Flaky ACCENT: Christmas TV specials Sixty percent chance of snow Thursday. High around 35. Partly cloudy Thursday night, with a chance of snow VIEWPOINT: Student support appreciated showers. VOL. XXI, NO. 61 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1987 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's ND students’ 24 off-campus survey views are revealed thefts reported By SANDY CERIMELE By ERIC M. BERGAMO curly hair and mustache, Cot­ Saint M ary’s Editor Senior Staff Reporter trell noted. The suspect is ap­ proximately 24 years old. A majority of Notre Dame Twenty-four break-ins of stu­ The victims were shown pic­ students polled would prefer to dent residences have been re­tures, but could not make any live in co-ed dorms, believe the corded during the month of No­ positive identification, Cottrell alcohol policy is properly en­ vember, South Bend Police added. There are no leads in forced and have never smoked Captain Patrick Cottrell said. the case. marijuana during the aca­ Five houses were broken into There has been an increase demic year at Notre Dame, ac­ twice during the month, he in burglary activity throughout cording to the preliminary said. South Bend during the month, results of the student govern­ “What this tells me is they’re Cottrell said. The early dark­ ment survey. not securing the houses as they ness of the season is one rea­ The first of its kind, the sur­ should be,” Cottrell said. son. vey was sent to about 2,000 ran­ Only a few of the break-ins “ It ’s getting darker earlier domly selected students by stu­ of student houses were re­ and it’s hard to see or hear dent government and was set ported by their neighbors, hethings,” he said. up through the Social Science added. In addition to investigating Training and Research Labo­ “Apparently (the students) the burglaries of students’ ratory. don’t have a good relationship homes, the police are seeking More than 1,100 responses with their neighbors,” he said, a man who has broken into non­ were returned, according to because neighbors who ob­ student homes and has stolen student senator Brian Holst. serve break-ins of student purses and wallets while the “ It was an excellent response,” houses do not seem to report residents slept, Cottrell said. he said. them to police. Burglars usually break in Preliminary results, Police have constant patrols when people are not home but however, based solely on raw in the Northeast Neighborhood, “someone breaking in when data, may lead to inaccurate he added, but it is difficult to people are home, that’s scary,” assumptions in questions pro­ apprehend a home burglar un­ he said. viding specific choices instead less there is cooperation from According to Cottrell, the fol­ of ranges of choices, according neighbors who call to report lowing break-ins were among to Holst. such crimes. those occurring at student Student government, with Police do have a “sketchy” homes during November: description of the suspect who the help of Rodney Ganey, - •Suspects entered a house at director of the research labo­ robbed at knifepoint a Notre 601 E. Corby Ave. on Nov. 1 ratory, will analyze the survey Dame student and his through a back door and got girlfriend at 927 N. Notre Dame during the next few weeks and The Observer / Suzy Hernandez away with a microwave and final results will be released in Studying in luxury Ave. last Friday, he said. answering machine valued at We know Saint Mary's dorm rooms are nice, but THIS nice? Actually, The suspect is a 5-foot-ll see SURVEY, page 4 Debbie Smith is studying in the stately LeMans Stapleton Lounge. black male with medium build, see BREAK-IN, page 6 Irish band to join football team at Cotton Bowl By JIM WINKLER The cost of the travel is cov­ Snavely said plans for band The band will not practice for high school in Dallas and an Staff Reporter ered by the bowl game budget performances in Dallas are not its performances until all the astroturf facility called Loos established by the University, yet complete. Snavely said themembers are in Dallas. field. The Notre Dame Marching Snavely said. band will definitely march in Snavely said he decided to Snavely said it will be inter­ Band will be joining the football Earlier in the football the nationally televised Cotton forego practicing in South Bend esting and difficult to put to­ team in Dallas for the New season, Father William Beau­ Bowl parade on the morning of now because of upcoming final gether a program because the Year’s Day Cotton Bowl, accor­ champ, executive vice- Jan. 