Investigation Underway in Swim Team Bus Accident
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
The Observer 1 8 4 2 1 9 9 2 SE SQUlCF.NTtNNIAL Saint Mary's College The O bserver NOVRE D.‘.V.E»INDIANA MONDAY , JANUARY 27, 1992 VOL. XXIV NO. 81 t h e INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Investigation underway in swim team bus accident ND reacts to death of freshmen By MEREDITH ■ Haley Scott’s condition/ MCCULLOUGH page 3 Assistant News Editor ■ Local business lends a hand / page 3 Investigation is still underway ■ ND health service treating 8 concerning the tragic bus acci swimmers/ page 5 dent that took the lives of Margaret “Meghan” Beeler and State police. Colleen Hipp and injured 32 Of the 37 people on the bus, other members of the Notre police reported that 32 were Dame women’s swim team female swimmers, three were early Friday morning. coaches, one was a student News of the accident took the manager and one was 53-year- University community by sur old driver, Howard Dixon of prise, but students, faculty, 132 W. Lawrence St., administration and residents of Mishawaka. South Bend quickly mobilized Freshmen Beeler, 19, of to show their support for team Granger, Ind. and Hipp, 19, of members and their families. St. Louis, Mo. w ere killed dur “People are shocked,” said ing the crash as the vehicle Dennis Brown, a spokesman for “rolled over into the median, the University, “It’s a tough rolled over onto its top,” ex situation and we are trying to plained state police Cpl. Dennis cope with it ... Everybody in the Boehler. Both women suffered Notre Dame family has been af major chest injuries and died fected.” on the scene, according to The accident took place at Thomas Trenerry, county 12:17 a.m. Friday when the deputy coroner. United Limo bus carrying the Haley Scott, 18, also a fresh team back to campus after a man, remains in the intensive _ „ The Observer/Andrew McCloskey meet at Northwestern care unit of Memorial Hospital Tragedy strikes University hit a patch of ice, with a serious back injury. As of Tragedy struck the women's swim team and the Notre Dame campus as a whole when the team’s United lost control and overturned Saturday, Jan. 26, Scott, of Limo bus overturned early Friday morning, killing two freshmen and injuring 35 others. The team was about four miles from Notre returning from a meet near Chicago when their bus slid off the snow and ice covered Indiana Toll Road. Dame, according to the Indiana see CRASH / page 4 Swimmers’ friends look back on memories ND seniors Beeler called ‘friendly and helpful’ Lewis makes quilt to honor Hipp attend ethics By MONICA YANT By MONICA YANT News Editor News Editor conference By CAROL DOMINGUEZ Losing Margaret “Meghan” Lewis Hall residents are piec News Writer Beeler was like losing a part of ing together memories of Notre Dame for friends of the Colleen Hipp—literally—in a A conference on ethics and Granger, Ind., academic and quilt for her family in St. Louis, education at Notre Dame athletic standout. Mo. January 12-13 brought to Beeler grew up “living for Residents are decorating gether senior students and fac Notre Dame,” said her best squares of fabric that will ulty members to discuss such friends, Walsh Hall freshmen eventually be sewn together issues as contraception, the en Michelle Drury and Liz Bishko. Meghan Beeler Colleen Hipp with a border and given to vironment and morality. “People came to see her as survived by three sisters, one Hipp’s family, said Lewis Hall women’s swimming team The conference, “The Ethical Notre Dame.” brother, her parents and both Co-President Molly O’Neill. crashed outside South Bend on Dimension of Education at the Beeler died early Friday sets of grandparents. Hipp, 19, was killed early the Indiana Toll Road. University of Notre Dame,” was morning in the United Limo The accident involving mem Friday morning when a United Hipp is survived by one a pilot program developed on bus accident on the Indiana bers of the Notre Dame Limo bus transporting mem sister, one brother and her the recommendation of a Toll Road. She was 19. She is bers of the Notre Dame see BEELER / page 6 see HIPP / page 6 committee chaired by Associate Provost Oliver Williams. In 1990 the committee submitted Palestinian discusses a report concerning the University’s commitments and goals as a Catholic University in Middle East peace talks teaching its students the value of ethics. By MEGAN JUNIUS ■ Shafi’s press conference / The report stated that the News Writer page 5 “students need to be provided with an opportunity to take stock of what they have learned The leader of the Palestinian has been lost.” about ethics theoretically and delegation to the recent Middle “The prime minister of Israel practically” while at Notre East