The O bserver VOL. XXII, NO. 134 FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Notre Dame The Coming of the Quad The $33 million DeBartolo Quadrangle to be completed by 1992 given $33 mil EDWARD J. DeBARTOLO CLASSROOM FACILITY C ost; $16 million Money will build new quad Size: 130,000 sq. ft. Features: Classrooms, seminar rooms, lecture halls, audio visual and computer By KELLEY TUTHILL The gift was announced at equipment Senior Staff Reporter a press conference To be completed: early 1992 Thursday. DeBartolo, chair­ Notre Dame has been man and chief executive of­ given $33 million, the 18th MARIE P. DeBARTOLO CENTER ficer of the Edward J. FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS largest gift to higher educa­ DeBartolo Corporation; his C ost: $14 million tion, for construction of a son Edward DeBartolo, Jr., Size: Unavailable new quadrangle on the area president and chief adminis­ Features: Auditorium seating for over which is presently Green trative officer of the corpo­ 800, musical and theatrical study areas field and parking lots. ration; Donald Keough, To be completed: late 1992 Edward DeBartolo of chairman of Notre Dame’s Youngstown, Ohio is donat- trustees and president and Senior chief operating officer of ■ Profile of the DeBartolo The Coca-Cola Company, family / page 7 and University President Father Edward Malloy were ing the $16 million Edward present to answer questions J. BeBartolo Classroom about the new quad. facility and the $14 million “This is a historic moment Marie P. DeBartolo Center and a historic occasion in the Site of the Theodore M. H esburgh for the Performing Arts. The life of the University,” said Center for International Studies. performing arts building is Keogh. “It is historical be­ Under construction; not part of the named after his wife who cause the fruits of this ex­ DeBartolo gift. passed away in 1987. traordinary generosity, two The DeBartolo gift is the major buildings anchoring largest in the history of the new academic quad­ Notre Dame. Previously the rangle, will be completed as $12 million donated by Mrs. we celebrate our sesquicen- All unlabeled buildings are “future planning models. Joan Kroc for the Institute tennial in the year 1992.” for International Peace Malloy said the classroom The Observer / Laura Stanton Studies was the largest gift from an individual. s e e MONEY / page 6 Major construction will transform look of ND campus By NATASHA WILSON DeBartolo Center for the Performing named the John W. Koons, Jr. Rehear­ director of the physical plant. Senior Staff Reporter Arts on the new south academic mall. sal Hall. In addition to the 226 members of The University presented the Cas­ Casteel will have completed all of the Marching Band, the Koons When students return in August they teel Construction Company of South the exterior masonry on the building Rehearsal Hall will house the 60- will discover several new features on Bend with the contract for the new by the time the students return in the member Concert Band, three smaller Notre Dame’s campus, including the ROTC building and the band practice fall and University officials expect the varsity bands, two jazz bands and beginnings of two new quads. In the facility. Casteel built Knott and construction company to finish the woodwind, brass and ensemble bands. works are a band practice facility and Siegfried Halls and the Snite Museum rehearsal hall by March 1990. Koons, a 1965 alumnus of Notre a ROTC building on the new east mall of Art. “Construction has gone smoothly so Dame, has donated $3.5 million to and a complex for the Hesburgh In­ The band facility, currently under far. But, there’s a lot of interior finish­ cover the total budget for the band stitute for International Peace construction on University-owned ing for acoustical effects for that building project. Studies, the Edward J. DeBartolo land east of Juniper Road and west of building which will take a long time Classroom Facility and the Marie P. the Loftus Sports Center will be to complete,” said Donald Dedrick, s e e BUILD / page 6 Oliver North convicted on three counts, could go to jail Associated Press the verdict without any show of change for their support for the emotion. But a congressal sup­ Contras. The White House said WASHINGTON- Oliver porter described him as “ab­ Bush would have no comment North, the Marine at the center solutely elated” at the jury’s on the verdict. of the Reagan administration’s decision. In Los Angeles, former secret effort to arm the After judge and jury had left PresidentReagan also declined Nicaragua Contras, was con­ the room, North walked to a comment. victed Thursday of shredding railing separating