Big Brother - page VOL. XX, NO. 138 FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1986 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Six dorms change rectors for next fall By SEAN NEALON Father Merwyn Thomas will be and TRIPP BALTZ replaced as rector of Fisher. News Staff Moira Baker, eight-time rector of Lewis Hall, has elected to take a One-fourth of the residence halls full-time position teaching English on the Notre Dame campus will at Radford University in Radford, have new rectors when students Virginia. return next fall, according to an Repeated attempts to confirm the Observer survey of the current hall changes through the Office of Stu­ rectors. dent Affairs went unanswered The Observer contacted each of because Vice President for Student the 24 rectors about possible Affairs Father David Tyson was changes in the rector positions at out of town and unavailable for each hall. According to the rectors: comment. Brother Edward Luther is leav­ The departing rectors all in­ ing Morrissey Manor to become dicated that they did not know who rector of Fisher Hall. their successors would be at their Father Mario Pedi will not be positions. returning to St. Edward’s Hall next “It is Father Tyson’s policy to year. change rectors every six to eight Photo by Pat Collins Sister Jodie Screes is leaving years,” said Luther, who has been Summit meeting Lyons Hall after this semester. rector of Morrissey for eight years. University President Father Theodore 1 Hesburgh Holtz will emcee the event tonight at 8 at the ACC. Sister Nadine Overbeck will give “Any move is difficult, like a and Saint Mary’s President William IF Hickey met Proceeds from the dance benefit World Hunger. up her position at Breen-Phillips to see RECTOR, page 4 recently in conjunction with the Charity Ball. Lou go on sabbatical. Soviets insist radiation decreasing amid speculation Associated Press State television showed colorfully that “the accident is not over with. NPS’ settlement dropped 1.5 to 2 were dead was not clear. dressed folk dancers performing That is clear. We have not told times. David Ben-Bassat said the Soviet MOSCOW - The Soviet Union told there. other countries that everything is “Work is under way to deactivate ham operator told him Wednesday a nervous world yesterday that The cause of the accident has not OK and they can relax.” the contaminated areas adjacent to that he lived 30 miles north of the radiation from the nuclear plant been revealed, but Soviet radiation The U.S. Agriculture Depart­ the NPS territory. reactor and “nobody drinks the disaster was decreasing, but one of expert Pavel Ramzaev said when ment said shifting winds were car­ “Medical assistance is being ad­ water. We are afraid.” its diplomats said other countries asked yesterday if it was a rying a radioactive plume from the ministered to those affected of The Soviet Union’s first public should not relax because the “acci­ meltdown of the reactor core: “I stricken plant over the rich whom 18 people are in serious con­ mention of any effect on other dent is not over.” suppose that is so.” farmland of the western Ukraine dition. There are no foreign countries came in a report yester­ The Kremlin presented a calm There were conflicting reports and into Romania, Hungary, citizens among those affected,” day by the official news agency face, rejecting offers of help from about whether the reactor fire had eastern Czechoslavakia and said the Soviet government. Tass on a meeting in New York the United States and other coun­ ben extinguished. U.S. Intelligence Austria. Poland reported less The “settlement” is Pripyat, a between U.N. Secretary-General tries, but an international bone- sources had said Wednesday in fallout than in previous days but town of 25,000 built at the plant Javier Perez de Cuellar and Yuri marrow transplant organization Washington that it still raged and said radioactivity levels in water site. Dubinin, chief Soviet delegate to said its offer to aid victims had could burn for weeks. and soil remain high. Officially, the casualty toll is two the United Nations. been accepted. Vitaly Churkin, second secretary The Soviet government said only dead and 197 injured, but Secretary It said: “the Soviet government Traditional May Day parades of the Soviet Embassy in that “efforts to implement a com­ of State George Shultz said it was has informed a group of European were held as usual, including one in Washington, testifying before a plex of technical measure con­ higher “by good measure.” states of the accident and steps Kiev, the Ukrainian city of 2.4 House of Representatives subcom­ tinued at the Chernobyl nuclear :An Israeli amateur radio undertaken to liquidate its con­ million only 80 miles