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E OBSERVER Wednesday, January 14, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 69 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND family loses two members over break Christian ethics has read or is familiar Friends, colleagues with his work. He had an influence on an entire generation. This is a big loss for remember professor Notre Dame.” Wilson dies at 86 Yoder, who celebrated his 70th birth By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN and, even though he was an admin John Yoder warmly day the day before his death, joined the Associate News Editor istrator, he always came through to By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN Notre Dame faculty as a full professor in people as a priest first,” remem Associate News Editor theology in 1977. He also served as a Former vice president for business bered Hesburgh. “That was not an professor of theology of the Goshen affairs Father Jerome Wilson died on easy thing to do, but Jerry did it.” World renowned Mennonite theologian Biblical Seminary in Goshen, Ind., from Jan. 2 after suffer As vice president and Notre Dame professor John Yoder 1965 to 1984 and as its president from ing a stroke at his of business affairs, died Dec. 30 after suffering a heart 1970 to 1973. fam ily’s home in W ilson was E ALWAYS CAME attack in his office in Decio Hall. In his career, Yoder wrote numerous Mount Lebanon, Pa. * u r involved with every His colleagues describe Yoder as one articles and books about pacifism in Wilson, 86, served n THROUGH TO PEOPLE financial aspect of Christian society; notable among those is as the University’s the University. of the most influential modern scholars AS A PRIEST FIRST. on the topic of pacifism in Christian soci his 1972 publication, “The Politics of vice president from “He got involved ety. Jesus.” 1952 to 1976, dur in every part of this “He was probably the best known the “More than any Christian social ethi- ing the administra University,” said Fa t h e r T h e o d o r e H e s b u r g h ologian in the English speaking world cist, he gave a coherence and integrity to tion of former presi Father Edmund that came out of the Mennonite tradition Christian pacifism,” said Father Michael dent Father U n iv e r s it y p r e s id e n t e m e r it u s Joyce, a classmate of pacifism and other worldliness,” said Baxter, visiting assistant professor of Theodore of W ilson’s in the Lawrence Cunningham, professor and theology at Notre Dame. “As World War Hesburgh. Holy Cross Seminary and, as “I worked with him for 25 years former chair of the Notre Dame theology see WILSON / page - department. “Any person in the field of see YODER / page SECURITY BEAT A leap for knowledge ... ND campus remains quiet during break By HEATHER COCKS of items, such as computers News Editor and other electronics, and we stored them for free in our After a Thanksgiving holiday building,” Johnson said, adding rife with security problems, that some off-campus students Notre Dame Security/Police chose to stow their bicycles experienced a quiet Christmas there. break, according to assistant “If the w eather gets cold, director Phil Johnson. there’s a good chance the bikes Vandals swept through park might freeze,” he said. ing lots, quads and campus “Actually, any student who buildings on Nov. 29, creating wants to store a bike during concern among some students the winter months can do so.” who left vehicles or valuables Still, the most common crime at Notre Dame during the win on campus is the theft of unat ter break. tended property, according to “We didn’t experience any Johnson, who stressed the need problems at all,” said Johnson. for students to guard their “We did step up patrols over things both during vacations the break, but we actually and throughout the semester. always do that, in addition to Notre Dame Security lets stu closing the student parking dents register their valuables at lots.” that office, a program which Because most off-campus helps the officers track stolen apartment complexes do not items, and ideally, to facilitate guarantee the safety of the ten recovery. ants’ possessions, several off- “The best defense, though, is The Observer/Kevin Dalum campus students took advan to watch out for your proper tage of lesser-known services ty,” Johnson said. Julia Powers, a sophomore from Cavanaugh Hall, reached for a textbook at the bookstore yesterday. offered by Notre Dame Security “Just don’t leave your to protect valuables, he said. Walkman lying around, or it “The students brought us lots might ju s t... walk.” ERA fines Notre Dame $250,000 for failed emission tests By HEATHER COCKS ers and its sulfur dioxide