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Thursday, October 16, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 39 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • FACUlTY SENATE ' TJ /e 're building our endowment as a f f way of controlling our destiny. ' -Father Edward Malloy University president Malloy outlines goals for senate By DEREK BETCHER endowment] is probably the most goal of raising $767 million by Dec. Associate News Editor critical area we need to control," 31, 2000. Malloy said. "We're building the To illustrate the growing impor Notre Dame will continue to endowment as one way to control tance of gift and endowment fund increase financial aid offerings, our destiny." ing, Malloy cited figures from the student body diversity, campus The demand for flat tuition rates University's standing plans to add construction and its academic of increase constrains annual 150 faculty by the year 2000. rankings pursuant to expanding its funding, Malloy explained to Salaries for nearly all of the 35 funding, University president assembled faculty. The University, faculty who have been added thus Father Edward Malloy said during he noted, has set a five percent far are drawn from the his annual address to the Faculty mark as its average rate of tuition University's annual operating bud Senate last night. increase. get - a trend which Malloy says Greater financial resources - "The national inflation rate is needs to stop because every year especially in the form of perma clearly different than the academic over 50 percent of the University's nent endowment-based funds - one," Malloy noted. budget is locked into salary and will help alleviate nearly every Rising utility and maintenance benefits costs. issue touched upon at last night's costs, "significantly higher" health "Our flexibility, presently, is dri meeting, according to Malloy. care costs and this spring's staff ven largely by our success in "Financial aid continues to be reclassification all contribute to fundraising campaigns," Malloy one of the great challenges which Notre Dame's growing operating noted. faces this University," Malloy told budget, Malloy reported. The need Funding success in any field will the senate. to offset these rising costs rein help raise the University's ranking Student aid has increased the forces the role of the Generations in publications such as U.S. News past six years, he said, but contin fundraising campaign, another and World Report. Despite the uing and even accelerating that University endeavor upon which arbitrary nature of such listings, The Observer/Sam Assaf trend will rely on expanding the Malloy briefed the senate. moving Notre Dame closer to the Financial aid, campus diversity and Notre Dame's academic University's already growing "We're a little ahead of sched top of ranking experts' lists is reputation can all be improved with t~e aid ?f in~reased ule," he said; Notre Dame is 70 fundraising, Father Edward Malloy explained dunng h1s annu endowment. al address to the Faculty Senate last night. "As a private institution [our percent of the way to meeting its see MONK I page 6 • STUDENT SENATE Committees report, but no new proposals By TIM LOGAN the Gender Relations committee News Writer was security at the University. Specifically mentioned were the Discussion at yesterday's lack of lighting and security call Student Senate meeting focused phones in University parking lots on reports by the various senate and around the lakes and the committees updating their twenty-four hour Detex at progress during the past week. women's residence halls. The Residence Life Committee Student Body president Matt informed that they were still Griffin also reported on the working on the repairs of the Student Govern-ment's upcom- Lyons Hall bas- .,\iii~~ ~en~~~- ing report to . · The Observer/Sam Assaf ketball courts. - !!~!! the Board of Sociologist Jack Levin spoke about the nature of sociopathic killers in last night's lecture. Another issue Trustees. held last night. w h i c h The report Residence Life will propose has been dis the creation Levin reveals killer traits cussing is the of a trans introduction of portation By PATRICK McGOVERN entertaining. After all, they "I deplore the celebrity sta pool for the a shuttle ser . iggins News Writer could happen to anyone. tus bestowed on serial vice from ~t!tw:u, g~~~~r;;n: But murder can be so extra killers. It adds tremendous South Quad 7::7~~~~~tm;m Jiow do you tell the differ ordinary, so hideous and so insult to injury to the vic dorms to the the Center ence between a sociopathic grotesque that it might as tims' families and gives the 02, 06, and off-campus parking for Social Concerns provides killer and an innocent man? well be fiction." killers exactly what they lots. These issues have been dis