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IOBSERVER Tuesday, January 27, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 78 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Rita pleads guilty to misdemeanor D e c i s i o n e n d s f o u r - y e a r legal Incontroversy M em oriam d e a t h o f N o t r e D am e stu d en t m a r a f o x By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN prosecutor, Mr. [Mike] Barnes, said on it stands on the side of Douglas Associate News Editor in the fall that this would go to trial. Road at the site of the accident, 'M ara was one of the.best And now, for whatever reason, he reminding people of Fox’s death. John Rita, the Notre Dame Law has decided not to prosecute him.” Rita was charged with two felony people I ever knew.' graduate accused of killing then According to witnesses, Fox and counts in the accident, but was - J e n R a m i r e z , F o x ’s r o o m m a t e Notre Dame freshman Mara Fox four other Notre Dame students allowed to finish his law school with his car in the early morning were walking down Douglas Road classes at home and graduate with a KEY DATES IN RITA CASE hours of Nov. 13, 1993, will plead on their way home from Maori’s Deli degree from Notre Dame’s Law Nov. 13, 1993: guilty on Feb. 6 to a misdemeanor on Grape Road in Mishawaka after School. Mara Fox killed in hit-and- charge similar to his original felony midnight. The group had waited for Fox’s death had a profound run accident on Douglas a cab, but gave up and decided to impact on those around her. “[She] Road. Police arrest John charge of leaving the scene of a fatal Rita later that morning. accident. make the trip home down the unlit was one of the best people I ever • While responding to crash, After deliberating for nine hours, a road. knew,” Jennifer Ramirez, one of police car is struck by SMC jury acquitted Rita in 1994 of caus At just about 1 a.m., before the Fox’s roommates, said before grad student. ing Fox’s death by driving while group reached the intersection of uation last year. “When we go o u t... Nov. 9, 1994: intoxicated. Judge William Albright, Douglas and South Bend Avenue, a it feels like someone was left Rita acquitted of causing Edwon who heard the case, granted a mis car hit Fox head-on. It then pulled behind.” Fox’s death. Mistrial is declared on charge of trial on the second felony charge away from the scene and continued In November 1994, Lyons Hall leaving the scene. because of a deadlocked jury. on towards Mishawaka. instituted the “Mara Fox Fun Run,” 1) Original Three hours later, police arrested an annual event that raises money Jan. 30, 1998: Hit and Run “I feel really bad for the family [of After more than three years Fox) and everybody who has waited Rita in his apartment. Fox was for a sophomore student to study of appeals and delays, it is 4) Subsequent for three years in this process,” said declared dead upon arriving to the abroad in Spain. Fox had planned announced that Rita will accident Sister Kathleen Beatty, rector of hospital at 1:22 a.m. plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge. Lyons Hall where Fox lived. “The To this day, a sign with a wreath see FOX/ page 4 1 he ‘Late Night’ generates $7,000 The Observer names new editor-in-chief By MICHELLE KRUPA Associate News Editor With experience in both the news and pro duction departments of The Observer, Heather Cocks was elected editor-in-chief for the 1998-99 year by a vote of the news paper’s General Board last night. Cocks, a junior from Houston, lives in Lewis Hall. She is an American studies major in the S tudents enjoy a game College of Arts and broomball as part of Late Letters and plans to pu r Night Olympics. The sue a career as a reporter event, neld last Friday at the and eventual editor of a C ocks ACC, attracted 1,500 stu major newspaper. dents. Proceeds go to the “The Observer has been a big part of my Saint Joseph County chapter life for the past three years, and I’m hon The Observer/JoJo Stark of the Special Olympics. ored to have the opportunity to complete my last year as editor-in-chief,” Cocks said. “It By KRISTI KLITSCH raised for the St. Joseph County was a wide variety of events,” said will be challenging, but I have a lot of ideas Assistant News Editor chapter of the Special Olympics. Katie Boyle, a freshman who par and 1 think we’ll have a really good time up The money will be used by the ticipated in the inner tube water here in the coming year.” They came, they played and they Special Olympics to help fund their polo event. Cocks has been a member of The Observer won. basketball program. New uniforms “It was a lot of fun for a good staff since August of her freshman year, The team composed of Sorin and will be bought and the Late Night cause, plus it helped create dorm when she served as a news writer, copy edi Walsh halls was the overall winner Olympics donation will also facili spirit,” said O’Leary. tor, and assistant news editor. of the twelfth annual Late Night tate entry fees and trav As a sophomore, she worked asMm associ Olympics. el costs for Special ate news editor, production manager, and The team accumulated 2017 Olympics basketball 12th ANNUAL later as news editor, the position she cur points by participating in last tournaments. rently holds. Wednesday’s Miss-A-Meal plan, One of the unique LATE NIGHT OLYMPICS “The news staff has done a lot this past winning different events, entering events of the evening year to improve the quality of our pages,” teams in all events and buying t- was a basketball game Cocks said. “Now, I’m looking forward to shirts at the event. that occurred at 9 p.m., 1. Sorin/Walsh working with the new department editors so The other top teams were: when a Special Olympic that the overall product improves even team challenged a team O’NeilL/McGlinn with 1642 points, 7 P O ^ts more.” Welsh/Keough with 1587 points, of Notre Dame rectors. H H B 2. O Neill/McGlinn In addition to her campus experience in Zahm/Farley with 1530 points and The re su lt w as a journalism, Cocks has written for the Siegfried/ Pasquerilla West with blowout by the Special 1642 points Calgary Herald in Calgary, Alberta, and 1473. Olympian team. 3. Keough/Welsh interned for Bloomberg Business News, an Kara O’Leary, RecServices coor At one point in the international financial wire service. She dinator, estimated that over 1500 game, a member of the 1587 points believes her experience as an intern has students participated in the event. Special Olympics team 4. Zahm/Farley expanded her vision for the future of The “This is the most participation had scored more points Observer. we can remember in a while,” than the entire -„a- 1530 points “I’d like to see The Observer further the O’Leary said. “There was quite a rector/rectress team capability of its Web site by adding more surge between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.” combined. 5. Siegfried/PW The results of the all-night “The event was really ’H U B 1473 see COCKS/ page 4 events show that over $7,000 was organized and there The Observer/Melissa Webe page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, January 27, 1998 INSIDE COLUMN Nonsense O utside the Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports When it comes to Dave Freddoso abortion, there are Only Senior Staff Reporter two sides. Everyone who Testimony ends in professor’s sexual harassment hearing falls in the middle has AMES, Iowa and she felt a part of Simonson's failed to consider the issue thoughtfully. Testimony ended Friday at the body ‘penetrating’ her, although As an example, I present a recent Inside Michael Simonson administrative she wasn't sure what part it was. Column. In this same space, another columnist sexual harassment hearing with When asked by the prosecution, recently wrote that it’s too late to reverse Roe three women saying they received Mowatt said she now believes she v. Wade. She added that it is impossible to leg unwanted sexual advances on sepa was raped by Simonson, although islate morality, and implicitly claimed to repre rate occasions from the Iowa State she has never pressed charges sent the other pro-life students traveling to professor. against him. Washington to protest the 25th anniversary of One of the prosecution’s witness She said the only person she told Roe v. Wade. Pro-lifers, she alleged, do not es, Patricia Mowatt, a self-employed about the incident was Hargrave, want to outlaw abortion, but only to convince photographer from Cedar Falls, told to the home of Dr. Anne Thompson, who Mowatt said “didn't seem to be women to make the right choice. the court she was raped by professor of curriculum and instruc too surprised.” This is complete nonsense, though perhaps Simonson in 1989 while they shared tion, in Cedar Falls.