.. i' tI ) t ! ' i ! Wednesday, October 30, 19_96 • VoL XXX No. 42 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • HALL PRESIDENTS' COUNCil HPC passes resolution By BRIDGET O'CONNOR members in their discussion of the reso­ News Writer lution was the regulation of free speech as it relates to all students. "Everyone After the second closed door discussion pretty much agreed that the University in two consecutive meetings, the Hall should not be allowed to regulate the free Presidents' Council voted last night to speech of students." pass the resolution introduced by the Because the resolution contained two College Democrats last week by a simple clauses, one addressing the actual denial majority vote. Thirteen members voted in of the CQllege Democrats' registration to favor of the resolution, 10 voted against demonstrate and the second specifically and two abstained. aimed at the treatment of gay, lesbian Conducted using secret ballots, the vote and bisexual students' rights, some of the was the culmination of a week of discus­ HPC members were unsure what a vote sion among students and between the for the resolution would signify. Some hall presidents and dorm residents. The members felt very strongly that gay and issue had been tabled at the end of the lesbian students should be specifically last HPC meeting so that the members identified in the resolution while others could discuss the issue and become more felt that it should be broadened to include familiar with the details of the incident. a call for the protection of all students' The Observer/Michelle Sweet The HPC debated and passed a resolution presented to the council by the College According to Mike Tobin, co-president Democrats concerning student treatment by the Office of Student Affairs. of HPC, the main concern of the HPC see H PC/ page 4 cross he Sea On the Emerald Isle Studies different at Maynooth The Observer/Manula Hernandez Editor's note: This is the Representative Tim Roemer addressed students at second in a four-part series SMC's Carroll Auditorium last night. focusing on Saint Mary's and Notre Dame students study­ Mary's Ireland program at St. ing in Ireland. Funding for Patrick's College in Maynooth Roemer attacks Caroline Blum's trip to differs from most abroad pro­ Ireland was provided by the grams at Saint Mary's College Saint Mary's Board of and Notre Dame because·stu­ negative ads Governance. dents take classes conducted by Irish faculty members with By NAKASHA AHMAD By CAROLINE BLUM other Irish students. They By PATTI cARSON. News Writer Saint Mary's Editor live with Irish students in on­ Managing F-dirol' · · ·· ,, '·''''·"·'· ''·'·' campus flats, and participate Last night Third District Congressional candi­ MA YNOOTH, Ireland in activities and sports with . '.· . ·.·· .•....· .... ··,• .. ·.·· ..... ,,. ......... GALWA ....... ,.. ·... ·. date Tim Roemer visited Saint Mary's Carroll Auditorium to discuss voting and politics with Is the curriculum of acade­ them as well. One could sa.y,thallre}and h9iues to mics easier in abroad pro­ In this way, students in the interested students. The Student Academic America every day. Especially within the.· Council also sponsored a question and answer grams than on the campuses Irish program find their cur­ Notre Dame and Saint Mary's communities of Saint Mary's and Notre riculum varies greatly from session designed to inform more students where so many st'fidents hail from IriSh ori- about the importance of voting and the political Dame? the one at home. Classes are ·. gins, it is no novelty to witness an.integra- Although a student debate held in one of two styles, a process. tion·oflrish cWtureinAmerica. · · Roemer began the evening by citing his close has been surrounding this lecture or a tutorial. One specific iteJD. ofnote is the< Irish rJSher-. , question for years, both argu­ Lectures include up to 400 ties to the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's com­ mart's sweater• Companies like J~ .Crew and munities and to Catholicism. Not only are the col- ments concur in one respect: students and take place up to Eddie Bauer have pnpularized replicas of academics in abroad studies three times a week. Tutorials Aran trademark · ·is programs definitely differ are held only once a week or see ROEMER/ page 4 from those in South Bend. · every other week and are Which style is easier, howev­ small group discussions er, depends on the individual taught by a teacher's assis­ Kovach named student. tant. The academic schedule for "At first I thought that my students studying in the Saint SMC archivist see STUDY I page 5 By ANN KEARNS Claddagh ring considered mark of Irish heritage Assistant Saint Mary's Editor Saint Mary's welcomes a new addition to its By TIM SHERMAN and was known as The Claddagh. It full-time staff. John Kovach, a campus jack-of­ Spons Editor ~ 6Jhe Cfaddagh ~"fl openly embraced and