~~~~--~--~--~~~-.~------------------------~.. ~~--~-----.--~~~--------------------------~---------.-----------~------~·-------. Wednesday, October 15 , 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 38 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Stanford apologizes to ND for band performance By HEATHER COCKS News Editor Stanford University issued a formal apology to Notre Dame for the content of its marching ter than toinsult.others' band's pre-game and halftime religion and heritage.' shows, performed at the Oct. 4 football game, University Gerhard Casper President Father Edward Malloy said yesterday. president of Stanford During the program that University sparked the controversy, Irish people were referred to as The marching band has since "stinking drunks," while the been prohibited from playing in band parodied the Irish potato their home arena when Notre famine and staged a debate Dame travels to Stanford in between the devil and a Catholic November 1999. according to "Cardinal." Stanford athletic director Ted "Our students should know Leland. better than to insult others' reli­ Malloy accepted the apology gion and heritage," Stanford and lauded its condemnation of University President Gerhard the racial, ethnic and anti­ Casper wrote Monday to Malloy. Catholic slurs included in the Stanford Daily/Carolyn Sleeth "The band's purported satire shows; in addition, he expressed Stanford's band (above) gave a performance on Oct. 4 that outraged many Catholics and people of Irish was uncivil and improper." descent. The band has a reputation for controversy, and was barred from Notre Dame's campus in 1991 . see STANFORD I page 4 Students Use fall break The work of an artist ... in the service of others By SARAH HANSEN the greatest impact on their site in the News Writer smallest amount of time. Students involved in the Washington Early Sunday morning, 203 Notre Seminar expect to learn about environ­ Dame students will board over 20 mental concerns in the District of buses en route to earning one credit in Columbia. The 24 participants plan to the most experiential and service­ meet with governmental ·and religious based educational ·opportunity offered agencies in an effort to gain a deeper bv Notre Dame. understanding of the various points of ·Three fall service projects are offered view regarding the environment. by the University this year, each one George lloward, author of a recently allowing students to visit Appalachia, released book on Ecological Washington, D.C., and Chicago for a Psychology, spoke to the group as part hands-on education in serving others. of the orientation session, offering one This year 165 students will partake of the many views of the environment in the Appalachia Seminar, visiting 16 they hope to eneounter over the week. total sites. Upon their return to campus, the Within the program, students are participants of the Washington given the opporttinity to learn about Seminar will meet with campus envi­ the environmental issues within the ronmental groups for collaborative dis­ region, while pre-med students focus cussion and planning. on rural health care. Fourteen Notre Dame students will At manv sites, Notre Dame alumni witness diversity through work with will acc(;mpany students over the the Urban Life Center in Chicago as The Observer/Laura Giuliani Two artists, Susan Bradt and Charles Johnson, will be bringing their work to Saint Mary's break. The students and alumni plan to Moreau Gallery. See article on page 3. work side by side in an e!Tort to make see SERVICE/ page 4 LONI grant helps recruit Latinas, small town residents By MELANIE GARMAN oriented decisions. Assistant Saint Mary's News Editor "We worked with students on issues and ways to exercise Increasing the number of leadership, college placement, Indiana students attending col­ self-esteem and ways to meet lege, especially Saint Mary's, is the physical challenges needed the goal of the newly founded to succeed," said Patrick White, Leaders of a New Indiana (LONI) associate dean of faculty, who program. early in the high schools, it served as co-director of the The program, which is sup­ would allow these students to academy this summer with ported by the Lilly Endowment, have a chance to visit Saint Georgeanna Rosenbush. supports the leadership develop­ Mary's knowing that there is "We emphasized collaborative ment and education of both additional help offered to them leadership which is needed in Latina students and students through the LON! program," the real world," White added. from communities smaller than said Mary Pat Nolan, director of The second phase of the pro­ 25,000 people in the state of admission. gram offers a $3,500 grant to Indiana. Beginning in their sophomore, those students who demonstrate Each of the 18 private colleges junior and senior years of