Color-Shifting Ink in Success

I O B S E R V E R Tuesday, September 30, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 27 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S 0 SECURITY BEAT Michigan security tosses ND students from game By MICHELLE KRUPA get people to sit down. They did Michigan security. He said he stadium. They wouldn’t say said that most citations last Associate News Editor __________ a horrible job; they tried to get did not understand the basis for why. I had my ticket in my pock weekend involved intoxication people in the back to sit down the ejection. et, and they ripped it out. They and that no fan altercations Notre Dame students were first, and a couple of people did “We were getting pelted with manhandled us,” Adams said. were reported. forced to break Irish tradition at get tossed,” Hambright said. spitballs and cans by adult Security officers at the “We did not take any unusual the University of Michigan last “A couple of [the officers] were Michigan fans. Then at the end University of Michigan were assault calls that night. If they Saturday when security officers just ridiculous. They were say of the third quarter, ushers and unavailable for comment. occurred, they were not serious made them sit in their seats dur ing things like ‘You’re retarded’ uniformed police came down Sgt. Khurum Sheikh of the enough to require intervention,” ing the football game. to Notre Dame fans. It seemed and started screaming, ‘Sit Ann Arbor Police Department Sheikh said. “All the people we Some students felt that securi uncalled-for because all of the down’ to sit on the seats, so we said that fans are escorted out of dealt with were intoxicated.” ty officers acted unprofessional- Michigan student section was moved and stood on the con the stadium nearly every game. He did confirm that “a Notre ly and overreacted to the situa standing,” he continued. crete,” he said. “I don’t have any paperwork, Dame fan punched an officer tion. According to senior Lee At the end of the third quar “Then we [he and two others] but almost for sure there were and was arrested,” but noted Hambright, officers were not ter, senior Ed Adams was sat down, and security guards people asked to leave the stadi that the incident took place out organized in their endeavor. escorted out of the stadium, and pointed at us, grabbed us and um,” he said. side the stadium the evening “Cops came down and tried to his ticket stub was taken by physically threw us out of the As for actual arrests, Sheikh before the game. ‘ND family’ rallies to aid Sargent’s recovery By MATTHEW LOUGH RAN The impact sent Sargent’s Associate News Editor car flying into a light pole at the intersection. Paramedics On T hursday night, the rushed him to St. Joseph senior class held a pep rally in Medical Center, where he the Alumni-Senior Club. stayed for a few weeks before While the purpose of the rally moving to the Rehabilitation was to raise Institute of Chicago at the school Northwestern University. spirit of S arg en t now lives in an seniors in apartment in his hometown preparation Rochester, N.Y., partially para f o r lyzed, and participates in out Saturday’s patient care at Strong football Memorial Hospital. game “1 just went to see him last against the Sargent week,” said Gulick, also a University of N otre Dame senior. “He is Michigan, it also raised almost slowly getting b etter. He is $1,000 for Adam Sargent, a starting to get some sensation , Robb Young Hirsh added Notre Dame to varsity lacrosse player who back and has the ability for of cities he has visited on his bicycle tour of the was partially paralyzed in an slight movement of his fin easW n U.S. since Labor Day. He is riding to raise awareness automobile accident this sum gers.” of tHjdetrimental effects of fossil fuels on environmental cli- mer. Sargent, who plans on com matechange. “We were aware of the acci ing back to school next semes Hirsh met with members of the Students for Environmental dent when it happened,” said ter, is the subject of a vast Action (SEA) to discuss his mission and request signatures senior class treasurer Brian fundraising drive sponsored in for a petition that he will deliver to Washington, D C., his ulti McCarthy. “We felt that we part by the men’s varsity mate destination, on Dec 1. should do something as a class lacrosse team. “I am trying to generate interest about U.S. leadership to to help. So we talked to Carrie “We set out a goal of help prevent global climate change. There is a meeting in