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1 OBSERVER Tuesday, October 24, 1995* Vol. XXVII No. 41 11II: INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAMK AND SAIN I MARY'S Crash takes life of Notre Dame senior By DAVE TYLER cording to Deputy Coroner considered intoxicated with a News Editor Michael O’Connell. He was 21. BAG of 0.10 percent or more. Adams was involved with sev­ Friends recall Adams’ warmth A long time resident of the A one car accident claimed eral campus organizations. He By DAVE TYLER Student Union Board’s Concert area of the crash. Ruby Young, the life of a Notre Dame student served as Day Chief and Music News Editor Commissioner since the fall of told the South Bond Tribune in early morning hours of Oc­ Editor of The Observer and was 1994, and was a member of the street is not prone to seri­ tober 13 in Mishawaka. the Student Union Board’s Friends and co-workers re­ the concert committee since ous traffic accidents. Robert Adams, a senior who Music Commissioner. membered Rob Adams as 1992. Adams also worked as “It’s not a dangerous road; lived off-cam­ He was enrolled in the friendly, selfless and dedicated The Observer’s Day Chief since there’s not a curve or any­ pus, lost con­ College of Business as a Monday as word spread of his 1993 and became Music Editor thing,” she said. trol of the Marketing major. passing. in February, 1995. He was a Adams is survived by his par­ vehicle he Police said Adams’ car was Adams, 21, died in the early music critic for the paper since ents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas was driving traveling at a high speed north­ morning hours of October 13 in his freshman year. Adams of Midloathian, Va, and and crashed bound on Union Street when his a one car accident in “He had an amazing atti­ a sister. into a tree in car hit a tree in the front yard M ishaw aka. tude,” said SUB manager Katie A memorial service will be th e 1 3 0 0 of 1308 South Union St. Adams The senior who spent a good Lawler. “He sweated blood for held Wednesday at 5 p.m., at b lo c k o f was wearing a safety belt at the portion of his life traveling in a the Basilica of the Sacred South Union Adams time, according to the police military family, was the see FRIENDS / page 4 Heart. University President St., police report. Father Edward Malloy will pre­ said. Alcohol may have played Three Mishawaka fire de­ age, police said. A blood alcohol test revealed side over the service. a role in the accident. partment units spent more than “It was the longest extrication that Adams had a blood alcohol Adams died of massive head, an hour trying to retrieve I’ve ever seen,” said police con tent (BAG) of 0.18 p ercent. The South Bend Tribune con­ chest and internal injuries ac- Adams’ body from the wreck­ Capt. William Schwartz. Under Indiana law a person is tributed to this report. Prof faces Board o f Trustees Fall Meeting sex offense Hatch elected ND’s third provost M alloy; accusation Graduate School ■ Graduated Summa Cum Laude By BRAD PRENDERGAST Dean replaces from Wheaton College, 1968 B eaucham p Associate News Editor retiring O’Meara • Ph.D. from Washington get third terms Mark Herro, an associate University professor of electrical By ETHAN HAYWARD By MARY KATE MORTON engineering at Notre Dame, Associate News Editor • Joined Notre Dame History Associate News Editor was in St. Joseph County faculty, 1975 Superior Court yesterday for a Nathan Hatch, vice president Presently in his eighth year preliminary hearing after being for graduate studies and - Vice President of Graduate as president of the University, charged last week with molest­ research since 1989, was elect­ Studies,1989 Father Edward Malloy will ing a 14-year-old boy numer­ ed last Friday as the serve a third five-year term ous times during an 18-month University’s next provost by the ■ Active Dean of College of Arts beginning July 1, 1997. The period. Board of Trustees. Hatch will Board of Trustees re-elected and Letters, 1988-89 St. Joseph County police took succeed current provost Malloy on Oct. 20, in conjunc­ Herro into custody on Timothy O’Meara after his tion with the election of Thursday and charged him retirement from the post June - Founding Director of Institute for Nathan Hatch as the with three counts of child 30 of next year. Nathan Hatch Scholarship in the Liberal Arts University’s new provost in molestation and two counts of As the University’s second preparation for the upcoming sexual misconduct with a ranking officer, Hatch will, at ' Elected Provost of Notre Dame, 1996 capital campaign. minor. the direction of the president, 1995 For a third term concurrent He was released Friday after