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. Blues Fest -page 7 VOL. XIV, NO. 58 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 , 1979 O-C students reside in high crime area by Mark Rust News Editor Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series dealing with off-campus crime. Today's installmenty investigates the depth of crime off-campus and the University’s reaction to the growing problem. About midnight one month ago, Sharon Scheckel was studying, and fell asleep on the living room floor of her apartment on Notre Dame Ave. Her balcony window, a second floorsliding glass door facing the avenue, was left ajar to let in fresh air. It also let in a male intruder who climbed the balcony, undaunted by a party in progress on the floor below, entered the apartment and stepping over the body of a sleeping Scheckel -- handed a stereo cassete tape deck over the balcony to an accomplice below. Two friends who were in the back portion of the apartment came to the living room and greeted the exiting thief with the question “ Hey -- who are you?” The intruder replied with a “ thank you” and left the apartment. -Michael Sexton, of 832 Notre Dame Ave, is no stranger to the world of street crime, being a resident of Scarsdale and a frequenter of night spots in the Bronx. It did scare him, however, when he was confronted by a 15-year-old youth on the corner of Notre Dame and South Bend Ave. who was carrying what appeared to be a .38 caliber pistol. The youth, who had been staring into the window of Louie’s, fled when the startled Sexton Paul Turgeon prepared shirts for the Midwest Blues Festival to be held this weekend, Two yelled. hundred shirts will be on sale at the festival. --William Cuddy, of 233 Notre Dame Ave., was recently mugged while walking home from a party on that street by a group of men who had been waiting in a car. The muggers got $26 for their troubles. His roomate, Matt Desalvo, came home a few nights later and saw lights flashing on and off in his house. Upon entering the house he heard the back door slam and noticed that his stereo was missing. Later the stereo appeared on his back Carter delivers bold warning porch, apparently the result of an aborted robbery attempt. -Michael Segobiano and Bob Carey of 714 Notre Dame Avenue have been robbed twice this year. Chuck McCarthy and Tim WASHINGTON(AP) - President duled for Saturday, would even­ kill the hostages if the United Higgins, who live in Notre Dame Apartments, have also been Carter said yesterday that A- tually lead to “ a peaceful States attempts to take military robbed twice. mericans held hostage in Teh­ solution, because a peaceful action to free them. The --John Hobbs, 905 Notre Dame Avenue, recently scared away ran have been subjected to solution is preferable to the militants have demanded that intruders when he arrived home early from a party, bu t instead of “ inhuman and degrading con­ other remedies available - for the United States return the taking any personal property from Hobbs they left him with ditions’’ and told the Iranian the United States and the exiled Shah Mohammad Reza something: a loaded, cocked Saturday night special, which he government it faces “ grave world.” Pahlavi to Iran to stand trial. found in t,he middle ol his living room floor. consequences” if the captives Regardless, he vowed to pur­ The deposed monarch has Unlike the Joe Camarda assailants, who shot the senior one year are harmed. sue with “ grim determ ina­ been hospitalized in New York ago this coming month at his residence on the corner of Notre “ Any claims raised by Iran tion” the release of the 49 and U.S. officials have refused Dame and Corby, the intruders at the Hobbs residence decided not will ring hollow while innocent hostages still being held in the to meet the Iranian demands to people are bound, abused and U.S. Embassy in Tehran. extradite him. [icontinued on page 8] threatened,” Carter said in Administration officials, he opening remarks for a nation­ said, “ will persist in our efforts ally broadcast news conference. until every single American has Bani Sadr out The president said he still had been freed.” hopes for a peaceful solution to And in a stern warning to the Iranian crisis, which began Iranian leaders, Carter said, on Nov. 4 with seizure of the “The government of Iran must Khomeini replace U.S. Embassy in Tehran. But recognize the grave conse­ he did not rule out other quences which will result if remedies. harm comes to any of the TEHRAN, Iran (AP)- Aya­ Sadegh Ghotezadeh after the scheduled Security Council He said he hoped a United