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Rocking into Tibet Leapin’ Letter Eddie Vedder, RunDMC and the Beastie Boys Senior Mary Leffers leads the Irish volleyball Tuesday were just some of the artists rocking into the team to a new season and new outlook. night at the Tibetian Freedom Concert. page 24 SEPTEMBER page 15 7, 1999 BSERVER OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIII NO. 11 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU L o c k e d O ut Kareem leads civil engineering By KATE STEER News Writer Led for four years by interim chairmen, the department of civil engineering and geological sciences named Ahsan Kareem its perma nent chairman. A member of Notre Dame’s facul ty since 1990, Kareem is recognized as a leading r e s e a r c h e r in probabilistic structural dynamics, f'luid- structure inter The E actions, structur Lau al safety and the 'h:\viij .8f.ci.oski ) mitigation of nat MONDAY, SKFT.6 Distr IS OBSERVANCE OP ural hazards, Kareem UllOlt DAY Centei specifically wind, waves and earth quakes. Kareem said he hopes those qual ifications will help him develop a long-term vision for the depart ment. “One of my goals is getting us excited about the work we do here, and also reshaping the undergradu ate focus,” he said. “We’re looking at the undergraduate curriculum and hoping to better prepare our JOE STARK / The Observer students for future job markets." While fulfilling his duties as Off-campus senior Tom Weiler is dismayed Monday at having to spend another day with dirty clothes. Many University chairman, Kareem will continue to and College offices, including St. Michael's Laundry, were closed for Labor Day. serve as chief editor and associate editor for two major international journals. He also will retain his positions on the editorial boards of five other journals which report wind, wave and earthquake issues. Kareem has served as chairman Activist will speak on military school for several national and interna tional conferences and technical for its closing. “Father Roy knew the have ordered the death of committees. He is the immediate By JESSICA DANES “We think students should [three nuns] killed, and it Archbishop Oscar Romero; past president of the American News Writer come hear Father Roy talk stimulated him to look and three of five Association for Wind Engineering, because their tax dollars deeper into the atrocities in Salvadoran military officers which deals with wind-related haz 'Father Boy Borgoois will are paying for Latin Latin America,” said U.N. investigators found ards like hurricanes and tornadoes. speak out against the American soldiers to Elizabeth Moriarly, another guilty of the 1980 murders In 1984, Kareem received the S chool of oppress and murder their member of Pax Christi. of three American nuns and Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science School of 1 h e own people,” said Sheila “He researched another one lay social worker. Americas, a McCarthy, a member of incident, the m urders of six When the Pentagon Foundation. He also received the training Notre Dame’s chapter of Jesuits priests, their maid admitted in 1996 the School 1997 Engineering Award from the Am ericas cam p for Fax Christi, which joins the and her daughter, and had used manuals on the National Hurricane Conference in Center for Social Concerns found the murderers were use of fear, torture, and honor, of his contributions to the k n T e r i c a : to sponsor the event. graduates of the School of truth serum, its confession development of safer, more hurri Borgeois, military offi- Borgeois has spent a total the Americas,” Moriarty added to an already grow cane-resistant construction. Recently he was named lounder, ('(,rs spon of four years in federal pri- said. ing movement against the sored by the sions for various nonviolent Established in 1946 in school. Distinguished Alumnus of Colorado School of the U.S. govern protests against the School Panam a to battle the Cold Rep. Joseph Kennedy State University for his service to A m ericas ment, at 7 of A m erica's activities. His War, the School of the recently introduced a bill to the field of engineering through p.m. today education, publication, leadership ♦ 7 p.m . most recent six month sen Americas moved to Fort close the training camp. in the tence ended last Benning, Georgia, in 1984. The founder of the School and service. ♦ H esb urgh 11 o s b u r g h September. Its 60,000 graduates have of the Americas Watch, Kareem received his doctoral degree from Colorado State Library L i b r a r y Borgeois entered the earned themselves a repu F ather