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t \._ ... • • • HPC tnakes plans~ page~3 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and sain_! mary's Security, ACC officials investigate allegations by Tom Hay Senior StaffReporter . The_No~re Dame se~urity office an~ the ACC management are mvesttgattng allegatiOns that Umversity personnel acted violently and abusively toward t-shirt vendors at last Thursday's REO Speedwagon concert. In a letter to the editor published in yesterday's Observer, Alan Howard, professor of mathematics, accused the ACC officials of u_sing ''storm trooper tactics'' in expelling certain vendors outstde the ACt after the concert. Howard saia that he had witnessed three adult subjects subjecting the vendors to "both verbal and physical abuse" in what he considered a "vicious" manner, considering the nature of the offense. - In an interview yesterday, Howard again said that he didn't fet;l the <-:onduct of the ACC officials was justified. ''They were bemg qmte rough and nasty," he said, "and from what I saw, the vendors were not putting up any resistance." In ·an interview yesterdax, Howard again said that he didn't feel the conduct of the ACC officials was JUStified. 'They were being quite rough and nasty,' he said, 'and from what I saw, the vendors were not putting up any resistence.'. Howard described the officials as in their 40's or SO's while the vendors were in their early 20's. One of the adults involved was identified by Howard as Joseph Sassano, assistant director of the ACC. Mr.Sassano The Notre Dame ACC was the site of alleged brutality bgainst ve~dors last week. refused to make any comment concerning the issue. John Plouff, managing director of th~ AC.C, said the vendo~s did not have thepermissionof the Umverstty to sell goods m connection with die concert. He pointed out that certain groups have legitimated contracts with the ACC to sell at concerts, but that the persons in question were .acting independently. 'Only the people who work for the ACC are allowed to sell,'' Florida beachfront absorbs David said Plouff. ''These were bootleg salespeople outside, and we have ND security to get rid of them." It was unclear as of yesterday whether ND security officers COCOA BEACH Fla. (AP) - Though five deaths were curved ashore. "It's the first were involved in the alleged conflict. Hurricane Davi~ spared pop­ indirectly attributed to storm time the eye has been ~oing • Plouff said he could not comment on those alleged ''storm ulous southeast Florida yes­ conditions, evacuation along directly over land areas '·· fu trooper tactics'r of those involved because he did not have all terday, but then surged inland Florida's beachfronts appeared Florida, said forecaster Paul the facts at hand. ''Im not certain myself what happened, but I to carve a path of destruction to have averted higher loss of Hebert at the National Hur­ am conducting investigation into these matters,' he said. through beachfront condom­ life. ricane Center. "It's just been "We certainly don't condone violence in these matters, but iniums and trailers south of the Wind scoured beaches from inching off to the west but it we also don't condone selling in competition with legitimate nation's space-launch complex. Cape Canaveral- • where mis­ f.looks as if it wori't go far contrctual agreements,'' Plouff said. Furious winds blew refrigera­ siles already on launch pads inland.'' Joseph Wall, ND director of security, echoed Plouff's tors and television sets out of were lashed down - south as Power outages were wide­ assertion that the vendors were unauthorized to sell, and were wrecked apartments like toys David swung inland at midday spread and Martin County resi­ therefore asked to leave the grounds. According to Wall, it was and tossed ruined trailers a shortly after passing the man­ dents were told to expect no only because they refused this request that they were ''escorted quarter of a mile along wind­ sion enclave of Palm Beach. electricity until today. away." swept beaches, police said. Until· then, the giant lstorm At 6 p.m. EDT, a hurricane We did receive some complaints from vendors about alleged Forecasters said the storm had remained weakened since warning was extended north of violence," said Wall, "but righ-now it is only an allegation." would likely return to the sea stunning the Caribbean Islands daytona Beach to Fernandina Both Wall and Plouff expressed concern about getting before the end of the day and of Puerto lRico, Dominica and Beach, at. the .Georgia border, information from all the parttes involved. track toward Georgia and the the Dominican Republic with at and ~remamed m effect to Boca Wall said he hope to have all the facts straight by Friday. He Carolinas; possibly reaching least 640 deaths. , Raton and the Northwestern