0 150 YEARSSM H OBSERVER NOTRE DAME IN gg Friday, MarcEi 25,1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 112 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S March madness not just for teams Visitation By DAVID TYLER Assistant News Editor weekend Ah, Spring! The season of birth. The sea­ son of renewal. The season of March M adness. kicks off March Madness, otherwise known as the By KATIE MURPHY NCAA Division 1 Basketball Championship, resides at the height of any sports nut’s Associate News Editor early spring calendar. It does more than just fill the void between the college foot­ As a part of its ongoing effort ball bowl games and the opening day of to increase minority student baseball. Over the years the tournament enrollment at Notre Dame, the has provided observers with some of the University annually brings a most memorable moments in sports. group of high school seniors to Notre Dame students are no stranger to campus for a spring visitation. the fever as hundreds dutifully open up This weekend nearly 100 their minds and their wallets to partake in minority students will take an equally revered pastime—the NCAA part in the spring visitation pool. events. Dozens of highly organized pools prolif­ erate the campus, often characterized by ■ see MINORITY, page 4 computerized charts, complicated scoring systems, and in depth analyses. Some “We are putting the include cash prizes. Some are just “for University on display,” said fun.” Melvin Tardy, assistant direc­ But whether the stakes are hundreds of tor of undergraduate admis­ dollars or just a pizza between roommates, sions and coordinator of the those involved have a myriad of different weekend. “We want (the stu­ reasons for signing up. dents) to get a sense of the Tom Hoban, a junior from Grace Hall opportunities here and the re­ runs what he claims is one of the largest sources available to them.” Pasquerilla East junior polls on campus, including almost three — hundred people from every quad, he said. Norma Hernandez and grad­ Hoban uses a computer to help keep uate student Chandra Johnson track of results as the tournament have been planning the 1994 advances. After three years of running the spring visitation events with pool and watching its exponential growth, Tardy since last semester. he says he has come to understand what Approximately 150 students motivates a person to enter. were invited to come for the “Folks love the competition. They love to weekend, which is entirely be able to follow a team through the tour­ funded by the University. nament and say ‘Hey, I picked them,’ or ‘I Typically, about sixty per­ told you so,”’ he said. cent of the visiting students But Morrissey junior Miguel Gonzalo sees decide to attend Notre Dame, a slightly more subtle reason for playing. according to Tardy. Although “People are always trying to prove they early decision letters were sent know something. Its lots of fun to try and out in the winter, most stu­ beat the so called experts,” he said. dents will not find out if they Gonzalo has bet in pools before, but this are accepted until April 15. is his first year to try his hand at running “The students who are com­ one. He says that the management side of The Observer/Scott Mendenhall ing we consider to be our best a pool is no easy task. Grace Hall residents Mark Muscato, Tim Sherman, and Eric Armbrecht, left to right, update prospects,” said Tardy. “You “Sometimes I feel like I’m grading their NCAA bracket, which is keeping fanatics up to date during the ongoing tournament. really can’t get a sense of a papers,” he said. “But there is satisfying and posts them outside his room to keep scientist to have a shot at winning, ” he university from a brochure.” about making things run smoothly.” his forty hopeful friends informed. For said. Since they will be members Gonzalo’s poll has roughly 35 participants. Klau, the beauty of a tournament pool lies But for all the students trying to out­ of the minority student popu­ Kevin Klau, a Planner sophomore, has in its unpredictability, he said. smart Dick Vitale and Billy Packer, pool lation at the University, these organized a pool as well. This being his “Every year, especially this one, is so prospective students often second pool at ND, he keeps tabs on results wide open. You don’t have to be a rocket see MADNESS / page 4 see W EEKEND / page 4 Simmons: Sexual behavior changed By VIVIAN GEMBARA evolving face of sexual radical­ something they feared they News Writer ism beginning with social hy­ may have lost,” she said. giene in the first decade and The sexual rebellion of the Sexual radicalism of the slowly opening