Rita Cleared of Fox's Death

18150 YEARS at i H OBSERVER Wednesday, November 9, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 48 NOTRE DAME-IN THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Rita cleared of Fox’s death Judge declares mistrial on lesser leaving scene of an accident charge By JOHN LUCAS and Fox, who was walking on the DAVE TYLER shoulder closest to Douglas Managing Editor, News Editor Road, was struck and killed. During closing arguments, After deliberating for nearly defense attorney Charles Asher nine hours last night, a St. charged that an Intoxilizer Joseph’s County Superior Court breath test given to Rita just jury acquitted Notre Dame law hours after the accident was school graduate John Rita of flawed. Asher said the test, the felony charge of causing which was administered by the death of Mara Fox while state trooper Kevin Kubsch, driving drunk. produced an inaccurate as sessment of Rita’s blood alco ■ see REACTION, page 3 hol content. Although the test showed that Rita had a BAG of .14, four Judge William Albright de hundredths over Indiana’s legal clared a mistrial on a second, limit, the machine malfunc lesser felony charge of leaving tioned and printed a results the scene of an accident, after card marred by overstrikes and the jury said it was deadlocked printing errors. and could come not to a ver “No one can say that this m a dict. chine did not make mistakes in Rita, 25, of Springfield, the testing process,” Asher Virginia, had been standing said, in attempting to discount trial in connection with the the test results. “Why didn’t Nov. 13, 1993 death of 18-year the trooper run another test?” old Notre Dame freshman St. J o s e p h ’s C ounty M ara Fox. Prosecutor Michael Barnes Fox and a group of friends maintained that if jurors “used had been walking back their common sense” they towards campus from a Grape would see that the test was ac The Observer/John Lucas Road restaurant after a cab the curate in its BAG display, if not Accompanied by his mother, a relieved John Rita leaves St. Joseph County Superior Court late last night,group had called never arrived. after a jury acquitted him of a charge of causing the death of Mara Fox in November of 1993. see RITA / page 3 Deloitte & Touche Republicans make gains Associated Press Senate race results As of 9:35 p.m.EST Chair announced Last night’s elections carried broad implications for Clinton’s By BRAD PRENDERGAST Deloitte & Touche LLP, the re-election prospects, and the Assistant News Editor chairs sponsor, praised the direction of a Democratic Party selection of O’Meara to the that has yet David Ricchiute, professor of chair. to fully adjust U P ” Calif. accountancy, has just been ap “Dave Ricchiute is an out to having one tip cm, pointed to the newly created standing individual who is of its own in K e f ' Deloitte & Touche Chair in widely respected by his stu the White mAh Accountancy, ______ dents as well as his peers,” House and K," f University Daniel Kelly, vice-chairman of now faced w La the accounting firm and a 1957 losing its con- * ' Wr Provost Democratic Timothy graduate of Notre Dame, said. grossional victory O’M eara a n “We couldn’t be more pleased Republican nounced. with his appointment.” T h n e t : b e Newt Gingrich victory Ricchiute, Deloitte & Touche LLP helped th e firs t i f Change of twice named create the chair by contributing Republican speaker in four party the outstand to an already existing decades is conservative ing teacher in Department of Accountancy Georgia firebrand Newt David AP the College of endowment that now totals Gingrich. He said he wanted to Business Ricchiute $800,000. work with Clinton, yet also had GOP leadership. “ We have to party loses three or four Senate “All of us at Deloitte & a responsibility to push the step forward and put up a sen seats and perhaps two dozen in Administration, was named to Touche are elated that we have Republican campaign platform sible health care bill and step the House. But this was not to the position because of his ex been able to establish a chair up forward with a sensible wel be an average year. fare reform bill, put up the bal In settling 36 governorships, pertise in the field of account in accountancy at Notre ■ see ELECTION, page 8 ing, according to O’Meara. Dame,” Kelly said. “Deloitte & anced budget amendment and voters were cutting deep into “The quality of his teaching, Touche is a strong supporter of a capital gains tax reduction.” the Democrats’ dominance. research and his contributions teaching excellence as an that includes a balanced bud The hurdle for Republicans Democrats had 29 statehouses to his profession of accountan important component of the get amendment and other to capture the House was 40 to start the day, but lost nine: cy made him an excellent scholarly work of faculty mem provisions the president oppos seats, one for every year since in New York, New Mexico, choice,” O’Meara said. bers.” es. they last ran the chamber. By Texas, Wyoming, Kansas, Ricchiute is looking forward The Deloitte & Touche Chair Incumbents were generally late evening, with half of House Tennessee, Rhode Island, to beginning in his new posi is one of only a handful of faring well in the Senate vot races still to be decided, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. tion. chairs at Notre Dame which ing, but the GOP claimed one Republicans had captured 32 In the biggest state of all, “It is an opportunity for me to are named after companies. significant scalp: Dr. Bill Frist Democratic seats and lost just California Gov. Pete Wilson engage further in my own re “Normally, businesses donate wrested a Tennessee seat from two of their own. won a second term. Republican search,” he said. money for a chair that will be Budget Committee Chairman Clinton retreated to the governors were also re-elected His research interests include named for an individual, but James Sasser. Even worse for White House to watch the in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, the study of professional judg this is one of the few excep the White House, Republican painful returns. “I think the Iowa, Massachusetts, ment and decision making, and tions,” O’Meara said. Fred Thompson captured the president will want to heal the Minnesota, Wisconsin and New the pricing practices of large Endowed chairs benefit the seat once held by Vice wounds and close the gaps as Ham pshire, and the GOP kept public accounting firms. University in a number of ways, President A1 Gore. quickly as possible,” said press the statehouses in South His textbook, “Auditing,” is O’Meara added. “We have a lot of responsibil secretary Dee Dee Myers. Dakota and South Carolina. widely used at colleges and “The name on a chair high ity now and we have two years Democrats began the day Democrats held onto the gover universities across the United lights the fact that distin to prove ourselves,” said Sen. controlling the Senate 56-44 norships of Florida, Nevada, States. It is also used in guished positions exist at Notre Alan Simpson of Wyoming, sec and the House 256-178. On av England and Australia. ond to Dole of Kansas in the erage, a first-term president’s see CHAIR / page 6 see ROUND-UP / page 8 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, November 9, 1994 ■ Inside Column ■ W orld at a G lance The ugly Aids-activating protein discovered; drug research follows r r i ........... PHILADELPHIA Sarver, one of the chief scientists in persistence of Scientists say they have discovered the AIDS division of the National Top weekend _ a protein that may activate the AIDS Institutes of Health, said the study is m o v i e s virus in the body and cause it to interesting but very preliminary. Weekend of Oct. 28-Nov. 6 1994 develop into AIDS. 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HIV-infected people can be Dr. Alfred Saab, an associate pro «l $38.1, four weeks, 1,494 screens K The Specialist $3.1 have been living on an ic healthy and live for years before the fessor in the School of Public Health 5 $48.1. five weeks. 2,033 screens flow for the past few virus attacks the body’s immune sys at Johns Hopkins University, said of T Love Affair $2.4 weeks I will provide a tem.

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