limits by 500 tons per year. News Editor emissions once again met “Issuance of the fine EPA standards. basically wraps up our The University of Notre “These arc not ongoing legal negotiations with the Dame will pay a $250,000 or continual violations,” EPA about this,” he added, penalty for violations of the said Dennis Moore, direc re-emphasizing that the Clean Air Act that tor of Notre Dame Public plant is, and has been, occurred two years ago, Relations and Information. running safely. the U.S. Environm ental “The EPA would not have The recent agreement Protection Agency let us operate the plant if addressed the power announced yesterday. any violations were still plant’s current and future The agreement pertains being committed. It’s been maintenance and opera to the EPA’s January 1996 fine since [September] tions procedures, designed citation of Notre Dame’s 1996 when they finished to prevent any further vio on-campus power plant, making the changes [to the lations, Moore said. which operated three boil plant’s boilers],” he said. It also represented the ers that failed a series of The EPA citation noted EPA’s ongoing approval of emissions tests conducted that, if the boilers had the pollution control mea from 1991 to 1995. The continued unchecked, sures employed by the agency also deemed sulfur stack emissions could plant’s officials, one of dioxide emissions exces have topped the legal lim which involved using nat sive. its by as much as 400 tons ural gas in one boiler Notre Dame took steps to of particle matter per instead of coal. correct the problems, year. The University’s general The Observer/File Photo announcing in September Sulfur dioxide emissions operations budget will Notre Dame’s power plant failed a series of emissions tests conducted from 1991 to 1996 that the plant’s boil could have exceeded the cover the fine, Moore said. 1995. The University has been fined by the EPA and will pay $250,000. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, January 14, 1998 Inside C olumn Not just V Outside the Dome another day C_ ompiled.............................. from U-Wire reports Officials investigate Washington State student’s death PULLMAN, Wash. receives the information. off A young man's death in a residence Residents of Gannon were briefed We're back here in South hall has officials struggling to find on the incident Sunday at 9 p.m. Bend already. Well, it answers. Limited information was available at could be worse: We could During the early morning hours that time. The residence hall is be under six inches of ice Sunday, WSU police received a dis scheduled to host an alcohol educa without power in northern tress call from Gannon Hall. They tion session. Maine. But we’re here, and arrived at the first floor of the dorm An informational floor meeting is already there’s a holiday to find a white male unconscious on tentatively scheduled for Tuesday to around the corner. And the hallway floor. His two compan update residents and a worker from ions stood over him. Paramedics V counseling services will attend the one worth celebrating. I’ve done this before. Dan Cichalski attempted to revive Baron Godwin, meeting. The representative is Twice, actually: I wrote Assistant Managing Editor and he was taken to Pullman expected to help the students deal Inside Columns about Memorial Hospital. The 19-year-old with the emotional aspects of the Labor Day wondering why we students must man was pronounced dead by hospi Godwin’s body was taken to the tragedy. attend classes on a day when most other insti tal officials at 6:01 a.m. Whitman County coroner, and his Kurtis Kruse, a counselor for coun tutions and organizations shut down. But this WSU police report he was visiting a parents were notified Sunday at their seling services, said students should column is about a more important holiday. male friend who lives at Gannon Hall. home in Kennewick. not ignore their reactions to the inci Monday marks the observance of Martin Godwin and his two companions County coroner Pete Martin said dent. Luther King Day. In most civilized states in the were off campus drinking before the the cause of death was cardiac “It's important for them to under nation, government workers will have the day incident occurred. arrest. No report of a direct link to stand and accept their reactions,” he off and children will not have to attend school. “We’re waiting for the toxicology alcohol abuse has been released. said. “If the reaction goes beyond the But we will. That in itself is not so bad, but the report,” WSU police chief Bill Mercier Specific details of his heart stoppage person's ability to handle it, they fact that there will be barely any mention of the said.