up to issues of 1900’s enabled women to de­ early twentieth century birth control, divorce and sup­ nounce the reclusiveness of changed the ideology of sexual port means for the marriage their sexuality. This led to a behavior for women, according institution. discovery of greater indepen­ to Christina Simmons, profes­ She discussed the works of dence and a break from the sor of history at the University Henry May, Christopher Lash boundaries of society’s code of of Windsor. and Crystal Eastman in order proper sexual morality, ob­ In the last of a series of lec­ to provide a variety of perspec­ served Simmons. tures sponsored by the Intellec­ tives on the “shifting power Narratives by Langston tual Life Committee of the Gen­ relations in heterosexuality.” Hughes and others were also der Studies Department, Sim­ The authors were noted to por­ mentioned in the lecture in re­ mon’s lecture addressed the tray women differently, some lation to sexual radicalism of prism of feminist history. allowing for inner thoughts and African-Americans. Simmons Through a critiquing process ideals, while others repeatedly recalled finding it difficult to lo­ of authors from the early degraded women characters. cate information when she 1900’s, Simmons examined the Scrutinizing these works differ­ wanted African-American broadening in sexual thought ently from other historians al­ thoughts and perspectives from and independence for women. lowed for Simmons to define the early twentieth century. By examining literature from a the growth of women. “There is a deep separate­ feminist perspective, it is clear Simmons also observed the ness of the races....there is a that women became increas­ changed desires of men and complexity and ambiguity to ingly aware of their sexuality women in relation to each different groups,” said Sim­ and broke from the Victorian other. mons. “I don’t think that there The Observer/Kyle Kusek repression, according to “Women were grasping for is a sufficient narrative for Christina Simmons, professor of history at the University of Windsor, Simmons. something new in themselves, African-American women out lectured on the sexual radicalism of the 1910’s and 20’s. Simmons also mentioned the while men were searching for there yet.” Page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, March 25, 1994 INSIDE COLUMN WORLD AT A GLANCE These are Witness to Crash: ‘Like Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom’ the days to POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. 16’s two pilots ejected to Capt. Michael Taylor was one Pope A.F. Base safety. But their jet crashed of the lucky ones. He was able NORTH in flames and skidded across remember to protect himself from the Military plane crash the runway at 180 mph, flaming hulk of a fighter jet CAROLINA spewing metal debris that skidding toward him and hun­ punctured a C-141 transport Things will never be like dreds of other Army troops. Fayetteville plane’s fuel tanks, setting it that again, or at least Barely. “I made about three ablaze. All six crew members that’s what they tell me. steps and realized I wasn’t aboard the C-141 escaped Being the youngest of the going to outrun it,’’ Taylor said injury. nine children in my family, Thursday. “So I started rolling The death toll was expect­ I often receive a great deal in the sand. When 1 hit the of seemingly important Atlantic Oceaned to rise even higher, said advice from my older ground I didn’t think I was 150 km Dr. William Chapman at brothers and sisters. Over going to get up again.” A p Womack Army Hospital. spring break, I had the # 8 L Many of his comrades did Ninety percent of the 58 peo­ chance to visit with sever­ Patti Carson not. At least 20 soldiers died and 85 others were injured ple hospitalized Thursday had severe burns, and up to 12 al of my brothers and sis­ Assistant Saint Mary's when an F-16 collided in the air with a C-130 Hercules also had broken bones requiring either pins or amputa­ ters, whose words of wis­ E ditor transport trying to land on the same runway at the same tions.More than 500 soldiers, most from Fort Bragg, an dom were surprisingly ----------------------------- time Wednesday. army post adjacent to Pope, were in a staging area near sim ilar. The C-130’s five-member crew landed safely and the F- the C-141 that was hit by the skidding jet. “Things will never be like they were in col­ lege. Those were the days. I’d give anything to be back there again.” Sales allowed in owl habitat Queen Opens New Jewel House That’s what they all told me. Our visits turned into long spells of their reminiscing of SEATTLE LONDON college days past.