Tuesday, August 22, 1995 • Vol. XXVII No.2 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Flanner's future tied to Knott, Siegfried

By DAVE TYLER would cease to exist at the close Flanner. Siegfried and Knott O'Hara letter tells of change; News Editor residents at midnight, an­ • FOR MORE COMPLETE nounced that students would be A letter signed by Vice Presi­ moved into Siegfried and Knott Tower splits into two dorms, dent for Student Affairs Patricia COVERAGE AND REACTION Halls on Mod Quad. The resi­ O'Hara informed residents of SEE WEDNESDAY'S EDITION dents from those two facilities West Quad gets female halls Flanner Hall last night that will be housed in two new their dormitory community of the 1996 academic year. The letter, distributed to see TOWER I page 8 Electric car Taking care of Business finishes at Indy, in 4th Building is pride of By BRAD PRENDERGAST namesake College Associate News Editor By ETHAN HAYWARD Assistant News Editor After a month of problems that left the Irish Racing Team The scaffolding around the Administration stranded on the sidelines, Building is not the only new addition to Notre Dame's electric race car campus this year. One of this year's fea­ is up and running again. tures on campus is the new College of The team finished fourth Business Administration. among eight teams last Thurs­ Located just south of DeBartolo Hall, the day at the Electricore Formula facility began operation on May 22. Though Lightning Race in Indianapolis. it still has a few technical glitches, the But more important than the building is set to house today's first classes middle-of-the-pack finish was of the semester. the simple fact that the Irish "We are 90 per cent running," says Sam were able to finish the race. Gaglio, Assistant Dean of the College of At the Cleveland Electric Business Administration. Formula Classic on July 22, a The new business facility is approximately race that Notre Dame won last the same size as DeBartolo and has a basic year. a warning from the auto H-shaped footprint. It was also designed disconnect, a safety feature and built by the same architecture firm and that regulates the flow of elec­ The Observer/Mike Ruma general contractor as Debartolo, Elley­ tricity through the car and The new College of Business is a technical marvel, both inside and out. Beckett and Casteel Construction, respec­ automatically shuts the power tively. down when the flow is too The College of Business Administration high, prevented the team from also has the same media features as competing. li'+ Facts about the DeBartolo Hall and is electronically con­ "The auto disconnect warned nected to the latter building. The new busi­ us that there was a short in +'