Island influence Northern concerns Scene reviews the latest Cuban art exhibition IRA guerrrillas are not ready to disarm .. moving Monday ~ now at The Snite, including Ernesto Pujol's the peace process in Northern Ireland toward a .. .,.,.~ '!P J "Maletas." new crisis . -~ JANUARY 31, ... , ....... .. Scene • page 14-15 WorldNation • page 5 2000 • • ••• THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 72 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU MAn's MELEE RAs struggle with ND financial aid By ERIN PIROUTEK Assistant News Editor Resident Assistants don't have glorious jobs. They give up two weeks of summer for training. They sacrifice Friday and Saturday nights to be on duty. They clean up after sick fresh­ men. They do receive $6,022 from the University for their duties. But of Notre Dame's 164 RAs, many of the 108 who receive financial aid admit that when they applied they didn't understand how the University adjusts aid packages to compensate for RAs income. An RA applies for financial aid in the same manner as other stu­ dents, explained Sue Brandt, asso­ ciate director of Financial Aid at Notre Dame. The aid package is JOHN DAIL YfThe Observer awarded without taking into con­ Men's basketball coach Matt Doherty celebrates Saturday's win over St. John's with the crowd. sideration that the student is an RA. Then, the RA benefit is deducted from the self-help portion of the aid package, reducing loans and the work-study component. Victory However, many prospective RAs mistakenly believe that their fami­ lies pay less or that room and Men's basketball coach Matt Doherty board is free. For example, a student who waved fans out onto the court receives a financial aid package containing work-study, loans and to cel~~brate Notre Dame's 73-60 victory grants with a family contribution of $15,000 will not see a reduction in over #25 St. John's Saturday, a win that the cost the family must pay. After the student becomes an RA. keeps the Irish in the the family contribution stays the same, but loans and work-study NCAA Tournament hunt. components are reduced by $6,022. It was Notre Dame's third win over a The system has proven confusing for prospective applicants. ranked opponent this season, and their "It is misleading," said Pangborn RA Heidi Eppich, who was sur­ first before the Joyce Center crowd. prised to receive a new financial aid statement after being accepted Head about the game on page 28. as RA last spring. "My understand­ KEVIN DALUMfThe Observer ing was that my financial aid pack­ A zealous fan recognizes Coach Doherty's age wouldn't be affected." JOHN DAIL YfThe Observer background with North Carolina. Matt Carroll and Jimmy Some criticize the logic of the Dillon embrace. see RAJ page 4 Dog missing after fire Off-Campus: One of the couple's two dogs face and a solid black tail. OC lounge, lla.m.-3p.m. By ERIN LaRUFFA made it out of the fire safely "She's a member of the fami­ News Writer and is now staying with the ly. She's not just a dog to us. couple at another location. The They're both like our children," Sinc11 Jan. 18, when fire fire department told Castro late said Castro, adding that the destroyPd the house they rent­ last week that his other dog, money he is offering for a On-Campus: ed in the 900 bloek of Notre Scarlet, must also have escaped reward is from the couple's Dame Ave .. third-year law stu­ the fire; the cause of the blaze savings they planned to use to Dining Hall, 7-9 a.m., 12- dents Chris Castro and his is still undetermined. move back to Dallas. fianeee Michelle Maei\rthur Castro is offering a $1,000 Anyone with information 2 p.m., 5-7 p.m. have been searching for their reward for Scarlet's return. She about Scarlet should contact four-year-old Dalmatian. has an almost entirely white Castro at 246-1338. SCOTT HARDYfThe Observer -----~- ------- ---- page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Monday, January 31, 2000 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Robbed + Student film festival: + Nuclear weapons + Whaddyathink Luncheon: +Medieval seminar: 614 Annenberg Auditorium, lecture: I lesburgh Center Noble Family Dining Hall. Hesburgh Library, 3:30- Saturday night, my housemates and 1 invit­ Snite Museum of Art, 7:30 Auditorium, 4:15p.m. noon. 5:30 p.m. ed over a few friends. More than a hundred people showed up. We weren't surprised. The and 9:45 p.m. + Film/discussion: "Dr. + Interracial dating + Keenan Revue: five of us who share a three-story Kramer + International film Strangelove," Hesburgh discussion: esc. 5:30 p.m. O'Laughlin Auditorium, house