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VOL. XXIII NO. 34 THURSDAY , OCTOBER 12, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Sen. Coats leads drug meeting on campus BY JOHN O’BRIEN on Indiana, on the industrial News Copy Editor heartland, on the area I repre­ sent to the state of Indiana” Law enforcement officers, said Coats. prosecutors and legislators South Bend Mayor Joseph from across Indiana came to Kernan said, “We face a very Notre Dame Wednesday for a serious problem in our com­ drug abuse prevention confer­ munity—that problem is ence sponsored by U. S. Senator drugs.” He called the drug Dan Coats. problem a “scourge” that af­ The conference, entitled “Off fects all communities. the Streets: Drug Enforcement According to David Link, in Indiana,” focused on the dean of the Law School, Coats problems law enforcement chose Notre Dame as a location agencies face in combatting the for the conference because it problem of illegal drugs in In­ was a convenient location in diana. South Bend. “He was also at­ “This is an awareness about tracted by the fact that Father drugs in our nation, an aware­ Malloy was here,” said Link. ness that will lead to action. University President Father This action will lead to success Edward Malloy is a member of in the war against drugs,” said Indiana Governor Evan Bayh’s Coats. Committee for a Drug-Free In­ The Observer/ E.G. Bailey Coats, a ranking member of diana. The head of that com­ Ben Masel and Maria Farrow, both members of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws the U.S. Senate Subcommittee mittee, Jeff Modisett, serves as^ (NORML), display their sign outside of Notre Dame’s Law School Wednesday. Maria Farrow is also a on Children, Family, Drugs and Drug Czar for the Bayh Admin­ member of Help Eliminate Marijuana Prohibition (HELP). Alcoholism, said that the drug istration. problem has “exploded across Malloy called the drug prob­ our landscape" since he took lem a “very perplexing and dif­ Protestors call for marijuana legalization office in January. ficult social and moral issue Fighting the War in Indi­ Bennett to be present as “One of my missions has Cubs, BY SARA MARLEY been to attempt to bring the News Editor ana.” well. see DRUG/ page 5 The protesters represented Notre Dame’s Office of message of the impact of drugs Two protesters held a the National Organization to Public Relations and Infor­ banner which read Reform Marijuana Laws mation and sources in the Hoosier Users “Marijuana Prohibition is (NORML), said Ben Masell of Law School denied that Ben­ Drug arrests per thousand people in five Indiana cities. the Gateway to Hard Madison, Wisconsin. nett was present or ex­ Drugs,” Wednesday outside Coats is a member of the pected. p 6.6 Notre Dame’s Law School. Senate Subcommittee on Bennett was scheduled to &3 Inside, a conference on law Children, Family, Drugs and appear with Coats at a semi­ a 2 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.3 enforcement took place as Alcoholism and Masell said nar Monday in Indianapolis. Elkhart South Bend Bloomington W. Lafayette Mishawaka part of Senator Dan Coats’s he expected Bush Adminis­ “We are not interested in weeklong program “Drugs: tration Drug Czar William SOURCE: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting and Staff Calculations The Observer see PROTEST / page 4 Two murders cap 13 drug related bombings in Colombia Associated Press outbreak of bomb attacks since Marta Luz Lopez and Miguel government action against Soler was killed in front of drug lords, blamed for slaying Soler, a spokesman for the Bo­ them. his house Tuesday by a man BOGOTA, Colombia — Gunmen a presidential candidate, went gota-based newspaper El El Espectador publisher who rode by on a motorcycle, on motorcycles killed two to war with the government Espectador told the Associated Guillermo Cano was assassi­ El Espectador spokesman Al­ employees of the newspaper El nearly two months ago. Press. nated by drug traffickers in a fonso Bernal told the Associ­ Espectador on Tuesday in an Tuesday’s outbreak of vio­ Miss Lopez was administrator spray of submachine gun fire ated Press. apparent effort by cocaine traf­ lence came during a visit to of the paper’s Medellin office, Dec. 17, 1986, as he was leav­ Miss Lopez was killed by a fickers to force the daily to end Colombia by U.S. Army Gen. and Soler was the daily’s ing the newspaper in his car. shot in the neck, and her its anti-drug crusade. Maxwell Thurman, the head of circulation manager in the city A month ago, a car bomb ex­ mother was wounded in a leg The shootings in Medellin the U.S. Southern Command of 2 million people. ploded beside the paper’s Bo­ while the