exercise overall responsibility with Father Malloy’s, Father posting $2,000 bond. for the academic enterprise. E. William Beauchamp will Details of yesterday’s hearing “I am deeply honored for the retain his position as executive were not yet available as of last opportunity to serve the should meet “a distinguished interviews, along with a per­ vice-president through 2002, night, according to the St. University in this way,” says scholar-teacher with signifi­ sonal recommendation, to the as voted by the Board of Joseph County Superior Court Hatch. cant administrative experience Trustees, who then elected Trustees as well. clerk’s office. The Trustees elected Hatch who demonstrated the ability Hatch. The appointment is sub­ Since Malloy and From January 1994 to May on the recommendation of to lead Notre Dame’s ongoing ject to formal review every five Beauchamp took office in 1994, Herro allegedly molested University President Father. academic development, and to years. 1987, the University has the boy, then 12. by fondling Edward Malloy. Malloy chaired appreciate and preserve Notre Hatch, a professor of history undergone many face lifts and him in the sauna of the South the committee elected by the Dame’s Catholic character.” and member of the Notre has accomplished numerous Rend Racquet Club. Herro was Academic Council to conduct Candidates for the office of Dame faculty since 1975, is milestones. In addition to a friend of the boy’s family, the provost search and dis­ provost were interviewed by cited as one of the most influ­ enrolling the most selective authorities told the South Bend cussed his recommendation the committee, as well as by ential scholars in the study of classes in the University’s his­ Tribune. with the committee before pre­ members of the Academic religion in America. His book, tory, increasing the female Herro is also accused of senting it to the Trustees. Council and the chair of the The Democratization of population to 45% and dou- fondling and engaging in other In a letter to the faculty Faculty Senate. Malloy later sexual acts with the boy at the Malloy said the new provost presented the results of the see H A TC H / page 4 sce MALLOY/ page 4 professor’s Notre Dame office between July 1994 and May 1995. Herro allegedly continued similar behavior with the boy Welsh’s gift funds West Quad dorm at his home in June. By JAMIE HEISLER calling it “an act of great gen­ 1956 with a bachelor’s degree Saint Mary’s Presidential Medal The boy’s father informed the Assistant News Editor erosity which will serve to per­ in finance. He began his ca­ and of a Notre Dame alumni county police last week of the petuate one of the hallmarks of reer at Welsh Oil, Inc., that club “A w ard of the Y ear.” alleged conduct after starting The University announced Notre Dame—residentiary.” same year and assumed lead­ In addition to heading Welsh, his son in counseling, accord­ last week that a gift from the “It is a tenet of education at ership of the company in 1968. Inc., he is also president of As­ ing to police reports. Welsh family will underwrite Notre Dame that our students Welsh was a member of the pen, Inc., a petroleum hauling The father said he became one of the two womens’ resi­ should learn not only how to Advisory Council for the Notre company. He is director of sev­ suspicious last summer of a dence halls under construction reason but also how to live,” Dame Law School from 1987- eral organizations including computer message sent from on the new West Quad. Malloy stated. “Welsh Hall now 90 then joined the Advisory Catholic Charities, Northern Herro to the boy, and the The dorm, to be named will become part of the com­ Council for the University’s Indiana Public Service Com­ father said he later found a let­ Welsh Hall, will house approx­ munal tradition that fosters this College of Business Adminis­ pany, NIPSCO Industries, Inc., ter written by the boy to Herro. imately 275 women who will be concept of learning.” tration until his election as a NBD Indiana, Inc., the North­ The father told police he con­ drawn from either Siegfried or Robert Welsh, a Notre Dame trustee in 1991. west Indiana Forum, the fronted Herro, who denied the Knott Hall when the dorm alumnus and trustee, is presi­ He also previously served on Northwest Indiana En­ allegations. opens for the fall semester of dent and chief executive officer the board of regents of Saint trepreneur Academy, Zollner The boy apparently would 1997. of Welsh, Inc., of Merrillville, Mary’s College, including sev­ Industries, and Lakeshore not tell his father anything until Father Edward Malloy wel­ Ind.

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