VOL. XXIII NO. 13 WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 13, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Off-campus crime discussed By KELLEY TUTHILL Matt Breslin were all present. could be." Senior Staff Reporter Way told the students that Students should avoid two they were more vulnerable now major misconceptions, said that they live off-campus. "A lot Bennett. "They should not think Student government, the Of­ of lax students have helped to 'never me' or 'never here'. Any­ fice of Student Affairs, Notre project the image that students thing can happen anywhere." Dame Security and the South are an easy prey," he said. He Students should also be cau­ Bend Police Department jointly cited the fact that students are tious when leaving their homes hosted a meeting Tuesday away from their homes for the and getting out of their cars, he about off-campus crime and hours when they have classes said. safety. and burglaries can occur at Doran said that his staff in­ Burglary prevention, party these times. cludes four people who aid off­ problems and communication The Police Department campus students. He said his between students and the police brought displays of windows office will assist in land­ and administration were and doors to illustrate the ways lord/tenant problems. He spoke among topics covered in the that students may make their of a need for "communication question/answer format. homes safer. Way spoke specif­ from you (the off-campus stu­ Phillip Johnson, assistant di­ ically about which types of dents)." rector of Security, Patrick Do­ bolts are most secure. Pam­ Doran said he does have off­ ran, assistant director of Resi­ phlets describing various mea­ campus students into his office dence Life, Deputy Chief Larry sures that students could take when the Police Department is Bennett, chief of South Bend to make their homes more se­ called to the student's house. Police Department's uniform cure were available at the The talk concerns why the division, Lt. Dave Woods, su­ meeting. problem happened and how to pervisor of the East Section Way asked the group of ap­ avoid problems with the police which borders the University, proximately 30 how many of in the future, said Doran. "Our Sgt. Doug Way, of South Bend their homes had been broken hope and expectation is that Police Department's community into and several indicated that students will at least abide by relations and crime prevention, theirs had been. He said the and Student Body President house this time, but next time it see CRIME I page 5 Bishop Gumbleton opens lecture series By DAVID CERTO For International Peace Stud­ News Staff ies, Tuesday's program was the first of four visits Bishop Gum­ Bishop Thomas Gumbleton bleton plans to make to Notre Artistic painter The Observer/Steve Moskop outlined the American bishops' Dame as a visiting fellow at the pastoral letter on nuclear peace institute. Snite Museum employee Jeremy Langford puts some finishing weapons and warfare to open touches on a new sculpture outside of The Snite. The sculpture is the Notre Dame Law School's A recognized authority on part of a David Hayes exhibit that is to open on Sunday, Sept. 17. brown bag lunch lecture series Catholic peace policies, Gumble­ Tuesday. ton was ordained in Detroit in 1956 and consecrated bishop in SMC student attacked Gumbleton, president of Pax 1968. He studied at Sacred Christi-U.S.A. and auxiliary Heart in Detroit and later in Special to the ObseiVer the other car pulled up beside bishop of Detroit, explained Rome and is presently pastor of her and the man in the passen­ his views and those expressed "shop Th G bl t Saint Leo's parish in the inner A Saint Mary's student was ger side got out and tried to in the 1983 document, "The B1 omas urn e on city. attacked early Sunday, Sep.10, force her into his car. Challenge of Peace." able, that the initiation of nu­ in the Le Mans Hall parking lot. The student fought off her Though he had only an hour, clear war could never be Gumbleton has been pub­ The incident occurred at 3:20 attacker, biting him on the Gumbleton outlined the high­ morally acceptable, that nu­ lished in numerous journals a.m. and ended with the student hand, and ran to the Security lights of the pastoral letter, clear response is not justified, and magazines. He has trav­ fleeing her attacker and run­ Office. The car, described as a sharing his insights as a mem­ even if used in retaliation, be­ elled extensively, including trips ning to the Security Office. white Chevrolet Celebrity type, ber of the committee that cause of the impossibility of to Vietnam to monitor condi­ The student stated that she fled the scene. drafted it to the audience of containing nuclear conflict and tions of political prisoners, to had been driving onto campus, The man is described as a nearly seventy people. that the "Balance of Power" is Iran to visit the U.S. hostages down the main drive, when a black male, 5'10" tall, 180 His main points included the fundamentally sinful and held in the Alnerican embassy car which had been leaving pounds, with very muscular four judgements pronounced by should be abandoned as rapidly in 1979 and to Nicaragua to campus, turned around and be­ arms. the assembly of bishops, specif­ as possible. He then carefully evaluate poverty relief efforts gan following her. She pro­ Saint Mary's Security asks ically that counter-city and explained the reasoning behind in the region. ceeded to the Le Mans lot and counter-population warfare these statements. Gumbleton has received many got out of her car. At that time, see ATTACK I page 3 could never be morally accept- Sponsored by the Institute awards for his work. CHINA IN TURMOIL Chinese student needed connections to make trip work By KELLEY TUTHILL was nervous." He said she had A reporter friend of Qiang's wanted nothing to do with him, While there he "spoke to stu­ Senior Staff Reporter heard conflicting stories about said she would go to Bejing he said. dents and got more informa­ what really happened in Bejing. with Qiang. He explained that it Qiang saw soldiers beating tion," said Qiang. This is the last of a three­ The woman told Qiang that was easier for her to get a people in the streets and said At this point Qiang's family part series. he could stay with her as long plane ticket. he "couldn't believe it." He said made their first contact with as he did not go anywhere. She Two weeks after the mas­ one day he saw three plain him since he returned to China. Xiao Qiang, the Notre Dame changed his money for him and sacre Qiang was able to get a clothed men with walkie-talkies He said they were angry and graduate student who traveled brought current news reports plane ticket and fly to Bejing. in the street and thought it was told him "after you get the to China just days after the for him, said Qiang. He said he had little trouble in very strange. permit (to leave China) we're crackdown in Tiananman For a week Qiang said he was the Bejing airport. In light of the travel restric­ coming to get you." According Square, said that connections able to watch news reports "In Bejing things were worse tions for Chinese students, to Qiang, his family could not made his trip to Bejing a suc­ broadcast from both than I imagined," said Qiang. Qiang said he wanted to apply understand why he had come cess. China and Hong Kong. "I got a He said a taxi driver gave him for a permit as soon as possi­ home. Qiang said he needed to find lot of information and met with information about the current ble. He said he took a train to Qiang said his mother was someone trustworthy who some students from Bejing who situation on the streets. his former university. worried about him. He said his would help him plan the trip to were trying to hide." Qiang went to the home lo­ "I visited some of my profes­ family thought he was acting Bejing. He decided to contact a Qiang also made contact with cated at the address he received sors and they told me what I foolishly. "They had a hard friend who taught in a city near several people that he knew in from a friend. He said the fam­ needed to do to get back to the time understanding why I had Guang Zhou. the area. "Everybody said don't ily was very surprised and U.S. They all wanted me to re­ come home," said Qiang. "I didn't know what to tell go to Bejing," said Qiang. asked "how did you hear about turn," said Qiang. "Many of During the five days Qiang her, I hadn't seen the woman in During this time Qiang was this?" Their son, a high school them offered me help without stayed with his family they were three years. I also knew my able to get an address of a student, was killed in the mas­ me even asking." able to understand him better, story sounded crazy," said family who had a child die in sacre. The father of the family Qiang took a train ride to a Qiang. "In the beginning she the massacre. was suspicious of Qiang and city 18 hours outside of Bejing.