Wednesday, April6, 1994• Vol. XXVI No. 117 TI-lt INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S New Guide makes strides Nixon reflects on the By KATIE MURPHY Associate News Editor ... :f· world of soap operas fiji! ... THE GUIDE THE GUIDE f By LESLIE FIELD this her entire life. When students returned from Spring 1994 ~ .. Fall1994 News Writer After graduating from Easter break, they found a copy ,:<':: ~:: Northwestern, Nixon wanted to of the new edition of The Guide o actual number of each pro- o average score of each Education is a boon to the act. However, felt that she in their mailboxes. lq fessor's 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s ::'·• professor provided instead creative process, Agnes Nixon, would be more successful as a The second edition of this provided '.; creator of ABC television's "One writer. She received her first Life to Live," "All My Children," job after graduation, immedi­ course and teacher evaluation o TAs rated o TAs not rated book has undergone several and "Loving," told an enthusi­ ately working for a Soap Opera changes since it was first pub­ o 77 classes/sections I\ ····•:•· o 101 classes/sections astic crowd last night at Saint writer named Erma Phillips. ) lished last semester, according :iii: Mary's 0' Laughlin Auditorium. She later worked for "The /: o 59 professors o 73 professors Golden Age of Television, " to Heather Arnold, former chair [• Nixon focused her remarks of the Student Union Board . on her personal history and where she learned more about ··::}"/'<·· ·:.•:": :.~MiD~:.:=:=· > .. Intellectual Life department. .···· discussed the world of soap op­ Soap Opera writing. Later, "We are experimenting with eras through the eyes of their Nixon wrote for "Guiding ways to make it better and The Guide committee, co­ number of courses, especially creators. "Soap operas are as Light." more readable," said Arnold. chaired by Walsh senior Susan electives, according to Patty different as the people who In 1968, she created her own In addition to providing an Petrovic and Knott junior Sara Baniewicz, a Walsh junior and write them," she said. Nixon, soap opera entitled, "One Life index of the professors who Skalicky, continued to research Arts and Letters pre-profes­ who attended Saint Mary's to Live." This show helped to participated, The Guide com­ similar publications at other sional major. College for two years, started launch over 25 years of Nixon's mittee eliminated some statis­ universities. "I think they need more elec­ her career as a writer over creations. Nixon created the tics in order to make the book "Every top twenty -five school tives, like English courses, ever popular "All My Children" less complicated. has something like this. At most where you don't know what in 1970. Watched faithfully by Instead of reporting the actu­ of them, they (the evaluation you're getting yourself into • see CAREER, page 4 the likes of Tommy Lee Jones al number of fives, fours, books) all started off slowly and until you're into it," said and Charles Barkley, "All My threes, twos, or ones that a pro­ then after the first few years Baniewicz. thirty years ago and has earned Children" is the most taped fessor received as a rating, now they really took off," said Brian Price, a Flanner junior, a reputation in her field as the show on television, according to The Guide only lists the average Arnold. agrees. best of those writers and cre­ Nixon. of those scores. "I am a mechanical engineer, ators. Nixon believes that people "The numbers were confusing In future editions, The Guide and there are only two Nixon attributed a lot of her become engrossed in her soap because there were so many on committee hopes to include mechanical engineering cours­ ability as a writer to her child­ operas because "Our stories there," said Arnold. classes with under twenty-five es to choose from. They also hood. As an only child living are like a boomerang. It gets students. Although statistics for need more electives," said with her mother, grandmother, crazy and goes way out, but it Evaluations of teaching assis­ these smaller classes are not Price. and four aunts in Nashville, always comes home." tants (T A's) and lab sections included because of a possible "I get most of my advice by Nixon said that "I had my imag­ Nixon went on to discuss the have also been taken out be­ skewing of results from the asking seniors. They were a ination as my playmate." importance of social issues in cause some professors com­ small sample, The Guide may much better resource than The Nixon, receiving many laughs her work. As the first person to plained. present the students' written Guide," Price