peace talks in Washington conceives nothing for Dame. cited a serious Palestinian Palestinians. He denies A two day ethics workshop commitment to peace with Palestinians their innate right was recommended for seniors Israel in a Friday lecture at of self-determination,” Shafi to provide a forum to discuss Notre Dame. said. Shafi supported his state the moral decisions they will “Palestine is seriously com confront in the future. mitted to peace with Israel. We ments by reciting a history of This year’s session, organized want the Israelis to cooperate,” continued conflict between by Kathleen Maas Weigert, said Dr. Haidar Shall in a lec Israel and Arab countries. chair of the Pilot Ethics ture titled “Prospects for Peace In June, 1967, Israel went to Committee, was a one-and-a- in the Middle East.” war with Arab countries, Shafi half day experiment. Shafi, a retired physician, of said. After their occupation, In a letter sent to one hun fered a diagnosis of the Israel annexed Jerusalem as dred randomly selected seniors, Palestinian problem: part of its territory. This in ND P resid en t F ath er E dw ard “Palestinians have been denied stance prompted a United Malloy, stated that the purpose the inalienable right to self-de Nations call on Israel to with of the program was to “provide termination,” he said. “The draw from the territories. Livening up the night students with the opportunity problem has never been pre However, Israel refused to co to evaluate the education they sented this simply and clearly. operate and insisted on its own Seniors Rich Pagen, drums, and Jeremy Gredone, saxophone, of the have received at Notre Dame in To most Westerners, the truth Jasmine Groove, provide live entertainment at an off-campus party. see SHAFI / page 7 see ETHICS / page 7 page 2 The Observer Monday, January 27, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN U m s show Wflti (e#$aslw«s. FORECAST: Trivial events Mostly cloudy today with a chance of flurries. H ighs in pale in light of the mid 30s and low s in th e low 2 0 s. recent tragedy TEMPERATURES: City H Amsterdam 45 Atlanta 59 It’s ironic how things Bogota 66 that seemed so important Boston 25 Brisbane 84 a week ago seem so trivial C hicago 29 today. Denver 45 Evansville 51 A week ago, the dubious Fairbanks -05 workings of the Hall Great Falls 55 Presidents’ Council were Honolulu 81 Houston 68 front-page news. Now, it London 45 seems silly to even John O’Brien Los Angeles 76 Accent Editor Miami Beach 69 mention this illustrious Mpte-St. Paul 16 organization after the New York 28 Paris 41 tragedy that our campus experienced on Philadelphia 30 Friday. Santiago 86 San Diego 73 The only reason that HPC is mentioned here South Bend 26 is that this column was going to be about HPC Tokyo 52 and how it is an ineffective, pompous Tulsa 59 W ashington. D C. 34 organization that uses bullying as a way of accomplishing its agenda. The events of this weekend have made HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY many things seem unimportant. Basketball games, parties, Rick Mirer’s decision and even HPC pale in comparison. It has only been four days since the United Limo bus carrying the women’s swim team crashed and changed the way people will TODAY AT A GLANCE remember the Sesquicentennial year. Years from now, when we look back at this WORLD assassination. The committee’s official conclusion in anniversary year, few of us will remember the 1979, 16 years after the death, was that Kennedy “was HPC controversy. But all of us will remember Prolonged Crisis Reveals Haiti’s Capacity To probably assassinated as a result of a Colleen Hipp and Meghan Beeler and the Withstand Siege_____________________________________conspiracy. "Conspiracy theorists long have suggested the freak twist of fate that took their lives. ■PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — When foreign powers mob had a motive to destroy the Kennedy administration. Some of us might remember the joy and put a chokehold on Haiti’s economy, they predicted the Several Mafia leaders were openly unhappy with excitement we felt while singing “Notre speedy demise of those who backed a Sept. 30 army Kennedy’s failure to overthrow Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who Dame, Our Mother” after our home footbaU coup. But the nearly 4-month-old hemispheric trade had closed their casinos in Havana. The committee, victories. But everyone who attended the embargo imposed by the Organization of American States which took testimony from 335 witnesses and conducted memorial mass on Friday will remember has not returned President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to 4,924 interviews, concluded in its 27-volume report that singing “Notre Dame, Our Mother” and how power.