keyplay over NDToday Two kids, a witch and a dew fairy Jimmy Dillon and keyplay.com hung on The Notre Dame Opera brought Engelbert Monday through weeks of Bookstore action to Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” characters clinch the tournament, 21-ij. to life last weekend. Check out the review. MAY 1, Irish Insider Scene ♦ page 13 2 0 0 0 O B S E R V E R The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIII NO. 129 h t t p ://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Law students aid local residents through ND Clinic By TIM LOGAN News Writer Adela wants to see her children again. That is why the 50-year-old El Salvadoran has come to the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic lor help filing for perma­ nent residency in the U.S. It is why she is sitting across the table from third-year law student Kira Lodge, telling someone she's never met before about her family and her life. Tears run down Adda's face as she talks about her two adult children who have died in HI Salvador since she came to the United States 10 years ago. She talks lovingly of the other two, whom she hopes to see again someday. Adela, whose name has been changed because her case is still pending, was granted political asylum last year by the Seventh Circuit Court in Chicago, and now the Bristol. Ind., resident is beginning the two-year application process for perma­ nent U.S. residence. For more than a half-hour, Adela and Lodge sit at that table, going over the forms the El Salvadoran must fill out to become an American — discussing her case in Spanish, the only language Adela knows well. This mother is one of dozens of immi­ grants who comes to the Legal Aid Clinic from all over Michiana each Tuesday and Thursday seeking help in navigating this country's immigration system. And Lodge is one of the student interns who gives PETER RICHARDSON/The Observer them that help, free of charge. In return, Law student Marisa Salazar meets with a client at the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic. Begun in 1966, the Clinic serves she and other interns gain a learning low-income South Bend-area residents in cases ranging from immigrant naturalization to domestic violence. experience that many call the most important of their law school careers. The courses taught through the Legal offered through the Legal Aid program, it dent and said the Legal Aid program was big deal to come to this country, to get a Aid Clinic are not required for a Notre is one of the only chances for law students one of the main reasons he came to Notre job, to get permanent residency,” he said. Dame law degree, nor do they focus on to gain experience outside the classroom. Dame Law School. His parents are both “Seeing the whole process they went legal theory or historic decisions. But “It adds a real perspective to the whole immigrants — from Mexico and El through made me want to help people to Legal Aid Immigration Clinic I and II do law school education,” said immigration Salvador — and after graduating next reach their American Dream.” provide students who are interested in clinic intern Rudy Monterrosa. “It’s one year, he wants to return to the West Coast Several students who work at the Legal this growing field of law an opportunity to thing to read about it in books, but it’s and help immigrants make their way in Aid Clinic, which, in addition to immigra­ see firsthand what immigration is all another to see it in your clients.” the U.S. tion, also handles family law, consumer about. And, along with the other classes Monterrosa is a second-year law stu­ “I saw how, for [my parents], it was a see LEGAL/page 6 Report calls for more ND, SMC discuss WRC future have exactly the same ques­ By MOLLY McVOY “It was great to know that student involvement other schools, both tions we do. It was also frus­ S aint M ary’s E d ito r trating that a lot of our ques­ members and non­ tions have just not been ♦ Board of Trustees be discontent among the stu­ Representatives of Saint members, have exactly the answered. The WRC is still in dent body about the way sever­ Mary’s and Notre Dame sam e questions we do. ” such an early stage.” to review student al recent decisions were made attended a Worker’s Rights The structure of the working government plan by the University — non-dis­ Consortium (WRC) convention groups that will determine the crimination, sweatshops, in Chicago last weekend to dis­ William Hoye consortium’s organization sophomore siblings, etc.” cuss the organization’s govern­ Notre Dame WRC representative were discussed at the meeting. By LAURA ROMPF The report calls for enhanced ing board and policies and to Once the governing board is Assistant News Editor student