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Rain of terror ACCENT: The Whip Cloudy today, sprinkles, high in the upper 30s. Becoming windy tomorrow with a 70 per cent chance of rain. High in VIEWPOINT: Remembering M.L. King the upper 30s. MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1988 VOL. XXI, NO. 70 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Rezoning proposal may limit housing By GREG LUCAS The implementation of the order for the proposal to be ap it, they are discriminating a member of the Neighborhood Senior Staff Reporter proposal, which calls for a proved by City Council, the against the students,” said Housing Services Board of rezoning of the area roughly area slated for rezoning will James Anastos, a resident who Directors, the initiative for the Discussion is intensifying on bounded between Hill Street have to be reduced along with is considering purchasing land proposal came from residents a controversial proposal that and Eddy and Corby and other concessions to business in the area. of the Northeast Neighborhood would rezone most of the area Madison, could limit the interests. Steve Wenc, off-campus \vho asked the NHS for support. in the Northeast Neighborhood amount of off-campus student Although the issue directly senator, said that he had dis The NHS is a locally run or and possibly restrict future off- housing that will be available involves off-campus students cussed the issue with a neigh ganization that is affiliated na campus housing. in the future, Puzzello said. and the University, there has borhood representative last tionally with many other pro Rezoning the neighborhood The impetus to rezone came been no student participation in Spring. He added, however, grams that work to improve from “B” residential to “A” primarily from residents who neighborhood meetings, accor that he had not read the pro deteriorating neighborhoods, residential would restrict fur desired a greater sense of con ding to Puzzello. "It would be posal or spoken with anyone Geone said. ther development of rental trol in their neighborhood, Puz wonderful if we could get some recently about the plan to re “I think it’s helpful to have properties and commercial zello said. Business interest is student input,” she said. zone. “I think it’s something a mix of residents, renters and business, said Councilman Ann strongly opposed to the pro “ What they (supporters of that we have to take an interest students in a neighborhood,” Puzzello, who introduced the posal because it would limit in rezoning) want to do is show in for our own protection,” proposal to the South Bend City vestment and speculation po power and control over the stu Wenc said. see ZONING, page 4 Council a few months ago. tential, she said, adding that in dent population. As far as I see According to Charles Geone, 3 charged with 25 OC break-ins By ERIC M. BERGAMO ins, Eyster said. Senior Staff Reporter The juveniles “would walk around the neighborhood at South Bend Police arrested night and see where the parties three juveniles during were. They knew they were Christmas break who Notre Dame students and confessed to 25 break-ins in the wouldn’t be there on breaks,” Northeast Neighborhood, the Eyster said. majority of which were homes The suspects chose student of Notre Dame students, a houses because of how the stu police spokesman said. dents “flaunted” their wealtn Two of the juveniles were and “the way they (the stu caught during an attempted dents) treated the neighbor burglary at 931 Notre Dame hood kids,” Eyster added. Ave. on Dec. 23, Captain One of the juveniles told Patrick Cottrell said. Eyster they were passing a Cpl. Gene Eyster had passed house where a party was going through the alley near the on and someone shouted racial house only minutes earlier slurs. The youths broke into the when he received a call about residence when the students a break-in. He returned to the were on break. house and found a car parked The suspects knew “they in the backyard. One youth was (the students) all had stereos handing items out a window to and good clothes,” Eyster said. a youth by the car, E yster said. “If one had a radio, five had Anti-abortion activists The Observer/Donald Pan A third juvenile at the scene radios,” Eyster was told by one Freshman Lisa Monkman and Junior Randy Gallag- will be held this weekend in Washington D C. escaped, Eyster said. juvenile. her prepare a sign for a right to life march. The march The car they were using had One suspect told Eyster “I been stolen, he added. don’t feel bad because they get One of the juveniles then es money from their parents and caped from the Parkview buy new stuff.” The juveniles Juvenile Detention Center, broke into some residences