incorporated all-trades, serves as the Saint Mary's archivist, the design that the legendary head softball coach, and is also working with GALWAY, Ireland Galway. Richard Joyce invented. Patti Valentine, director of Publicity and If a ruddy face, a surname begin­ The rings are now as widespread According to local lore, Joyce Community Relations, on a campaign to gener­ ning with "0'," "Me" or "Fitz," and a in Ireland as is Guiness beer - that is, learned his trade as a goldsmith in ate publicity for Saint Mary's athletics. quick wit are not enough evidence to they are everywhere. Algeria after he was taken into cap­ Kovach began his career at Saint Mary's as indicate a person's heritage, look to "I don't have mine on today tivity and sold as a slave to a Moorish the assistant basketball coach. When the the hand. because I was working, but normally goldsmith. After he gained his archivist position became available, John was If you see a finger wrapped by a I do," said University College Cork release at the demand of William of selected for the position, and made his role on Claddagh ring, you've found one student Allison King when asked England, a skilled Joyce returned to campus permanertt. more sign that you are more than about her bare fingers. "Nearly his native Galway. Kovach replaced Sister Rosaleen Dunleavy likely encountering someone of Irish everybody here has one. Actually His peers became fascinated with who retired on May 31. He was previously the descent. many probably know about their ori­ his design that featured two hands executive director of the National New York Like the famous Aran fishermen gin -just not the details." holding a heart with a crown on top. Central Railroad Museum located in Elkhart, sweaters, the roots of the pervasively Here they are. The hands are said to signify friend- Ind. popular Claddagh rings can be The small community where it all He received his Bachelor of General Studies traced to a fishing community near began was situated near Galway Bat see RING/ page 4 see KOVACH/ page 5 ---------------------------------------------- page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, October 30, 1996 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORlD AT A GLANCE Baseball's Students try to storm Parliament in second-day of protests ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ricades protecting the capital on More than 2,000 religious students Sunday, forcing the crowd to the city's return demanding the resignation of Prime outskirts. Minister Benazir Bhutto attempted to Protest organizers called off a third storm the Parliam·ent building day of demonstrations that had been Monday before being fought off by planned for Wednesday. to glory The Party of Islam accuses Ms. police and soldiers. h AFGHANISTAN .. ./ Riot police fired tear gas at t e .. f Bhutto's government of rampant cor­ Baseball has begun its~~~~~~~ crowd and beat back protesters with . / ~~•• ruption and mismanagem~nt. During Renaissance. sticks and clubs, preventing them ~\.....__,.. ..... __ ..,.-_./ Students Sunday's protest outside the capital, Yes, major league base­ Qasi Hussein Ahmed vowed to lead an ball marred its reputation ~rom entering the white marble build- :,. '~,., PAKISTAN attempt to storm Islamic revolution to oust Ms. Bhutto's two years ago when the mg. ! , c..P.,..ar""'lia.... m.... e ... nt ...... """"' The students, supporters of the :IRA_tL....., '· Pakistan People's Party. millionaire players and bil­ Ms. Bhutto has maintained that she lionaire owners took their rig~t-wi.ng Party of Isl~m, pelted! ( ~-.Kar.~.~~>:; 300miles pohce w1th rocks and bncks. Some ; will not resign and accused the group game and went home, fiiblan se;r.,,... 300 waved the Koran, the Muslim holy km " of trying to stage a violent showdown. leaving the season without ~~;;,:sJ:&"."'""'""·*"""~~\....3.-----. "G d · G t " APNVm. J. Castello She ordered stringent security controls a World Series. The Brad Prendergast b oo k , an d s h ou t e d o IS rea . • ·Before the action, the students knelt in prayer a few in Islamabad. reverberations of ending News Editor the 89-year streak of yards in front of the building. Police waited for them to Thousands of police and soldiers were deployed in finish before firing repeated salvos of tear gas. the capital and in neighboring Rawalpindi. Police determining a world champion included a fan revolution of sorts, "We prayed in front of the Parliament and that is patrolled the streets in jeeps mounted with machine where attendance levels dropped. what we wanted to do," Party of Islam spokesman guns and armored personnel carriers. However, last week's 1996 World Series is Musafar Shamsi said. Rolls of barbed wire blocked several main roads in Police arrested party chief Qasi Hussein Ahmed and the capital and machine guns were positioned on the perfect indication that the ~me is on the road to redemption.