Personnel Director An~Ounces Wage Increase Hijacking Nightmare
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• I Personnel Director an~ounces wage increase by Diane WUson consid~ration for several months, Senior Staff Reporter according to Bull. The announce ment was moved up by a few days, Notre Dame will implement he explained, because of University increases in wages and fringe President Fr. Theodore Res benefits for non-academic staff burgh's letter to Notre Dame Director of Personnel G. Thomas students and faculty which reveal Bull announced yesterday. ed that an announcement on wage The increases include a total and benefit increases would be raise of 45 cents an hour in forthcoming. adjustments to go into effect over Bull indicated that the changes the next two years. In addition, "meet with several substantial next July the University will contri employee needs." He added that bute $25 to health insurance and he believed the groundskeepers improve the sick leave plan, both would be satisfied with the pro for hourly employees. gram. Salaried employees will receive increases in health insurance sub Bull did not have the exact cost sidies and improvements in sick figure of the plan but he remarked leave policy as of next January. that the "price would be substan Their salaries will be adjusted in tial." . The increases will be an July at a still undetermined rate of element of the $650,000 possible increase. budget deficit the University pro Bull stated that the changes were jects for next year, he said. , being instituted ''in response to the Bull noted that the improve ~~ ''< ' overall needs of the University's ments should make the University non-academic employees, as well more competitive withing the labor " ", d~ '~ ~ '< ~: ..;. _${;;(£ ~ > -:.:, as to meet the needs of the market. The director and his staff University in personnel recruit met yesterday with the affected Director of Personnel G. Thomas Bull announced the university's decisions on wage and fringe employees to brief them on the benefit increases for non-academic staff members in a press conference yesterday. [Photo by leo ment and retention." The changes have been under program. Hansen]----------------------- New parietals proposed by Jean Powley cuss the proposal and ''undoubt St. Mary's Editor edly pass it,'' she explained. Next it will be taken to the St. Mary's Student Assembly Student Affairs Committee where it last night directed Student Body should receive its greatest scrutini President Mary Rukavina to form zation, Rukavina stated. chaired ulate a proposal for extended by Rice, the committee is com Friday and Saturday parietals until prised of Director of Studentactivi 2 a.m. and Sunday parietals until ties Mary Laverty, two faculty 10 p.m. The proposal should be representatives and seven stu- completed and resubmitted for the dents. • assembly's approval immediately after October break. The final step is to the Student Affairs Council, chaired by Dug an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's "In the past, there have been gan. The council is the highest problems with the distribution and vol. XII, no. 36. .Tuesday, October 18, 1977 board that a student proposal may return of surveys on the parie:tals reach. It will make a recom issue. I hope, however, to elimi mendation to Duggan. nate that whole process. When Dr. Duggan carne here three years ago, "I am confident that we can get it through the actual groundwork. he just extended parietals from 10 The real test will come when it to midnight on weekends. There Hijacking nightmare ends reaches Duggan's desk," Rukavina was no fuss. That's what I propose explained. "I don't expect to have to do this time," Rukavina told The to take this proposal to the Board of Observer. BONN,West Germany [AP]-West aboard a hijaced Air France jetliner Schleyer, a West German industri Regents at all, except as a matter German ;:omrnandoes stormed a When she told Duggan her idea by pro-Palestinian terrorists. The alist, whose abductors had threat of information.'' hijacked Lufthansa jetliner at So to extend parietals, he reportedly Israeli soldiers boarded three air-. ened to kill him Sunday unless the If the proposal is approved, it malia's Mogadishu airport, res planes and flew from Tel Aviv to West German government agreed agreed that it was worth merit's will take effect on an experimental discussion." Dean of Student cued all 86 hostages aboard and Uganda for their secrecy-shrouded to meet the hijackers' demands. basis next semester. The question killed all four hijackers, a govern-. Affairs Kathleen Rice offered to nighttime ambush on July 4, 1976. In Washington, President Carter of parietals desk duty for the ment spokesman said early today. assist heer in writing the formal The Germans attacked less than congratulated the West German additional hours will be settled if Spokesman Karl Boelling said proposal, Rukavina said. two hours before the hijacker government for the "courage of and when the proposal is approved. one passenger was taken to a threatened