North Quad Blackout Dims Lights but Not Student Pranks
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Libya - page 4 VOL XX, NO. 128 MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1986 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s North Quad blackout dims lights but not student pranks By CLIFF STEVENS blackout to a short in the electrical approxim ately 6:30 a.m. yesterady. Copy Editor feeder line running between Farley Hall resident Anne Marie Cavanaugh Hall and LaFortune. He O’Brien said that the crowd of stu The lights went out in several said the short triggered a power dents who gathered on the quad North Quad buildings late Saturday plant breaker that shut down the af when the power went out was night, but the quad lit up with stu fected buildings’ power. "w ild .” dents’ fireworks and a bonfire, w it After the short was determined, “There was a lot of firecrackers nesses said. power was turned on for every af going off," said Breen Phillips Hall Power failed at approximately fected building except LaFortune so resident Leslie Heidenreich. A 11)0 p.m., according to Director of that its line could be repaired, DeLee bonfire was also started on the quad, U tilities John DeLee. said. according to Heidenreich. Cavanaugh Hall, Breen Phillips “ We didn't want to turn it back on Although Cavanaugh Hall’s semi- Hall, Farley Hall, Zahm Hall, until we found where the problem formal was put in the dark, the dan LaFortune Student Center, Student was, ” he said. cing continued in the hallways, said Health Center and the Administra He said electricity was restored rector Father Matthew Miceli. tion Building lost power during the approximately one and a half hours “ The SYR continued upstairs with failure, according to DeLee. later to every building except see DARK, page 3 DeLee attributed the cause of the LaFortune, which regained power at Titan 34D explosion investigated Associated Press huge toxic cloud of rocket propel highly classified KH-11 photo recon lants over the Santa Barbara County naissance satellite or a new, VANDENBF.RG Calif. The Air coast. previously unknown spy satellite, Force has appointed a missile group The cloud drifted out to sea, the analysts Paul Stares and Jeffrey Ric- commander to head an investigation Air Force said, and the nearby com helson said Friday. into an explosion that destroyed a munity of Lompoc was not endan Stares is a m ilitary space expert at Titan 34D rocket and its classified gered. Fifty-eight people were the Brookings Institution in Was payload, believed to be a spy treated at the base hospital for skin hington, and Richelson is a military satellite, Friday. and eye irritations, and three were reconnaissance expert at American It was the second failed Titan 34D admitted. University in Washington. launch in a row. A rocket carrying a Col. Lee Heinz, commander o f the The O bserver/David Floiher KH-1 I spy satellite exploded just 6595th Missile Test Group, was Friday’s explosion, coupled with after lifto ff Aug. 28. named president of the panel inves the grounding of the space shuttle Italian salesmanship The rocket was barely off the tigating the explosion. fleet after January’s Challenger dis Rebecca Hetland, Len Profenna, and Fred Pugliano ( left to ground when it blew up in a fireball Although the Air Force said the aster, imperils the U.S. military spy right) officers o f tbeltilian Club, sell t-shirts and canole Friday at that showered the seaside launch payload was classified, the Titan al satellite program, Stares and Richel the Fieldbouse Mall. pad w ith flaming debris and spread a most certainly carried either a son said. Relatives condemn United States for death of Kilbum in Lebanon Associated Press we had, and now we have found that, "executed" by the Arab Revolution instead, we hit a hornet’s nest. I ary Cells to avenge the U.S. attack APTOS, Calif. - Family members of shudder to think about what will against Libya earlier in the week. Peter Kilbum, an American hostage happen," said Repetto, 56, of San Ammerman said Kilburn’s body killed in apparent retaliation for the Jose, Calif. arrived about noon and was taken to U.S. air raid on Libya condemned She and other members o f the Kil- an undisclosed location for a foren yesterday the U.S. government for burn family gathered here at the sic examination. the attack and said it would escalate home of Tim Kilbum, Kilburn’s nep The body was flown aboard a U.S. violence in the area. hew, to call upon the world to join Air Force C-141 transport plane “I don’t think Peter will be the them in a day