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' . Lebanon -page 3 VOL. XVII, NO. 22 the independent ~tudent nl·w~papl-r ~en·ing notre danw and ~aint mary·~ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1982 Hitandrun Students injured in accident By RYAN VER BERKMOES The hit-and-run was the second fie, a decision was made to move her Managing Editor involving Notre Dame students to the shoulder of the road. At this within a week. time Gail Goodenow, a senior nurs Two Notre Dame sophomores are No witnesses to the accident have ing major at Saint Mary's, examined in the intensive care units of local come forward at this time. Several Mcinerny. hospitals after a hit and run accident people attending a party at i496 "Her pulse was good, although yesterday morning in the 1400 South Bend Avenue found Mcinerny she was hyperventilating. It was too block of South Bend Avenue. South lying in the middle of South Bend dark for me to check her pupils," Bend City Police have no suspects in Avenue. said Goodenow. "She wasn't custody at this time. Gretchen Matthews, a fourth-year wearing a coat or shoes, so we The victims are Kerin Mannion of architecture student, said: "We covered her up with a jacket." 902 Notre Dame Avenue, and found her lying in the street, and Onlookers at the scene had few Elizabeth Mcinerny of 41 5 Badin started flagging down cars. Someone details of the incident. Hall. Mannion is in critical but s~able ran into the house to call an am "It was weird," said Goodenow. condition at Saint Joseph's Medical bulance. At first we thought she was "Nobody really heard anything." Center. He is suffering from a broken drunk and had inerely passed out." An ambulance and several police right leg and internal injuries. According to witnesses, Mcinerny cars arrived three or four minutes af Mcinerny is a patient at Memorial showed no sign of physical injury, al- ter tbe first call was made. Officers Hospital. She is listed in serious con though sh.e was having problems made the determination that dition with head injuries. breathing. Because of the heavy traf- Mcinerny had been struck by a car and prepared to block off South Bend Avenue. It was at this time, according to Si\llscoresincreasefor Greg Kane, a Notre Dame senior residing at i412 South Bend Avenue, that the second victim, Kerin Mannion, was discovered. first time in 19 years "About ten minutes after we dis covered the woman, a policeman ByJA VI MULERO "They've stabilized in the last 2 or setting up roadblocks noticed the News Staff 3 years... There was a drop of 2. 5 man lying on the shoulder of the points the year before last...No final road," said Kane. Scholastic Aptitude Test scores results have been received this year, Mike Doyen, a senior and resident for this year's college freshmen in but no great changes are expected," of the house in front of which creased nationally after a 19-year he said. Mcinerny was found, said: "The road decline. "A decline or increase in SAT is pretty dark. If there were more George Hanford, president of the scores is not an indication of stu street lights, we would have seen the Pictured above is the 1400 block of South Bend Avenue, scene of College Board, the organization that dents' overall achievements. victims sooner." Weather condi- administers the tests, announced an a bit-and-run accident early Sunday morning intJO/tJing two Notre Nationwide it could go up, and at the increase of two points in the verbal See HIT AND RUN, page 4 Dame students. See story at left. (Photo by Scott Bower) same time NO could get a drop be section of the test, and one point in cause we had a bad year." the mathematics portion, raising the According to Leonardo, Notre national average scores to 426 and Dame has received more applica L'ommunity mourns 466 respectively. This marks a small tions since it became co but sudden improvement on perfor educational. The more applications mance results, which have been ·· Suspect in shootings jailed received by the University, the steadily declining since i963. greater the variety of scores. A College Board statement, WILKES-BARRE, Pa. ( AP) Shocked outside his cell. It is · a suicide house and handed over an AR-15 however, cautions against making "Average scores here run in the residents of two communities watch," said prison Sgt. Bernard semi-automatic only after a friend, comparisons between states, 1200's," Leonardo said. "That's not a mourned at church services yester Pepperling. "He asked. to be left Robert Brunson, convinced him the schools, and school districts on the minimal or cut-off line. Average day for 13 victims of a shooting alone, and nobody's talking to him. children were alive. basis of SAT scores because "the per means average ... The scores do not spree as a prison guard accused of \X'e had Sunday church services but "He wanted to die; he told me it centage of high school seniors who guarantee anything. It's possible for the killings sat in jail under 24-hour he didn't ask to go." was a good day to die," Brunson said. take the tests varies widely." The a student well above i200 to get guard to prevent a suicide attempt. Police said Banks, 40, a former "I told him, 'No, that there was a lot percentage of test-takers is an im-. rejected as well as for a student "He said he was going to kill him convict and mail-order minister, more to be gained, that there were portant factor in determining such below that to get accepted." self here, and nobody was going to killed s~ven .:hildren, five of them people out here who cared. If he had results. SAT scores, adds Leonardo, are stop him," said Margie Collins, a his own, and six adults duringthe at known they (the children) were all Notre Dame's admissions office only one of several areas that receive nurse at the Luzerne County Prison tacks on his house here and on a deceased, he would have forced the has not noticed much change in the attention of the admissions com who examined George Banks after mobile home in nearby Jenkins issue for police to kill him." their applicants' SAT scores. mittee. Others include high school he surrendered Saturday at an empty Township. The slain adults included "Generally, the scores have always records, extra-curricular activities, house where he had holed up for four women who had borne his "Tears were running down his gone up," Pat Leonardo, assistant student essays, and letters of recom seven hours after the shootings. children outside marriage. face," Ms. Collins said in describing director of admissions, explained. mendation. "We have two men constantly Throughout this northeastern Banks' condition as she conducted Pennsylvania city, clergymen the routine medical examination re- . ' remembered the dead in prayers quired of all incoming prisoners. Hewlett-Packard during Sunday services. At Holy "He said, 'They lied to me, they lied Saviour Cath<>lic Church, a Mass was to me. I never would have come out offered for Raymond Hall, 24, who of there· if I knew my kids were New computer improves system was shot near Banks' home, ap dead.' parently after he left a party nearby. "He said he had .been drinking a By CHUCK KRILL According to Hichard Spencer, as conversion process to the new sys Authorities have given no motive fifth of gin a day for four days," Ms. News Staff sistant provost for Computing, the tem will be lengthy. Spencer tor the shootings, but say Banks was Collins said. "He was totally reoganization became necessary be predicts, "It's going to take us two to involved in a custody dispute with coherent when I saw him ... He The capabilities of Notre Dame's cause "we were looking to increase three years because it's a whole new Sharon Mazzillo, one of the first to refused any medication. He said he computing system have recently our productivity." The IBM was not concept." die, over their son, 5-year-old Kis wanted a clear and straight head." been enhanced by the addition of a meeting the needs of administrative, Accompanying the division of smayu. The boy was shot through new computer. research and teaching operations computing resources between the the head as he slept. Banks was arraigned on five Hewlett-Packard is the manufac because "administration had grown university's two major computers is Banks was on leave from his job as homicide charges, and District At turer of the new machine, which to be about 30/ of the load on that the Academic Computing Plan, a a tower guard at the State Correc torney Robert Gillespie indicated was installed in the Administration mainframe," he said. study which is being formulated to tional Institution at Camp Hill. He nine other counts would be filed Building last June. Spencer claims that the way in determine the future computing got the job in 1980 even though he today or tomorrow. He was ordered With the arrival of the new system which the new computer stores in demands in research and teaching had served 7 years for a 1961 at, held without bail for a preliminary comes a reorganization of comput formation makes it better suited areas. tempted robbery. hearing Oct. 6. ing responsibilities for the Comput than the IBM to administrative func According to James Wruck, direc "They told him to come home and County Coroner George Hudock, ing Center's IBM mainframe.