November 21, 1995 • Vol

Tuesday, November 21, 1995 • Vol. XXVII No.·6I TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • CAMPUS LIFE COUNCIL Kirk rejects proposed hall co-residentiality By AMY SCHMIDT Kirk's discussion on co-resi As>iMarll N~ws Editor dentiality at Notre Dame comes as a response to an excerpt Citing timeliness as a main from the 1988 Board of eoncern, Assistant Viee Presi Trustees Heport on Co-residen dtml of Student Affairs Bill Kirk tiality and the 1987-88 Notre addressed the much-debated Dame Heport from the Task topic of co Force on Hesidentiality. The in residentiality formation was presented to the at the CLC by a sub-committee led by Campus Life Assistant Dean of the College of Council (CLC) Arts and Letters Ava Preacher. meeting yes According to the reports, in terday. the event of the construction of According one or more additional resi to Kirk, the dence halls, consideration Office of Kirk should be given to making one Student or more of the new facilities co Affairs docs not believe that it residential in nature. The Observer/Brandon Candura is the right time for co-residen Because the construction of Giving a lot tiality on campus. He said that Keough and O'Neill Halls will many changes have taken be complete in the fall of 1997, Students assemble bags of food at Stepan Center to give to the homeless, so that they will not be with place on campus in the past the sub-committee on co out food on Thanksgiving. few years, and that a "radical residentiality for the CLC felt ehangll" such as co-residen that it was a timely issue. • STUDENT SENATE tiality would complicate things. Preacher explained that the "One more element of change option for co-residentiality is would be foolish at this time," just that- an option. She sug Kirk said. gested housing options ranging Group finds murals inappropriate Kirk went on to discuss three from junior-senior only co-resi By GWENDOLYN NORGLE the University, is "committed to the New World, which some issues that have taken prece dential hai"ls to residence halls Assistant News Editor valuing diversity and fostering members of the Notre Dame dencll on campus recently. stressing physical and emo community," passed the resolu community say reveal Native First, because the male-female tional well-being. The Christopher Columbus tion because it felt that the mu Americans and African Ameri distribution has changed dras Currently, the debate is far murals in the Main Building are rals in the Main Building are "a cans as inferior. tically, new gendllr issues from over. Kirk did stress, "unacceptable," and something source of pain to many mem Because of this, the Senate have emerged. Second, the however, that the residential must be done about them, bers of the Notre Dame com also resolved that it "strongly student body has become more nature of the University is part according to a Student Senate munity." urges the officers of the Uni culturally and ethnically di of what sets Notre Dame apart resolution passed at an infor "The current situation" versity to work with concerned VIlrse. And third, there has from other schools in the coun mal meeting of the Senate on named in the resolution refers members of the campus com been an increase in complex try. "A tremendous amount of November 15. to the murals in the Main munity to lind situations com student situations, such as success and satisfaction (has According to the resolution, Building which depict Christo mensurate with the interests of unique family situations that the Senate, which along with pher Columbus' "discovery" of require University intervention. see CLC I page 4 see SENATE I page 4 Dow makes history topping 5,000 Student unhurt in By STEVE SAKSON Associated Press attack by gunman 5,000 Dow hits 5,000 NEWYOHK By DAVE TYLER The Dow Jones industrial average News Editor The Dow Jones topped 5,000 today for the first time in his 4,000 industrial average tory, but had trouble staying there and A Notre Dame is breaking closed lower. senior was robbed symbolic barriers Apri117, 1991:3,004.46 At 10:03 a.m. the widely watched aver with increasing at gunpoint last frequency. age of 30 big-name companies like AT&T night as she walked 3,000 The Dow's and GE was up 10.48 points, pushing it to back to her off cam thousand-point Jan. 8, 1987:2,002.25 5,000.43. It retreated for much of the pus apartment from milestones: morning, turned higher to pass 5,003, then a bus stop. dipped again in mid-afternoon, closing at Aside from being Nov. 14, 1972: 1,003.16 4,983.09, down 6.86. shaken up, the vic- ST. RD. 23 NO Campus 2,000 The Dow average had flirted with 5,000 tim was unhurt, ...._ _____________. for several days. On Friday it closed at according to Notre Dame Security. 