indicated that the evidence would then be turned over to the those coasts by tomght. Then near noon its eye Bahamas. A hurricane watch Administration for further consideration. was in effect alonghe coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. The storm's center at 10 p.m. Best photos ever was at latitude 28.1 north and longitude 80. S west, or nearly over Melb_ourne. It was moving Pioneer data pleases space scientists north at 8 to 10 mph with peak winds of 90 mph. It was expected to continue that MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) to have an atmosphere, some had not gone through the long Allen of the !University of course for several hours, which would take it back over water - Pioneer 11, i after blazing a scientists have speculated it processing operation to refine Iowa, "there is no radiation might harbor some form of life. tts colour and remove problems hazard whatever for ·'spacecraft and allow it to maintain or trail other spa,deships will follow, increase its strength. · left excited ~bentists poring Recent Earth based measure­ with the radio transmissions, and their' electronic apparat­ over their five best-ever pict­ ments , however, suggest its which traveled nearly 1 billion tus." The National Hurricane Cen­ ures of the giant moon Titan surface temperatures may be miles from Titan to Earth. Chief Pioneer scientist John ter was also keeping a close yesterday. '"I feel really very nearly 300 degrees below zero. "There's a hint of something Wolfe, assessing the misston's watch on Hurricane Frederic, good about the fact we have the That would considerably dim in the picture's, but it's too preliminary result, said,: which could follow in David's data (and pictures} at all: and the prospect of life there .. early to tell whether it's real ·"Things are going very, very path. even better that it looks like the Pioneer's pictures and meas­ features (on the moon) or data -well. .. better than anyone could Hurricane Frederic at 9 p.m. data are going ·to be useful urements, still being analyzed, dro,t:>outs,'' he said. have expected." EDT was located near latitude in probing the atmosphere of should provide new clues of Ptoneer. meanwhile. hurtled "In terms of Pioneer's scout­ 18.3 north, longitude 64.0 west, Titan,'' a unique and fascinat­ Titan, its cloudy atmosphere from Saturn at more than ing or pathfinding mission, it about SO miles east of the island ing world in its own right, said and temperature. 23,000 mph yesterday. has more than fulfilled its of St. \Martin and 130 miles Martin Tomasko of the Univer­ One of the ftrst pictures,. It found weak radiation zones duties,'' he said. ·east of San Juan, Puerto Rico. sity of Arizona. displayed on television screens around the planet, in contrast Trailing behing Pioneer are It was expected to pass about 30 Pioneer flew past Saturn on· at the National Aeronautics and with the dan_gerously harsh two even more sophisticated miles north of St. Thomas about Saturday, then swung within Space Administration's Ames environment of Jupiter. Pion­ spaceships· Voyagers 1 and 2. midnight and S0-60 miles north about 220,000 miles of the Research Center, showed a neer sustained some radiation Both made spectacular flights of San Juan about daybreak. mother planet. fuzzy, reddish-yellow ball. damage when it sailed past past Jupiter earlier this year Because Titan is the only Tomasko stressed the image Jupiter in 1974. and are due at Saturn during moon in the solar sysrem known represented very raw data that But at Saturn, said James Van the next two years. (continued on page 2] . j -------- --~- -- --- The Ob&crv(...,. Tuesday, September 4, 1979 - pa,ge 6 Molarity by Michael Molinelli --~:,!1~- -- n '· ~, NSTA CAliA lhJIVERsiTy OF N~E: ~E JJ()ft{f I:W1£ .INDIANA US!t Possible lot expansion AM640 may solve parking woes NO I ~I !>AMI 'S P~O<.kLSSIVf SOUND by Robert G. Powers out, however, that problems will compound in the coming Despite the problems of years as the campus continues WSND RADIO limned parking to students, to enlarge. faculty, and staff at Notre Dan Ryan, a transfer student Dame, solutions may well be from Bostorr College, is sur­ ANNOUNCES forthcoming. According to Joe pri<:t>d at the parking problem Wall, director ofsecurity, funds at Notre Dame. Auditions and are now available for expan­ ·!JC has a lot mort~ com­ sion. At present, however, the muters than Notre Dame," he Applications direction in which the expan­ said, "but they seem to have sion will occur remains uncer­ solved their problem. BC for tain. utilized their space much more AM-FM OJ'S Wall explaineq that parking effectively than Notre Dame." problems are not uncommon for Wall suggested that no one in News and Sports Broadcasting a major university.

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