1. The band also will per­ exams. band has not been on the field ding to Luther Snavely, direc­president of the University, form at halftime of the game. since Nov. 14, the day of the tor of the band. said if the revenue from the Snavely said both the Notre “If (the band) practices Alabama game. bowl game was enough to cover Dame band and the Texas A&M now,” said Snavely, “it will be The members of the band will the costs of sending the band, band will perform individual almost a month before the While in Dallas, the band fly from their home towns di­ the band would go. The Cotton routines. Snavely also said game. The retention rate isn’t may have an opportunity to rectly to Dallas on Dec. 27, said Bowl pays each team a re­ that, although plans have not that good.” meet the members of the Texas Snavely. The band will stay in ported $2.25 million, enough to been finalized, it is traditional A&M band at some sort of so­ Dallas for six nights, leaving send the Marching Band to Dal­ for the two bands to perform a Snavely said the band will cial function, according to Jan. 2. las. finale together. have practice time at a Jesuit Snavely._________________ Notre Dame adds $1 million a day to local economy By ERIC M. BERGAMO Economically, Notre Other contributions to the a year, an average of over Notre Dame students help Senior Staff Reporter Dame pumps an average of local economy include home $1 million a day, he noted. contribute to South Bend $1 million a day into the local football games bringing in Notre Dame is also the through community activi­ Notre Dame has a strong economy, he said. $39 million yearly, basket­ largest employer in the ties, he said. economic and cultural rela­ The largest portion in­ ball games and special South Bend area, he said. Roemer cited the Neigh­ tionship with the Michiana cludes the University’s events at the Joyce Athletic The University employs borhood Study Help Pro­ area, according to James $189.5 million operating and Convocation Center 3.000 full-time workers and gram, in which 10,000 Notre Roemer, director of commu­ budget, of which $80 million which account for $2.4 mil­ 4.000 part-time employees. Dame and Saint M ary’s stu­ nity relations. is in payroll, Roemer said. lion, $10 million annually in The part-time jobs equal dents have tutored city stu­ “In the partnership we After applying a 1.9 mul­ construction and the $7.8 1.000 full time jobs, bringing dents during the 25 years the have with this community, tiplier to account for the million spent by the 3,000 the total of full-time program has been in exsis- South Bend with lis and we ripple effect through the students living off-campus. employees of the University tence, as an example. with South Bend . they do local economy, he added, the The “conservative” total to 4,000, Roemer added. “That’s just symbolic of many things for us and we figure comes to a yearly $373 of Notre Dame’s economic But the University has all of the programs . more than an economic im­ do many things for them,” million. impact comes to $432 million see MILLION, page 4 Roemer said. pact on the region, he said. Page 2 The Observer Thursday, December 3, 1987 In Brief Special TV Guide lists Christmas sentiments Chicago’s acting mayorwas sworn in yesterday, succeeding the late Harold Washington. Veteran black Al­ Now, I ’m hardly one to advocate television derman Eugene Sawyer was chosen in a raucous City viewing. Aside from my daily soap opera and Melissa J tF Council meeting amid charges of a return to machine college football games, I rarely blow the dust politics. Sawyer, elected with support from old-guard off my set. It horrifies me to realize that the Warnke whites, immediately vowed that Washington’s reform level of programming has descended to the likes movement “shall remain intact and go forward. It will of “Alf.” Production Manager continue untainted by special interests for the rich and This is the time of year, however, when tele­ powerful.” Sawyer was elected at 4:01 a.m., climaxing a vision traditionally takes a turn for the better. chaotic 19 hours of political intrigue. Ten aldermen re­ Christmas specials, old and new, fill our screens ported degth threats, an estimated 5,000 protesters with magic, music and all the best imagery and mobbed City Hall and a lawsuit was filed in an unsuccess­ imagination of the season. ful bid to stop the council’s selection of an acting mayor. All these shows are a part of my past, present - Associated Press and future, I ’m sure. I watch them all every year; many I^know by heart.