Eyster said, but was recap several times, Eyster said. 2 freshmen yet to be housed tured along with the third The juveniles would sell the juvenile in a stolen car after stolen items immediately or By PATRICK O’CONNOR Christmas break, according to openings that come about another burglary. throw the items away, Eyster Staff Reporter the Office of Student through academic deficiency One juvenile confessed to 18 said. Residences. This year, al and disciplinary actions, which break-ins, and a second In some instances the Only two Notre Dame fresh though dozens of students were are rare in the spring semester, juvenile admitted to an addi juveniles would go to parties at men remain assigned to tem relocated into permanent said Gardner. tional seven burglaries and student houses wearing clothes porary housing - down from housing over break,not enough stealing the two cars, Eyster they had stolen from the home, empty beds existed to accomo The University department 201 at the beginning of last se added. he said. m ester. date all of them. responsible for the. large dis The two also implicated an The Office of Student Gardner cited the cancella crepancy between the number other two juveniles and an 18 see THEFT, page 3 Residences reported Friday tion of this semester’s of admitted freshmen and the year-old in some of the break- that four freshmen remained in Jerusalem program and the num ber of available beds is the a study lounge in Grace Hall. tendency of more upperclas Central University Adminis Of these, two were moved to smen to live on campus during tration, according to Director New rules announced permanent housing within their years at Notre Dame as of Undergraduate Admissions Special to The Observer cient snow removal. The Grace over the weekend, contributing to this year’s Kevin Rooney. Said Rooney, guidelines require that stu leaving Jack MacMullen anc acute housing shortage. “The University asks the Ad Special parking regula dent vehicles must be Rick Pelliccio the final two stu Nine beds for male students missions Office to bring in a tions are in effect during the removed from all fac- dents at Notre Dame without a should have become available class of a particular size.” The winter months, according to ulty/Staff parking lots before permanent address, according with the departure of Notre fact that so many freshmen are Notre Dame Security. 12 midnight each night from to Father Gerald Gardner, rec Dame students for Jerusalem, relegated to study lounges is These rules, which are in now until March 15. tor of Grace Hall. said the Office of Student just an “unavoidable conse effect from Jan. 1 to March This regulation also ap- In previous years, all fresh Residences. With the cancella quence” of the University 15, have been implemented men have been moved to per tion of the program, however, policy guaranteeing housing to to facilitate quick and effi see PARKING, page 4 manent housing by or during freshmen must wait for room upperclassmen, he said. page 2 The Observer Monday, January 18, 1988 In Brief Ethics more than just another trend F-16 warplanes will be withdrawn by the United States from a base near Madrid within three years. The U.S. Newsweek boldly proclaimed that “Greed” must begin hunting for another allied country where the is no longer in fashion and implied that “Et Scott jets can be based. Spain insisted on the withdrawal of the hics” are now in vogue. force, the largest one of its kind in southern Europe. U.S. Most of us probably missed the change, Bearby officials speaking on condition of anonymity said there caught up instead in the mounting tensions in the Middle East, the economic uncertainties, were no assurances another NATO country would take the Assistant News Editor wing. Pentagon officials were bluntly pessimistic and said the latest antics of Gary Hart or the crucial the wing would probably have to be re-based in the United negotiations in the Notre Dame food fight. States, adding to the deployment time if a crisis occurred. What would we have done if Newsweek had - Associated Press not brought the change to our attention with their cover story Jan. 4, so that we could change our lifestyles? m Isn’t it amazing that almost instantly we have Post officesaround the country will have to close an changed our values to the simpler life - straying average of a half-day per week as part of the U.S. Postal away from our dreams of owning a BMW to Service’s plan to cut $160 million from its fiscal 1988 something more like a Chevette? Opting for budget, officials said Friday. It will be up to the local diner food instead of a five-star restaurant? postmasters to decide what hours to close, the service Newsweek proclaims an end to extravagance, said.