PARTLY Fall break may have just ended ... CLOUDY Monday But Scene takes a look at hot getaways for students' next one-week vacation- spring break. NOVEMBERS, HIGH 64° Scene +pages 12-13 2001 LOW 44° THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 44 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU .... Priest educates about SOA's consequences American soldiers so that the least 10,000. These graduates bro.ught this issue to nati(inal poor far,e dying agricultural By MEGHANNE DOWNES UnitPd States could secure L&tin have been linked to r,ountless awareness. Several newspapers crops due to the chemicals used News '\Xlrirt:r · :\mnrica as an ally. Since the assassinations. kidnappings, and and news magazines have called to kill the cocoa leaves. fall of the Soviet Union, the paramilitary groups. Hecently. a for the school's closure. Traditionally, those who speak F o u r U . S . c h u r c h ""omen school has reshaped its focus to paramilitary group in Colombia An investigative report by the out on behalf of the working rapPd and murdPrt'd. Six Jesuit sprPading the principles of was added to the U.S.'s terrorist Washington Post uncovered that poor's rights are met with strict priPsts assassinatt~d. \'irw hun­ dnmocracv in Latin Ameriea, watch list. the school provided instructional opposition from the military and drnd civilians massacred. ThP and annually it trains 1200 sol­ "How do you teach dcmor.racy manuals on torture to its partici­ government and violence PVPnts arP linkPd bPcausP pt>rpe­ diPrs a year. through the barrel of a gun?" pants. The school no longer pro­ ensues. trators or t}WSP criBWS attended Four million dollars from the said BourgPois. vides such manuals. Hundreds of national and the U.S. govPrnment funded annual federal budget is used to In 1990, Bourgeois founded The watch is focused on the liturgical organizations have School or the Anwricas (SOAI. opnratt; this school. the SOA Watch in Fort Benning, political and economic state of passed resolutions supporting On Friday, FathPr Hoy Bourgeois took an opposing Georgia to educate the U.S. pub­ Colombia as a result of the the efforts of the SOA Watch, BourgPois visited Notre Danw view and said that instead of lie and congressional leaders United States' foreign poliey. including about half of the U.S. and spokf' to studPnts about the establishing democrcu~y. the about the residual r.onsequences Currentlv the U.S. authorizes 1.3 Catholic bishops. Most of the history of the U.S. foreign policy UnitPd States has allowed for thP of U.S. training of Latin billion d-ollars towards disman­ bishops who have not taken a with Latin America and its dirPct people of Latin AmPrica to be American soldiers. The group tling the Colombian drug world. stance on the issue state that ties to the SOA. oppressed by its military. has now grown to have over 200 The elite, government, and mili­ they need to investigate the mat- SOA was •~stablished during Colombia has thP most SOA satellite offices across the nation. tary are seeing the benefits of thn Cold War to teach Latin gntduates in its military with at The work of its members has this funding, while the working see SOA/page 4 SEEING GREEN Committee to discuss U.S. media in wake of attacks Special to The Observer "American Journalism After September 11" will be the subject of a public forum today at Notrp Damn. Thn forum. featuring members of tlw advisory committPO or NotrP Damn's John W. Gallivan Program on Journalism. Ethics Public & DPmocracy, will lecture begin at 3 p.m. in today Hoom 100 of \kKcnna I Iall. It is • What: "American free and open to Journalism After the public. Composed of September 11" Notre Dame alumni • Where:. Room in journalism. the 100 McKenna Hall advisory committee helps guide the +When:3p.m. Gallivan Program and includes Tom Bcttag. executive pro­ ducer of ABC ~ews' "NightlinP"; Bill Dwyre. sports editor of the Los Angeles Times; John W. Gallivan, chairman of the board and publisher emeritus of the Kearns Tribune Corporation; John \1eMeel. chairman of Andrews \1cMt~PI Universal; Jim Naughton. prPsident of the Poynter Institute for Media StudiPs: Matt Storin. retired editor of The Boston Globe: Kelley Tuthill, reporter for WCVB-TV. Boston: and -non Wycliff. public editor of the Chicago Tribune. Established in 1997 with a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and now supported with an endowment created by the family of John W. Gallivan. the program is a five­ course concentration for. undergradu­ ates that combines professional training DUFFY-MARIE ARNOULT/The Observer in journalistic skills along with exami­ The effort behind the student-initiated "Sea of Green" campaign resulted in a student section full of the color kelly green nation of the social, political, economic Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. The student section was the only area with a large presence of the color, but and philosophical concerns related to Tennessee fans in orange were not as visible a presence as Nebraska fans in last year's "sea of red" event. the practice of journalism. ~· ......... -· .