VOL. XXIII NO. 24 THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 28, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S 10 killed in Grand Canyon plane crash The twin-engine Grand Associated Press Canyon Airlines plane went down at 9:49 a.m., said FAA TUSAYAN, Ariz.— A sightsee­ spokeswoman Elly Brekke. ing plane crashed into a Brekke said the plane hit wooded hill near the Grand trees, flipped over and crashed Canyon Airport on Wednesday, after veering on its landing ap­ killing 10 people and injuring proach. Elizabeth Seibold, co­ the other 11 people aboard. owner of Grand Canyon Air­ The aircraft’s wings were lines, said from Las Vegas that sheared off by tall Ponderosa the plane was on a sightseeing pines, but some passengers flight and was coming in for a survived because the fuselage landing. of the de Havilland Twin Otter Seibold said all those aboard remained largely intact, said were Americans. Sheriff Joe Richards. The two The airport is located about crew members were killed, he five miles south of the Grand said. Canyon. The injured were being National Park Service Ranger taken by ambulance, airplane Paul Crawford, who was among and helicopter to the Flaggstaff the first to reach the wreckage, Medical Center about 75 miles said some of the passengers away. were walking around when he arrived at the scene on a small Hospital spokeswoman Lau- ridge about 300 yards east of a rin Bosse said the condition of runway. the injured who had arrived “ They were shellshocked. ranged from serious to critical, They had that empty, dazed How about those Cubbies? ap pmo look,” he said. see CRASH / page 5 Chicago fans have reason to celebrate after the Cubs clinched the NL East Division title Tuesday night. Two Notre Dame seniors Bush urges educational reforms given engineering award Associated Press But behind closed doors Bush home, Monticello, atop a Special to The Observer computers and be involved in and members of his Cabinet nearby mountain. A fife and various activities and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.— heard what they did not want drum corps played and soldiers to hear: that the federal gov­ Paul Dankoski, an engi­ professional organizations. President Bush urged governors in colonial costume bearing the neering senior from at an education summit ernment’s commitment has to flags of the states lined the Wednesday to forge fundamen­ grow. Midland, Mich., and John The National Engineering walkway to the main entrance, tal changes to rescue the na­ “ If they would give us a 5- Slattery, and engineering Consortium is a non-profit where Bush and his wife, Bar­ tion’s troubled schools, but was year-old that is healthy and senior from Rochester, N.Y., organization which sponsors bara, stood in a receiving line told in return the federal gov­ alert, the system would be have been awarded the the National, Eastern, and that passed the diners through ernment must spend more if much more productive,” said W illiam I.. Everitt Student Western Communications the building into the back yard. that goal is to be reached. Republican Gov. Garrey Car- Award of Excellence by the Forums. An Army band played swing “ We’ve got to challenge the ruthers of New Mexico. National Engineering tunes for the guests at rose- education system if we’re to The summit scene was the and orchid-bedecked tables be­ Consortium. The Everitt award winners meet the challenge of educa­ historic campus of the Univer­ neath a large tent. The award is offered an­ from all engineering schools tional excellence,” Bush told sity of Virginia, whose estab­ Governors circulated a memo nually to students majoring will be honored in October a the governors in a pep talk that lishment was the proudest ac­ outlining their own goals. Their in electrical engineering, the National Communica­ opened the nation’s First educa­ complishment of Thomas Jef­ plan called for eliminating illit­ computer engineering, or tions Forum in Chicago. tional conference between a ferson — America’s first eracy, curtailing the dropout computer science and rank­ They will receive recognition president and the states’ execu­ “ education president.” The uni­ rate and making American stu­ ing in the top 10 percent of for their outstanding tives. versity is still called “ Mr. Jef­ dents the equal of their coun­ their class. In addition to ex­ scholastic achievement at an All agreed that help is needed ferson’s school” and Bush re­ terparts anywhere in the world, cellent grades, the students NCF banquet attended by for a national school system ferred to it that way, too. must have an active interest professionals in the telecom­ wracked by drugs, high Bush dined with the gover­ in telecommunications and munications industry. dropout rates and mediocrity. nor at Jefferson’s famous see BUSH/ page 5 Panelists voice opinion on the ordination of women By CHRISTINE