l Irish Extra - page 9 ---------------------..,-------------------------------------------------- VOL XIX, NO. 3 7 tilt: itHiqwndent ..,tulkllt lll'\\..,paper "l·ning rwtn danK and ..,aint man·._ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1984 Zahn resigns chair of judicial council By BOB MUSSELMAN Zahn said that neither the admin­ News Staff istration nor student government in­ fluenced his decision. Joe Zahn, student body judicial Zahn was reluctant to discuss coordinator, announced his resigna­ specific reasons for his resignation, tion in a brief meeting of the Judicial but hinted at a comeback next year: Council last night. "I'll return next year in a position He submitted his letter of resigna­ where I'll have more say in the day· tion yesterday afternoon to the stu­ to-day operations of student govern­ dent government offices. Addressed ment." to the "Members of the Notre Dame After his announcement, Zahn Community," the letter reads: "Due suggested the council elect a new to Philosophical rea1)ons 1 am resign­ coordinator "immediately" and ing from the position of Student nominated council member Bill Ber­ gamo of Cavanaugh Hall. i . Body JudiLiaiCoordinator effective l immediately." Bergamo was elected unani­ Zahn's handling of Judicial Coun­ mously. cil affairs this year has received some Bergamo told the council he criticism. An editorial in the Sept. 14 would only be able to serve until his issue of Tbe Observer criticized his graduation in December. Pasquerilla motives and overall handling of]udi­ West representative Laura j cial Council mattt-rs. McKnight suggested that an assistant Thr Obsrrvrr/Shrlla Burkr Asked if this or other criticisms in­ be elected who would serve as co­ So, what's your major? fluenced his decision, Zahn said the ordinator next semester. A decision two days of Oktoberfest acttvities at the College. editorial was "another article· on this mauer was postponed to a john Murphy and ]oanie Giblin seem to be hit· Notre Dame students could also join in the Ok­ showing Bob 'the clown' Vonder­ later meeting. ttng it off well at last night's Beer Garden bebtnd toberfest spirit, with last night's German dinner in heide's circus mentality." Vonder­ He expressed a commitment to Made/eva Hall at Saint Mary's. This event closed the dining halls. heide is t:ditor-in·l hief of The complete the programs that the Observer. council had started. Hunger Coalition plans Student-run store is a possibility teleconference Oct. 16 By TERRY BLAND don't want to get involved." will be presented to the Student StaffReporter Moran contends there is a big Senate. If passed, it will then be By CINDY RAUCKHORST Washington University in Washing­ difference between the kinds of brought before the Student Ac­ News Staff ton, D.C. A recent survey shows a items carried by the bookstore tivities Board. Decision on the The purpose of the event is to majority of Notre Dame students and the kind to be carried in the proposal will probably be in the Along with 330 organizations celebrate the anniversary of the surveyed favor opening a general general store. middle of November. across the country, the Notre Dame Food and Agricultural Organization store on campus as an alternative If student government ap­ The committee has also sur­ World Hunger Coalition will partici­ of the United Nations. The emphasis to the bookstore. proves of the store proposal, it veyed colleges across the pate in the National World Food Day of the teleconference for students The proposed store would will stock generic products or country as to whether they main­ Teleconference on Tuesday, Oct. will be education about today's supply items of lower quality, but products slightly higher in tain student-operated general 16. world hunger crisis, WHC member at a considerably lower price, quality than generic, said stores. Harvard and M.I.T. are In accordance with WHC goals to Bill Jordan said. than the Hammes Bookstore, said Browne. among schools operating such increase student awareness of "Trying to bring the issue closer Pat Browne, general store com­ He added that the proposal businesses. hunger-related problems, the group to students is a terribly difficult mittee chairman. has agreed to organize and co­ thing. Starving people in Africa are Of 172 students surveyed, 1 52, sponsor the three-hour presentation so abstract, so far away from our or 88.4 percent, said they were in at Notre Dame. Students and faculty own lives. Hopefully, participation favor of the new store. Om­ from Notre Dame and Saint Mary's by students will help them to budsman conducted the survey, are invited to attend. become more concerned and distributing it in 1 1 dorms; eight From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Cen· aware," he said. men's dorms and