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150 YEARS& 32 H OBSERVER Thursday, January 13, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 67 NOTRE DAME-IN THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT M A RY ’S Underage drinking cause of early closing of local bar By JO H N LUCAS tow the mark,” he said. “If Associate News Editor there’s more trouble, they know what the consequences An agreement with South are.” Bend will allow The Commons The Anastasios asked for the to remain open for six more agreement, reasoning that it months, but the city — citing would be easier to sell the bar concerns about underage pa if it were still operating with a trons — is requiring the bar to liquor license, Derda said. close every night at 10 p.m. As part of the agreem ent with Problems with minors in the the city and the Indiana bar provoked both state and lo Alcoholic Beverage cal officials to seek a suspen Commission, the business, lo sion of the liquor license or a cated at 826 N. Eddy S treet, change in ownership of the bar, will lose its liquor license deputy city attorney Aladean unless owners Pasquale and DeRose told the Tribune. City Gregory Anastasio are able to officials “abhor and condemn sell the bar by this summer. the actions of The Commons “We feel if we close at 10 management," she said. p.m., we will take care of the The Commons has been problem as far as minors are caught several times with mi concerned,” Mitchell nors in the bar, dating back to Heppenheimer, lawyer for the 1979. Anastasios told the South Bend A police raid in the fall of Tribune. 1992, in which police cited over If there are further incidents 100 minors, including Notre of minors caught in the bar, the Dame students, may have pro extension would be immedi voked action by the city. ately revoked, according to Police cited four minors dur Joseph Derda, president of the ing another raid during a St. Joseph County Alcoholic November football game this Beverage Board. fall. The Observer/John Bingham Derda said he expects no fur Pasquale and Gregory ther problems with minors and Anastasio would not comment The sign in the window may say open but no later than 10 p.m. Underage drinking violations have forced The Commons. “They have to for this article. The Commons to reduce hours and the owners will be selling the bar by summer. Donation aids Hispanic students Clinton requests special Special to The Observer dent, in response to the gift. Foundation had provided “To those shared concerns now $350,000 for the internships counsel for investigation Whirlpool Corporation and is added our mutual desire to and endowment over the past Whirlpool Foundation will pro prepare greater numbers of seven years. The new gifts dou By JOHN KING investigation of the Whitewater vide a total of $700,000 to the people of color to play leader ble that support. Associated Press Development Corp. But he said University of Notre Dame to ship roles in the increasingly Headquartered in Benton that “innuendo, political fund significant expansion of multicultural world market Harbor, Mich., Whirlpool WASHINGTON posturing and irresponsible both the Whirlpool Internship place. Whirlpool’s most gener Corporation is the world’s lead Yielding to relentless political accusations” by Republicans Program for Notre Dame MBA ous gift will be a valuable tool ing manufacturer and marketer pressure, President Clinton had given Clinton little choice students and the Whirlpool in the University’s and the of major home appliances. The asked Wednesday that Attorney but to call for an independent Foundation endowment for corporation’s efforts to achieve company manufactures in 11 General Janet Reno name a investigation. MBA scholarships. that goal.” countries and markets products special counsel to investigate “This controversy is becom The expanded internship pro The gift, to be spread over in more than 120. Whirlpool his investment in an Arkansas ing too much of a distraction,” gram will include a component seven years, will provide Foundation, the primary phil land development. Stephanopoulos said. “The designed specifically to support $50,000 annually to fund a full anthropic arm of Whirlpool “The president requests that president wants to get on with and encourage outstanding tuition scholarship with stipend Corporation, was established in this investigation be conducted the vital issues facing the Hispanic MBA students. for a Hispanic MBA student 1951 to assist non-profit orga as expeditiously as possible,” American people.” “Notre Dame’s partnership interning with Whirlpool, plus nizations dedicated to improv Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos repeatedly with Whirlpool in the education internships only for two more ing the quality of life in the Stephanopoulos said in an said that none of Clinton’s crit and training of future business students. An additional $50,000 