o t r The Observer 10 4 2*1992 * ----------- StSOUlCENff NNIAL Saint MarvS College The Observer NOTRE DAME• INDIANA VOL. XXIV NO. 120 MONDAY , MARCH 30, 1992 t h e INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Bush will Moynihan to receive speak at prestigious honor graduation Special to the Observer By MONICA YANT Editor-In-Chief Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) has been President George Bush w ill awarded the University of Notre take a break from the cam­ Dame’s 1992 Laetare Medal, paign trail to address Notre the oldest and most prestigious Dame’s 1992 graduates, Uni­ honor given to American versity officials confirmed Fri­ Catholics. day. Moynihan w ill receive the “ He is definitely going to be medal during the University’s the commencement speaker,” a 147th Commencement well-placed University source exercises May 17. said. “Moynihan’s career uniquely Daniel Moynihan combines intellectual and polit­ The president will address afterward, and Moynihan grew ical acumen,” said University the 147th graduating class of up in an impoverished house­ President Father Edward Mal­ Notre Dame, which is celebrat­ hold with his mother, brother loy. “His passion for scholarship ing its Sesquicentennial year. and sister in New York. has made him sensible of the Details about increased secu­ Moynihan attended the City realities of state, sensitive to rity and logistics for Bush’s College of New York and Tufts the cry of the poor, and address are still being deter­ University, from which he commendably supportive of mined by the White House. graduated in 1948. He also higher education.” holds a doctoral degree from Moynihan is the first serving Bush is the fourth consecutive Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law member of the Senate to president to address a Notre and Diplomacy. receive the Laetare Medal. Dame commencement. Ronald E n lis tin g in the U.S. Naval Former Massachusetts Senator Reagan spoke in 1981, Jimmy Reserve in 1944, he was on ac­ John F. Kennedy was president Carter in 1977 and Gerald Ford tive duty fo r three years. He when he received the award in in 1975. remained in the Reserve for 20 1961, former Montana Senator Dwight Eisenhower also ad­ years, retiring in 1966. Mike Mansfield was dressed Notre Dame’s gradu­ The only person in American ambassador to Japan when he ates in 1960 and F ra n klin D. history to serve in four succes­ received it in 1977, and former Roosevelt spoke in 1935. sive presidential administra­ Maine Senator Edmund Muskie tions, Moynihan was assistant was in private law practice The May 17 ceremonies will secretary of labor in the when he received it in 1981. be Bush’s fourth visit to Notre Kennedy and Johnson cabinets, Born March 16, 1927, in Dame, his first as president. chief domestic advisor to Presi­ Tulsa, Okla., Moynihan moved Bush met with Notre Dame The Observer/Jim Brake dent Nixon and later his am­ with his family to New York City trustees and attended the Penn bassador to India, and ambas­ President George Bush, here seen speaking at Notre Dame in 1988, when he was six months old. State football game during his sador to the United Nations will be the commencement speaker this year. His father, a newspaperman, under President Ford. deserted the family soon see BUSH / page 4 see MEDAL / page 4 Foley: not asked to resign in spite of House scandal WASHINGTON (AP) — House the next Congress, which will Speaker Thomas Foley said meet in January, he said: “Yes, I Sunday that no one has asked do.” him to step down because of Foley, a member of the House recent irregularities at the since 1965, was elected speaker House bank and post office. He in 1989 after Jim Wright of also said he intends to seek re- Texas resigned. Like all mem­ election as speaker. bers of the House, Foley must Appearing on CBS-TV’s “ Face face re-election in November. the Nation,” the Washington Some members of Congress Democrat denied a report in have reportedly grumbled that The New York Times that House Foley didn’t act aggressively officials interfered with an enough to deal with irregulari­ investigation of the post office. ties at the post office and the bank, which allowed members He said he plans this week to to overdraw their accounts. appoint a high-ranking career The Times reported in Sun­ postal employee to take over day’s editions that a federal the post office, succeeding grand jury looking into wrong­ Robert Rota, who resigned last doing at the post office has fo­ week. cused on a one-month period House sources said Saturday last summer when top House that Foley may act as early as officials intervened to keep the Tuesday to name Michael Shi- Capitol police from investigat­ nay, executive assistant to the ing