Up all Night Batter up! Ever wonder what goes on after hours? The Notre Dame baseball team and The Observer sent staffers out to check out Management 231 step up to the plate to defeat the all-night campus hot-spots. breast cancer with a special game Sunday. APRIL 28, Scene ♦ pages 14-15 News ♦ page 9 2 0 0 0 O BSERVER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIII NO.128 h t t p :// o b s e r v e r .n d .e d u W e are Ly o n s , hear us roar ! Despite $30M budget surplus, tuition rises By ERIN PIROUTEK Associate News Editor Money is everywhere at Notre Dame. The Generations campaign reached its $767 mil­ lion goal 18 months ahead of schedule. The endowment climbed to more than $2 billion dollars. During football weekends the sold-out stadium , NBC contract and booming business at the new bookstore suggest an endless stream of wealth. But tuition continues to rise. Malpass A letter from University President Edward Malloy to parents boasts of “the lowest percentage increase in tuition and fees in two decades — 5.2 percent.” Although it sounds like the University reached a major breakthrough, each stu­ dent still needs to pay Notre Dame about $1,000 more than last year, when tuition TONY FLOYD/The Observer The Lions of Lyons Hall battle it out with the sole m en’s team over a pit of mashed potatoes yesterday afternoon was $20,900. on the McGlinn fields. The Lyons Hall women won the competition, defeating three women’s teams for the Notre Dame undergraduates are baffled. women’s championship. After three matches, the Lyons Hall Lions then faced the still-fresh men — a mix from By all accounts, the University had a Dillon and Morrissey — and defeated them. The men demanded best two out of three, claiming that their side of financially successful year in fiscal 1999, the rope was slippery because it was the end that had fallen in the potatoes. The men lost again on the non-slip- with a $259.3 million increase in net assets. pery side of the rope to the Lyons Hall team. The University usually finishes the year with The Lyons team was composed of freshmen Laura Cannizzaro, Julie Hempstead, Maura Kelly, Kristen Kremser, Cynthia Lee and Nicole Straub and sophomores Megan Chandler and Beth Shaffer. see TU ITIO N /page 8 Profs reflect on Elian ND, SMC attend WRC meeting answered this weekend.” a network among university raid, long-term effects By MOLLY McVOY Saint Mary’s announced that members, the disclosure poli­ S aint M ary ’s E d ito r it joined the group on April 3 cies and the bylaws. Barbara Szweda, co-director By MARIBEL MOREY and sent representatives to the Many of the questions Notre of the Notre Dame legal aid Representatives from both News Writer founder’s meeting on April 7. Dame has going into to this clinic and associate profes­ Saint Mary’s College and the Currently, the Consortium weekend will likely be sional specialist, said she University of Notre Dame will has 45 collegiate members answered by one of those Following the U.S. m ar­ believes it was necessary. tr a v e l to including the University of working groups. shals raid of Elian Gonalez’s “The government was try­ C h ic a g o Michigan, Boston College and “We’re anxious to know what Miami relatives’ home, ing to protect the kid, and to d a y for Indiana University. their budget looks like,” Hoye Americans have questioned they didn’t know what the the Worker The conference includes rep­ said. “We want to make sure it w h e t h e r mob was capable of,” she Rights resentatives from just one fac­ makes financial sense before the cxces- S ee Also said. “I don’t think there is a Consortium tion of the Consortium’s three we turn over 1 percent of our sive force “Miami mayor better way [of getting Elian convention. sections, the college and uni­ liscensing revenue.” back to his father].” Sandy versity representatives. The open disclosure of buyers 2 y " T d “If it’s politicized to the V a n d e r- w o n d e r e d manager over This weekend, the WRC that the WRC monitors has point that it was, the govern­ w e r v e n , t hopes to elect the college been a deciding factor for many a b o u t th e Elian raid” ment has little options,” said the m anag­ Hoye administrators who will com­ institutions in their decisions to p o t e n t i a l page 12 Allert Brown-Gort, associate e r of th e prise part of the three-council join or not join the consortium. for th is director of the Institute for Saint Mary’s bookstore and the governing board, assign the Hoye hopes to have a clearer incident to Latino Studies. “A better College’s representative, will go working groups that will final­ understanding of what the leave permanent mental way to resolve this case as a voting m em ber of the WRC ize many policies of the consor­ WRC’s disclosure policies are. damage on Elian. would have been to give and William Hoye, associate tium and work out a final draft “W e ’d also like to know “The photos of when they Elian a green card and give vice president and counsel for of the bylaws. w h e th e r the WRC is going to took the child were rather him back to his dad. He Notre Dame, will go as an “I’m really excited about this require all monitoring to be strong,” said Martin could have come back when­ observer. weekend,” Vanderwerven said. released, and, if they are, what Murphy, associate professor ever he wanted — it would This is the first meeting that “I do hope we come out of this their policies on that release of anthropology, fellow at have given him the ticket to has been open to non-members with a more concrete message will be.” the Kellogg Institute and come back.” and, therefore, the first that of w hat the WRC is about, not Hoye explained that, aside currently researching in the Although the images of Notre Dame has been able to what it hopes to be.” from meeting other university Dominican Republic. “This Elian rushed out of the attend. The working groups will dis­ and college members this was a vulgar thing and a bit house at 5 a.m. by U.S. m a r­ “We’re going, not as partic- cuss the staffing and adminis­ weekend, Notre Dame would out of the norm.” shalls shocked many pants, but as an observer,” tration of the consortium, the like to sit down with the cur- Although the pictures in Hoye said. “We have a number procedure for data collection the media were powerful, see ELIAN/page 4 of questions we hope to get on buyers, the development of see W RC/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Friday, April 28, 2000 I n s id e C o l u m n T h is W eek in N o tr e D a m e /S a in t M a r y ’s H is to r y Students injured in crowd for courses Students back elimination of night exams Where are the Monday, April 27, 1987 Tuesday, April 27, 1976 At least two students were recovering at St. Joseph’s hos­ Student government agreed with Provost Fr. James sages? pital from injuries they received as they attempted to reg­ Burtchaell’s decision to eliminate all evening exams ister for courses at Stepan Center. Sophomore Todd and move them to 8 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Where have all the prophets gone? What has Hardiman said he was pushed into a glass door by the according to Pat Tack, academic commissioner. happened to the wise, the sages and the gurus? Where are the voices that cry out from the force of the crowd and suffered cuts. At 9 a.m., when the Burtchaell reasoned that if the nights were open, the wilderness preaching doors opened, people started “running, pushing and students would have more time and, hence, more reform and penance and peace? Is it that our society screaming,” according to a student witnessing the chaos. involvement in extracurricular activities. locks them up in a failure to respect what was once rec­ ognized as a message from O on high, or are they simply OUTSIDE THE Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports no more? I guess these questions first arose for me when I was taking my first Hebrew Fire report scheduled for finals week release class and we noted that the AJ Boyd Jewish prophetic tradition COLLEGE STATION, Tx. “This was not an attempt to said an announcement would be seemed to die out in the last When the report detailing the keep students from being made following the release of the couple centuries before Associate causes of the 1999 Aggie Bonfire report detailing opportunities for Christ. No one really knows Viewpoint collapse is released, students will be involved. ” students to voice their opinions. why, though many Editor preoccupied with final exams and Andrew Smith, an associate direc­ Christians will assert that most will leave town a few days Lane Stephenson tor of the Student Counseling the obvious answer is that later.