Irish Extra Anonymous Caller Gives False Information About Hostages

Inside: Irish Extra an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s United Way Only 24 write lengthens in protest fund raising of parietals By MARK PANKOWSKI campaign Assistant News Editor By LYNNE R. STRAND After learning only 24 letters Staff Reporter would be delivered to the ad ministration Friday protesting the Brought back by "popular punishments levied for overnight demand," Lock Up A Friend will be parietals violations, the Judicial held for two more nights as part of Council voted unanimously the extended 1985 United Way Thursday night to write its own let Campaign, said Student Body Presi ter seeking a change in the penalties. dent Bill Healy. "There was not a response from In conjunction with the cam the student body," Judicial Council paign, the Student Activites Board Coordinator Karen Ingwersen said, will hold a Lip Sync Contest referring to the number of students Thursday, Nov. 14. In addition, a writing Vice President for Student Senior Alumni Club donation night Affairs Father David Tyson in care of will take place next Wednesday for Ombudsm an. the United Way. “Some people are pretty mad be Student government extended cause (the Hall Presidents’ Council) the campaign not merely to raise spent a lot money on advertise more money, but because “these f i J V m ents” In The Observer, Ingwersen events were planned anyway," said The Obscrver/Hannes Hacker added. llealy. The SAB had postponed the Advice from a pro The council letter, to be sent to Lip Sync contest because there was Notre Dame students, left to right, Tom Esch and banners in front o f the Center for Social Concerns Tyson, University President Father not enough time to organize it or Dan Lizarraga, follow the advice of 60s radical Thursday. The signs will be used at Saturday's foot Theodore Hesburgh and members Abbie Hoffman by making apartheid-protesting b a ll game. see EXTENSION, page 7 see LETTERS, page 5 Anonymous caller gives false information about hostages Associated Press there is no substantiation of that at respondent for The Associated In some other Lebanon abduction local time to say where the bodies all." Press; David Jacobsen, director of cases, calls reporting supposed had been dumped. That call was BEIRUT, Lebanon - An anonymous Since the calls could not be aut the American University Hospital, “executions” have turned out to be never made. But another man, caller said Islamic Jihad extremists henticated, it was impossible to and Thomas Sutherland, the univer false. speaking colloquial Lebanese planned to kill their half-dozen determine whether they were a sity’s dean of agriculture. Arabic, called the agency at 10 am. American hostages Thursday, and a macabre hoax or simply part of a war A representative of the news second caller claimed they were of nerves being waged by the Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, agency, which declined to be iden He said that “all the bodies of the dead. But no bodies were found in shadowy Shiite Moslem faction to believed made up of fundamentalist tified, said Thursday’s first call came Americans, including Buckley’s," the designated spot. / pressure Washington into making a followers of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhol- at 7:15 a.m. (12:15 a.m. EST) from a had been dumped in the basement The captives were to be deal lah Khomeini, had said it would man who, speaking in classical of the derelict, shell pocked Coca- “executed" by firing squad because Six Americans are missing in release the Americans when Kuwait Arabic, declared the American Cola factory in the Kola district of indirect negotiations with the Lebanon. Islamic Jihad claimed Oct. frees 17 Shiite comrades serving hostages would be shot by firing south Beirut. United States had reached "a dead 4 it killed one of them, diplomat Wil prison terms for the bombings of the squad. end," the first man said in a call to a liam Buckley, 57. But no body has U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait But policemen, reporters and Western news agency. turned up. in December 1983 Kuwait refuses. "We wish to tell America that the Moslem militiamen found nothing In Washington, however, a White The other American captives are sad end of the American hostages after several hours of searching the House official said "contacts" in the Peter Kllburn, 60, an American Uni Several threats were made earlier will not be the last. We shall shake rat-infested factory, surrounding Lebanon hostage case had not versity of Beirut librarian; Father to try the hostages as spies and the earth at America’s feet and the buildings and nearby neighbor broken down. And President