■ Notre Dame’s varsity soccer squads will defend their W orld & N ation b o d y a r t ! Big East tournament titles this weekend in New Jersey. I Tattoos, body piercing ... Read The women are ranked No. 2 in the nation. I See page 5 fo r international and Accent to get the lowdown on deco­ To check out the competition , see the Back Page. national news. rating your flesh. p. 10-11 O B S E R V E R Friday, November 7, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 49 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARTS F r id a y F i .a it r f . #N JfEMORIAM m ar a fox bad boys m m m s® Tara was one o f Restraint out, ‘M the best people I knew. ’ rehabilitation in at South Annual Fun Run Bend facility By KRISTI KLITSCH honors Fox’s life, News Writer Juvenile delinquent: two dreams, spirit little words with large con­ notations. This SEE ALSO By LAURA PETELLE term auto­ • “ N D stu­ News W riter________________________________________________ m a tica lly dents tutor generates facility resi- Tomorrow the Notre Dame community many dents” f .t f will remember Mara Fox, the Lyons Hall s t e r e o ­ freshman who was struck and killed by a types, car on Nov. 13, 1993, when Lyons hosts the among them the image of a hardened criminal, and the occupants are not a typical correctional officers. But the fifth annual Mara Fox Fun Run. teenage male gang-member South Bend Juvenile family. The facility harbors South Bend facility differs Fox, who would have graduated last who is beyond the realm of Residential Facility holds the 36 male juvenile offenders, profoundly from other facili­ year, was walking home from Maori's Deli society’s help and control. proof of that. referred to the facility by the ties throughout the state in with several friends when she was hit by But not everyone called a The building resembles an Indiana Department of the car. delinquent by the court is a old mysterious house, but its Correction, and an array of She was known to her friends for her see FEATURE/ page 6 fun-loving spirit and vivacity, according to Melissa Fruscione, Lyons Hall co-president. She was an honors student from Oakton, Va., planning to major in psychology and Spanish. She had hoped to study abroad in Toledo, Spain. “Mara’s friends put together this run as a way to remember her fun-loving spirit and to support the survivors,” said Fruscione. The Run also raises money for a scholar­ ship in her name, which goes to a student studying abroad in the Toledo program. “It’s really become a campus-wide event,” said Kathy Bartniczak, Lyons Hall co-president. Students come to the Fun Run to run, i ' I 'he majority of students walk, rollerblade or bike the two-mile -L. return to school... Four route around campus. Some runners come or five students earned their to compete seriously, and some come to GED this year,’ have fun, show their spirit or offer continu­ Cecil Davis ing support to Fox’s family. “This year will be bigger and better than Pictured left, a student ever,” said Bartniczak. “We’re offering prizes for the first finishers and the most group tutors residents while a spirited runners.” plainclothes guard looks on. The support for the run within Lyons Hall Above, Melissa Maykuth and has been tremendous, according to Megan Schiller converse with The Observer Photos/ Kevin Dalum another resident. see FOX/ page 4 HOLOCAUST PROJECT Friedlander: Stories show complex effects of Holocaust trauma By ERICA THESING with their stories to come forward. As a survivor, News Writer he includes himself in this group. “We have a pivotal position. After us, no one has The aging of the final generation of Holocaust a direct memory of these events,” he said. survivors has spurred a renewed interest in the Immediately after the Holocaust, survivors were subject, according to historian eager to forget the traumatic Saul Friedlander. events and be integrated back OU WILL NOTICE Friedlander, who spoke last into society, according to night as part of the Notre Dame THAT WHAT REMAINS Friedlander. Holocaust Project’s scholar-in- IN OUR MINDS IS THE STO­ “We all felt that way. We never residence series, refuted a com­ talked about the past except in mon belief that this emergence is RIES OF INDIVIDUALS. THE small groups in Israel. No one in due to attention from the media MILLIONS OF DEAD REMAIN the surrounding community, and politicians. even in Israel, wanted to hear “The awareness of these AN ABSTRACT [IDEA] THAT about this,” he said. extreme crimes after many years CAN’T BE GRASPED.’ Friedlander said the newest is not primarily a product of the wave of memories, often mani­ Saul Friedlander media and the politics,” fested in memoirs and diaries of Friedlander said. “ Media and survivors, explains the complexi­ The Observer/Liz Lang politics do not create the trend; they use it. They ty of Holocaust issues. Holocaust survivor and renowned historian Saul Friedlander believes exploit it, but they do not create it.” “You will notice that what remains in our minds that the media and politicians did not create the recent trend of Instead, Friedlander feels that the last of the Holocaust awareness, but that they have exploited it. survivors are finally feeling comfortable enough see HOLOCAUST/ page' page 2 The Observer• INSIDE Friday, November 7, 1997 ■ I n sid e C o lu m n ff-—--- I Don’t Care O utside the Dom e Anymore Compiled from U-wire reports Students may pay for IRS’s tax credit reporting policy I’m tired. EVANSTON, 111. determine who can receive Hope I sometimes wish I had The tax man is knocking on students’ made a different choice Scholarships and Lifetime Learning about what university I door. Credits, Merkowitz said. Starting in January, universities will Hope Scholarships provide a maxi­ chose to attend. I look have to report information about stu­ around and see what this mum $1,500 tax credit for the first two dents to the Internal Revenue Service years of college. For part-time stu­ great university has been to determine the students’ eligibility for reduced to and wonder dents, graduate students or students federal tax credits. In order to do so, B beyond their first two years, Lifetime why anyone, including university officials said they will have Learning Credits will provide 20 per­ myself, would freely choose to gather information they don’t nor­ cent of the first $5,000 of tuition to endure its tortures. In mally gather. the four years that I have Tom Roland a through 2002 and on the first $10,000 And students may end up footing the students will not feel it, Merkowitz after 2002. been at Notre Dame I Business Manager bill. said. The tax credits will give students have seen some pretty Only individuals with incomes under “It’s a problem our institutions will a break on tuition, and those not eligi­ $50,000, or married couples with joint significant changes, and to be quite honest I have to deal with,” said David ble because of their high incomes will filings under $100,000, may claim tax can’t say that many are for the better. Merkowitz, director of Public Affairs not feel the strain, he said. I saw them tear down my community known credits. for the American Council on Education. But NU officials said the process of as Grace Hall (as well as Planner). I saw them Universities will have to start gather­ “Yes, there will be a burden, there will collecting the information would be ing information in December in order veto the recognition of GLND/SMC. I saw them be cost involved. It’s not the IRS’s job to costly and burdensome. • shoot down co-residency. I even saw them to meet the Jan. 1 deadline for the determine the cost of pay for it. “This is why the costs go up,” said Hope credits, Merkowitz said. That enlarge and further commercialize the stadi­ Ultimately it will be passed along to associate provost Rebecca Dixon. “We means students who pay their tuition um. Notice that the first three things seem to have to pay to handle all this stuff.” signal a shift toward ND’s traditional ways students.” bills before Jan. 1 will not receive Hope Tuition could go up to pay for the The IRS is requiring colleges to credits, he said. Lifetime Learning while the fourth seems to be saying the exact report students to obtain information to opposite (I believe this to be the truest defini­ cost of reporting to the IRS, but most credits take effect after June 30,1998. tion of the word hypocrite). In the past few months I have seen other things that make me tired. I have seen racial BROWN UNIVERSITY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK tension in last spring’s Bookstore Basketball tournament. I have seen tension between Saint BU considers ‘model minority’ myth______College Bowl to begin next week Mary’s and Notre Dame heightened. And I have seen tension over Dan Sullivan’s comic. PROVIDENCE, R.I. BINGHAMTON, N Y. The sad part is I don’t blame the students An overachieving, relatively acquiescent science major Binghamton University students will soon exercise their involved or the anger that they have; I blame embodies many Brown students’ perception of the proto­ wits in the annual College Bowl. The College Bowl is a “them.” These tensions signify the insecurity typical Asian-American student.