WALSH cials, the committee stated its Assistant News Editor objectives as threefold: 1.) to express the committee’s soli­ To a packed crowd, panelists darity with the women of the from the newly formed university who are being dis­ Committee on Notre Dame’s criminated against with regard Position on the Ordination of to this issue, 2.) provide public Women discussed the forums to explore what Notre exclusion of women from Dame and other Catholic insti­ public positions within the tutions can do about the ban, Church and the need for the and 3.) to work through cam­ University to make a stand on pus and administrative organi­ this issue, Wednesday. zations to express the Univer­ The three panelists in the dis­ sity’s position on the discrimi­ cussion were Teresa Godwin natory policies of the Catholic Phelps, associate professor of Church on the ordination of law, Father Thomas O’Meara, women. Warren professor of theology, “The Church systematically and Sister Regina Coll, director discriminates against women,” of field education in the de­ said Phelps, a self-professed partment of theology. ‘Catholic feminist.’ “Notre Dame has to, as an “It’s an issue of fairness,” institution, recognize that we said Phelps, and “women are have a justice issue here. We’ve fully legitimate and participa­ got to say that there is injustice tory beings.” against our women... a “ No one has a right to be o r­ The Observer/Andrew McCloskey discriminatory practice,” said dained...we only ask that the Professor John Houck, co-chair Church consider our position,” Theresa Goodwin Phelps, Father Thomas O’Meara, and Sister Regina Coll, pictured left to right, field ques­ of the committee. Phelps added. tions at Wednesday’s meeting of the Committee on Nore Dame’s Position on the Ordination of Women. In a letter to University offi­ see PANEL / page 4 page 2 The Observer Thursday, September 28, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Pessimism is the key that Customs agents arrested two West German Civilian Ser­ vice workers trying to smuggle LSD-soaked stickers bearing the image of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev into Dusseldorf, au­ thorities said Wednesday. The stamps were similar to previous opens the door of happiness drug-smuggling attempts in which pictures of Batman, Goofy and E.T. have been used to disguise LSD doses. In grade school, a teacher once asked me, “What do you call somebody who thinks the T h a t’s the key to Up tO 33 fishermen and traders died when their boat, be­ entire world is out to get him?” lieved by authorities to be overloaded, capsized Tuesday in Lake 1 answered, “A realist.” happiness: lowered Victoria, Kenya. It was the second major accident on Lake Victo­ Ever since then, I’ve had a reputation as a bit ria this month. On Sept. 12, 12 people drowned when their canoe of a pessimist. I don’t mind that; it’s accurate expectations.’ capsized while traveling from Uganda to Kenya. enough. But lately, it seems to me, pessimism has been getting a bit of a bum rap. Everywhere I look, I see the virtues of Luck Wasn’t on trackfor The Norwegian State Railroad this Tim O’Keefe optimism trumpeted. week. When workers rolled out fire hoses to extinguish a fire Books with titles like “The Power of Positive Assistant News Editor which was accidently set by their own bonfire, they found a defec­ Thinking” and “Choose Your Own Greatness” tive coupling had cut water pressure. The blazing structure then give blithe assurances that if you just have faith collapsed onto the tracks,warping the rails. The fire left about in yourself and think that nothing is impossible, along with their shoulders hunched over, 1,000 passengers stranded for hours in the mountains outside then everything is possible. Reach for your muttering things like, “Nothing makes any Bergen until they were finally put onto buses. dreams with confidence, and you won’t fail, they difference. Why should I bother trying at all, say. since I will inevitably fail? Soon enough, the NATIONAL BRIEFS News programs have inspirational, heart­ indifferent hand of Fate will come down and warming stories about people who struggled smash me into oblivion anyway.” against incredible odds and succeeded. When I’m not saying anything like that. I don’t think Ten people were poisonedaccidentally at a Topeka, Kan. asked about how they did it, they say, “It was we should all just give up, shrivel up and die nightspot Saturday when a cleaning solution was inadvertently hard, but I knew from the start that if I set my with a small whimper of self-pity. We all have served in place of liquor, police said. The victims all ordered a mind to it and tried, I would make it.” the right, even the duty, to try as hard as drink containing schnapps, but do to the similarity of the contain­ If you don’t believe me, just go over to the possible for goals we care about.