Michiganders - page 5 VOL XVIII, NO. 72 the indqx:mknt slluknt ncw~papcr sn,·ing notre Janw and ~aint mary'-. MONDAY,JANUARY 23, 1984 Short enrolltnent·lines please new registrar By BOB VONDERHEIDE handful of students were waiting for News Editor help. "My goal was for students to go through enrollment in five They called it enrollment, but a minutes." line by any other name couldn't be The only hang-up was a slight wait much shorter. to register for lnfonet, a new long­ And newly appointed Registrar distance phone service contracted Dan Winicur couldn't be much hap­ by the University in the wake of Bell pier. Telephone's divestiture. The Infonet Registration ... er ... enrollment line was especially busy at Stepan - once a daylong exercise in paper­ Center where freshmen enrolled. pushing - became for most stu­ In general, however, Winicur said dents last week a five-minute visit to freshmen enrollment went just the ACC. about as smoothly as upperclassmen The stack of computer cards that enrollment. The only difference was once had been handed out at that Freshman Year of Studks did registration was replaced by a not mail class schedules during generic form requiring student I.D. break. and name. Class schedules for up­ As in past years, the longest lines perclassmen were mailed with came within the first 15 minutes that grades during Christmas break, and the ACC doors were open. "I have to laundry cards for male students say I was a little worried," Winicur were distribute\;! at Saint Michael's said. Laundry. Within a half-hour, however, lines "It went great," Winicur said see ENROLLMENT page 3 Friday in his office, where only a Gounesy Notre Dame Information Services Stepan ice rink adds Almost gives you the shakes American member on the group's 12-person interna­ Pope john Paul II greets Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, tional council which was created by tbe Pope to ex­ C.S.C., University of Notre Dame president, during a plore new ways of dialogue between "the saving recent (Jan. 16) meeting of the Pontifical Council for message of the Gospel" and the variety of human athletic opportunities Culture in the Vatican. Father Hesburgh !s the cultures. By REBECCA HETLAND strength two-by-fours for the StaffReporter frame and some polyethylene over the courts," said Physical During Christmas break, two Plant Director Don Dedrick. Attorney General Smith resigns of the Stepan Center basketball "Maintenance is handled by the courts became surfaces for an­ stadium grounds crew which tluenced Smith's decision. The Cabinet post was his as long as he Associated Press other winter sport: hockey. sweeps and sprays the rink night­ source noted Smith was active be­ wanted it, the sources said. The Stepan ice rink is the ly." WASHINGTON William hind the scenes in every Reagan Reagan, returning to the White brainchild of Rob Bertino, the Since th~ grounds crew would french Smith, the multimillionaire campaign and wanted to do so again House from his Maryland mountain­ student senator from District 1. be working at that time anyway, corporate lawyer who directed but felt it would be inappropriate if top retreat in time to watch the He included the idea in his additional cost is minimal to the he remained as attorney general. Super Bowl on television, dodged sweeping changes in the Depart­ proposal to install lights on the University. ment ofJustice and served as a close The 66-year-old Smith, who reporters' questions about Smith Stepan courts, because the ice Bertino is pleased with the reversed civil rights, antitrust and and any successor. The sources said personal adviser to President rink makes year-round use of the results as well as student criminal enforcement policies that they expected Reagan to formally Reagan, has resigned as attorney lights worthwhile. response. "Every time I go by, I stood through previous administra­ announce the resignation today. general, administration sources said Bertino submitted the see people skating or playing yesterday. tions, kept his plans secret almost to proposal in September of I 982 hockey," he said. "I hope as the the last minute. Meese was out of town yesterday The sources, who sought because he felt there were not second semester gets going, The sources said he told Reagan in and could not be reached (or com­ anonymity, said it appeared that a enough places available at night more people will hear about it a one-on-one meeting in the Oval ment. leading candidate to succeed Smith to use for recreation. Since the in­ and make use of it." Office Wednesday. But even by yes­ is pre-sidential counselor Edwin stallation, the lights have proved Bertino said availability of a Meese III. terday, Smith