The Observer/Brian Hardy and Brad Prendergast Student Alliance Marched with Rals
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Tuesday, October 10, 1995• Vol. XXVII No. 37 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Gift funds bookstore, multi-purpose center By DAVE TYLER vious academie need," said the new building, the improved News Editor Dennis Moore, direetor of Uni and enlarged bookstore will •Keough and versity Public Relations and in still be named for Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill Halls along The University of Notre Dame formation. Romy Hammes, who donated with two yet announced Monday that it will Frank Eck, a 1944 alumnus the current bookstore with a unnamed dorms build a new campus bookstore and longtime benefactor of the 1955 gift. will be located on with double the square footage University will underwrite the The expanded bookstore will the new West of the current facility. ~ construction of the new build double the current Hammes' Quad. In addition to the expanded ing with a $10 million gift. 27,000 square feet. It will con bookstore, the new building will "Notre Dame has benefited tinue to sell books and retail University house a headquarters for the many times over from the ex items. No word was yet avail need plans Notre Dame Alumni Associa emplary generosity of Frank able on the future of the cur the new tion, and a new campus visi Eck, but never more than in rent Hammes. that tor's center. It will be called this instance," said University The new Alumni Association located Eck Center and will be located President Father Edward Mal offices will relieve an office of the Morris on Notre Dame Ave. , just south Joy. space shortage created by the nn. of the Morris Inn. Eck has previously underwrit association's greatly expanded Construetion will begin in the ten construction of Frank Eck programming, said Moore. The •This is the spring of 1997, and the new Stadium, the University's base visitor's center, will include a proposed site of edifice will be ready for oeeu ball facility, and the Eck Tennis reception area and auditorium. the new pancy in late 1998 or eafly Pavilion, an indoor tennis com The center will fill a need on a performing arts 1999, said university officials. plex. center of the "The facility will meet an ob- While Eck's name will adorn see ECK/ page 6 DeBartolo Quad. ND grad takes Nobel Prize in medicine By DAVE TYLER News Editor Notre Dame claimed its first Nobel Laureate Monday. Eric Wiechaus, a 1969 University of Notre Dame graduate shared the Nobel prize in medicine with two other scien tists, the prize committee at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said yesterday. Wiechaus, 48, the Squibb professor of molecular biology at Princeton University, will share the award and the $1 million prize with Edward Lewis, 77, of the California Institute of Technology and Christiane Nusslein Volhard, 52, of Germany's Max Planck Institute. The trio were honored for their work in the genetic control of early embryonic development. Students protest "Together, these three scientists have achieved a breakthrough that will help explain congenital malformations in 'disgrace' of murals man," the Nobel citation said. see NOBEL/ page 4 COWMBUS NASA-ND calls for removal of Accident sends WAS Domes Columbus paintings By BRAD PRENDERGAST which attracted a marginal au student to ER Associare News Editor dience throughout its duration. Yesterday's commemoration By BRAD PRENDERGAST Calling the murals of Christo of Columbus Day served as a Associate News Editor pher Columbus inside the Main fitting setting for the protest, IN Building "a disgrace" to the according to Candice Pascua, A female Notre Dame student was heritage of Native Americans, president of NASA-NO. struck by a car at the intersection of students from several campus "Columbus Day is a nationally Bulla and Juniper Roads yesterday. minority organizations staged a recognized holiday that shows The off-campus student was riding protest yesterday outside the Columbus as our discoverer, ·~_r,49~l her b icy c I e Gllii'-:;;;;;jifl"'o;;~ii~rB..,..._• building and demanded that but Columbus didn't really dis while heading the administration remove the cover us," Pascua said. "That's west on Bulla murals during the building's not the whole history, the Road toward upcoming interior renovation. whole truth." campus as she About 25 students from the A pamphlet distributed by approached Native American Students' As sympathizing students during the red light sociation of Notre Dame, the the demonstration outlined at the inter Hispanic American Organiza NASA-NO's position: "We section. A tion and the African American strongly disagree with the mu witness said The Observer/Brian Hardy and Brad Prendergast Student Alliance marched with rals ... because they show only that the stu placards bearing slogans such the European point of view. Several students of Native American descent are dent ignored as "Columbus