t i ac H O B SE R V E R Thursday, April 13, 1995* Vol. XXVI No. 122 INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Earth Day ■ S tudent S enate concert New leadership plans scheduled to improve relations respond through e-mail on two Special to The Observer Patrick, McCarthy issues concerning the move­ ment of the student section in Earth Jam ‘95, a benefit con­ set to go on-line the football stadium and revi­ cert to commemorate the 25th sions in DuLac. anniversary of Earth Day, will By GWENDOLYN NORGLE Other issues addressed at the take place April 20 (Thursday) Assistant News Editor ___________________ meeting included the distribu­ from 5-10 p.m. in the Stepan tion of buttons reading, “We Center at the University of The new student government are all ND/SMC.” According to Notre Dame. The concert’s wants to hear from you. In an effort to improve com­ student government Director of proceeds will fund construction Publicity Louis Radkowski, the of a recycling center at the munication with the student buttons are from both the past South Bend Center for the body, student governm ent is encouraging students to voice and present administrations of Homeless. the Student Government. Musical perform ances will their concerns through e-mail, “The buttons specifically ad­ include the reggae band it was announced at last night’s dress the GLND/SMC issue, but Uraeus, and rock bands Little Student Senate meeting. they make the general com­ Milton and Mushroomhead According to the Jeff Ward, ment about how as a communi­ Experience, performing with student government commis­ ty we have to embrace all of its special guest acoustic musi­ sioner of Campus (the Notre Dame and Saint cians Greg and Stacy Dewald. Communications, this improved Mary’s communities’) members Earth Jam ‘95 will feature communication will be insti­ as a whole,” Radkowski said. booths and exhibits illustrating . „ . The Observer/Cytnthia Exconde gated by way of an upcoming The buttons will be available environmental concerns and A study room with a view student government ad that A Notre Dame student finds a new place to study in Saint Mary's will be placed in The Observer. in the student government of­ Cushwa-Leighton Library. The ad will ask students to fice on the second floor of the see CONCERT/ page 4 LaFortune Student Center. Anniversary of polio vaccine celebrated By DAVID GOODMAN ment in the field of medicine. ” Associated Press______________ The March of Dimes an­ nounced today that it was cre­ DETROIT ating an annual $100,000 prize Forty years after he an­ to be presented in Salk’s name nounced his discovery of the to an investigator who makes first successful polio vaccine. major advances in developmen­ Dr. Jonas Salk returned to the tal biology. University of Michigan to be “This prize honors the ex­ honored for his triumph over traordinary contribution made the once dreaded disease. by Dr. Jonas Salk to the health The university and the March of children and adults here in of Dimes, which paid the $1.7 the United States and around million cost of Salk’s polio re­ the world,” March of Dimes search, honored the researcher President Dr. Jennifer Howse today at the Rackham said in a statement. “Millions of Auditorium on the Ann Arbor people were saved from paraly­ campus. It was there, in 1955, sis or death.” that Salk announced a success­ Salk went on to found the ful trial of the vaccine. Salk Institute for Biological Polio struck 57,600 Studies in La Jolla, Calif., in Americans in 1952, killing 1963. thousands and leaving many His research on prevention of others paralyzed. viral diseases continued after _ . The Observer/Mike Ruma Fearful parents once kept he stepped down as institute Construction continues their children indoors to avoid director in 1975. In 1986, he Construction continues for the new Keough and ‘ONeill male dormitories. The golf course will begin 18- exposure to the virus. began AIDS research. hole play again soon, although only 9 holes still exist because of work for the new quad. In 1953, Salk announced the “It’s a more complex prob­ development of a vaccine that lem, it’s a different kind of used killed viruses to stimulate threat,” he said. people’s immune systems. “Polio cripples limbs, and the Dornan to seek White House He, his wife and three sons AIDS virus cripples the immune received an injection of the vac­ system, thus rendering people By RITA BEAMISH forget that he’s also a man with He wants sex education out of cine, as did 1.8 million school susceptible to all kinds of infec­ Associated Press missions: to eradicate “ moral schools and homosexuals out of children in a 1954 trial of the tions.” decay’’ and vanquish the the military. Often accused of drug. In the late 1980s, Salk a n ­ WASHINGTON Democratic president he labels gay-baiting, he says AIDS is a On April 12, 1955, Salk an­ nounced some positive results Bob Dornan once threw actor a draft dodger. great tragedy but that gay ac­ nounced that the trial found the with a vaccine designed to slow James Cagney over his back. But he wears a prominent tivists “have cleverly and skill­ vaccine to be safe and effective. the development of AIDS in He counted a nearly nude Mar­ reminder — a watch with a fully turned a m odern plague Health officials quickly began those already infected with the lon Brando for the 1960 Cen­ cartoon of Clinton and a digital that is baffling us into a public inoculating millions of people, HIV virus. sus. He bailed out of a fighter countdown to Election Day and the threat faded. Researchers are "on the jet on a Pacific training flight 1996. His sartorial arsenal also see DORNAN/ page 4 “What had the most profound threshold of large-scale stud­ and visited the pope with the includes a prisoner-of-war effect was the freedom from ies” of the vaccine, Salk said. wives of seven soldiers missing bracelet for a man from Clin­ fear, ” the 80-year-old Salk said Salk said he is optimistic sci­ in Vietnam. ton’s hometown of Hope, Ark. This is the last Tuesday in a telephone confer­ entists will crack the secrets of And now the nine-term GOP Often dismissed as a hothead ence call from Ann Arbor. AIDS and other diseases caused congressman from southern for his railing from the House issue of The A rival. Dr. Albert Sabin, by microorganisms. California is running for presi­ floor, Dornan believes he has a later developed an oral vaccine “My own view is we will over­ dent, bringing a firebrand style decent chance in a field already Observer until that used weakened, rather come. We will have enough in­ to a race already crowded with filled with conservatives. He Wednesday, than killed, viruses. genuity to overcome these senators, governors and former says the others are either Beginning with its introduc­ threats of nature,” he said. White House officials. Johnny-come-latelies, are re­ April 19. tion in 1961, the oral vaccine “I am a perennial optimist,” Dornan, 62, has so many col­ luctant to discuss the “moral is­ quickly eclipsed Salk’s formula. he said. “We certainly have the orful stories — and recounts sues,” or do not have his track Have a safe and Congress honored Salk with a know ledge. The question is them with such rapid-fire glee record on issues such as abor­ gold medal for “great achieve­ whether we have the wisdom.” — that it is easy to momentarily tion. happy Easter. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, April 13, 1995 ■ In s i d e C o l u m n 0 WORLD AT A GLANCE US Rep. allegedly paid Associated Press Poll Sacred Heart for accuser’s recanting World war threat has faded Because of World War II, do you sometimes feel suspicious CHICAGO wedding Germany might seek to become a military threat to the The second teen-ager who accused U.S. United States again, or do you think that it is all in the past? Rep. Mel Reynolds of having sex with her told Q fiasco a grand jury Reynolds offered her $10,000 4% and told her how to recant her allegations, Total □ Feel suspicious H That's in the past No answer prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors also To be a bride in Sacred “ z 1 Men | 3% Heart has been a dream of disclosed details of grand jury testimony from 1 21% Reynolds’ first accuser, Beverly Heard, includ­ mine since I was fifteen. Women 5% When I became engaged to ing her allegations she had sex with Reynolds and another woman three times. The revela­ 7 5 % another Domer in Under 50 18% 78% ] 4% September, we decided tions came as prosecutors tried to bolster sex­ ual assault, sexual abuse and obstruction that the Basilica was the Over 50 27% 71% ] 3% ideal location for our wed­ charges against Reynolds since Heard recant­ ding. We even crashed ed her allegations. Defense lawyer Sam Adam Do you think there will be another world war two Sacred Heart wed- Kelly O ’Neill referred to one prosecution attempt as “an amorphous piece of Jell-0 that they’re throw­ within your lifetime, or don’t you think so? dings to b e sure. Assistant Office Manager I called the church for ----------------------------- ing against the wall and hoping the jury will □ Yes □ No ■ No answer information on booking a 1996 wedding.