Food sales sell Nestles items despite boycott

Despite Notre Dame’s three-year boycott, Nestle’s products are s till being sold in the food sales o f at least tw o dorms. Grace’s and Pasquerilla East’s food sales were selling Nestle’s candy bars before the boycott. The manager o f one w ill con tinue to stock it even though students voted 64.9 percent to 35.1 percent to con ­ tinue the boycott. Dave Krotine, the manager o f Grace Food Sales, on ly began stock­ ing the candy bars three weeks ago, after changing wholesalers. His pre­ vious supplier did not carry Nestle’s products. K rotine said he plans to continue selling Nestle goods to Grace resi­ dents, noting “ I don’t have the right to say what people can buy. I give the op tion to the consum er so he can make a personal choice." In Tuesday’s election Grace residents voted 189 to 155 to continue the campus boycott. The manager o f Pasquerilla East Food Sales, Peggy McAuliffe, plans to d iscontinue selling the chocolate af­ te r her present supply runs out. Pasquerilla East voted 112-22 to continue the boycott o f Nestle products. “ I f the University wants to buy them from me and cerem oniously burn them, that’s fine w ith me,” she added. McAuliffe is a transfer stu­ dent who claims she learned o f the boycott on ly after she bought tw o boxes o f Nestle’s C runch bars. "W hen I bought them 1 d idn 't know about the boycott. "1 have not bought them since, and I w on ’t in the future. As a manager, i t ’s not my responsibility to he made aware o f the boycott. I t ’s the group’s responsib ility to notify me.” Pasquerilla East rectress Sr. Evelyn Booms echoed McAuliffe, saying, "W e're all new in the hall here. I’m sure w e’re inadvertantly do ing a lo t o f things in co rrec tly un til we learn how they’re done around here." This wom en’s hall is pop­ ulated m ainly by transfer students. Sr. Booms added, "1 hadn't been aware o f the sales because food sales is independent.” Fr. David Noone, the rec to r o f Grace, plans to let the students handle the controversy. "1 th ink the best way to resolve it is to let the stu­ dents decide. The issue is a student issue. The faculty and staff d id not really decide about the boycott so I'm going to let the students take care o f it." The adm in istra tion ’s op in ion, as voiced by Vice President fo r Student Affairs Fr. John Van W olvlear, is the same as Fr. Noone’s. “ We’re the ones that enforce it in the d in ing halls, the Deli, and the vending machines. I t ’s the students who should be taking care o f it in the foods ales," said Fr. Van Wolvlear. The vo lunteer group w h ich sponsored the boycott, the W orld Hunger Coalition, plans to talk to the managers and try to convince them to take the candy bars o ff the ir shelves. WHC. president Francis D’Eramo said, “ They’re not con­ strained to do anything. They’re in ­ dependent operations. We’re p lanning to talk to them later on." Throughout the controversy Nestle’s sales in Pasquerilla East plummeted, w h ile K ro tine reported that in Grace the candy bars "se ll as w e ll as any o ther candy bar we car­ ry." In a liv e ly discussion between Fr. Ed M a llo y an d one o f the m any who attended h is sem ina r on the ethics o f test tube babies, the issues o f m o ra lity su rro u n d in g the test tube baby con ­ troversy were explored. ( Photo by Joh n M aco r)