Dame in Fire Notre Landmark Damaged

Quake update - page 4 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1985. Notre Dame landmark damaged in fire By d a n Mc Cu l l o u g h “There were more candles than become over heated and chip or fall News Editor I’ve ever seen,” he said. “That’s be off in blocks, he said. cause people had all afternoon to Many of the stones that compose A fire swept through the Our Lady light them.” the outer wall of the Grotto were of Lourdes Grotto on the Notre Bland said the fire began at 2:58 cracked and large pieces of stone lay Dame campus early yesterday mor a.m. yesterday when the heat caused on the ground in front of the ning, cracking the stone walls, mel some candles to fuse together, forwrought-iron racks. ting the wrought iron candle racks ming the blaze. The fire enveloped The maintanence department has and blackening the statue of the Vir other candles, melting the wrought already contacted a contractor to gin Mary. iron candle racks and filling the in repair the damaged Grotto, accord No injuries were reported from terior of the Grotto with flames. The ing to Father Daniel Jenky, rector of the fire, although damage was blaze then blew upwards, blacken Sacred Heart Church. The church is “substantial, ” according to Glenn ing the statue of the Virgin Mary and responsible for the upkeep of the Terry, director of Notre Dame scorching the trees above the Grotto. Security. Grotto. Jenky said no timetable or cost es A cost estimate of the damage has The structure of the Grotto,timate has been established yet for not yet been determined. which is made up of great boulders the repair of the structure. Die fire started when the candles weighing up to three tons, was ap Sacristans from Sacred Heart in the Grotto overheated, according parently not seriously damaged. Church entered the burned-out to Jack Bland, Notre Dame fire safety Firefighters from the Notre Dame Grotto yesterday morning to director. “There was a build-up of fire department responded to a tip retrieve the donations from the heat from all the candles lit over the from an anonymous caller, said large metal boxes beneath the weekend by the visitors,” he said. Bland. The fire was extinguished twisted metal of the candle racks. The campus was filled with with more than 500 gallons of water While they were able to take the visitors last weekend because of the and with foam. Bland said the foam money from one of the boxes, the Notre Dame-Michigan State football was needed because water would be other box’s lock was melted and game. ineffective on the hydrocarbons and they were unable to open it, said The Grotto apparently had more wax from the candles. sacristan Anthony Szakaly. candles than usual because of the The firemen put out the fire at Father Edmund Joyce, executive football weekend, said Anthony 3:35 a.m., 37 minutes after it was vice president of the University, and Szakaly, a sacristan from Sacrted reported. Father William Beauchamp, ex- Heart Church. Candles were placed Most of the damage from the fire beneath the racks, as well as in the was caused by "spawling,” said see GROTTO, page 5 candle holders. Bland. Spawling occurs when stones A fire early yesterday morning left the Grotto at Notre Dame with extensive damage (photos left and above). An estimate has not yet been given on the cost to repair the 89-year-old replica o f the shrine at Lourdes, France, (story above). Senate debates move to see Observer books By CHRIS BEDNARSKI allow them to monitor its ex Senior Staff Reporter penditures. “We pay 20 to *25,000 in ad NAACP chapter adds minority focus “It’s a student newspaper and the vertising to The Observer each year. students should have a right to see That’s 11 percent of the students its books,” said Student Body Presi money,” Broussard said at last By MAE WHITEMAN ing Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Mary’s student or faculty member dent Bill Mealy, during a discussion night’s meeting. “We wonder why News Staff College students on campus and who agrees to comply with the prin of The Observer at last night’s Stu the Observer made an * 11,000 beyond.” ciples and policies of the Association dent Senate meeting. profit last year and their rates went Notre Dame's newly-chartered "We want to enlighten the public may become a member. After a meeting last Tuesday, u p .” chapter of the NAACP will attempt with any vital information we The organization had its begin twelve student leaders had re Hamilton said last Wednesday to answer the University's "apparent research or attain through the na ning when West and nine fellow stu quested to see The Observer’s finan that