Reagan Iawrence Jenco, 50; Terry Ander "execute" them if the demand was feet of its agents,” said the caller. hoods where bodies have been said of the death threat, “Evidently son, 38, chief Middle East cor not met. But no deadlines were set. He promised to call again at 1 p.m. dumped before. Night Oak sign will be removed from building after student protest By LAURA S. GRONEK completely out of place with the the sign and try an alternative ap News Staff “gothic romantic style" of South proach to advertising the cafe. Quad. “We originally wanted a posted The neon sign proclaiming “Night Director of Food Services William light," said Hickey, but because of Oak Open" will disappear from the Hickey already has made the deci numerous safety codes involved in facade of South Dining Hall because sion to remove the sign. Student installing it, such as a special wiring of student opinion that it detracts reaction was brought to Hickey’s at of the electrical system, the present from both the beauty of the building tention through a Food Services Ad sign was chosen. and from all of South Quad. Hickey recalled the Night Oak’s The sign, the most recent attempt debut four years ago as "a social by University Food Services to “It doesn’t take five center for the students ” promote the Night Oak cafe, has The sign, stated Hickey, was been met by much student opposi years of architectural merely “a means for letting students tion, including a proposal by Notre training to see that the know that the cafe is open and Dame student Kurt Weidmann that available for their use." all students adorn the campus Friday sign is blatantly Open seven nights a week, 9 to 1 night with gaudy signs, lights, and Sunday through Thursday and 9 to 2 "other visual nuisances ” wrong.” on Friday and Saturday, the Night W eidmann, a fifth year ar Oak requires an additional staff and chitecture student, voiced his -Kurt Weidmann presently Is operating w ith just a few protest in Wednesday’s Viewpoint managers. section of the Observer. For this reason, Hickey calls the etw 8 8 "It doesn’t take five years of ar visory Meeting earlier this week, enterprise "more of a headache than chitectural training to see that the where student representatives of anything else" in response to accusa sign is blatantly wrong," Weidmann each dorm on campus relayed the tions that the sign was installed to The Observer/Hanncs Hacker said. feedback they had received attract more business for his own This sign above South Dining Hall may no longer exist, after According to Weidmann, this Agreeing that "the sign did not fit personal gain. students protest that its neonism detracts from the beauty of the neon elem ent of “All American in with the building and its ar “The Night Oak is here for the stu campus. Story at right. blight” belongs on U.S. 31, and is chitecture," Hickey will take down dents, not for us," Hickey said. The Observer Weekend Edition, November 8-9, 1985 - page 2 In Brief Scholastic goes bi-weekly to provide in-depth analysis A m an c h o k e d to d e a th after the Navy Notre Dame football game last Saturday, but it was an hour before his death “Bi-weekly,” we laughed, “they are barely a bi was noticed. Stephen DeVriese, 25, was waiting in a van after the monthly." game with a friend to get the autographs of the football players. And so it was last spring when Notre Dame’s news J o h n When DeVriese began choking, the friend believed that he was ex magazine unveiled its plans for the 1985-86 school periencing an attack similar to previous ones. The friend returned year. M e n n e l l DeVriese, a quadriplegic, to Regency Place nursing home, where The skeptics still had their doubts. How could a DeVriese lived. He believed medical help would be available there. magazine that appeared at most sporadically in 1984- Production M anager DeVriese was discovered dead about 8 p.m. at the nursing home. - 1985 make a dramatic turnaround and appear regularly, The Observer - twice as often as it had in the past few years? Scholastic was not always a monthly. In the early part Maria Press typeset Scholastic’s content. According to of this century it was a weekly news magazine. It served General Manager Maher Mouasher there has been as the primary source of campus news. When The Ob general improvement in all departments toward better server was created 19 years ago, its new staff was organization. The staff size is approximately tripled. Of Interest developed from the old paper and from Scholastic, The number of magazines to be produced this year where most people with journalistic inklings were already has come close to the number last year, when employed.

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