Students Want Draft Beers, Lower Prices Morrissey Fire Ruins Room
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-.~ --- ~ --~--~-~~--~---- -- ·- ~ The Bishop William E. McManus Observer blessed SMC's new Angela Ath an independent student n•ewspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's letic Facility during Saturday's Ross Browner breaks into the Pitt backfield during Saturday's dedication ceremony [see pages Monday, September 12, 1977 Vol. XII, No. 10 6-7]. victory [see page 12]. Canned beer 'rip-off' Students want draft beers, lOwer prices by Frank Laurino Nickies and the Library are ridicu get caught, it's your own fault. ''The students are being taken den&.:calsoJon.ba a "friendly and lous," said Tony Mashuta, a Everyone takes that chance if advantage of." relaxed'' atmosphere. "You can Decreasing attendance this senior. "I could just as well stay they're under 21; it's accepted." Bar atmosphere is also a factor, get drafts at reasonable prices," semester at two local bars is due home and drink my own." "The problem is price, pure and according to students. "Nickies said Mashuta. "And it's no prob mainly to the switch from draft Another senior, Mike Madden, simple,'' said senior Chris and the Library don't fit the college lem getting there when you can't beer to canned beer, according to feels the far owne~:~· claims of Schneeman. "Draft beer is the crowd," said Madden. "This is still get a car." Notre Dame and St. Mary's stu students' "fear of arrest" is not an cheapest.They(the bar owners) are a basic drinking school in the Irish Notre Dame senior Anne dents, and contrary to opinions important factor in the loss of kidding themselves if they think style." O'Donnell liked the Senior Bar expressed by bar owners in a business in the Corby-Eddy area. differently," he said. Junior Rick Lane also felt the operation. "It's run very well, and I recent Observer article. "Everyone knows the score with "Canned beer is a rip-off," said Library did not suit the average like going there because I can "Prices for canned beer at the police," said Madden. "If you Cathy Hedgf~s. a St. Mary's junior. Notre Daine student. "When I go always find people I know." Senior out to drink, I want to drink not Bar does have its drawbacks, listen to disco and bump," he said. O'Donnell added. "sefme people An unidentified female Notre always talk about- classes and Dame student added her dislike for homework. When I'go out, the last the Library-Nickies atmosphere. thing I want to; talk about is ' "It's as if half the people are trying school." · to pick someone up," she said. "Senior Bar is great," said All students interviewed by The Madden. "But being only a senior ~ Observer felt that Corby's would bar, you don't ge.t the cross-section retain its steady clientele. "Cor of people you get at other bars." by's is still the closest thing in this "Few feltthe Senior Bar had any area to a basic Irish bar," said effect on the bars in the Corby Schneeman." It doesn't put up any Eddy area. "The Senior Bar will false fronts, and it's more relaxing always have its 'crowd of people to go there." who've never gone out drinking "It (Corby's) is the only place not until their last year," said Lane. far from campus where you can get "It's a novelty, true, but people draft beer and find a relaxed will continue to go there because drinking crowd," said Hedges. they've paid for a bar card." Madden added, "Corby's also has Many preferred leaving the a loyalty that Nickies and the immediate CBflpus area when go Library don't have." ing to a bar. "It's a break away Regarding the Senior Bar, [continued on page 4] .·~~ . A burned radiator and wall mute evidence of the fiire in Morrissey Saturday morning. [Photo by Maureen t=lynn] $40,000 damage Morrissey fire ruins room Bland's praise saying "the stu buted substantially to the fact that by Mike Ridenour dents were very conscious about fire was confined to the compart everyone else when evacuating and ment of origin. The only observable Some 250 students were routed I'm proud of the way the students weakness in the building system from sleep about 3:45 a.m. Satur reacted--it was an important learn was the transom over the door." day, when a fire broke out in ing experience for the campus." Bland was concerned with the Morrissey Hall. The fire was Onda was sleeping before he contents of rooms at Notre Dame. confined to the third floor room in "began smelling smoke." His He said the fire probably would which it started. No one was hurt. roommate was down the hall when have been of "the smouldering The fire, however, destroyed the the fire ignited. After waking, type if the room