hostages.” tollah Ruhollah Khomeini re­ embassy militants denounced meeting in New York. Nations Security Council meet­ The Iranian militants holding placed his acting foreign minis­ Bani Sadr’s plans to participate ing on the Iranian crisis, sche­ the embassy have threatened to ter yesterday in what appeared in a meeting this weekend of - A spokesman for the shah to be a toughening of Iran’s line the U.N. Security Council on said he would leave his New in the confrontation with the the Iran situation. York hospital bed and return to United States. The Moslem The militants, echoing Kho­ his exile home in Cuernavaca, DC-10 crash in Antarctica militants holding the U.S. meini’s own rejection of any Mexico within 10 days, depend­ Embassy said Iran must not Security Council decision, con­ ing on when his medical treat­ take part in a United Nations demned the U.N. body as the ment in New York ends. kills all 237passengers debate on the crisis. “ Satanic Council” and d- The U.S. bank Morgan In Washington, President Car­ “Carter’s mouthpiece” and Guaranty Trust obtained a active volcanos. (AP) An Air New Zealand ter declared again he is deter­ once again refused to consider West German court order for A swing around Erebus, on DC-10 carrying 257 persons on mined to win the release of the diplomatic attempts to end the the seizure of Iran’s 25 percent Ross Island off the Antarctica an adventurous flight to the 49 American hostages at the 25-day-old standoff. interest in the West German coast 2,000 miles south of New bottom of the world slammed Tehran embassy through The militants and Khomeini firm Fried Krup GMBH, re­ Zealand, is part of the spectac­ into a volcano yesterday on tnc peaceful means. But, address­ have repeatedly rebuffed Bani portedly because of a $40 mil ular 11-hour air tour. ice-bound coast of Antartica, ing a group of diplomats, he Sadr in his efforts to find some lion claim the bank has against “ It looks as though it burned. apparently killing all aboard. It sounded a tough note as well: solution to the crisis short of the Iranian government. Since No survivors have been sight­ was one of history’s worst air “ The harming of innocent immediate extradition of Shah Carter’s freeze on Iranian U.S. disasters. ed. They are expecting a people is condemned by every Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to assets, several U.S. banks have complete fatality,” said Navy The 237 passengers on the law of mankind and God....It’s Iran. tried to seize Iranian funds to sightseeing flight included 12 spokesman Petty Officer Mike extremely important that mob Ghotezadeh, who is also dir­ offset outstanding loans to Iran. Americans, the airline said. Hatcher. violence be contained and that ector of Iranian radio and - Rep. George Hansen, A Navy C-130 search plane television, has been uncompro­ R-Idaho, returning from a self- from the U.S.Antarctica base at The cause of the crash was not international terrorism not be mising on the question of the appointed mediation mission to McMurdo Sound spotted the known. permitted to reign.” exiled monarch’s extradition. Iran, told reporters in London wreckage in the sunlit polar “ The crew did not report any Reolhassan Bani Sadr was However, the Iranian news he believes he ahs opened a midnight about 1,500 feet up trouble in their last radio con­ relieved of his foreign affairs agency Pars said it was still dialogue with the Iranians and the slope of Mount Erebus, a tact” at 2:30 p.m., Air New post and replaced by Revolu­ undecided whether Iran will be hopefully how we can go along smoldering, 12,400-foot peak Zealand spokesman Chris tionary Council member represented at Saturday’s and encourage the U.S. that is one of the world’s tallest Smith said. News in brief Thursday, November 29, 1979 - page 2 Student lobby to change Woman wielding legal drinking age fails by Kelli Flint was the fact that most traffic lobbying at this point would be seized in Kennedy’s office fatalities involving teenagers a “ waste of time.” Four years ago this month, the were linked to alcohol. Lobby­ “ Indiana is a conservative • WASHINGTON (AP) -A woman carrying a knife and Indiana Student Association ists argued that Indiana’s law state,” Roche said, “ and with yelling was seized by Secret Service agents today after she (ISA) formed a lobby group to forced teenagers to drive to Michigan age requirement now rushed into the reception room of Sen. Edward M. press legislators to pass a law Michigan to drink alcohol, thus raised) the atmosphere is no Kennedy 's Senate office.

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