''' Monday, February 21, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 94 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S .. ~ Deadline passes without airstrikes By ROBERT REID Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia­ Herzegovina Bosnian Serbs pulled back enough heavy guns from snowy hills around Sarajevo to stave off immediate air strikes as a NATO deadline for removal passed early Monday. But the Western alliance warned that any movement of weapons back toward Sarajevo or attacks on the battered Bosnian capital would bring re­ taliation from NATO. Bosnia's Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic, earlier urged NATO to go into combat for the first time in its history and bomb Serb guns that remained around Sarajevo. But Yasushi Akashi, the U.N.'s senior official in former Yugoslavia charged with mak­ ing the call on air strikes, said he saw no immediate need. "I have decided that it is not necessary at this stage for me to request NATO to use air power," Akashi ·said in a state­ ment released at his Zagreb, / Croatia, headquarters. "I am satisfied we have achieved effective compliance with the requirement to remove or place under UNPROFOR "The Observer"/Macy Heuckel (U.N. peacekeepers') control all Airborne heavy weapons within the 20 kilometer (12-mile) exclusion Dillon Hall senior Robert "Pancho" Escalera rollerblades off a ramp zone," Akashi's statement said. between the Law School and Cushing Hall while Jose Ramirez NATO, after noorly two years watches. Many Notre Dame students took advantage of the un­ of painful debate over whether seasonably warm weekend weather by spending time outdoors. to get involved in Bosnia's war, had demanded all heavy weapons pull back that dis­ Team to evaluate mission tance from Sarajevo or be placed under U.N. control. Otherwise it would launch air achievement of University strikes. NATO Secretary General By KATIE MURPHY the visit. Manfred Woerner said Monday News Writer "In Notre Dame's case, there the alliance will follow U.N. is no doubt we will be accred­ saw Russian songs on recommendations not to use air troops join the U.N. peacekeep­ looking Sarajevo. In order to critically evalu~te ited," he continued. power "at this stage" in Bosnia. the University of Notre Dame's This evaluation marks ten ing force in a gesture that en­ On the roads around Trebe­ Woerner, speaking at alliance couraged Serbian compliance, vic, last-minute movements of success in achieving its mission years since the last accredita­ headquarters in Brussels, said skies cleared Sunday for the trucks hatlling guns could be and educating its students, a tion visit by the NCA. The he had agreed in telephone first time after days of snowy seen. reaccreditation team from the NCA's reaccreditation process calls with President Clinton to North Central Association of requires that the university weather. A group of drunken Serb sol­ keep the threat of air strikes Before the deadline, the U.N. diers - carrying shoulder­ Colleges and Schools (NCA) will conduct a self-study before the intact in case weapons were be on campus today through visit, which Williams and an as­ commander for Bosnia said the launched anti-aircraft missiles moved back toward Sarajevo or situation remained unclear at - were stopping cars, greeting Wednesday. sessment committee have been the city was attacked. "A group of experienced fac­ preparing for two years. In ad­ nine of 41 Serb gun sites the occupants with the tradi­ As the midnight GMT (7 p.m. around Sarajevo which U.N. tional three-finger Serbian ulty and administrators come dition to studying the academic EST) Sunday deadline passed, soldiers have not yet visited. salute. and look at a whole range of life of a university, the NCA the roar of a solitary jet could things. The great majority of also evaluates its mission, stu­ Bosnian Serbs spent Sunday "We invite everybody to join be heard in misty skies. A C- night by campfires, roasting us here. If they bomb we will things are in academics, "said dent life, athletics, university 130 which has been flying over Father Oliver Williams, associ­ oxen and lambs, drinking fight back. Nobody can kill us on nightly surveillance also brandy and singing nationalist ate provost and coordinator of see NCA/ page 6 droned through the skies. see YUGO/ page 4 SMC poised to examine future development and improvement Editor's note: The following is long-range planning report are Regents requested after the that relationship and how to the first in a five-part series the ways in which Saint Mary's proposal was formally consid­ remain committed to Saint examining the issues that face will continue to examine it's FOCUSING ered for the first time last Octo­ Mary's as a Catholic