- .." .~.·.~ .... -."'.•.•.•... •.~-. page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Monday, November 5, 2001 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS .. · Justice: who Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday + Film: "Salt of the + Lecture: "Property Law + Storytelling: "Brown + Debate: "Sociology pays and when? Earth," 4 p.m., Hesburgh and Personhood; the and Black and White All Issues Surrounding Gun Center movement of landless Over," Antonio Sacre, 7 to Control," Eugene Volokh It's a familiar enough phenomenon in American + Lecture: "Hybrid workers in Brazil," Greg 9 p.m., LaFortune and G. Robert Blakey, society: buy now, pay later. It's become so com­ mon to our way oflife that we don't even think Housing," Stafanos Downey, 12:30 p.m., + Film: "Doces poderes," 5:30p.m., Notre Dame twice about the prospects and commitments it Polyzoides, 4:30p.m. Bond Hesburgh Center director Lucia Murat will Law School entails. Interestingly enough, I've recently come to the conclusion that the same Hall +Film: "Nostlaghia," be present, 7 p.m., + Film: "Taste of Cherry," mentality is present regarding 7 p.m., La Fortune Hesburgh Center 7 p.m., Hesburgh Library the "War on Terror," which could lead to more dangerous consequences than credit card debt. Most Americans seem to BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports believe that our actions in Afghanistan ·are justified, and that may be true. rm going to Tom Haight go out on a limb, however, Michigan fraternity puts itself on probation and suggest that we're not Assistant Ad going about it in the best ANN ARBOR investigation into the sexual assaults, way. Design One week after two 18-year-old classified as third-degree criminal We call the Taliban cow­ Manager women were allegedly drugged and sexual conduct which is a felony ards(Sept. 24,pentagon sexually assaulted at an unregistered charge punishable up to 15 years in spokesperson), but the hypocrisy of this statement semiformal event at Beta Theta Pi, prison. is laughable. Who, praytell, has engaged in the the University of Michigan fraternity Police first received the report most cowardly acts in this war? As our stealth has voluntarily placed itself on social Friday from a freshman who said she bombers strike from the upper atmosphere, probation. had been raped while attending an authorities have the audacity to call the enemy "The chapter has shown that they dance at the Beta Theta Pi house. She cowardly? are more than willing to cooperate some strong leadership in the chap­ also said she believed someone may This is military propaganda at its fmest. For with the ongoing investigations," ter," he said. have put some type of drug in her Beta Theta Pi notified IFC's Social those of you who don't believe that this is the Interfraternity Council President drink. Burke said Thursday that no case, I also suggest reading the pamphlets we Marc Hustvedt said. Responsibility Committee of its deci­ charges have been filed against either have recently showered the Afghan people with The fraternity will not hold any sian to go on probation, and the com­ suspect. instructing them on our impervious military and social events indefinitely. mittee decided not to issue further Beta Theta Pi ·may also go before our overall superiority. Is sending messages of Hustvedt said the fraternity's terms of probation until the criminal the Greek Activities Review Panel for impending doom not terror at its height? Are actions demonstrate that members investigation is complete. potential charges of misconduct. these people not living in the grips of the very fear want the situation to be resolved The Ann Arbor Police Department "I think this is a real call to action we seek to eradicate at the hands of those who quickly. has identified two male suspects, one that we as a greek community need to fashion themselves deliverers? "I think this was definitely the right in each case. Joe Burke, chief assis­ re-evaluate how we hold our social Further, how many innocent people have we thing to do and shows that there is tant prosecuting attorney. said the functions," Hustvedt said. doomed to a slow death in the coming months with our actions? The number of displaced Afghans grows each day, with more than 2 million already in Pakistan and more being turned away at the border. These people are living in tent com­ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY HARVARD UNIVERSITY munities, and without serious aid cannot survive the Asian winter.