possible embezzlements. U.S. postmaster general. Foley also said he is asking “That is not true,” Foley said. appropriations subcommittee “ We cooperated in every way chairmen to review the with the investigation of the perquisites of not only members post office.” of Congress but also those of Discussing the perks that officials of the executive branch have caused much consterna­ to ensure they are appropriate. tion among voters, Foley said “we’re going to see to it that no Foley acknowledged there member of Congress, either have been “ a lot of rum ors” on party, has any prerequisites of Capitol Hill that he has been office except those that are nec­ asked to resign. essary to do the job.” “None of them is true,” he He added that, “in fairness, said. “Not a single person has we need to look at the executive _ . _ . The Observer/Elisa Klosterman approached me privately about branch as well,” noting that Getting Creamed stepping down.” some low-ranking officials use Sophomores Rachel Belanger and Molly Goodenow participate in “Cream Your Favorite Lyonite” to Asked if he intended to be a government limousines for trips raise money for the for the Megan Beeler and Colleen Hipp scholarship fund, on Friday. candidate for speaker again in to Capitol Hill. page 2 The Observer Monday, March 30, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER REPORT Meat market FORECAST: Cloudy with some drizzle in the means more morning. High 45 to 50. Clearing than meals Monday night. TEMPERATURES: Take note, women. Your City H Anchorage 31 struggle toward au^equal Athens 61 status with men has Bogota 73 manifested itself in one of Boston 51 the most unlikely, and yet Cairo 82 Chicago 43 apropos places-the meat Cleveland 48 market. Dallas 76 Actually, the notion that Denver 52 Havana 64 meat eating is an STEVE Indianapolis 43 extension of the male- Jerusalem 61 ZAVESTOSKI London 50 dominated patriarchal Assoc. News Madrid 57 society that subdues Editor Minneapolis 44 Moscow 50 women is not so new. Nashville 60 While a feminist working-class newspaper of New York 55 the 1890s advocated meatless diets for Paris 48 Philadelphia 57 women, meat in general has been a symbol of Rome 59 dominance, wealth and strength ever since San Francisco 62 S outh Bend 4 2 man’s ingenuity allowed him to hunt and kill Tokyo 54 Washington. D C. 59 faster and stronger animals. HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY “Beef consumption became a powerful Via Associated Press symbol of nationalism in the 18th and 19th centuries, when the English became closely identified w ith roast beef,” says Jeremy Rifkin in his newest book Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall o f the Cattle Culture. He adds that many believed Britain’s m ili­ TODAY AT A GLANCE tary and commercial superiority was at least partially attributable to its beef-eating ways. NATIONAL returned faster and hospital stays were shorter than for Paintings of Henry VIII, for example, typically ordinary marrow transplants, said Dr. Rosemary depict the king eating meat while his six Mazanet.. Dr. Michael Friedman of the National Cancer wives are depicted eating fruits and vegeta­ Thousands at Pro-Choice Rally ___________ Institute said the studies represent “a very exciting new bles. ■ SAN FRANCISCO — Actress Rita Moreno and the area” of research. How does meat eating reflect male domi­ woman known as Jane Roe in the landm ark Supreme nance over women? Primarily, meat eating is Court decision led a pro-choice rally that drew thousands a measure of individual and societal virility. of people Sunday. Moreno, 60, told the crowd she nearly INDIANA Not only has meat eating been associated died from an illegal abortion when she was 27. The Roe with wealth and prosperity, but also a “liberal vs. Wade decision established abortion rights in 1973. Mrs Quayle and Sister Promote Novel meat supply has been associated with a happy The U.S. Supreme Court is expected this summer to issue ■ INDIANAPOLIS — It was old home week when and virile people,” according to the food a ruling on a Pennsylvania law that could severely limit a Marilyn Quayle, wife of Vice President Dan Quayle, and science textbook The Meat We Eat. woman’s ability to have a legal abortion. Patricia Ireland, her sister returned to Indianapolis to autograph copies of And what does it mean that meat eating president of the National Organization for Women, told their political thriller “Embrace the Serpent.” About 350 symbolizes virility? Placing its definition in the crowd the San Francisco rally and one scheduled people lined up at a bookstore last week to have their place of the word virile, we read “liberal meat next Sunday in Washington would help launch efforts to books signed by Mrs.