involvement in gover­ ask questions about the labor elected by e-mail this week, nance at both the collegiate watchdog’s institutional identi­ rapidly and the people [who that body will appoint working and university levels, Osborn are not members] seem very After weeks of research and ty- group members. The groups said. Saint Mary’s attended as a interested.” interviews, student government will consider and finalize the . “I think [student involvement voting member, while Notre William Hoye, the represen­ will call for increased student bylaws and policies, and the is] a very feasible idea. We’re Dame, which is still a member tative from Notre Dame, entire organization will meet involvement in University deci­ not proposing major, radical of the Fair Labor Association explained that the University sion-making in its spring Board again in June to begin imple­ changes, but a few easy and (FLA), attended as an observ­ had many questions about the mentation. of Trustees report, presented logical improvements to the er. This was the first WRC WRC’s governing, finance and this week by John Osborne and There also was discussion existing system,” Osborn said. event that was open to non­ policies that they wanted about cooperation with the Mark Donahey. He added, however, that in members. answered before they consider “This semester’s report dis­ FLA, VanderWerven said. order for the plan to succeed­ "I think it was very success­ taking any steps. “We want to open up a dia­ cusses the role of the students ed, it must have cooperation ful,” said Sandy “I thought it went well,” logue between the FLA and the in University decision-making,” from all levels. VanderWerven, the Saint Hoye said. “It was great to WRC,” she said. “It sounds like said Osborn. “We were moti­ Mary’s representative. “The -know that other schools, both vated by what we perceived to group seems to be moving members and non-members, see REPORT/page 4 see WRC/page 4 ■vr/riTz rr rcr* ' * "• niiW I VrT • ■ page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Monday, May 1, 2000 Inside C olum n T his W eek on C a m p u s Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Red and Proud ♦ Confirmation: The ♦ Panel: “History, Morals ♦ Seminar: “Dante’s Infer­ ♦ Lecture: “Weapons of Although you’d never know it from my pic­ Sacrament of Confirmation, and Philosophy,” Robert no: Instructions for Use,” Mass Destruction and the ture, I have red hair. 1 spent many years trying to deny this, even father Daniel Jenky, Pippin and Charles Theodore Cachey, Islamic Ethics of War,” going so far as trying to dye my hair brown. The Sacred Heart, 7:30 p.m. Larmore, Hesburgh Center Hesburgh Center, Room Sohail Hashmi, Hesburgh dye actually only made my hair look redder. It's tough being a red­ ♦ Lecture: “The Intellect­ Lounge, 4:15 p.m. 102, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Center, Room 103, Noon head. You go through life ual Origins of Totalitarian­ ♦ Meeting: Faculty ♦ Film: “Once Were War­ ♦ Music: Spring concert, with perfect strangers touching your hair and ism,"Hesburgh Auditorium, Senate, McKenna Hall, riors,” Montgomery Thea­ ND Symphony Orchestra, commenting on it. If your Room 202, 7 p.m. ter, 8 p.m. Washington Hall, 8 p.m. parents are dark-haired — 7:30 p.m. like mine — you hear far more than your fair share of “postman” jokes. The number one question peo­ O u tsid e the D o m e Compiled from U-Wire reports ple ask redheads? Laura Petelle “Where’d you get your hair?” Many redheads in Nike breaks off negotiations with Michigan brunette families go Senior Staff through childhood secretly convinced they’re adopted. Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. company, Nike said it was “surprised You get nicknames like Two-and-a-half months ago, it that the agreement the university “Carrots,” “Raggedy Anne,’ appeared that Michigan would renew submitted to Nike contained specific “Duracell” (the copper top), “Big Red,” “Penny,” its contracts with Nike to provide new parameters compelling the com­ “Little Orphan Annie,” “Ronald McDonald’s ille­ athletic footwear and apparel for the M pany to comply with the university’s gitimate child,” and — my favorite — “Pippi Michigan Athletic Department undefined and still evolving Labor Longstocking.” Everyone thinks it’s funny to through August 2006. Standards and Human Rights Policy.” give you Big Red gum for your birthday. You But Nike director of college sports “Michigan has been very clear that endure dozens of jokes about quick tempers — m arketing Kit Morris told The it requires its licensees to abide by its and it certainly doesn’t help if you actually have Michigan Daily Thursday that the code of conduct,” WRC governing a quick temper.