continued. and rounds of applause address any sort of social issue "It isn't fair to include (TA's comments. throughout her lecture, told the in a soap opera, Nixon com­ or labs) on the evaluation of the "Next year we may also try to Work has already begun on audience that for years she mented that, "I believe learning course because professors have include course descriptions," next semester's Guide, accord­ used to cut out people from the can be entertaining. I'm proud no control over them and the said Arnold. ing to Arnold. Currently, posi­ newspapers and give them of the fact that we are the personnel change each year," However, the current Guide tions are being offered for a each a different role to play. said Arnold. issue still needs to list a greater Guide co-chair and editors. Essentially, she has been doing see NIXON I page 4 SURV looks to gauge Castle Point raises rent $500 By SARAH DORAN support for growth News Editor ByBERNADETTEPAMPUCH formation to President Hickey Students who applied for a News Writer and the head of the Sisters of 1994-95 Castle Point lease got the Holy Cross," said Martin. a surprise in their mail last Saint Mary's Spes Unica Friday as they received Resource Center (SURV) is hop­ Martin hopes that the survey notification of a sizable rent ing to determine student sup­ will determine whether or not increase. port for center expansion today students will benefit from While the monthly rent of a through a campus-wide survey. SURV expansion. She feels stu­ two bedroom, loft, and den unit Elizabeth Martin, coordinator dent support is essential in was $620 for four tenants dur­ of the student expansion group, takingthe next step. ing the 1993-94 year, it has in­ said that expanding the mission creased to $1140 in the 1994- of SURV is a step that can only "If there is indeed support for 95 year. be taken after consulting the expansion it will require a Saint Mary's community. great deal of effort and time The increase, according to (from volunteers). So what we Castle Point representative Bob "We are trying to gauge stu­ are doing is making sure it's Otolski, is designed to cover the dent support for SURV center something people want." cost of a new policy that stu­ expansion. We have decided dent renters must agree to. that SURV is good but inade­ "We want to know if they've quate for the services students ever used SURV before, if they According to the new policy, need," she said. know what it is, if they plan on all tenants who have a co-sign­ using it," said Johnson. er must rent a "Comfort Currently the center is only Package" which includes apart­ open a few hours each day, SURV will distribute one ment furnishings and a basic making it difficult to access thousand surveys in the dining cable package. services, according to Martin. hall during lunch and dinner Wednesday and Thursday, and Characteristically all under­ The Observer/Scott Mendenhall SURV is a student-run orga­ the group is hoping to reach graduate and graduate stu­ After Castle Point Apartments sent them notices that rent next year nization at Saint Mary's rely­ approximately 48 percent of dents must have someone co­ would be $500 more than this school year, Brian Klem (right) and Chip ing primarily on the support of the student body. sign their lease. Taunt called a meeting to protest the raise. student volunteers to operate clearly discriminating against Prospective tenants have two it. "We would like a majority re­ But many students who had students." possible routes of action to take Kristin Johnson, director of sponse (to help facilitate the submitted lease applications But Otolski said the increase against the complex, he said. SURV, said that the expansion decision making process). We say they cannot afford the com­ is entirely warranted, as rent at group is "interested in enhanc­ are going to be actively recruit­ fort package and feel they are the complex has not gone up in They can either band togeth­ ing the service opportunities on ing (support and membership) being treated unfairly by the seven years. er and file a class action law­ campus." through the surveys." complex. Last night Klem took a step in suit or "follow the civil-disobe­ organizing his complaints dience route" by disrupting The group has been meeting Students interested in helping "By waiting so long to tell us against Castle Point and held a business at the complex, he for the last few months to dis­ with the expansion can attend of the increase, it's too late to meeting designed to create a said. cuss plans to expand. a meeting on Sunday, April 10, get into another place because plan of action in combating the "We've been getting our re­ at 8 p.m.