on East Washington Street are like the center of a wheel; our festival: "My Father's Center Auditorium, 7 p.m. 7:30p.m. spokes lead to, among other things, The Glory," Montgomery Observer, the ski team. Theatre, LaFortune, 8 p.m. Hall President's Council, London Program spring '99. Austria program '98- '99. the senior CHEG class and the art department. OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports When we each invite a few friends. we expect a hun- Michelle Krupa dred people. But some idiot Saturday Faculty may supervise Texas Tech newspaper night made us rethink AUSTIN, Texas cials will discuss the issue at a Feb. ever hosting a party Editor in Chief A proposal by a Texas Tech 3 meeting. again. See, somebody took administrator could place the Wayne Hodgins, editor in chief of $200 in cash from my school's independent student news­ The University Daily, said the facul­ roommate's second-f1oor bedroom. The loot paper under the supervision of the ty would be supporting censorship if wasn't exposed; it was deliberately hidden in mass communications department. the students aren't allowed to a sock drawer. Sure, she probably shouldn't Jerry Hudson, chairman of the decide on content of student publi­ have had a giant wad of liquid assets bump­ Texas Tech department of mass cations. ing uglies with her knee-highs. but that cer­ communications. said in a statement "It's bullshit, and everybody is tainly is not the point. Someone simply should that mass communications faculty against these changes," said not have been snooping for dough in a dark members should have. control over Hodgins, an English/journalism room behind a closed door. the university's student publications. editor and freedom of the press. This senior. We left our bedrooms open so people could including The University Daily and would be detrimental." Mark Goodman, a representative put their coats aside. We allowed access to KTXT-TV. Hudson did not return Under the proposal, The University of the Student Press Law Center in our upstairs bathroom so the small-bladdered calls Thursday. Daily newsroom editor position Washington. D.C., said any student wouldn't be forced to write their names in the Texas Tech faculty members do would be filled by a non-student publication in which the content is snow. We trusted our friends and our friends' not currently hold authority over the staff member, who will teach a sec­ decided by faculty is a "censored friends not to take advantage of our hospitali­ content of student publkations, said tion of a reporting class. The staff publication." ty. Most people didn't; you are the ones we Jan Childress, director of student member would use the students "It is a mouth-piece for the jour­ trust with our home and our friendship. publications. enrolled in a reporting class to write nalism department to say what they It was just one person- probably someone "The constitution guarantees your stories published in the newspaper. want to say," Goodman said. "The we don't even know- whom we trusted a bit right to free press," Childress said. "I The president of Texas Tech Constitution does not allow censor­ too much. really believe in the independent University and other university ofli- ship in student publications." It's not the money, really. It's the vomitous feeling that our vulnerability was exploited. Do we realize how open we leave ourselves to theft when we blast Bruce on the stereo and don't post a bouncer at the door? Sure. Do Stabbed LSU dean returns to work Former coach to run for House we half-expect a pool cue or a bar stool to be missing or broken in the morning? Of course. BATON ROUGE, La. HASTINGS, Neb. But we also expect the people we host to have Interim dean of students John Baker is "doing okay" It didn't take Tom Osborne long to break a roomful the decency and dignity to stay out of those just two days after his stabbing, according to an ollkial of reporters' suspense about whether he'd make a run things that obviously are personal - the from the dean of students oflice. "He is back at work a for the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday things we stuff away in closed drawers. little bit," said associate dean of students Wanda morning. The former Nebraska football coach walked To whomever took our money: If it was a Hargroder. "He's physically okay. lie's lucky to be into the temporary pressroom housed in the student couple bucks you needed for a cab back to alive." Marques Smith, a junior in philosophy, allegedly union of Hastings College - his alma mater - as campus. we would have paid.