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------------------~--------------------------- - -- -------------------- Monday, September 2, 1996 • Vol. XXX No. 6 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Senior Bar reopens with menu, all-ages hours By l.lZ FORAN through expanding the hours Edi10r-in-Chicf he hopes _to provide needed space and food facilities for stu­ For all those underage under­ dents and faculty members elassnwn. here's your chance to passing in and around the area. finally get into a bar without "We have 4000 square feet IW!m g!~tting carded. sitting vacant for the majority On tho lirst day of classes, the of the week," he said. "We Alumni-Senior Club (otherwise asked ourselves if we were known as Senior Bar) began maximizing the use of this facil­ snrving food and non-alcoholic ity. drink on weekdays from 7:30 "When DeBartolo opened (in a.m. to 3 p.m. in an attnmpt to 1993), followed by the business provide additional social space sehoot (last year), we noticed a on tllfl south end of campus, reduction of traffic through according to Student Aetivities LaFortune during the day," he Dimctor Joe Cassidy. added. "The club is right next­ New serviees at the club will door to those faeilities, and it inrlude an extnnsive food menu could be used by the off-cam­ along with study and social pus students, faculty and grad spaee. Games sueh as pool and students." darts will also be available dur­ Since the faeility will be mak­ ing the new operating hours. ing a transition from its prima­ The building will continue to ry use as a bar to a multi-pur­ opnrate as a bar during from 9 pose facility, Cassidy admitted that a name change is being p.m. to 2 a.m. Wednesday The Observer/David Murphy through Saturday nights .. No considered. The Alumni-Senior Club, known around campus as the Senior Bar, has stopped serving alcohol during the alcohol will be served during "With the change in the use day on Friday and begun serving food, making it a social space for underage students. the daytime hours. of the facility during the day, charge must be paid at the while at night it will continue to through the rumor mill is The change was prompted by calling it a club is exclusive," he door. operate as a club," Cassidy "Shamrox," which was submit­ tho lack of social space on the said. Senior Bar requires a "The daytime operations are added. south side, Cassidy said, and membership card or a cover open to the entire community, The namtl that has circulated see BAR/ page 4 New policy Community offers many gets mixed volunteer opportunities For some students, leaving tion but finding funding for • • home often means leaving research." OpllllOOS behind the opportunity to get Projects that the Epilepsy involved in their local commu­ Education Association are By CAROLINE BLUM nity. This article is part of a working on right now include a Saint Mary's Editor series focusing on ways to vol­ newsletter in the fall and an unteer in the South Bend area. opportunity in the spring for a In a place they've historically sat. surgeon to come to the area smoknd, and socialized, many Saint ByBERNADETTEPAMPUCH and speak with medical profes­ Mary's students were greeted not News Writer sionals about epilepsy. Studlmt volunteers from with ashtrays but pink table t1mts Epilepsy, which in various Notre Dame and Saint Mary's last Sunday whnn they ent!~red the forms affects more than three are welcome to help with the Dining llall for the first time. million Americans, is highly organization in a variety of Tlw tnnts informed studtmts of' a treatable. The Michiana-based capacities, especially with pro­ nPw poliey, orw of tlm~e dnseribed Epilepsy Education Association jects involving public relations in thn nnw coiiPge handbook, pro­ is one area organization dedi­ and writing. The next general hibiting smoking anywhnr·e in the cated not only to bringing a board meeting will take place Dining llall. message of education and at the law offices of Barnes and "Tiw nnw rule is annoying," treatment to the public, but in Thornburg on the sixth floor of snnior and Hnsidnnee llall finding volunteers to help sup­ the First Source Bank Building, Association (HilA) I )ining ·II all rep­ port their cause. 