from the mittee yesterday, was asked power station (NPS) in the duration operator in Tel Aviv said a Soviet sequences, so that the governments ham radio operator told him there Chernobyl power plant where a whether the fire had been put out. of April 30. The radioactivity on see SOVIET, page 4 reactor caught fire last Friday. He said, “I don’t know,” and added the territory of the NPS and the were 300 casualties, but how many A Homosexual group proposes access to facilities By MARK PANKOWSKI group’s co-chairs, “Jenny," speaking on condition that her Developmental Process real name not be used. News Editor for Gay Women and Men Jenny, a senior at Notre Dame, said almost all of the group’s 50 members are Notre Dame students. Faculty, A homosexual group’s set of proposals seeking access to As reported by Gay/Lesblan Psychologists staff, alumni, clergy members and citizens of the com­ L**bl»nt Q«y Mel** University facilities and media remains under considera­ # Aware of homosexual feelings 1M yr. 12.8 yr. munity make up the rest of the group. tion, almost two weeks after it was submitted. a Had first same sex sexual experience 18.6 14.9 Although a few Saint Mary’s faculty are members, no The campus-based group, the Gays and Lesbians at a Understood what “homosexual" was 15.6 17.2 Saint Mary’s student is part of the group, she said. Because a Had first homosexual relationship 22.6 21.8 Notre Dame/Saint Mary’s College, submitted the pro­ a Considered self “homosexual" 23.2 21.1 no student of the College is a member, the group hasn’t posals several days after an April 8 meeting with Student a Acquired positive “gay" Identity 29.7 28.5 sought official recognition from Saint Mary’s, she added. a Disclosed Identity to spouse Affairs administrators. 26.7 33.3 According to the letter sent along with the a Disclosed Identity to f rtendfe) 28.2 28.0 During that meeting, the administrators offered to con­ a Disclosed Identity to parent 30.2 28.0 GLND/SMCs proposals, the group is “working toward a sider any proposals the group might submit. a Disclosed identity professionally 32.4 31.2 day when homosexuality is considered an ordinary, non- The GLND/SMC’s proposals seek to use the facilities of Source APA Monitor, November, te n controversial aspect of everyday life.” Obtww ampule the Center for Social Concerns, to sponsor events in “To be more specific, we look forward to a time when it University-owned facilities and to advertise in University- Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Sister Jean will make absolutely no difference whether one’s room­ owned and operated media, all privileges now denied the Lenz, Assistant Vice President for Student Services Father mate, teacher, teammate, friend or colleague is gay, les­ group. Francis Cafarelli and Associate Vice President for bian or nongay,” the letter continued. The group also submitted a proposal seeking to establish Residence Life John Goldrick also attended the meeting Following the opening statement were the group’s pro­ a series of meetings with administrators to address issues and received a copy of the proposals. posals. Included among them was a proposal to establish now separating them. They also said they could not discuss the proposals an open-ended series of meetings during the summer and Vice President for Student Affairs Father David Tyson, because no decision had been reached on them. the next school year. who attended the meeting and received a copy of the pro­ Because the administration doesn’t officially recognize The proposed meetings, which would be open to all ad­ posals, said he couldn’t discuss the proposals because no the group as a student activity organization, the group is ministrators, would “provide for ongoing dialogue decision had been reached on them. denied many of the privileges it is seeking, said one of the see GAYS, page 5 The Observer Friday, May 2,1986 - page 2 In Brief Finals thieves abound Christa McAullffe was laid to rest yesterday in a so watch your books hillside cemetery overlooking the city where she taught school, the first of the seven Challenger astronauts to be buried. “A private Roman Catholic interment service was held at 11 a.m. for S. Hang onto your books, boys and girls! Christa McAuliffe,” said family spokesman Michael Callahan. It’s end-of-the-semester time, that semi-annual The service was conducted by McAuliffe’s cousin, the Reverend period featuring early parietals, studying for finalsGreg James Leary. Immediately after the ceremony, workers removed (an activity which, Father Tyson figures, increases flowers from the bare gravesites, presumably to direct attention because of early parietals), newly-grown beards, and Stohr away from it. —AP packing to go home.