college for Saint Mary's as it celebrates future path. ON THE ber. women." it's 150th year and looks to the "As an academic institution Along with the LRPC goals, The new plan for governance, future. we are constantly improving on ISSUES Saint Mary's is examining what which will be officially an­ . ways to do what we do best, Part 1 of 5 it will mean for the College to nounced on Wednesday, grants By JENNIFER HABRYCH provide a superior education be sponsored by the Sisters of the laity more power in govern­ Saint Mary's Editor for women," said College Mary's into the year 2000 and the Holy Cross, but no longer ing the College by forming a President William Hickey. beyond. run by the Order when the new single Board of Trustees and As Saint Mary's launches into In order to do this, goals must Chaired by Donald Horning, form of governance will incor­ decreasing the required num­ a year-long celebration of 150 be explored and developed by chair of the department of so­ porate the College as a separate ber of sisters who sit on the years since its founding, it also the entire College community, ciology, anthropology and social entity. Board. enters a year where defining according to Hickey. work, the LRPC will resubmit "One area we are looking at While the new plan of gover­ the future of the College and Defining these goals was a their report to the Board of Re­ very seriously is the definition nance will cause the College to the paths it will take is crucial. major task of the Long Range gents for approval at the April of sponsorship by the Sisters of examine its Catholic character, Setting forth themes of "Hon­ Planning Committee (LRPC) meeting. the Holy Cross," Hickey said. Saint Mary's is also discussing a oring Tradition, Pioneering appointed two years ago by The committee's report is "(We're) looking at in what new number of issues that are af­ Change", engineering a new Hickey to study the current sta­ currently undergoing cost and ways might the Congregation fecting many private Colleges, form of governance for the Col­ tus of the College arid set forth priority analysis by the Faculty and the College be relating to including how to increase di- lege, and revealing a two-year recommendations to lead Saint Assembly which the Board of one another, how to strengthen see SMC/ page 6 page2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, February 21, 1994 INSIDE COLUMN ATION AT AGLANCE Poll shows support for Church LOS ANGELES JPW: More than A large majority of Roman Catholic priests and nuns in THEY SAID IT ••• this country agree with the church's opposition to abor­ Here's what American Roman Catholic priests tion and homosexual behavior and would renew their and nuns said in a recent poll about the a party with your vows, according to a poll published Sunday. But about half of those surveyed dispute Vatican church and its positions. ' teachings on priest celibacy and its opposition to birth control and the ordination of women, the Los Angeles Priests (2,087) Nuns (1 ,049) parents Times Poll found. llJ Ill Beforehand, Junior·-------- Eighty-seven percent of priests and 88 percent of nuns Percentage who would renew their vows: Parents Weekend looked surveyed said they would renew their vows. While 59 like it was going to be percent of priests said the church should ordain married I./ +:·:·illll!i~~~lli•i:;;il,:t;:,;i,;ir!:!i .. ;.. :;,:;X·•.••·''' !\in··· ,•.... ·.,:.{,.;;.;:,1&! .. ;:1••··• Freshman Orientation all priests, only 15 percent said they would marry if they over again. Questions like: could. 88% "Where are you from?" or Forty-four percent of priests and 57 percent of nuns "What dorm do you live favor ordaining women, although 89 percent of nuns said in?" were replaced with they wouldn't seek ordination themselves. Percentage in favor of ordaining women: similar small talk that Pope John Paul Il's performance garnered approval regarded the nice weath­ from 7 4 percent of priests and 70 percent of nuns in the I (':•i,!iM!j:!i'Wi!WiiijH !iff ••. 144% er and "How did they Jake Peters poll. cook and serve all that Photo Editor Ninety-one percent of priests and 79 percent of nuns food at once?" consi.dered abortion always or often a sin, and 80 percent While my expectations -------­ of pnests and 72 percent of nuns said they would oppose about the small talk were painfully proven true, church-sanctioned marriages between homosexuals. I began to notice similarities with the juniors Forty-four percent of priests and nuns said birth con­ 74% and their parents. It was nice to see that your trol is seldom or never a sin. friend's strange twitches and quirks were from Fifty-eight percent of priests and 65 percent of nuns his father, and not a result of dining hall food.