------------ ------------------~ So long 311 The fall of the Wall 311 recently released a new album that has received Read viewpoint to find a number of different opin­ Tuesday mixed reviews. Read Scene's review of the alternative ions on thew-year anniversary of the destruction band's new album. of the Berlin Wall. NOVEMBER9, Scene+ page 14-15 Viewpoint+ page 12-13 1999 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 48 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU 10 years after the fall "/noticed immediately that East Berlin just wasn't caught up to the times." Kellie Hazell • Students tell of + The fall marked living in Germany the beginning of during the fall Germany's struggle for By NORREEN GILLESPIE reunification Saint Mary's Editor By ERIN LARUFFA l.ikn any othnr studnnt in his News Writer sixth gradn history class, Luis Matos sat. down with volumes of nrH:yclopndias and began to The Berlin Wall. along with its write a rPport about Germany barbed wire and checkpoint - spncilkally, tlw BPrlin Wall. towers, still remains a symbol of Tlwn lw found out lw was the Cold War and 20th enntury moving tlwrn. international polities. Today, in Tlw thought was tnrrifying to the place of one famous ehm~k­ LIH' middiP srhooler, who knnw point, stands Berlin Checkpoint Pnough about thP current Chari ie Plaza, an eight-story nvm1ts in Novemlwr of 1 t)81J to modern oflkn tower, according know that hn didn't want to livn to Business Week. in btst (;nrmany. Clearly, change in Germany "Whnn I !ward wn would bn and Europe in general has bflen moving to Gnrmany. I startml tremendous sincP the collapse of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, aski.ng, '":Vail, wn'w not ~c~.~ing to l·.ast (,ermany. am wn! h«1 1989, but the story of the Berlin nmwrnberml. "Knowing that WP Wall. both before and after were) moving to the West was 1981), is complieated. dnfinitely a load o(l' my mind." At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled l~ven with minimal under­ standing of an cwnnt which what beeame the eommunist marknd tlw nnd of thn Cold War country of East Germany. and tlw beginning of a new ora British, French and U.S. forces ((tr (;errnan history, Matos, now occupied the western portion of a Notre Damn senior. had the country, which became non­ pir.kml up on a tcmsion that still communist West Germany. nxists. While thn fall of the On Aug. 13, 1961, residnnts of lkrlin Wall was a bnginning for Berlin discovered a barbnd-wire tlw political unification of barrier dividing tlwir city. The (;nrrnany, tensions that have 12-foot high, 1 o:~-miln long JOHN DAILY fThe Observer Berlin Wall soon replaced the Luis Matos and his family were in West Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall. The destruc­ see GERMANY/page 8 tion of the separation between East and West Germany occurred on this date 10 years ago. see WALL/page 4 Prison: A rehabilitation center or a warehouse? same at the Indiana State involved in a double homicide By MICHELLE KRUPA Prison in Michigan City as it is in Indianapolis. While Sanford's News Writer in most American towns. co-conspirator turned state's Fourteen Notre Dame stu­ evidence and won a lenient MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. dents visited the facility eight-year sentence for his part Main Street was almost Monday to study crime and in the murders, Hon was empty in a small Northern punishment, a lesson required charged as an adult and scm­ Indiana town Monday after­ by sociology professor Paul tenced to 170 years in prison. noon. Magro in his course, Criminal At 15, he arrived at Michigan Only one of 1,835 residents Justice. The real-life classroom City, the youngest person 1wer enjoyed the crystal-clear showed that despite efforts by to be held at the institution. autumn day. In khakis and a corrections officers to rehabili­ "I was a baby in this sntting," white T-shirt, he leaned against tate inmates, prison is a monot­ Sanford said. "There was a concrete post outside a two­ onous, depressing and often nobody for me to hang out with. story. red brick building and dangerous place to live. I was terrified. Ther·c1 arn stared across the street toward From behind a giant, wooden killers, rapPrs, child molnstNs, the community's church, com­ table in a room normally robbers, thieves in this place. I plete with ornate stained-glass reserved for parole hearings, was torrified." windows. Ron Sanford, dressed in prison­ But the sun's rays didn't cre­ issue khakis and a gray sweat­ Learning the ropes ate colorful patches on the shirt and without