had not advised his as­ One sign of Smith's influence on a great boon for late-night ath­ night rink will enable students to They said Smith was not sistants at the department of his Reagan came in the appointment of letes. plan skating parties. "We've al- plans. And the reports of his resigna­ pressured to leave but had simply Sandra Day O'Connor as the first "All we needed (to create the decided that after three years in tion caught even some of Smith's woman to the Supreme Court. She rink) were a few industrial- see ICE page 5 office it was time to go and that ~e closest friends by surprise. was Smith's choice, and sources said had accomplished his major goals. During the Oval Office meeting, then he prevailed over the Presi­ One source said Reagan's ex­ Reagan told Smith, Reagan's per­ dent's closest White House aides pected re-election campaign in- sonallawyer for many years, that the whose first choice was a man. Student interning with legislature ByJOSEPH MURPHY When asked if there is any truth to the legislators follow Notre Dame StaffReporter the old expression that there are football. two things one should never watch "This experience compliments Junior Michael Jones said he being made: sausage and legislation, my education. I applied for the job "came to Notre Dame to learn the Jones laughed. "Most bills this ses­ last year, but didn't get it. This year I theories." He has taken a semester's sion concern such issues as educa­ was one of nine students selected leave of absence "to experience the tion, state taxes, toxic waste, and the from 60 student applicants. The facts." troubled liscense branch." other students here are from Indiana Since the third of january, Jone~ Work at the state capital is not University and Ball State. These two has been working as a legislative in­ without its lighter moments. Jones schools are very active in coordinat­ tern for the Indiana House of said, "A representative from Gary, ing it. They have a class that parallels Representatives' Demouatic Indiana proposed that Michael jack­ the session and the students receive Caucus. His new job revoles around son, who is from that town, be put college credit," Jones said. the powerful House Ways and on state liscense plates." Some capi­ Notre Dame has not officially said Means Committee. tal watchers even adopted a new whether Jones will receive any "I attend the committee meetings, state theme: "Beat it to Indiana." credit, but Jones believes he will. take notes, get copies of bills, and When some of the legislators "Everyone I have talked to has been write summaries which are dis­ learned Jones was from Notre Dame, very supportive, but the administra­ tributed to the legislators," Jones "they began circulating rumors that tion wants to wait to see how I do." said. Also, he has helped prepare Father Hesburgh had resigned and With law school or a job related to possible Democratic versions for the board of trustees were out trying politics as real possibilities, Jones legislative reapportionment, an ex­ to find a high school principal to see INTERN page 5 Stepan ice rink tremely "hot" topic. replace him." Jones quickly learned The Observer Monday,January 23, 1984- page 2 In Brief ·- ·. The world on ice Six East Gennans who lkd into the u.s. Embassy in Ea~t Berlin and asked for political asylum were escorted through the Berlin Wall to freedom in the West last night. A spokeswoman at the l ·.s. embassy said the six, who entered the embassy Friday, left with their EaM <iermany lawyer who had been involved in negotiations for their pas~age to Westlkrlin. West Cinman border guards said the t1vt· men and one woman crossed through the Berlin Wall in three <·ars at') p.m. It wa~ not known wherl· thl· East Germans were taken. The rdugl·es wne identified as R<·ne Faccin, I'); Bernd Ape!, 4.3; ,Jocrg I kikal, 2:1; and Bernd Macke, 2H all of East Berlin. and husband and wife Petra and Daniel Klingenberg of Potsdam. - AP Townspeople in thl' lllOUIHainous resort of Whitd1sh. Mt.. gricVl'd yesterday lilr nine pcopk killed when a school bus carrying till' high school wrestling team crashed into a fuel tanker in APPhoto a snowstorm ... A little bit of all of us died yesterday," Mayor James South Bend apparent~v is not the only Putnam of Whitdish said of the tkry crash Saturday night that also place that Mother Nature has given the cold injurl·d I') people. "The people of Whitefish arc in shock. I'm sure shoulder. A tourist focuses on the Imperial that ,Jan. 21 will remain in the minds of Whitefish people: for many, Palace in Tokyo Saturdav, where the monl­ many years a~ onl· of thl· most tragic things that ever happened to ing's temperature of 27 degrees Fahrenheit us." Thl· bus.