communities where Whirlpool nouncing the White House’s ics on Whitewater have raised executives has spanned a half- per year will build the operates. Since its founding, abrupt strategy shift. any specific allegation of century, motivated by such Whirlpool Foundation endow Whirlpool Foundation has Stephanopoulos said Clinton wrongdoing. He said the White shared concerns as business ment, a permanent source of granted more than $60 million had full confidence that the House was still of the opinion ethics,” said Father Edward funding for the program. to a variety of charitable orga Justice Department could con that no special counsel was Malloy, Notre Dame’s presi- Whirlpool and Whirlpool nizations. duct its own impartial necessary. But he said the political climate had forced the president’s hand. Faulkner cracks gender barrier at The Citadel “The president believes it is important to take whatever By BRUCE SMITH porters to register in Bond Hall, of Shannon Faulkner,” senior Since Faulkner sued, five in steps he can to assure complete Associated Press the turreted administration Will Benton said. cidents of vandalism have been confidence in the federal law building that dominates one Faulkner initially was ac directed against her and her enforcement system,” CHARLESTON, S.C. end of The Citadel’s parade cepted by the college after she the family — the most recent Stephanopoulos said. “He be The gates of The Citadel ground. had references to her gender when vandals poured sand, rot lieves the integrity of high offi opened to a woman armed with “I didn’t expect all of this and deleted from her high school ten eggs and spoiled food on cials must be without ques a court order Wednesday. But I didn’t really expect to be transcript. The Citadel rejected her car. tion.” after Shannon Faulkner regis here,” Faulkner said as she her application when it discov U.S. Attorney J. P. Strom said In making the announcement, tered to take day classes, the advanced through the crush to ered she was a woman, and she the FBI was investigating Stephanopoulos released a nation’s top judge blocked her meet her academic adviser, sued, challenging the constitu threats against Faulkner’s brief letter from White House from attending them. register and pay tuition. “I ac tionality of the all-male admis “personal safety” and unspeci counsel Bernard Nussbaum to At the request of the 151- tually expected the battle to be sions policy fied threats against her family Reno requesting the investiga year-old military college, Chief a lot longer.” Last August, a federal judge and attorneys. tion. Stephanopoulos said that Justice William Rehnquist She said she was treated said Faulkner could attend “I know I feel safe here on questions about whom Reno granted a stay to keep the 18- nicely by college officials and classes, but not join the corps of campus, it’s just the off-campus would name, or the timetable year-old student from attending signed up for biology, math, cadets, while her lawsuit pro stuff I do have to worry about,” or scope of the investigation, classes Thursday. English, history and education. ceeds. The 4th U.S. Circuit she said. should be directed to the The Citadel and Virginia But she said she felt “over Court of Appeals refused to She will stay with a Justice Department. Military Institute are the na whelmed” by the attention. overturn the order. Charleston family that has re During a news conference in tion’s only all-male, state-sup “Everybody is saying, ‘You’re Faulkner, who is from quested anonymity. Kiev, Ukraine, the president re ported military colleges. making history,’ ” she said. Powdersville, said she hoped to After registering, Faulkner fused to discuss his abrupt Admissions policies at both are Though cadets promised to become a full-fledged member toured campus escorted by strategy shift. “I have nothing the target of federal lawsuits. treat her with respect, they of the gray-uniformed corps of Lynn Hook, one of 1,649 to say about that on this trip,” Faulkner, who plans to major kept hoping for a last-minute cadets within a year. women who take evening class Clinton said tersely. He did say in education, walked several reprieve. “I don’t think you can get the es at The Citadel. Hook sup that most of those who had hundred yards through a driv “We don’t want the class of full Citadel experience without ports keeping the corps of ing rain and a horde of re 1994 to be labeled as the year being a cadet,” she said. cadets all male. see WHITEWATER / page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, January 13, 1994 INSIDE COLUMN WORLD AT A GLANCE Transsexual sues over prison rape Obituary: The 500 miles WASHINGTON The Clinton administration and a transsexual inmate 500 km allegedly raped in federal prison in Indiana clashed Commons, Wednesday in a Supreme Court showdown over the duty CHINA of prison officials to protect one inmate from another.