two women sat in a follow 13 bombings reported in based in Panama. The newspaper has long suf­ gota building, causing heavy car at a traffic light, the pa­ three other Colombian cities Killed within an hour of each fered from attacks by drug damage and forcing the news­ per’s spokesman in Bogota overnight. It was the largest other Tuesday afternoon were traffickers angry at its calls for paper to cut back operations. said. Family Focus discusses effects of alcohol abuse sible type, the mascot, and the BY ROBERT KELLY caretaker. News Staff Kelly explained that three of these four types result in a In this week’s Family Focus worsening of the alcoholic’s si­ discussion, Carolyn Kelly out­ tuation and a denial of the real lined the damaging effects of problem of alcohol abuse in the alcohol abuse on the family unit family. and offered some ways to ap­ One stereotype that Kelly ex­ proach this problem. plored is the responsible type of Kelly used the analogy of a son or daughter, generally the mobile to describe alcohol as a type of student one would find family disease. Kelly explained at Notre Dame. This young that when one branch of the person is usually achievement mobile is disrupted by alcohol, oriented and successful in the whole structure is set into school and activities. motion. In the same way, when The presence of alcohol abuse one member of a family in the family upsets the changes, the whole family is af­ “mobile” by depriving the son fected. or daughter of the praise and A short film shown at the dis­ affirmation he or she needs, cussion explained that there Kelly said. As a result, the child are four categories into which becomes insecure and unsure of Career Chats The Observer/ E.G. Bailey children of alcoholics can usu­ his abilities. Peace Corps representative Steve Rypkema speaks to sophomore James Suttle at the Arts and ally be placed. These categories Letters Career Day held Wednesday afternoon. are the rebel type, the respon­ see FAMILY/page 4 page 2 The Observer Thursday, October 12, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS The quest for the easy ‘A’ Two hundred and thirteen pounds of pure cocaine were dropped early Tuesday from an aircraft into the bay of Guayama, is a futile effort Puerto Rico, and were seized by police. Sgt. Edwin Sollivan, head of the Guayama Police Division of Drugs and Narcotics, said the cocaine had an estimated street value of $200 million. Sollivan I have a vision of the perfect class. This class will be interesting, will entail some sort of en­ said the drug shipment came from Colombia since it was packaged joyable work like watching movies, and boost in special cans, which he said was a common practice of I sacrifice my high Colombian drug runners. my GPA because of the high mark the excellent ideals to the professor will give me. For 3 1/2 years 1 have been searching for this perfect class, but it has almighty god of the Libya’s official news agency Tuesday assailed NATO’s eluded me. high GPA.' naval exercises in the Mediterranean, saying they threaten peace My friends constantly come to me and say “ and will pollute the ocean. The monthlong “ Deterrence Force" Bias, have I got a class for you. It’s so easy exercises began Monday in the western Mediterranean. NATO de­ you’d have to be an idiot not to get an A. ” Un­ John Bias! scribed the maneuvers as routine and said they.involve forces fortunately, their easy A s turn into my generous Accent Editor from the United States, Italy, Greece, Turkey, West Germany, Bri­ Cs. tain, Spain and France. In a dispatch monitored in Rome, the It doesn’t matter to me that I’m paying news agency JANA said the exercises “flagrantly threaten peace 15 grand a year to learn something from this they had graphics and PICTURES. Not just or­ and security in the Mediterranean. These hostile maneuvers dia­ fine institution. I want a class that will yield dinary boring pictures either. There were pic­ metrically threaten air and naval navigation.” maximum results with a minimum of effort. tures of dancing raisins and Mickey Mouse. Something fluffy like the “Evolution of the 1 was seduced by the fascinating material and American Family from the Cleavers to the Cos- the faux marble cover of my beautiful text­ with a robot sidekick landed by UFO A three-eyed alien bys“ would shield my plummeting GPA from the books, perhaps I thought they were ancient and made a boy vanish by zapping him with a pistol, a Moscow barrage of B’s in my Metaphysical Nothingness Grecian artifacts or something. I embraced the newspaper reported Tuesday, in a second day of strange tales in and Existential Realities seminars.

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