transportation for student "The answer is simple," Levin then noted how this want. cussed for several weeks. groups. The report will be pre according to Jack Levin. fascination can be problem "Take a random sample The Gender Relations sented to the Board of Trustees, "The sociopathic killer will atic. asking someone to name Committee reported on its meet who are on campus for this give you a better story. He'll "This distinction between five serial murderers. Then ing from earlier in the week. One weekend's USC game. look more innocent than the a character in a movie or a ask them to name five vice topic it discussed, which has also Attendance at the senate innocent guy." book versus a real life killer presidents. There would be been covered by the Residence meeting was too low to reach a Last night Levin gave a is sometimes lost on people a lot of trouble with the vice Life Committee, was the provi quorum. Twenty of the 28 sena lecture titled "Overkill: who are fascinated by mass presidents," said Levin. sion of laundry service for men tors attended the meeting, which Serial Murder Exposed." He murder," he said. Levin also spoke on the who live in dorms which do not was rendered informational due spoke on the misconcep Levin illustrated how seri popular misconceptions have facilities of their own. One to the poor attendance. Without tions the public has about al murderers attain celebri about serial murderers ver proposal brought up by the com 21 voting members present, no serial murderers and the ty status and become glam sus the real life characteris mittee was that one night each formal decisions can be made. glorification of murder in orized by displaying trading tics. Serial killers, he week be set aside in women's The poor attendance was popular culture. cards for murderers such as explained, are not the laundry rooms for students from attributed to last-minute change "Many people actually David Berkowitz and paint crazed, glassy eyed lunatics the affected men's dorms to in meeting time. The meeting escape into murder," said ings by John Wayne Gacy. that the public expects. wash their clothes. However. was moved because its time con Levin. "Muggings and car "They would not be worth "The frightening truth is this would only present a tempo flicted with the student govern jackings are all too real. 50 cents if he hadn't mur rary solution. ment's review of its upcoming Therefore, they arc not very dered 33 people," he said. Another issue brought up by report to the Board of Trustees. see KILLER I page 6 page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Thursday, October 16, 1997 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLO AT A GLANCE Euthyphro II Quake kills seven, causes building damage in central Chile SANTIAGO, Chile crushed by collapsed walls. A powerful earthquake rocked much The most heavily damaged ama was I: "Ah, sir. I see by your Dave Freddoso of Chile on Tuesday night, crushing around the epicenter, where a number clothes that you must be Assistant News Editor some homes, sparking several land of old adobe houses caved in, especially a business major." slides and killing seven people, author in the cities of Vicuna and lila pel. BUS: "What do you ities reported. Some roads were blocked by slides mean? I'm only wearing shorts and aT-shirt." The 10:02 p.m. tremor measured 6.8 and an emergency bridge built to I: "Never mind." and was centered near Illapel, more replace one that had been swept away in BUS: "No, really, how could you tell? What's than 300 miles north of Santiago, last July's storms collapsed, interrupting your major, anyway?" according to the National Earthquake traffic on the Pan American highway. I: "Classical Greek." Information Center in Golden, Colo. Telephone and electric power were BUS: "Classical Greek?! Ha! I've never heard But it was felt along a 750-mile north temporarily interrupted in some of the of that major." south stretch of Chile, including this afl"ected areas. 1: "(Sigh) My friend (the other Greek major) capital city of 5 million people, and Atlantic Rnnan Fuentalba, regional governor of Ocean and I put up with a lot of flack from friends even across the Andes mountains in the epicenter region, told the state tele about our major, although I don't know why." Argentina. vision that "after the seare, the situation BUS: "But how on earth did you decide to Interior Minister Carlos Figueroa is under control." major in Greek?" said seven people were killed, inelud In some parts of Argentina, people I: "Several reasons, I guess. Most importantly, ing an entire family of five, in the cities 2oo miles rushed from their homes, fearing the I like it." of Ovalle, Coquimbo and Pueblo Nuevo, 2oo km structures would buckle, but no serious BUS: "You're studying something because you which are near lllapel.