "Interns play a critical role While the administration Walvoord's appointment of those efforts, to support during the session," works to meet the goals set in involved an exhaustive national those efforts financially and to INDIANAPOLIS Mannwciler said. "We rely on the Colloquy for the Year 2000, search of several candidates. be a source of expertise." Indianapolis llouse interns to help staff with the a common concern among "She's a great scholar and an Eventually the Kaneb Center HPpublicans and Democrats session's workload. Along Notre Dame expert in teaching and learning will offer workshops, books are looking for interns inter­ with gaining praetieal experi­ undergradu­ strategy. I'm very excited that and articles, and will invite t•.stPd in gaining first-hand ence, interns get a working ates is she decided to come here," outside speakers. It plans to nxpnrinneo in the legislative knowledge of the legislative whether the Scully said. address such issues as interac­ procoss during the 1997 ses­ proeess that cannot be found quality of Walvoord expects to spend tive teaching, tho training of sion of the Indiana General in any textbo?,k or taught in their cd uca­ the first semester of the pro­ graduatB assistants, how to ASS!HnbJy. any classroom. tion will be gram speaking with the faeulty integrate curricular and co­ IlousP Spoaker Paul Gregg noted, "I can pnrsonal­ jeopardized to ascertain what is eurrently currieular activities, and the Mannweilor (H- Indianapolis) Iy vouch for tho value of the during the Li.L...--1.......---'----' being done as well as what improvement of teacher-stu­ and Democratic Leader John program, since I served as an course of all they feel needs to be done dent relationships. Cregg (])-Sandborn) said appli­ intern in the late 1970s. The the changes before anything formal will be The formation of a center cations for tiltlir respective on-tho-job experience I gained to the University. implemented. designed to enhance teaching caucuses' internship programs during that time certainly Fortunately for the under­ "We are looking for ways in at Notre Dame has been rec­ arn now availabln. played a key role in my deci­ graduates, one of the most which people would want to ommended by several campus Internships will begin in sion to make public service an recent additions to the move forward," she said. "A groups over the years, most narly January 19(J7, and important part of my life." University has been made with good teacher doesn't want to recently by tho Academic should end sometime in May Internships are in two basic this concern in mind. stay still. They want to grow. Council in February 1994. Such after the legislative session. areas - constituent/caucus University trustee John Kaneb "There is a great deal going a center also was discussed The program is available to services and media/communi­ has founded the John A. Kaneb on here in terms of the support during the deliberations of the college juniors, seniors, gradu­ cations. Applications must be Center for Teaching and of teaching and learning. University's recent self-study, atns, and graduate students. submitted by Oct. 9, for the Learning . Located in 353 Departments are doing a lot, the Colloquy for the Year 2000. Mannweilnr and Grogg said Hepublican program and Oct. DeBartolo Hall, the Kaneb colleges are doing a lot, indi­ Walvoord says that the cen­ that participants ean receive 18, for the Democratic pro­ Center will be headed by vidual faculty members are ter wants to be a resource for eollege eredit for their work as gram. Barbara Walvoord, a national doing a lot," she said all faculty, whether they are well as a weekly salary of leader in the field of developing "What the center needs to do $225. is support those efforts," see INTERNS I page 4 faculty teaching skills. see WALVOORD/ page 4 - r page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, September 23, 1996 l I • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE A response Lebanese army sends reinforcements to the south RASHAYA that the Israeli government had decided The army sent 300 commandos to to increase its forces in the Golan Heights front-line positions facing Israeli forces in in response to Syrian troop movements. to the southeast Lebanon, a move likely to However, Israeli Defense Minister sharpen tensions in the already volatile Yitzhak Mordechai told the Maariv news- region. paper that chances of conflict were small Meanwhile, a five-country monitoring due to a "drop in tension" between Israel critics group investigated charges by both and Syria. It started out as a Lebanon and Israel that the other side The rare Lebanese army move in that scolding, evolved into Catherine Deely violated a cease-fire last week. region raised fears about the possibility tongue-in-cheek inserts Accent Copy Editor The Lebanese army said it deployed of new fighting. A Hezbollah rebel leader into select Observer the commandos in armored personnel claimed Sunday that Israel was prepar- r carriers to the Rashaya district along the ing a massive attack against Hezbollah r articles, and has now become a wry punch­ I eastern sector of the Israeli-occupied and Syrian troops. I line for the Notre Dame student body. At issue? It is our complaining, and it's about enclave in south Lebanon. "Our information indicates that the I "The reinforcements are designed to (Israeli) enemy has mobilized a large I time it was addressed for once and for all. When an offended alumnus wrote in to cope with any Israeli venture in the number of forces along the border," r lambast alleged "whining" by today's region following increased Israeli threats Sheik Nabil Kaouk, Hezbollah's comman- I Domers, he had every right to vent. I would of large-scale aggression," a Lebanese der in south Lebanon, said in a televised be willing to wager a significant amount (if I army statement said.