to blow up the plane their decision" in staging the The proposal will go to Student Possible solutions, according to hospital "in a state of collapse" unless their demands were met. assault. Assembly at its Oct 31 meeting. Its Rukavina, would be giving and one German commando was One West German government "The job is finished," were the 22 voting members will then dis- [Continued on page 2] injured. Other passengers were official said he felt "relief, but first words Chancellor Helmut treated at the airport, but the tempered relief. We must remem Schmidt heard from his chief aide extent of the injuries was not know. ber that the pilot was killed and Hans-Juergen Wischnewski, who The West German assault re they still have Hanns Martin telephoned from Mogadishu to called the celebrated Entebbe raid Schleyer. We don't know what Bonn operations center 12:12 a.m. Poison found in ND food when Israeli commandoes rescued happened to him.'' (7:12 p.m. EDT Monday) immedi more than 100 hostages held There was no word on the fate of ------------------------------------------------------------------------,[Contlnued on page 2] by Huddle have all been checked for ·--1 Rosemary Mills f '''' rw ~,,~r"··v·r Y ~·,' "" ,.,.,. Senior Staff Reporter the substance, and no further If ~ .. .. • ) p \ .} J • • ,., ' .. • . ....• • traces of the chemical have been - / The Indiana State Police have detected. After its discovery in the ' been asked to investigate the North Dining Hall, all table dispen 1 discovery of a foreign substance in sers were cleaned thoroughly. a barrel of sugar in the North Although the barrel of sugar was .... Dining Hall last Friday. Director of obviously tampered with ·after · its ~ ..... ,. Information Services, Richard arrival at the dining hall, Conklin Conklin, stated in a press release said that this does not mean that an that an employee discovered the employee is suspected. "We are caustic substance, which was later not set up with maximum security identified as "probably sodium in the dining hall,'' he said, adding hydroxide." Further investigation that campus security will probably - revealed the substance in one increase its watchfullness. All ' sugar dispenser and one salt Food Service employees have been ~ shaker. asked to be on the alert for signs of Sodium hydroxid is a white, tampering. brittle solid, used in making soap, Conklin did not know exactly rayon and paper. Conklin said that where in the dining hall the sodium the substance's characteristics hydroxide was found. ''The fortu would be noticeably different from nate thing is that there has been no the fine granulated sugar. evidence of students coming into The Student Health Center has contact with it,'' he commented. not received any cases which could In addition to requesting the ' . ' ..,.. " be related to the incident, accord Indiana State Police to investigate, -· ing to Conklin. Sodium hydroxide University officials are arranging < would cause burning of the :moutht for a private investigator, accord Senior Bar managers Jimmy Dunne and Rob grass area in 'front of the bar, a common tissues so that anyone who had ing to Conklin. Student who have Civitello supervise construction work on a new occurance on football weekends, when the crowd ingested the substance would information which might help the fence, whcih will enclose the lawn area around spills out fro"l the bar. The new renovations will already be aware of it. investigation are asked to contact the Senior-Alumni Club. The fence was be ready for Saturday's USC game activities. According to Conklin, the South security of Edmund Price, director necessary, under Indiana liquor law require- [Photos by lisa Becker] Dining Hall, Morris Inn and the of Food Services. ments, to permit the consumption of beer on the ----------------------------------------------~ 2 the observer Tuesday, October 18, 1977 :._ ~News Briefs-------.....~ Hostages freed from hijacking ~-::=::::::=====================:=::::::::World [Continued from page 1] fhe first indication that a com when they heard-the news. Then Transplant patient dies ately after the attack was over, mando raid was planned came from the phone rang. "my brother-in Boelling said. an Israeli radi monitor who report law answered and said she w'ls CAPE TOWN• South Africa - Doctors at Groote-Schuur Hospital The passengers were expected to ed that a Boeing 707 ''mystery safe," said Mrs. Santiago's . 0 here blamed circulatory failure for the death early yesterday of return to Frankfurt early this plane" of unknown nationality had year-old son, Tom, in Los angeles. Benjamin Fortes, the first man ev~r to have.~ chimpanzee's heart afternoon, he said. landed yesterday evening at Moga grafted into his chest to back up hts own fathng heart. The Cape dishu airport. A radio conversaion Roman Catholoc bishops in West 1 The only hostage reported killed Germany called for special prayers Town accountant, 59, lived for 3 /l days with the "piggyback" heart 1 in the 4 /2 day hijack odyssey was between the pilot and Frankfurt beating beside his own.