Gulick, Adam’s girlfriend, and $500,000 over the course of Japan on Dec. 1, of the Global Climate Change Conference of she pretty much coordinated it three years,” said lacrosse Parties. Nations will try to come to an agreement about how with us.” coach Kevin Corrigan. “That to reduce fossil fuel use. The U.S. has a tremendous role to On the morning of May 29, adds up to about $160,000 a play,” Hirsh said. Sargent, attending the first ses year. It is a little ambitious, but “Getting citizens involved in the issue” is an important way sion of summer school, was we feel that it is the only way to convince diplomats attending the meeting that Americans driving to an education class at that this could make a differ are concerned about the future of their environment, Hirsh Saint Mary’s College when a ence for Adam.” said. vehicle broadsided his car at The fundraising effort will go “This petition is going to the president and the Senate, and the intersection of Notre Dame to pay for Sargent’s medical if many citizens sign it, it could have a deep impact on the Avenue and Angela Boulevard. see SARGENT / page 4 Photos by Kevin Dalum/Text by Michelle Krupa see BIKER / page 4 CAM PUS LIFE COUNCIL CLC disapproves of O’Hara’s response to resolution By MICHELLE KRUPA a letter dated Sept. 26, reiterating those dealing with student affairs is Associate News Editor the purpose of the CLC. out of place. To use the cliche, J *f>* Mat* “The Campus Life Council was ‘What’s a university without the stu The Campus Life Council created by the Board of Trustees to dents?”’ he said. expressed disappointment last night provide a forum where students, Echoing Szabo’s concerns, Griffin in vice president of Student Affairs faculty and administrators can dis said, “W hat good is the CLC if we Patricia O’Hara’s response to the cuss matters affecting student can’t talk about the things like this group’s resolution on the “Spirit of affairs,” she wrote. “I think that the that impact the campus as a whole. Inclusion.” Campus Life Council exceeds its Are we here to pass resolutions to “I’m not happy with the response,” purview when it attempts to inter fix cracks in sidewalks?” said student body president Matt pret a University-wide statement Ava Preacher, assistant dean of Griffin. adopted by the officers in the matter the College of Arts and Letters, The response came after the coun set forth in this portion of the reso interjected with a possible rationale cil submitted its resolution to inter lution.” for O’Hara’s response. pret the statement as “binding Morrissey Hall senator Matt Szabo “For us to say it’s policy doesn't University policy ... that will be car expressed his concern at the necessarily make it policy, and I ried out and enforced in the admin University’s perception of the pur think that’s [her response] a fair istration of ... University-ad minis pose of the CLC. thing for her to say,” Preacher said. The Observer/Meg Kroener Patricia O’Hara's response to the CLC’s resolution on tered programs, policies and proce “Saying that the CLC is out of Some members were concerned the non-discrimination clause was a main topic of dis- dures.” place talking about issues that deal ussion at last night’s meeting. O’Hara responded to the group in with the entire University instead of see CLC / page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, September 30, 1997 INSIDE COLUMN I W ORLD AT A GLANCE Defining job Undersea pipeline leak coagulates off Santa Barbara coast LOS ANGELES X ing. The Coast Guard Pacific Strike A crude oil slick covering several CALIFORNIA Force, a team prepared for quick square miles, apparently leaked from response to spills, was to arrive later success an undersea pipeline, was reported Oil spill today. early today in the ocean off Santa Barbara The site is near Point Arguello, on Barbara County, the Coast Guard said. the coast 130 miles northwest of Los The slick was estimated to be two Detail Angeles. Vandenberg Air Force Base a re a miles by four miles in size and 300 sprawls along the stretch of coast. The What does it mean. Melanie Carman barrels, or 12,600 gallons, but there spill’s potential effect on wildlife in the how do we achieve Same Mary s Ass.scam Edrtor was a total of 2,900 barrels, or area was not immediately clear. Pacific Ocean it, and how can it be 121,800 gallons of crude in the The discharge was reported to the measured? pipeline at the time, Petty Office Coast Guard shortly after 2 a.m.

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