100 N. Michigan, at 7::H> on rPsc~ntativP Kan~n Murphy com­ "Epilepsy is one of the oldest Septembf!r 18. Sherk empha­ nwntud. "I'vn benn sitting in the conditions of mankind and one sized that voluntnc~rs are invited ll'ornwrl smoking snction l'or three '--'----'-"c.....;"""'-'"'""'"'""""'" of the least recognized," said to attend. ynar·s now. My friends and I used Observer File Photo Bob Sherk, president of the Interested volunteers should to nu•Pt in tlw morning to study and Among the most talked-about policy changes is the conversion of Association. "Hesearch is (an) call the Epilepsy Education smokl'. Wn rrsl'd to sit and talk the dining hall to a non-smoking area. ultimate goal, not only educa- Association at 27:{-4050. af'tnr dirrrwr l'or an hour while wn student opinion on the issue. Flyers announcing smoknd. But now, we just sit and talk aftnr din­ the meeting were posted, wearing statistics rwr about how wn usnd to be able to smoke.'' about lung cancer and second-hand smoke. Live and in concert. .. As part ol' hnr position on HilA, Murphy wit­ "The whole Oyer was geared toward a non­ IH~ssnd tlw nntin~ making or the poliey. She smoker," Murphy said. !!Xplairwd that thn procnss began from a studnnt­ gnrwratPd mnc~ting that was hold to dntnrmine see REACTION I page 4 ND re-christens campus roads Observer Staff Report With the eonstruction of new roads on cam­ pus come the designation of new road names. Such is the case for the drive leading from Notre Dame Avenue past the new dorms and around the campus along the lakes to the east gate. That road has been named Holy Cross Drive, in honor of the University's founding religious community. Other eampus roads that were named or renamed include the following: • The road from Holy Cross Drive past Corby Hall to the Hammes Notre Dame The Observer/Mike Ruma The Observer/David Murphy The Charlie Daniels Band performed this weekend at a rally for Among the newly constructed roads are those leading American Bikers Aimed Toward Education (ABATE). to the main gate near the West Quad dorms. see ROADS I page 4 - --------------- page2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, September 2, 1996 • INSIDE CoLUMN • WOFU.O AT A GLANCE Labor Day? Infamous South Carolina lake claims seven more victims UNION, S.C. It passed between the memorial A family and friends visiting the spot markers and knocked over a young tree Today? Who where Susan Smith drowned her two planted in the Smith boys' memory as it little boys met with tragedy themselves slid down the steep grassy embank- would have when their vehicle rolled into John D. ment into about 15 feet of water. Long Lake. Three adults and four chil- Two adults - parents of three of the dren drowned. children - dived into the lake to help, known? Five of the victims were from one and drowned with the others. family - parents and their three chil- 4 miles "There's going to be some who say What's wrong with this dren. the lake needs to be drained. There picture? Dan Cichalski g=s "It's like it's haunted or something. It 1=====-!:::::.::;:====~========:::::J should have been guardrails built," · Look at yourself: Assistant Accent Editor keeps taking lives," Tommy Vinson, 46, said Leonard Roark, a retired textile You're probably sitting in said Sunday as he stood beside the lake worker from Union who was among a dining hall between classes. The Observer a half-dozen miles outside town. those gathered at the lake Sunday spread out on one side next to your food-laden The accident happened late Saturday. morning. tray. Surrounded by friends, you read the State divers worked through the night The accident killed an entire family paper and discuss this morning's classes and to find the bodies in the water near the from nearby Buffalo: Tim Phillips, 28; those to come this afternoon. boat ramp where Ms. Smith killed her his wife, Angie, 22; and Courtney, 4; The problem is - and I bet few of you real­ children. Melena, 23 months, and 4-month-old ized this- today is Labor Day. Today is the The group of 10 had driven out to the Kinsleigh, saicJ Teresa Mims, the day when lazy government employees and lake and parked next to the ramp with Phillips' cousin. workers in general keep the offices locked and their Chevrolet Suburban's headlights shining on two Tim and Angie Phillips were the ones who jumped into add an extra day for one last weekend down memorials to the Smith boys, 3-year-old Michael and the water trying to save their children and the others, the shore, up at the lake, or off at the cabin in 14-month-old Alex, Sheriff Howard Wells told WSPA-TV. said Bobby Moore, a neighbor of Phillips' mother, Patsy the woods. - Five of the group had gotten out of the vehicle when it Phillips. But not here, not at Notre Dame. For some started to roll toward the water with four children and Neither he nor Ms. Mims knew the identity of the other reason, The Powers That Be choose not to an adult inside, said Mike Willis, a spokesman for the two victims.

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