high financial need after admission to which are participating in the school, students eligible for the Saint Mary's. Students are still LON! program were given a LON! program are invited to the eligible to b~ a participant in the variety of options on the focus of summer Leadership and LON! project and any of its pro­ their individual programs. Saint Community Development grams, even if they do not quali­ Mary's decided to cover the Academy, which is staffed on fy for the LON! grant. entire spectrum from pre-col­ campus by Saint Mary's faculty, In its first year, Saint Mary's lege to post-college, setting up administration, and students. gave out 33 grants to students events to entice high school stu­ During this week, students expe­ who qualified and the college dents to attend Saint Mary's, as rience intense leadership chal­ hopes to double that number by Photo courtesy of Georgeanna Rosenbush well as continuing on in their lenges that will benefit them not next year. Patrick White, associate dean of faculty, gives a lecture at the Leadership only in the present, but in their and Community Development Academy this past July. The weeklong career in the state of Indiana. seminar was funded by the Leaders of a New Indiana (LONI) grant. "We decided that by starting future educational and career- see LONI I page 4 . ----- ----- -- -~-------· ---- ---~-~-· page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, October 15, 1997 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Don't Think tank report reaffirms U.S. military dominance LONDON low-level regional conflicts is Hegional conflicts show little sign extremely difficult- "and there is of winding down, the world arms Arms sales boom little sign of these seriously abating." Volunteer trade is growing and the United A look at the trend in worldwide Chipman said the United States is States has no challengers to its mili­ arms sales: the only country capable of conduct­ tary dominance, a leading military ing large-scale military operations Well, fall has arrived, 90--------------------- think tank said Tuesday. with a global reach. It is also "the hell week is almost Nora Meany - ~ 84.9 In billions, past, and many of us Saint Mary's Accent Editor There is also "considerable con­ 1995 U.S. dollars principal architect" of existing bal­ are beginning to settle cern" about nuclear, biological and ance of power arrangements in chemical weapons, the International Europe, the Middle East and Asia, into life here in South Bend with welcome 60 relief. The worst is over. Maybe a few of us Institute for Strategic Studies said in 39.9 and its role "is as vital as ever," he even have some free time on our hands ..... So its study, "The Military Ralance v said. what, pray tell, do we do to fill the void of 1997-98." A special focus of that As for China, the institute said Reijing is upgrading its military excess time? Watch T.V.? Go out and have concern is Iraq, which has defied. 30 fun? Study? Well, I can tell you one thing that U.N. resolutions to diselose details of forces but does not have the you SHOULD NOT do under ANY CIRCUM­ its chemical and biological weapons resources "to project a major conven­ STANCE. programs, the institute said. tional force beyond its territory." The global arms trade grew by 13 Volunteer. The annual assessment of military o~~~~w.~~~~~-- You heard me, don't volunteer. capabilities and defense spending in 1987 '88 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 percent in 1995, and the trend con­ I cannot think of a more deplorable waste 169 countries concluded that pre­ tinued last year with an 8 percent venting or controlling civil wars and Source: International Institute APIA. Kranz rise. of time for anyone than a day of volunteering. for Strategic Studies How pointless can that be? You, a successful Sir or Ma'am of the Notre Dame Community, Clinton apologizes to Brasilians Hairstyle gets student fired giving your time so that some random stranger who probably deserves whatever BEHLIN economic strife that was encountered, can Amid distractions from home, An African law student !ired by a Berlin luxury hotel have his or her hardships worked out for President Clinton tried to smooth over because ll'er corn-rowed hair did not conform to an free. misunderstandings about U.S. views on "average" European styfe is demanding an apology, her You need to work on your resume! In a trade in Latin America on Tuesday and lawyer said Tuesday. The woman, who was born in word, internships. After all, I think I speak apologized to Brazil for a U.S. govern­ Rurundi and has lived in Rerlin for 16 years, was sent for everybody when I say that I didn't get into ment slight. "The document was for a three-day temporary job at the newly rebuilt Hotel college by helping little old women across the wrong," Clinton said of a U.S.