three women's ter for Continuing Education, Notre The teleconference will have dorms. Dame will participate in the three parts. The first hour will con- "We asked the bookstore to nationwide teleconference, see FOOD DAY, page 5 sell some of their items at cost or originating via satellite from Geor~e below cost," said Browne. "The reason they could do this is the bookstore makes a profit. We said Bush, Ferraro debate covers what they should do with this profit is to put it into lowering prices." economy, leadership ability He added that the bookstore Associated Press on most issues, and said "the presi­ would not sell at or below cost dent turned it (the nation) around because it is a bad business PHILADELPHIA · George Bush and I've been with him every step of practice. said last night he's a supporter of the way." Higher bookstore prices result President Reagan's economic pro­ "I believe firmly in his leadership. from the purchasing of items in gram, "every step of the way," be· He's really turned this country smaller quantities than stores like cause "it's brought America back." around," Bush said in a firm defense Hooks, Osco's, and Thornburg's, Geraldine Ferraro retorted in the of the man whose -own debate per· said Browne. .. vice presidential debale that Bush formance last Sunday worried his Hall representatives con­ once called that pl"t!'",m "voodoo supporters and provided a boost for ducted another survey, visiting economics. and it was anlllt i... the nemocrats. area stores to compare prices on "I can make the hard decisions"' Hush said Ferraro disagreed with 23 different items. The survey required in high political offi• e Fer­ Mondale in several issues, including showed significant differences in raro df'dan~d in lht. opening rax brt:ak~ for parents of private price range, said Browne. ..... .. · ~-~ >··" moments of the 90-minute televised school ..;tudents and school busing. Upon completing the survey, confrontation. Hush attacked Mondale the committee approached 1br Obsrrvrr/Carol Gain "I have enough experience to see repeate(11) in the opening moments bookstore management with the the problems, address them," said of the debate, at one point holding idea of a competing store. •':fark Bomber, a Howard junior, shops for detergent in the Ferraro, the first woman to run for his arms aloft as he said, "Contrary to Brother Conan Moran, Hammes Bookstore. He may not have to spend as mucb to cure 'ring national office on a major party Mr. Mondale's · I'd better be careful· bookstore manager, said he "was arou1uJ the collar' if a proposal for a student-operated general ticket. contrary to Mr. Mondalc:'s just not really intt'rested in the type store is put into effect. Story at left- Bush said there was little differ­ of survey they conducted. I really see DEBATE, page 3 ence between himself and Reagan - - - --------------- The Observer Friday, October 12, 1984 - page 2 Thanks to summer draining, White women are more concerned Lake Marion no longer an eyesore about diet and weight control than white men or blacks, but black men are more likely to exercise regularly. Those were among the If you are from Saint Mary's you've already witnessed findings of a University of Maryland study of sex and race differences the great event: the rebirth of the square lake affec­ in dieting and exercise among college students. Men saw eating and tionately called Lake Marion. A day didn't go by during Anne Monastyrski exercise as independent activities, while women linked the two as a the treks to and from Madeleva Hall when students means toward the goal of gaining the right body type. ·The Obseroer were faced with the eyesore and poor excuse of a lake. Saint Mary's Editor ' . I· The overgrowth of lily pads, moss, weeds, and muck in general would evoke sympathy for the ducks and Inside Friday amazement that fish actually lived somewhere in its Of Interest depths. There was no doubt about it - that was one sragnant Until it was drained bone dry during the summer,1t pool. It was a biology major's petri dish and testing could have been fathoms deep and rest assured many The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign of ground filled with living and dead .. .it's anybody's guess could be included in the group that believed it was. The St. Joseph's County will hold a film benefit today and tomorrow in what actually survived in the murky waters. The biol­ dry lake was quite an attraction and a historical event. observance of Freeze Weekend '84. An award-winning documen­ ogy department even had its own canoe parked along Hundreds of LeMans Hall residents filled the dry lake tary, "Dark Circle", will be shown at 7 and 9 p.m. in Carroll the "shores." It was usually just parked there because of posing for their yearbook picture.