1 1 Friday, March 8, 1996 • Vol. XXVII No. 106 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S SMC administration feels no ties to ND report Mary's. Furthermore, Westler criti­ at Notre Dame. This report ings on campus. Timm forsees no With regard to the Ad IIoc cized the administration, stat- brings about a time when Saint Then how are PinS meetings recommendations, Timm said, Mary's needs to take a position taking place? recognition for "The report was by Notre on their own." "All [PinS related] activities Dame. It doesn't have anything '{think the adminis- PinS, a group of Saint Mary's are sponsored by the English GLND/SMC to do with us." tration has had a faculty and students, is not Department," said Timm. By MAUREEN HURLEY Goorgeanna Hosenbush, di­ affiliated with the College. Hosenbush said, "PinS does Saint Mary's Nrws Ediwr rector of student activities, chance to sit back and However, it is highly active in not have a room reserved for and CAROLINE BLUM concurs. "This report has no watch everything hap­ the campus community. that forum. Since we don't rec­ S.,int Mary's Editor effect on Saint Mary's. We're The group will host an open ognize them, they can't reserve two different institutions," she pen at Notre Dame. forum on March 21 at 12:20 a room." As tlw Univ1~rsity of Notre said. This report brings p.m. in room 306 of Haggar However, last night, PinS Damn rnlnasod the final roc­ However, some Saint Mary's about a time when College Center in order to dis­ hosted a lecture entitled "Com­ omnumdations of the Ad lloe community members disagree. cuss the future of GLND/SMC in ing Out, Coming In, Coming Committnn on Gay and Losbian Max Westler, associate pro­ Saint Mary's needs to light of the recent Ad Hoc rec­ Out," by Jeff Molitor, chairman Studnnt Nnnds, the Saint fessor of English and member take a position on ommendation. of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Mary's community remained of People in Support (PinS), a However, both Timm and of Cincinnati. waiting for action from its own support group for lesbians at their own.' Rosenbush maintain that PinS The key: it was co-sponsored administration. Saint Mary's, said, "We need to Max Westler is not an officially recognized by the English Department. Linda Timrn, vice presidont address the question: for the organization, just as "That lecture was resnrved for studnnt affairs. stated she College as a whole, what does GLND/SMC. And, according to under 'English Department,"' could not confirm at press time !the Ad lloe) report suggest ing, "I think the administration the Saint Mary's student hand­ said Hosenbush. "I have no wlwtlwr a similar study will bn about what needs to be done at has had a chance to sit back book, only officially recognized Saint Mary's?" and watch everything happen pursued in cornmittne by Saint organizations may hold meet- see REACTION/ page 4 Arafat opens Palestinian Parliament Lind views By G.G. LaBELLE As\cu.:ialcd Pres~ • NEWS ANALYSIS gender as Dowty: Palestinians prime factor By KELLY FITZPATRICK are 'virtual prisoners' News Writer By KELLY BROOKS ' To remain in power the In recent years, sweeping changes News Writer Labor Party must make sure in the infrastruetun1s of diverse that the Israeli people feel nations have been taking place the In the last nine days four secure. The Israeli military world over. These changes are due in terrorist attacks in Israel has closed the Palestinian part to the continued economic devel­ have killed 61 people and territories to restrict move­ opment of nations, particularly Third injured hundreds. The lat· ment of Palestinians within World countries. est attack Israel, and are likely to Experts have been forced to re-ana­ Monday i.n remain closed by Israel until lyze the cultural and political implica­ a Tel Aviv the elections in May. tions of development in the Post­ shopping "The Israeli government Modern world, said Amy Lind from mall killed was in a very strong position the Kellogg Institute for International 14 and after Rabin's assassination," Studies. Gender Studies sponsored a injured said Alan Dowty, professor forum yesterday in which Lind pre­ 100. The in the Government depart­ sented her lecture entitled, "Gender, latest rash ment. ''If there are no more Post-Modernism, and Development." bombings that has killml (11 AP/Carl Fox of suicide Dowty incidents between now and Lind drew from her research in JWOJlln sincn Feb. 25 and put bombings the elections and as anger Ecuador to form her argument that Llu~ Jwacn procnss with Israel elncted Palestinian legisla­ are threatening the Labor subsides, the left [the Labor the analysis of the restructuring polit­ in jnopardy. ture met on Palestinian soil Government and may Party] will gain the advan· ical and economic systems But he also attacked -was supposed