o f prayer A p ril 25. from the U.S. Rhein Main Air Base in only one that w ill be sacrificed," said Kilburn’s body was flown to West Germany, where It had arrived Jeanne Repetto, Peter Kilburn’s Andrews A ir Force Base near Was Saturday from the M iddle East, said sister-in-law, in an interview . hington yesterday, said Bruce Am- Master Sgt. Dave McMahon, a U.S. Repetto compared the U.S. air raid merman, a State Department m ilitary spokesman at the base, near on Libya to throwing a bomb out a spokesman. Frankfurt. w in d o w to k ill a pest. His body was discovered with Kilbum, of San Francisco, was a r r n o to “By throwing the bomb out the those of two Britons in Lebanon’s librarian at the American University A US. helicopter takes o ff from Lebanon Saturday amid uncon window, we’ve blown out the win central mountains Thursday, along firmed reports it was carrying the remains of slain American dow, breaking whatever protection with a note saying they had been see KILBURN, page 4 hostage Peter Kilbum . CBS Sunday morning news anchor to address students By DAVID T. LEE Red Smith Lecture Series since its journalistic experiences in three returned to his native land this News Staff inception four years ago, said, books, the latest of which is the year after leaving in 1925. "Kuralt is considered to be one of best seller "On the Road with The Red Smith Lecture Series, Charles Kuralt, anchor of the the best, if not the best, stylists of Charles Kuralt." sponsored by Coca-Cola USA, CBS news program “Sunday Mor all of broadcasting." After covering stories about began in 1982 “to honor certain ning," will give his thoughts on Schmuhl added," Much of his Latin America, Africa, and Viet journalists for the high standards print and broadcast journalism work reveals an abiding concern nam, Kuralt began his “On the that they hold ( and) to recognize tom orro w as part o f the Red for American history, literature, Road" series in 1967. He writing accomplishments in jour Smith le ctu re Series. and democratic values. That con graduated from the University of nalism," said Schmuhl, adding Described as "the laureate of cern, and the engaging way he North Carolina, where he served that visiting lecturers "provide the common man" by Time presents it, makes him a most ap as editor of the Daily Tar Heel, their reflections on American magazine, Kuralt is best known propriate lecturer ” for the before joining CBS in 1957. journalism or some of its for his "On the Road" series series. Kuralt will arrive at Notre problem s." which covers the everyday Kuralt’s w o rk has earned him, Dame directly from the Soviet Past lecturers have included aspects of American life. in addition to two Emmy Awards, Union, where he Is covering a Charles Kuralt American Studies professor a Broadcaster of the Year award concert performed by pianist see KURALT, page 3 Robert Schmuhl, chairman of the in 1983. He has recounted his Vladimir Horowitz, who The Observer Monday, April 21, 1986 - page 2 In Brief Good ole days’ can be found in future as well as in past Lloyd’s of London has agreed to Expensive fingers. “ Well, when I was growing up, I had to walk six miles insure the hands of magician Doug Henning for *3 million, or to school in blizzard conditions. You know, a loaf of *300,000 a finger. “A magician is only as good as his hands," Henning bread was only a nickel ah, the good-ole days.” Scoff said. “ W ithou t them there w o uld be no illusions. I ’d be like a dancer Most everyone knows a relative or old family friend without feet." Henning’s publicist, Michael Levine, said the in who is known to make statements like the one above. Bearby surance policy is the largest of its kind. He said Henning practices They sit back and reflect on when they were younger, finger exercises up to eight hours a day to keep his fingers nimble. Viewpoint Editor making comparisons to the current craziness of our world and say “When I was growing up, 1 could have never gotten away w ith . ..’’ As I grew older, I noticed the “good ole day” stories returned home over Christmas break, I was told o f mar were being told by younger and younger people. riages, new-born babies, divorces, and even death, not Lately, I have been kidding my older brother about of people older than myself, but happening to people Of Interest beginning the “ I rem em ber when” stage. He can speak who I regularly saw in the high school hallways. of a walk to school as an exaggerated four miles, al I listened in amazement as I was told an old teacher though he can still say this in a joking manner.