A Tornado Twists Ruinous Path

Egypt - page 5 VOL XX, NO. 12 the independent student newspaper serving notri dame and saint m an's TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1985 a The Observer/non MuMclman Nothing stood in the way o f yesterday’s tornado damage to their Council Oak Drive home (above). path as evidenced by the remains of these build Their home and others on the same street weathered ings. Marjo Sindy and her son, Mikki, survey the some o f the destruction (story below). Tornado twists ruinous path ‘Messiah of L.S.D.’ while taking area by surprise By BOB MUSSELMAN pow er shorts in others. By 8:10p.m ., dark, and then it hit, Mullen to speak on high tech SARAH HAMILTON power was returned to all homes described. The only damage done to By FRANKJ. MASTRO Beside the usual textbooks, one of SCOTT BEARBY and businesses in the area. her mother’s house was debris scat Marjo Sindy, of 2902 Council Oak, Staff Reporter the optional texts' was the drug, News Department tered in the backyard. LSD watched from a front room as the Although no damage was The man Riehard Nixon once He claim ed that under L.S.l)., one Sixteen houses and four tornado approached her house from reported at either Notre Dame or called “the most dangerous man becomes aware of numerous levels businesses were damaged by a tor the northwest. She said she grabbed Saint Mary's, some students did see alive is com ing to Notre Dame. of consciousness within oneself. nado that touched down on South her eight month old daughter Mikki the funnel cloud from a distance. Timothy l.ear>, the self- Bend’s northwest side yesterday af and immediately fled to the base Two Notre Dame freshmen, Tim proclaimed "Messiah of LS D." and In 1966, he com pared L S D to a ternoon. ment. Irvine and Bill Clune, were among a guru of the "psychedelic Utopians" microscope, lie asserted that LSD There were no injuries, said Don "I saw it. It was next door to me," group of people playing soccer be will speak on “High Technology: is to psy chology what a m icroscope Germann, St. Joseph County civil Sindy said, describing the tornado as hind Stepan Center when they I lie 1960s through the 1980s," is to biology . defense director. a large swirling funnel that made noticed the tornado. Thursday night at Washington flail. “Computers are now a more ac The tornado was sighted near the loud “whooshing" noises. Clune said people on the field lean, making his first visit to ceptable way of getting high," com Michiana Regional Airport at 4:20 “I saw leaves and branches were pointing and staring at what Notre Dame since 1978. is m ented Leary p.m., Germann said. At 4:24 p.m.. a moving, like in a washing machine," first “looked like a column of scheduled to begin his lecture at 8. tornado warning was Issued and she said. smoke." He then noticed it was I lie (> i y ear-old Leary gained na Mike Yore. Chairman of the Ideas civil defense sirens were activated, In her basement, Sindy heard a twisting. tional recognition during his brief and Issues Committee, said the he said. tremendous crash and felt a strong Both Clune and Irvine said they stint as a lecturer at Harvard from lecture "is a way for (Leary) to talk The tornado touched down nor vaccuum. Emerging from the base didn't think the tornado would be theast of the airport in the Highland too serious because the sky was not 1959-63. about all the things he’s been ment, she found that the home’s One semester he taught a course through." Addition, Germann said. The tor garage had collapsed and that part of very dark. The group continued for graduate students called, nado remained on the ground for ap the home’s roof had been torn away. playing soccer until Security asked see LEARY, page 4 "treating Your Own Reality." proxim ately a mile and a half, he A stopped clock indicated that the them to leave sometime later. said. twister struck at 4:23 p.m. Sindy said An unidentified Saint Mary’s stu The tornado then w ent back into a she had no warning that a tornado dent informed campus security of an cloud and moved out of the county was on the way. approaching funnel cloud at ap Bridget’s temporarily dry without causing further damage, he “There was just silence - the proximately 4:30 p.m. Shortly there said. silence was deafening,” she said. after Civil Defense sounded the Monday, September 16, accord By MARY HEII.MANN The most damage occurred on A dog, Bcnji, also rode out the severe weather siren, according to Assistant News l /lllor ing to Bower Council Oak Drive. Edmond storm, while her 3 year-old son, Saint Mary’s Director of Sundays are not figured into Hageniers, of 2816 Council Oak, lost