to be a step derail the peace process tage." underrepresents women's roles in the lsnwlis for trying to halt the toward peace with Israel. between Israel and the reshaping of their nation's frame­ tnrror by barricading The bombings have instead Palestinians. see ANALYSIS/ page 4 works. Lind also credited articles Palestinians inside their revived Israeli fears of such as "Under Western Eyes" by towns, saying tlw blockade Palestinians and produced llamas-run cultural center in City displayed pistols, assault Chandra Mahonty saying that these was "like the oecupation demands for Amfat to crush Jerusalem and seized files rifles and material for mak­ kinds of Post-Marxist critiques offer ronw bark again." the militants. and computers. Palestinian ing bombs and grenades - insight into the polities of identity and Laying out an agonda for On Thursday, Palestinian police arrested the center's all seized in raids on llamas difference. thn lngislators, he said the police and Israeli troops director, Sheik Jamil hideouts since the bombings Critics of the Post-Marxist approach top priority was "to keep the worked in tandem to try to Jlamami, and took him to started Feb. 25. reject the Post-Marxist's tendency to pearn and make it stronger." track down radicals from the their headquarters in the Ghazi Jabali, head of the suggest a deterministic relationship "Wn must light the terror- llamas group involved in four West Bank town of Hamallah. police in Gaza. said 500 men between economic and political ists and radicals on both deadly explosions that killed In an effort to illustrate have been arrested in the change. Lind suggests that these are sides," lw said. 61 people in Jerusalem, Arafat's determination to West Bank and Gaza in the two separate entities, and the addi­ The opnning of thn parlia- Ashkelon and Tnl Aviv. wipe out terror cells, campaign to track down the tional question that needs to be ana­ nwnt - the first time an As the Israelis raided a Palestinian police in Gaza bomb makers. lyzed is, "llow can wo understand woman's role in this process in a way that does not simply categorize or universalizn gender issues?" LaBianca: Palestine's past shaped present Lind clarified the terms Women in By CAROI.INE Bl.UM continue as long as the two groups are "The corridor," he continued, "is con­ Development and Gender and Development in order to give a better \.1int ~l.lry\ Fditor · kept apart." stantly fought over. For four millennias l.aBianca spoke of both Palestinian Palestine was under the domain of for­ idea of the answer to that question. With conllirts in Isranl and the Middle and Israeli friends, the vast majority eign power." Women in Development is, in essence, the integration of women into the J·:ast l~ontinuing to appear in the rwws who seek to find peace. LaBianca showed slides of the impacts earh day, Anthropology Instructor and "Only a small group is creating the from each empire, with concentration development process. Gender and l'aiPstinian nxJwrt Stnin LaBianea spoke horror," he said. on tho Petra, one of the world's seven Development, however, takes a Thursday at Saint Mary's about the Before a group of around 20 students wondors. A testimony to the Greek­ socialist-feminine approad1. with the uncl'rtainties and ehangn in Palestirw. and faculty members, l.aBianea set Roman culture, the remains of Petra are emphasis more on development as an "I will renwin optimistic for peace in asidn the issue for 40 minutes, however. still in tact in Jordan today. Petra was all-encompassing framework. accord­ ing to Lind. "I want to create a more lsnll'l," lu~ nxplainnd. "Both t.he Arabs in order to share his more positive oxpc­ formerly a rose-red city carved into the complex view of oconomics," Lind and tim .Jews are n~silil~nt. But it is eru­ rieneBs in Palestine. mountainside. cial that tlw West continues llwir sup­ "Three geographical pivots make liv­ When LaBianca visited Petra for the said, asserting that the all-en­ port of the peace agrnmnent. Tlw West ing in Palestine difficult," LaBianea said. first time in college while on an archeol­ compassing notion of dew~lopnwnt is rwnds to lw OlllJHlwemd to change llwir "The dry land, thn proximity to the ogy dig in 1971, he discoverod a wonder overly simplistic. quality of lifn. Tim individuals who blew Arabian and Syrian deserts, and its role that would l'orevor change his research. More contemporary movements tlmmstdvns up worn brought up on a diet as a corridor providing trade and com­ of n~sistance and hatn. The cycle will munication." see SMC/ page 4 see GENDER/ page 4 ------------------~ ---- --~---- --------- page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, March 8, 1996 • ND fails to Computer circuit in landing system fails on Columbia CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.