The Observer is already ac inability to recruit a respectable tional chapter and provide support dents approached the Indiana state cial statements from last year. countable to students because it number of black students," accord groups for minority students,” he president of the NAACP, who Observer Editor in-Chief Sarah operates under the University’s ing to Gary Cooper, a member of the said. outlined how to start a chapter. All Hamilton declined to release the Budget Unit Control system. chapter’s organizational committee. Lester Flemons, who helped form summer students worked in statements earlier in the week. “The biggest threat I see is that The first meeting of the chapter of the organizational committee, preparation for the beginning of the Junior Class President Jim they want to monitor our ex the National Association for the Adagreed with West. chapter. Domagalski, speaking at last night’s penditures and I think there is a risk vancement of Colored People was “I wonder if the administrators As stated in the constitution for senate meeting, said The Observer for all students of losing an indepen held Sunday and consisted primarily realize or care about the minority college chapters, the purpose and should open its books to students. dent newspaper,” Hamilton said. of its leaders informing the members situation,” he said. aims of the organization “shall be to “It’s not an attempt by anyone to The Observer currently is paying of the organization’s purposes and Flemons also quoted the stance improve the political, educational, tell them what to do," said off two loans of approximately goals. behind the NAACP: "Equal justice social and economic status of Domagalski. “It’s a student right to *100,000 for a new computer sys Cooper said the chapter hopefully should be done to man as man.” minority groups; to eliminate racial see their books.” tem and typesetter, Hamilton said would be a satisfactory answer to Approximately 40 people at prejudice; to keep the public aware Lee Broussard, Student Activities last Wednesday. “Notre Dame’s apparent inability to tended the meeting. The low tur of the adverse effects of racial dis Board manager, had called the She also said increased costs, in recruit a respectable number of nout, West said, was “indicative of crimination; and to take all lawful ac meeting last Tuesday of student cluding those in phone rates and black students and the need for the the Notre Dame study ethic.” tion to secure its elimination ..." government and student media newsprint, necessitated the increase improvement of the disposition of Over 40 people currently are The meeting ended with the leaders to discuss The Observer. in ad rates. black students at Notre Dame.” signed up as members, but West said introduction of Melva Martin, presi The leaders, citing The Observer's Senator K.C. Culum said at last Carlton West, the organizational they hoped to enroll 300 to 400 dent of the South Bend chapter. increase in advertising rates this night’s meeting that The Observer committee chairman, said he hopes members. year, voted to request that the stu see NAACP, page 3 "to provide a forum for issues affect Any enrolled Notre Dame or Saint dent newspaper open its books and see SENATE, page 4 The Observer Tuesday, September 24, 1985 - page 2 Only stereotypes make women In Brief different on both sides of U.S. 31 “It is never too late to give up our prejudices.” Kevin Hurley,the Howard Hall freshman injured in a - Henry David Thoreau hit-and-run accident on Sept. 7, remained in critical condition in After receiving my acceptance letter from Saint Theresa A. , intensive care last night, a Memorial Hospital intensive care nurse Mary’s in high school, I happened to mention to a said. Hurley is recovering from multiple head and abdominal injuries friend, who was a year younger, where I was planning to Guarino 1 suffered in the early morning accident. - The Observer go to school. He proceeded to congratulate me on a fine choice, but included a warning: “Keep away from those Saint M ary’s Executive Editor Notre Dame girls. My brother told me they hate you SMC’s.” Totaling $9 m illion so far, proceeds from the all-star Such was my introduction to the women of Notre The danger of stereotyping is it can perpetuate an FarmAid benefit concert appeared to be running short of the goal Dame. unending cycle. By not wanting to meet and get to yesterday but organizers said they would be happy if the event trig I came to South Bend the following fall ready to join know each other, nothing can be learned. When not gered new interest in farmers’ problems.

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