4,989. 95 after a 119.58-point run-up dur The incident occurred at about S:30 last night as ing the week. the student entered the Turtle Creek apartment The Dow average has risen more than complex, according to Chuck Hurley, assistant di 30 percent this year in one of the most rector of Notre Dame Security. After exiting the bus spectacular run-ups on Wall Street ever. It on the South Bend Ave. side of Turtle Creek, the vic had broken the 4,000 barrier only last tim walked towards her residence, where she was February. approached by a man who asked •wr for money and For Wall Street record-keepers, it is a placed a gun to her head while covering her mouth day's closing price that is the most signifi 1980 1990 with his free hand. cant. year The gunman forced the victim into a grassy area Thus the passing of the 5,000 mark off the main road approximately 100 .vards inside won't mean as much if today's closing is Turtle Creek near the offices of the complex whnre lower. he demanded money from her, Hurley said. He Analysts credited today's higher stocks made off with $4 from the student's change purse to the weekend deal between Hepublicans and fled in an unknown direction. and President Clinton to reopen the gov ernmfmt and start negotiations aimed at sec ATTACK I page 4 balaneing the federal budget in seven years. Despite the optimism, analysts noted This is the last issue of The Observer that significant differences remain over big issues such as tax cuts, federal health care before Thanksgiving break. Publication programs, education and the environment. will resume on Tuesday, November 28. This leant a cautionary air to the market, The Observer wishes everyone a safe as traders were loath to make big buying commitments amid the uncertainty in and happy Thanksgiving. AP/KarfGude Washington. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, November 21, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • WomJl AT A Gu~ce It's 01ore a Fired bank employee accused of killing four people COLUMBUS, Ohio and killed bank employee Brian A man distraught over being fired LJIII...,..._._...., Stevens, 36; his wife, Tracy Stevens, from his bank job fatally shot four peo PA. 25; and their 4-month-old daughter, mosaic than ple and wounded two others after Amanda. breaking into their homes, police said. A visitor, Ruth Canter, 33, was Two of the targets were bank employ eJ=--Ashland wounded. She was in stable condition a 01elting pot ees. at a hospital early today, Longebone Jerry Hessler, who had been accused said. A 7 -year-old boy hid and escaped Recently, there has of sexual harassment at the bank, was .,_·._• • • • Worthington injury, Longebone said. The boy's been a great deal written Bill Connolly being held this morning in the county 0Columbus name and relation to others in the in the Observer on the News Copy Editor jail after Sunday night's shootings at house were not available. subject of race relations three homes in the Columbus area and g' OHIO r Hessler then went to a second home and discrimination on campus. Extremists one in Ashland, about 70 miles north about a half-mile away, where he shot on both sides of the issue have nearly east of Columbus. WEST bank employee Mark P. Campolito, 27, reached the point of hate speech. In one case, He was charged with one count of VIRGINIA in the left arm, Longebone said. a columnist called the white race "homoge felonious assault in connection with Campolito was hospitalized in fair con neous mutants." Most of time, such extrem one of the Columbus-area shootings. AP dition early today. ists feel they have been hurt so badly that Other charges were expected, police At a third home in the northern sub they feel the need to write a column to ex said. urb of Worthington, Hessler killed Thane Griffin, 64, press their anger. Fine. However, their anger Hessler, 38, was upset about being fired from Bank police said. should not be directed at the Notre Dame One, police Sgt. Jim Longebone said. One of the dead and Griffin was a retiree of the United Way of Ohio and did community. one of the wounded were bank employees, but their not work for Bank One, police said. Investigators were First, Notre Dame is not a melting pot, nor exact relationship with Hessler was not immediately uncertain why he may have been targeted. should it be.

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