shackles. With a seventh-gradP nduca­ ground as it passed through explained what prison life is tion and no onn around tinted glass. Iron bars forbade like, from the insidn. At 25, younger than nine years his the light's penetration, and the Sanford has spent almost half senior, Hem attnmptnd to takP only glow was reflection from his life behind the 40-foot eon­ MICHELLE KRUPAfThe Observer the GED, but bf1CaUSP or agn the barbed-wire hoops strung Fourteen Notre Dame students visited the Indiana State Prison crete walls that separate the rngulations, tlw state would not atop every building and fence in Michigan City Monday. They learned the difficulties and maximum security facility from grant him tlw certi!kate, c1quiv- dangers of living in a prison. in sight. the rest of the world. Main Street isn't quite the At 13, he and a "friend" were see PRISON/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, November 9, 1999 f INSIDE COLUMN I I r· "/believe that the "/ am sounding an "/ would love to .~ee "Animals have no district attorney's alarm to America to a law come into advocates; they can't findings are correct, restore training and effect where women speak for themselves. and that the officers jobs and assistance who are in for an It is up to the people Seventh grade involved in the . or there will be a abortion be required who care about shootings were justified troubled land." to hear their baby's them." reflections in their actions. " heartbeat. " Leon Sullivan Phyllis Shelton-Ball I was talking to my little brother on Instant David Bejarano on receiving the ND Award Dawn Kober Notre Dame prof on animals Messenger the other day. He was proudly telling San Diego poke chief "abortion survivor" in Pet Refuge me about his football game last Saturday and on Demetrius Dubose's death how he had made his first touchdown. As I asked him the details of his game-winning play, I too started to beam with pride. He has played for several years now, and after every OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports game he always "was so close" to making a touch­ down. This was an athletic Family of dead MSU student raises awareness feat he had been working towards since his first trip to EAST lANSING, Mich. "/ think there are probably pain has not gone away, she said. a Notre Dame football game. One year after Bradley McCue's "Things will never be like they were Despite my honest happi­ some people who still think Maureen death, his friends and family are still before, no matter how much time ness for my brother's accom­ encouraging students to drink 'It can't happen to me.'" passes," she said. plishment, a bit of remorse Smithe responsibly. Sending 21st birthday cards to stu­ lightly overcame me as well. The Michigan State University Cindy McCue dents is one of BRAD's several aware­ I wasn't there to cheer him junior died in the early hours of his ness projects. The cards go out to stu­ on. I wasn't there to hug him Copy Editor 21st birthday, Nov. 5, 1998, after Bradley McCue's mother dents at MSU and 10 other colleges after the game. I wasn't consuming 24 shots in two hours and universities across the country. there to see his moment of while celebrating with friends at About 150 cards are sent out to MSU well-deserved glory. Rick's American Cafe in East Lansing, students each week. The cards are As I sat at my computer chatting with him, my Mich. His blood-alcohol level was student died of alcohol poisoning. signed by Cindy and John McCue. mind started racing back to when I was in sev­ ·reported at .44, four times the On Feb. 2, the McCue family formed "We've gotten quite a few notes enth grade, just like him. amount considered legally drunk. BRAD, Be Responsible About from students, e-mails from students, I felt so old then. College kids were way beyond Since McCue's death, university Drinking, to educate high school and saying thank you," she said. "It makes any reach of my imagination. They were so health officials and McCue's parents college students about alcohol poison­ me think it is [working]." grown up and so mature. They were so busy all have worked to raise awareness ing. But Cindy McCue said she realizes the time. I used to get so intimidated by anyone about alcohol poisoning and binge "We don't want to see what hap­ they will not reach everyone. over the age of 15. Does my brother see me in drinking. McCue's death drew nation­ pened to Bradley happen to anybody "I think there are probably some the same way I used to see college students? al attention as it came a year after else," his mother, Cindy McCue, said.