was discovered Native Americans inhabited the signal and was attempting to cross offended by the murals of Christopher Columbus' in 1492," "A great people in this land long before the arrival exploration of America. Located on the second floor of the intersection when a car moving the Main Building, the murals were the subject of a habited the land long before of Columbus. southbound on Juniper Road hit her. student demonstration held outside the building yester 1492" and "Re-learn history" "NASA-NO's demonstration is The student was transported by Notre day. The students bore placards as they argued that during the mid-afternoon rally. intended to make the Notre Dame Security to St. Joseph Medical giving credit to Columbus for 'discovering' America triv Chants of "Take down the Dame community conscious of Center, where she was treated for abra ialized the culture of the Native Americans who inhabit murals. End the Disgrace" con sions to her legs and was released. ed the land before Columbus' arrival. tinued throughout the march, see PROTESTI page 4 The driver of the car was not cited in the accident. page2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, October 10, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE The great Powerful earthquake shakes Mexico's Pacific coast MEXICO CITY .:--------=------~ At least 30 guests were registered at A powerful earthquake shook the hotel and 27 employees were Mexico's Pacific coost Monday morning, working there, Notimex said. It was long distance toppling a seven-story hotel in a south 50 miles not clear how many were in the build ~ ern resort, cracking homes and bridges 50km ing when the quake hit. link and killing at least 29 people, authori Reached by telephone, Manzanillo It hangs there on the ----.--- ties said. textile ·shop owner Livas de la Garza wall above my desk like a Catherme Deely More than 90 people were hurt by the said the injured were being treated in beacon of shame. I've Accent Copy Editor 7.6 magnitude quake, which was felt as makeshift outdoor clinics. He said he mounted it there as a far north as Dallas and Oklahoma City, saw extensive damage. form of penance for my errant ways, but according to seismologists. It was the "You can see houses destroyed. The looking at it still causes me to feel something second powerful tremor to hit Mexico in injured are everywhere," he said. closely resembling actual physical pain, for a month. The quake cut telephone service and there is no denying its siren-like shriek of The quake struck at 9:37 a.m. and tllectricity to many areas, including the truth: 628 minutes; $109.12. was centered three miles off the Pacific resort itself. A local airport runway My statement of services rendered by Coast between Colima and Jalisco was reported damaged. Cincinnati Bell Long Distance for the period states. The tremor lasted about two A state of emergency was declared in beginning August 21. minutes and was followed by two small the state of Jalisco, where homes and As I attempted to hold onto some focus dur aftershocks. buildings crumbled. President Ernesto ing the dizziness of Freshman Orientation Rescuers with bulldozers and cranes Zedillo sent five cabinet members to and my first uncertain weeks here at Notre pulled 12 bodies and 10 injured people assess the damage and coordinate an Dame, I never dreamed I would fmd a way to from the Costa Real hotel in the port emergency plan by the military. spend so much time attached to my room and resort area of Manzanillo, the offi Jalisco state spokeswoman Claudio telephone ... but I did. I suppose I could bow cial news agency Notimex quoted civil Villalobos said six people were dead out and plead only a crippling case of home protection officials as saying. and at least 80 injured in the two small sickness, but I will confess to a far more dan Authorities feared the toll would rise. towns of Tenamaxtlan and Ameca, gerous ailment: a big mouth, combined with "The rescue is going to be difficult," northwest of Manzanillo. contacts at home suffering from the same Navy Adm. Manuel Barron told the Both towns were isolated by rock affiiction. Mexican TV network Televisa. "Sounds slides and collapsed bridges, and tele Oh, it started out innocently enough... the have been heard. We think there are phone service and power were report "getting adjusted" talks with my parents, the more people in the rubble." ed out. rundown on college life for all my friends who had not yet left. odds and ends thrown Poll: Voters would choose Powell Cotton growers complain of blight in between rushing across campus, going to class, and meeting seemingly thousands of MANCHESTER, N.H. LOS COYOTES, Texas new people. Then, gradually, the phone A poll shows Senate Majority Leader Clifford Smith shamefully admits being one of 831 Rio began to beckon to me each and every time I Bob Dole leading his Republican presi· Grande Valley cotton farmers who approved a program had a moment which threatened to be quiet.