NBC Telecasts Prompt Lights at Stadium by DEREK BETCHER Assimant News Eoitor
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Tuesday, August 27, 1996 • Vol. XXX No.2 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S First Wrigley Field, now Notre Dame Stadium ... NBC telecasts prompt lights at Stadium By DEREK BETCHER AssiMant News Eoitor Deviating from its original stadium expansion plan, the University announced in late-June that tlw renovated Notre Dame Stadium will now indudt~ permanent lights. The t~ause of this change - a University desire to accommodate NBC telecasts - is central to the contrast between administrative advocacy of the move and student cynicism. In .Jurw, the University oflicials justified their addition of lights as means to avoid using tempo rary lighting at late-season home football games. Tlwy ernphasizml that all Notre Dame home foot ball games will remain day games. "One of the benefits of our contract with NBC is the assurance it provides that Notre Dame home football games will not be moved to prime time for broadeast purposes ... Late season (day) home games do, however, require lighting to produce a quality telt~vision picture," Father William Btmw:harnp, the University's executive vice presi dtmt, explained in a .June announcement. Underlining NBC's role in the change is their agrnnnumt to pay for the lights. While in the past, tlw rwtwork has paid to bring in large portable lights, its new $700,000 commitment for a "quali ty television pietun~" is signilieant. Changes on tlw University's part to accommo date a large bank of lights atop the new press box and four smaller dusters on the stadium's four eornnrs arn comparatively small, according to Director of Facilities Engineering Michael Smith. The Observer/Mike Rums Construction plans for Notre Dame Stadium now include permanent lighting, c;tfter the Univ~rsity decided in June to add the see LIGHTS/ page 6 lights to increase the quality of NBC's telecasts of home football games. NBC w1ll pay for the lights. New dorms win praise Ohio school's logo But some may be just the start By HEATHER COCKS residents still Associate News Editor Schools across the country prefer Grace with mascots sporting a beard, green dothes, and a shamrock By ETf IAN HAYWARD are paying close attention to a A... ~o"-ialt" News Editor recent copyright controversy in which some Ohio residents After Ktwugh and O'Neill learned just how much the halls' first wedend of occu University of Notre Dame val ed the leprechaun as its logo pancy, many residents feel ues its leprechaun. almost 20 years ago. Besides wry positive ahout their new Catholic Central High School, being present on the walls of homes, nspt~eially about the situated in a predominantly the gymnasium, the symbol location of tlwir new (~olf Irish community in Springfield, also adorned the center of the <)uad dorms. Ohio, took pride in its ethnic basketball court. "It almost snnms like a heritage and long ago dubbed Despite the fact that the lep whoiP diffnrnnt university, its sports teams the Fighting rechaun has long been an ofli sincn wn're on the exact Irish. cial trademark of Notre Dame, opposit1~ sidn of campus (from The Observer/Mike Rums The school carried the con (; r a I' n l, " said junior Steve nection further when it select- McMullen. a K1wugh resident. The social spaces and location of O'Neill (shown above) and Keough see LOGO/ page 4 "It's also nice to be so much halls have earned high marks from many residents. But others prefer closnr to DeBartolo and to the square sections and the views that Grace Hall provided. COBA." so far from their building," make the new dorms more After pleading guilty, Sophomore Mik1~ Wassmer, offered junior Tom Daignault. social, and the new rooms an O'Neill rnsidnnt, says the Opinions varied with regard seem a lot more livable with new location senms much to hall structure. sinks in them. But there are Herro resigned from ND morn cnntral to campus than "I like it (O'Neill) a lot bet advantages and disadvan Observer SraffRepon charges of child molesting and that of (;race. ter than Grace," said junior tages," said Wassmer. sexual misconduct. "Thern always seems to be Mike Niemier. "The doubles "I liked the section cama Mark Herro, an associate pro Herro, who is enrolled in ther morn JWOple hanging out on are a nice size compared to raderie we had in Grace. It's fessor of electrical engineering, apy at a New Orleans treatment South <)uad than North and other dorms, and I like the a little tougher to get to know has resigned from the Notre center, is scheduled to turn him Mod Quad, so I like the loca new furniture and the