didn't have so contents in the room, with the third Onda ran for the fire extinguisher, many flammable components." floor and a chapel below suffering but his attempt to quench the fire The room had been modified and from heat, smoke and water decorated with burlap placed on damage. Damage estimates have Moratorium the lower portion of the wall, he reached as high as $40,000. to be placed stated, and a plywood partition According to Jack Bland, the erected to separate the sleeping Notre Dame Fire Inspector, "the on room panelling; areas from the social-study area. exact ignition source is uncertain, see box on page 3 "If we limit the combustibles, I can but it's believed to be electrical in assure you we lower the probability origin." Some reports say that a was futile. the fire alarm was of fire in that area," Bland added. malfunction in a lamp was the sounded and evacuation began. Referring to Du Lae, the guide to cause of the fire. When the Notre Dame Fire student life, Bland stated "It is Bob Onda, one of the occupants Department arrived ''the fire was specific ir11 some areas about what of the room, said "everything is very active and was blowing out of can be Clone in student rooms. lost--stereo, television, refrigera the window," said Bland. The Maybe tht~ rules should be ~xpand tor, clothes: everything." Onda South Bend Fire Department sent ed to include the wholesale chang and his roommate will stay at seven pieces of equipment to assist ing of int•~rior finishes that occurs Moreau Seminary until a new room in the operation. each school year in many student is ready for occupation. Bland presented a reason why rooms. We should either eliminate Bland had praise for the evacua the fire did not spread through the the rules or enforce them I In any tion process, saying "the reaction hall explaining "Morrissey is a well case nothing worthwhile can be was excellent by the students- constructed hall of reinforced con accomplished without the coopera everybody got out." Fr. Holtz. crete and thick plastered walls.• tion of students, faculty and staff in rector of Morrissey Hall, echoed These construction features contri· · this imp01rtant matter.'' . .,j"c ·-·-:):-:>, · ..?. •. ~ .. :-.~ .' ·.(. : :·· ·': !.~~~. - .:Y . ·.,. : r ·. ''\ _. ·. ~ •.• ,,.:to;~··· .. •''. .· •... 2 the observer Monday, September 12, 1977 !Creative, Mass officially News Briefs--------~ I intelligent, _ Teen queen rejects title opens year and resourceful persons. ME~ms• Teone88ee-·A teen-age beauty pageant, plagued by by Peggy McGuire Are you tired of booking already? c~nfuston from the beginning, ended Saturday night when the wmner of the Miss Teen U.S.A. title rejected her crown. Sharon Faculty, students, and guests Fed up with studying all week and engaging in drunken Gregory, a 14-year-old from Bridge City, Texas, rejected the title celebrated the University's official debauchery every weekend? and members of the audience walked onto the stage to opening with a High Mass yester congratulate her for turning it down. day morning at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Fr. Theodore M. Res Would you like to make your mark on the Notre burgh, University president, ser Dame-St. Mary's mmmunity? Protesters hurt ved as chief celebrant and homilist. CHICAGO:-Three persons were seriously injured last night when The ceremony, beginning at Well, get out of your academic rut! a car c~rrytng blac~ drove through a crowd of whites holding a 10:45 a.m. with a processional of candlelight rally m protest of Chicago's voluntary school over 300 faculty, university offic Do to ials, and priests, marked the something improve your personality, social status desegregation program, authorities said. Holy Cross Hospital and general well-being! reported receiving two teen-age girls and one teen-age boy and commencement of Notre Dame's sa1d they were in serious to critical condition. The incident 136th academic year. GET INVOLVED. occurred on the city's Southwest side. "I call upon the Holy Spirit today in this Holy Mass as we begin once You can impress your friends, thrill your parents and again with hope, joy, and con fulfill your ego-maniac fantasies. Weather fidence to take part together in this noble and creative world that we Partly cloudy today with highs in the upper 70's and a 30 percent call Catholic Higher Education," YOUCAN BE ON THE RADIO. chance of afternoon showers of thunderstorms. There is a 60 stated Hesburgh in his sermon. He percent chance of more rain tonight with lows around 60. More also asked that ''those of us whose WSND and WSND-FM need announcers, music showers are expected tomorrow with highs in the upper 70's.