ACCENT: Holy Cross Associates in Chile Balmy Mostly sunny, high in the mid VIEWPOINT: Don’t overlook poverty 70s. JEJ T h e O b s e r v e r ___________________ VOL . XXI, NO. 43 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1987 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Former hostage to speak at ND By SEAN S. HICKEY Damascus, Syria, in Nov. 1984. Staff Reporter “They met with Syrian offi­ cials, Palestinian ■‘groups and A former Beirut hostage will almost anyone they could find, be speaking tonight at Galvin including representatives of Life Science at 8 in room 283. Syrian prime-minister Assad,” A Beirut bureau chief for the said Gaffney. He added it is un­ Cable News Network and pres­ clear whether Levin escaped ently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow because of his own ingenuity or at Princeton University, Jerry his wife’s efforts. Levin was abducted by the Is­ “The mystery is whether he lamic Jihad on March 7, 1984 escaped or was released in­ while walking to work in directly,” said Gaffney. “Most Beirut. The militant Shi’ite observers feel that it was spe­ group held him prisoner for 343 cial that he got away as op­ days until February 1985. posed to a disguised release. “Notre Dame had a secret Anyway it is clear that Lucille connection in Levin’s escape,” Levin met her husband’s cap­ said Father Patrick Gaffney, tors.” an assistant professor and a Islamic Jihad, a radical Middle East specialist. Shi’ite Muslim group issued a That connection was statement the week after they Landrum Bolling, director of released Levin saying they the Notre Dame Institute of decided to do so because they Ecumenical Studies in Israel, determined he was not a sub­ who was contacted by Levin’s versive. wife and aided in Levin’s Levin’s wife, who is very ac­ release. tive in a church group in Wash­ Frustrated with the State De­ ington D C., knew Landrum partment efforts, Mrs. Levin Bolling, the former president of became the first relative of a Earlham College (in Central hostage to speak out publicly Indiana) and former executive Stranger in the night The Observer/Jim Carroll in the news media, according of the Lilly Foundation, which to Gaffney. Through her is an educationalphilandropic In the garb of a hobo, Joe Alfanso wields a stickcampus to Friday and Saturday nights in an adult re­ church, she contacted Bolling guard Sorin Hall Halloween night. The sinister sen­enactment of trick-or-treat. and flew with Bolling to s e e LEVIN, page 4 tinel was one of the many students who stalked the ND raises 2nd highest development amount ever By KIMBERLYTRENNER raising categories,” Joseph Sandman. “Some of the pro­ buildings, fellowships, scholar­ graduate program which we Senior Staff Reporter Sandman, Director of Develop­ grams used for development ships and libraries. will not let suffer, unlike Har­ ment for Notre Dame. Recent are a strong annual fund pro­ Regarding this year’s fund­ vard, Yale and other great re­ Notre Dame’s Department of rankings place us first in sup­ gram, a campaign once a de­ raising, Sandman said, “We search universities.” Development raised $45.8 mil­ port from parents, tenth in cor­ cade and strong planned expect to increase the amount Sandman said that people lion dollars in fiscal 1987, the porate matching gifts and giving,” added Sandman. of cash we are going to also give to Notre Dame in or­ second highest amount of seventeenth in total dollars secure. .We are shooting for der to help the University money in the institution’s his­ raised, according to Sandman. Notre Dame is currently a goal of $48 million.” achieve its aim of being able to tory. Sandman attributes the suc­ raising money for its $300 mil­ “We are definitely ahead of compete with other great uni­ cess of the fund-raising to new lion campaign, ‘Notre Dame: last year’s rate,” he added. versities in the area of re­ The figure is only topped by development programs. “ In A Stategic Moment,’ which was Sandman cited several search. “We are striving the $48.3 million raised in fiscal the last four years since Dr. announced in May. It is the reasons for Notre Dame’s towards excellence in graduate 1986 and is almost double the Sexton,' the Vice President of largest fund-raising effort ever tradition of generous support education and research,” he $24.2 million received in fiscal University Relations, has undertaken by a Catholic uni­ from alumnae, parents, corpo­ said. “We know we have got to 1984. All of the money included taken over, we have imple­ versity. At the end of fiscal rations and friends. “Our con­ improve.” in these figures are cash con­ mented a number of new devel­ 1987, a total of $216 million, or stituency endorses the mission “The university is commit­ tributions, not pledges. opment programs which for the 72 percent, had been given or of the university,” he said. ted to the preservation of its “Notre Dame continues to first time have given Notre committed to the five year “What we do is not being strong Catholic character,” rank high on the list of private Dame a comprehensive devel­ campaign. The money raised in pursued by other universities. universities in most fund- opment program,” said this campaign will go towards We have a very strong under­ see FUNDS, page 5 4th district council race to revive old rivalry By ERIC M. BERGAMO the 1983 election, surpassing South Bend and also has expe­ on the council. She is also chair­ “Five Points” area. Senior Staff Reporter Heyde by 1,400 votes. rience in managing a small man of the Committee of the Heyde is running on opposi­ This year in the Democratic business. Whole. tion to the Community Oriented The upcoming election for primary, Puzzello won a close Heyde, 42, is employed as aPolice (COP) Program and is South Bend’s 4th District city race against challenger Alfred regional marketing director. A seeking to abolish the program. council seat will be round 2 in Kirstis by 86 votes. graduate of Indiana University The COP program has estab­ a political rivalry that began in The 4th District comprises at South Bend, Heyde worked lished neighborhood police sec­ 1983. most of the Northeast Neigh­ 19&7 10 years as a detective sergeant tors. Heyde says the program Democratic incumbent Ann borhood. The district is also for the county police. has been a failure in preventing Puzzello seeks to return to the home to Democratic mayoral Puzzello is stressing efforts an increase in criminal and council for a second term, run­ nominee Joe Kernan. to relieve traffic flow problems drug activity and a waste of ning in opposition to Republi­ Puzzello, 46, is an elemen­ Vote on major streets that cross the money. can nominee Richard Heyde, tary school teacher and a district in her campaign. Puzzello has warned that the whom she defeated in the last graduate of Illinois College. Puzzello also lists efforts to program would be costly to dis- race four years ago. Puzzello She obtained a master’s degree Puzzello serves as chairman alleviate crime and parties of won 62 percent of the vote in from Indiana University at of the Public Safety Committee Notre Dame students in the se e RACE, page 5 page 2 The Observer Monday, November 2, 1987 In Brief Many tourists seem to be Air Force Academystudent leaders and an Academy administrator apologized to Leprechaun Brian Stark last blinded by cameraflashes week for incidents that occurred during the Oct. 17 game in Colorado Springs. Academy cadets gave Stark a bloody A friend of mine loves taking snapshots. But nose and later blind-sided Stark, sending him into an alu­ she pulls out her camera at the most awkward minum bench. Stark said, however, he has no hard feelings times. towards the cadets. “It was all in fun,” he said, “I don’t Restaurant employees in at least three states resent that.” -The Observer fear our approach because she always hands her camera to a waitress and insists she take News Editor a picture of the five or six of us gathered around one side of our dinner table. And the flash and commotion bring stares from all over the room. Of Interest Though the whole process annoys everyone involved at least a little, she does accomplish something important. She captures a memory, The Grace Hall Debate topic for tonight is “Big and that’s the whole point of snapshot photog­ time school athletics do not contribute significantly to the raphy. But some people let flash photography overall education mission of American colleges.” The blind them to the things they should be seeing. debate is the second in the series of the debates. It will While in Washington, DC., recently, I be held tonight at 9 in the Grace hall pit and will be judged watched a bunch of tourists pile off a bus. They by Athletic Director Richard Rosenthal. -The Observer immediately began scurrying around taking snapshots. The scattered, lighted memorials of Junior Dogbook makeup pictures will be taken the mall in Washington, D C., looked beautiful, tonight only from 6 to 10 in 307 LaFortune Student Center. but the pitch-black night guaranteed that none This will be the last chance for juniors to get their picture of the tourists’ photos would come out. taken for the book. -The Observer At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a hus­ band and wife stood in front of the statue of the Amnesty International will be meeting at 6 p.m.