dorm everyone in your section with Dame faculty, a University offi self in to the state Department tion a lot better," said unity. I wouldn't change any the long hallways," said cial con of Correction Dec. 2 to begin Wassmer. thing." Gacom. firmed serving his sentence. But sorn1~ are wary about "It (Keough) seems a lot "It seems to me that the Monday. He is to continue his treat thn new additions to the south smaller compared to Grace. new dorms were designed by Dennis ment until then. mul of campus. And Grace had a more people who assumed they Moore, direc Herro admitted in the molest "I have a ftwling South 'homey' structure with the knew what the students want tor of Notre ing charge that he fondled and Dining Hall will be very way the sections were laid ed but didn't really ask the Dame Public touched the boy while they were crowded (eompared to North) out," said McMullen. students how they would Relations, at the South Bend Racquet Club with 500 nnw people eating Keough and O'Neill have want them," said Daignault. said Herro in the frrst half of 1995. tlwn~ ... said sophomore David only four floors and longer Daignault also said he felt resigned this Herro He also said he had engaged Gacorn of Knough. hallways, as opposed to the the social space is not located summer after in sexual acts with the boy at his "I like the fact that I'm dos towers of Flanner and Grace, very well, that the wider he admitted to molesting a 14- home in June 1995. nr to the Bookstore and the which have 11 floors and stairways could present a year-old boy. Charges that accused Herro of dining hall, but the guys in square sections. hazard to students and that Herro was sentenced on July engaging in sexual behavior non: don't snem to like being "The long hallways seem to 22 to a year-and-a-half in prison see DORMS/ page 4 with the boy at Herro's Notre after he pleaded guilty to Dame office were dropped. ------- --------~------~---- page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, August 27, 1996 •INSIDE COlUMN • Wmu.o AT A GLANCE Where Sudanese airliner hijacked en route to Jordan LARNACA, Cyprus the release of any passengers." A Sudanese jetliner carrying 199 pas Authorities allowed the plane to refu sengers and crew members was el and take off on the four-hour flight to hijacked Monday en route to Jordan. A to London. hijacker claiming to have grenades and The plane's pilot said there were sev TNT demanded asylum in London. eral hijackers on board, police said, After refueling in Cyprus, Flight 150 of although Cyprus civil aviation director next? state-run Sudan Airways took off again Michael Herodotou said he believed bound for Britain. One hijacker there to be only one. It was not clear It was the Fall of promised to free all 186 passengers and Meaghan Smith whether Cyprus authorities had talked 1993 when "The Shirt" 13 crew members and surrender once to more than one man directly. proudly stated in white Viewpoint Editor the plane reached London, said Glafcos During its stay in Cyprus. the plane lettering, "The Xenos, a police spokesman in the con was parked away from the terminal Tradition Continues." Now it's the Fall of trol tower at Cyprus' Larnaca building at Larnaca, on the southern 1996 and if tradition continues to contin International Airport. edge of the Mediterranean island, and ue, it's a little hard to discern through the Even after the plane left Cyprus, was surrounded by police. It took off cloud of commotion on the Notre Dame police said they did not know how many for London just before 1 a.m. Tuesday campus. hijackers were aboard the Airbus 310, The plane left the Sudanese capital of Returning students cheered a little cheer or what their nationalities were. Khartoum about 6:30 p.m. en route to as they caught their first unobstructed During the flight's two hours on the Amman, Jordan, and was hijacked view of the Golden Dome reflecting the ground here, authorities had tried to about 25 minutes later, said South Bend sun. Many mouthed a silent win the release of at least the women Mohammad Qassem, an aviation offi but nonetheless enthusiastic "yes!" as they and children on the plane, police cial in the control tower in Cairo. cruised on past Notre Dame Avenue and spokesman Tasos Panayiotou said. The pilot contacted the Cairo tower, toward a residence off the beaten paths of "But the hijackers threatened to use told officials the plane had been campus. And still others felt a tear form hand grenades and TNT," he said. "We hijacked and requested permission to ing for "The House That Rockne Built," did our utmost, but were not able to win fly through Egyptian airspace to Rome.