Robbie, was outside playing and Safety/Security Richard Clebek. Bridget Met ill ire’s f illing Sta the 10 day punishm ent bccauisc the roof of his home to the tornado. took cover at a nearby house, she After the Civil Defense warning, tion did not pum p beer last Indiana state law prohibits the Ron Tesscly. Hageniers’ cousin said said. Her husband, Bob Sindy, was at Saint Mary’s Security alerted officials weekend, according to Bridget’s sale of alcohol on those days. the twister had ripped through five work at the time. in all buildings to send the oc general manager Bernard Bower. Bridget’s was cited for state li rooms in the house. No damage es Susan Mullen, a Notre Dame cupants to shelter, he said. Students timate was available at the time. senior, was visiting her mother who were permitted to leave the shelters Nor will the area bar pump quor law violations after an un Approximately 3,000 people lives at 2635 Summit Ridge, within a approximately one half hour later. beer this weekend, he said. derage drinking incident were without electric power for few blocks of Oak Council, when the At N otre Dame, rectors made Briget’s was closed tem occurred at the bar during An four hours as a result of the tornado. tornado hit. "We’re always getting their own decisions in response to porarily for violation of the In Tostal ’8S, he said. A representative of the Indiana and tornado warnings and we never pay the warning. Unlike Saint Mary’s diana stale liquor laws, he said. Bridget’s joins two other area Michigan Electric Company attention to them, ” she said. Security, Notre Dame Security does the mandatory 10-Uay closure bars, Nickie’s and Corby Tavern, reported that debris from buildings Mullen was sitting on the house’s not contact each building in- began last Wednesday night and w hich rem ain closed as a result of blew onto the power wires pulling porch when “I heard what sounded will continue until midnight on similar violations. some of them down and causing like a train," she said. Suddenly it got see TORNADO, page 4 The Observer Tuesday, September 10, 1985 - page 2 In Brief Unusual sculptures in South Bend show the basic principles of nature Kevin Hurley, the Howard Hall freshman injured in a hit-and-run accident Saturday morning, remained in critical condi tion in the intensive care unit last night at Memorial Hospital of Think back to your high school physics class when South Bend, a hospital administrator said. - The Observer you learned about all the properties of nature. Did you ever think these elements someday could create a piece Margie Philip Quinn, philosophy professor at of art? Brown University, has been appointed to the John A. O’Brien Chair Most people don’t. Kersten of Philosophy by Timothy O’Meara, University provost. The O’Brien George Rickey, a South Bend native has combined chair memorializes the priest who spent 40 years teaching and several elements of nature into many unusual Assistant Saint Mary’s Editor writing at Notre Dame before his death in 1940. - The Observer sculptures. He calls these elements his “new box of colors," and they include gravity, momentum, inertia, acceleration, moments of rotation and the laws govern sculptures but you will also see triangles, trapezoids, A new publications editor has joined the staff at ing movement. plain straight lines and circles. Saint Mary’s. Carol Schaal, a former freelance writer and reporter for His sculptures represent a very personal interpreta The components of the sculptures are rarely solo; the South Bend Tribune, will be responsible for Courier, the tion of nature and its physical qualities. Rickey cites how humans value relationships, and alumnae magazine, and the newsletter, Saint Mary’s Reports. Schaal Critics may comment that the sculptures writes, “It’s when there arc two that it begins to come is a graduate of Indiana University and also has been an assistant surrounding Saint Mary’s, the Snite Museum of Art, In alive." features editor at the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette She currently is diana University at South Bend, and the Art Center of It takes a unique yet bizarre and eccentric person to president of Women in Communications, Inc. - The Observer South Bend are distracting and look like pieces of metal compare a human relationship, with the metal on cement blocks. Rickey counters that he wants his art sculptures. to be “itself, performing in a world of its own." The sculptures are alive and visible and they will His kinetic images do not catch your eye as you walk Of Interest represent a certain entity, _ _ __ ___ by.

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