Roy Borgeois, will . Auditorium. Maryknoll Missionary Order tation for brutality and present “School of the University in 1978. He earned his Auditorium As a critic in 1972 after serving in human rights abuses. Americas: School of master’s degree through a joint of U.S. poli Vietnam. He worked with Notable alumni include Assassins” at 7 p.m. today program of Massachusetts Institute cy in three America nuns who Manuel Noriega, a former in the Hesburgh Library of Technology and University of Central America for years, w ere m urdered in 1980 in Panamanian dictator cur auditorium. Hawaii in 1975. Borgeois founded the El Salvador. The U.N. rently serving 40 years in Borgeois also will speak Karcem’s bachelor’s degree was School of the Americas charged five Salvadoran prison for drug trafficking; Wednesday at 7 p.m. at awarded with distinction from the Watch, an organization that military officers with the Roberto D’Aubisson, a Saint Mary’s Little Theater West Pakistan University of collects information on crime; three had attended Salvadoran death-squad in Moreau Center for the Engineering and Technology in School activities and calls the School. leader widely thought to Arts. 1968. page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Tuesday, September 7, 1999 In s id e C o lu m n Q u o t e s o f t h e w e e k “There’s been many “The current status of “It’s important for 7 thought it was a other bars with worse SafeRide is that it’s members of the Task disaster. ” Dream makes situations and worse not running and Force to see this. We fights than ours. it’s under a don’t w ant Christine Veliky loss harder Compared to those reconstructive effort. ” to be naive. ’’ Farley senator on bars, we’re the football ticket distribution boy scouts. ” Tim Lyden Bille Hoye to bear Student Union Sweatshop Task Force chairman on the group's If the month before Dec. 25 was not full of Leon Townsend transportation coordinator anticipation, Christmas morning may not invoke Irish Connection owner trip to El Salvador an overwhelming sense of loss after actually opening gifts. If young adults did not work 18 years hoping to get into their college of choice, rejection may not be as hard to take. O u t s id e t h e D o m e Compiled from U-Wire reports Anticipation. Expectation. Hope. Dreams. Perhaps these are the real reasons behind the IU fraternity faces charges of sexual assault depression felt by the Notre INDIANA UNIVERSITY Dame family after “All I wanted was an apology house arrest. Tracy Guthrie battled nine years “It was extremely frustrating,” Saturday’s loss to and for the members to stand to hear the news she received this Guthrie said. “We had a taped con Michigan. Laura Rompf up and be responsible men. ” Sure, each year Notre summer. fession. I had practiced in the (wit After a series* of legal delays and ness) box and the day before the Dame begins a season with contradictory rulings by lower trial he gets this plea bargain. He the hopes of winning a Tracy Guthrie courts, the Indiana Supreme Court just had to sit at home; he didn't national championship; Copy Editor plantiff in lawsuit against IU however, this year more decided she would tell her story to have to sacrifice anything.” a jury. chapter of Delta Tau Delta hype was added due to ele She said the entire process left ments of tradition. The unanimous July 12 decision her feeling powerless. allows Guthrie to go forward with “I just wanted control over some 1966 ... 1977 ... 1988 ... every Notre Dame fan her lawsuit against the IU chapter married. knew what logically followed those years. thing,” she said. “1 would never of Delta Tau Delta, and may bring In her first public interview about pursue this for money. Initially, all Wasn’t it our destiny to be playing Jan. 1 for the changes and set legal precedents the sexual assault and lawsuit, I wanted was an apology and for national title? Guthrie said late Wednesday Or what about the third year of Davie’s coach that affect local Delts’ members, the members to stand up and be evening her goal with the litigation ing era? Holtz. Leahy. Devine. Parseghian. fraternities nationwide and any responsible men. If there is any is and has always been to seek jus Who says history doesn’t repeat itself? private property owners. financial gain it will go to a rape Guthrie was an 18-year-old tice and a public apology for the crisis fund.” As I returned from the Michigan State game freshman when she was sexually actions of Motz and the fraternity. last season, of course there was some sense of Guthrie added that she has noth She filed suit after being dissatis depression.