him from his North’s defense was that he documents and two other wife, Betsy, and kissed her had been a good soldier loyally charges in the Iran-Contra af­ lightly on the cheek. Mrs. North carrying out what he knew his fair. He was acquitted on nine had been sitting in the front row commander in-chief, the pres­ other counts. with a clergyman. ident, wanted. North said he would appeal It was the first trial born of “The principle that no man the jury’s decision: “we’re ab­ the scandal that marred the is above the law has been vind­ solutely confident of the final last two years of Ronald icated,” said prosecutor John outcome. As a Marine, I was Reagan’s presidency and Keker, who refused to answer taught to fight and fight hard raised questions about then- for as long as it takes to Vice President George Bush’s s e e NORTH / page 4 prevail.” involvment in the administra­ “We will continue this battle tion’s clandestine effort to arm ... and we will be fully vind­ the Contras. Final Issue icated,” he told reporters in a Even as the jury was return­ AP Photo statement at his lawyer’s of­ ing its verdict, Bush told This is the last regular issue of Oliver North and his wife, Betsy, manage smiles as they leave his fice. He did not take questions. reporters at the White House The Observer for the 1988-89 academic year. Good luck on attorney’s office heading for U.S. District Court where the jury consid­ The former Marine, who that he did not participate in finals, and have a really nice ering his ca se has arrived at a verdict. The jury convicted North on faces up to 10 years in prison any arrangement to expedite summer. three criminal charges and acquitted him on nine other counts. on the convictions, accepted aid to other countries in ex­ page The Observer Friday, May 5, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Brown’s special courses A U.S. military helicopter crashed and exploded in southern France after it hit a high-tension power line on a night training flight, killing all five Marines aboard, officials said lift it above Notre Dame Thursday. The UH-1 Huey fell about 200 feet and then crashed into a mountain stream and exploded at about 9:45 p.m. Wed­ They say Brown University is the hardest nesday near Rougon, a village 60 miles northwest of Nice. The school in the country to get into and the easiest I realized why to graduate from. craft was from the amphibious assault ship Guadalcanal, in port Brown is such a in Toulon, and was assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Notre Dame could learn a lot from this leader Squadron 162 based at the New River, N.C., marine Corps Air among Ivies in the courses they offer their stu­ better school...they Station. The pilots were using night-vision goggles, but military dents. offer...extra officials said there was no reason to suspect the goggles played After three years at Notre Dame the good departmental courses.” a role in the crash. A marine official in Washington, however, courses seem harder and harder to find. At said the goggles do not permit pilots to see power lines. The Brown the students produce a semesterly Army recently ordered a safety inspection of its night-vision review of courses called the Critical Review to Chris Donnelly goggles after several crashes. help the students choose their courses. The Editor-in-Chief Review offer comments made by students on Two West German doctors were kidnapped Thursday in the various courses offered. a good start. the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, according to a Moslem As I was paging through the Review, I ART 101: Glassmaking. This course would militia official in the area. The men were doing humanitarian realized why Brown is such a better school. It teach the students the basic methods behind work in Lebanon. He said the two, a man and a woman, were was not because they offer students copies of making glass. Students would only be required seized “by unknown gunmen between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. just the Critical Review but rather that they offer to do work during class since the glass making beyond the Sinique Bridge” on the southern edge of Sidon, 25 these so-called extra departmental courses. materials could not be taken home and the high miles south of Beirut, the capital. Police said they could not Notre Dame is sadly lacking these types of temperatures need could not be acheived in the confirm the abduction. If the kidnappings are confirmed, they courses. dorm rooms. would raise the number of foreigners missing and believed held One such course that Notre Dame should em­ The class’s final would consist of make the hostage in Lebanon to 17.