Truck Driver Killed As Strike Continues ( AP) - Sniper~ Ambushed Dozens President Roy Lee Williams
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• • • Unity -page 4 VOL. XVII, NO. 88 the independent ~tudcnt ncw~papcr ~lT\ ing rwtrc dame and ~aint man·~ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1983 Truck driver killed as strike continues ( AP) - Sniper~ ambushed dozens President Roy Lee Williams. who of trucks with guntlre and rocks yes· was recently convicted of bribery terday as violence spread in a conspiracy charges, called on nationwide strike by independent federal and state governments to truckers that has left one driver dead "provide protection for drivers and and I I people injured, rwo serious the motoring public." ly. George Franklin Capps, :\3, of Police were investigating reports Clayton, N.C., was killed by a sniper of attacks on at least SO rigs in 22 about II :30 p.m. Monday on LI.S. states, including the slaying Monday 701 just outside Newton Grove, night of a trucker who was shot in N.C. Six other trucks were hit by the nee k while driving through guntlre in the state yesterday morn North Carolina and the serious ing, and two truckers were injured. wounding of another trucker in Utah five were hurt when bullets or earlier in the day. A teenager in rocks hit their trucks in unrelated Pennsylvania suffered a fractured incidents in Alabama, Maryland. skull when a brick bounced off a Florida, Connecticut and Oregon. truck into the family car. Two drivers were injured Monday in Independent Truckers Association members, dependent truckers started a job action today in The dead driver was a member of Pennsylvania and Michigan. from left, Charles Brown, Ralph Raymond, Ed an attempt to change Congress' mind on the in the Teamster l'nion, which opposes Yesterday, nails scattered on In ward Stoney, and Samuel Forbes show their crease. The strikes turned violent yesterday when the strike. terstate 65 near Lebanon, Ky .. feelings about the 5 cent increase in the fuel tax at a trucker was shot and killed in North Carolina. a truck stop in South Kearny, Nj. on Monday. In- See story at left. ( AP Photo) In the second day of the strike see DRIVER, page 3 called at 12:0 I a.m. Monday by the Independent Truckers Association. some more local truckers orgaqiza tions joined the ~hutdown, notably in Ohio and Massachusetts, to District 3 race centers on D-6, cooperation protest scheduled increases in the gasoline tax and highway use fees. Editor's Note: The following is the ByTOMMOWLE ROTC building should be improved dent center, improving Lafortune, No shortages of goods were third ofa five-part series describing Campus Campaign Reporter to serve South Quad residents bet reforming the book exchange, ad reported in the nation's markets. In the candidates in each of the Jive ter. Each candidate believes that the ding a bakery below LaFortune, w·ashington, Department of Student Senate districts. Today's Improving the D-6 parking lot and sponsoring a reduced meal plan, and Transportation officials said that segment profiles candidates from communications between the moving the Placement Bureau from while fewer truckers appeared to be District 3 which consists of Badin, Senate and hall governments are im Campus , Chautauqua. The following is a running at night, there did not ap Dillon, Fisher, Howard, Lyons, Mor portant issues in the District ~ Campaign pro tile of each candidate's position: pear to be a "serious disruption" of rissey, and Pangborn Halls. The Senate campaign. * 83 interstate commerce. series will continue tomorrow with Two of the three candidates Susan Hoelscher wants her dis In Chicago, Teamsters Union District4. believe the parking lot behind the cooperation of the Senate and halls trict "to become aware that there is is necessary for the success of either a person they can turn ro" with organization's projects and would campus problems. If elected, the Campbelrs reps unsuccessful work to improve relations between Lyons sophomore would go to each the two. hall's council meetings "at least Other issues raised by the can see DISTRICT, page 3 HPC votes to endorse FLOC didates include building a nev.· stu- By DAVID F. TRACY Campbell's, they work for events were a night at the Nazz. a News Staff Campbell's suppliers, tt:e tomato far weekend retreat. and a a formal at a mers. He also questioned why FLOC local country club. Tom Merriman and Ceci Schickel, chose to boycott Campbell's when HPC President Mike \tcAuliffe ND/SMC exchange representatives of the Farm Labor both Heinz and Hunt's comprise a asked the presidenb to continue Organizing Committee (FLOC), dis much larger portion of the market. promoting attendence at the cussed their proposed boycott of Merriman responded that be remaining home hockey games. grows in popularity Campbell's products with three cause of Campbell's well-known McAuliffe said he hopes to "see the representatives of Campbell name, FLOC considers them the team go out with some class." By SONYA STINSON management at last night's HPC most int1uential employer of tomato Senior Staff Reporter meeting. farmers. He also stated that though Howard Hall President Tim Con After the meeting, the presidents the migrant farm workers do not nolly announced that Chautauqua Notre Dame and Saint \tary's students are taking advantage of the voted 1 5--l in favor of endorsing work directly for Campbell's, the dances are going well. More than opportunities for interaction with one another both academically FLOC. company still has a responsibility to --100 people attended last Fr:day's and socially. Students are allowed to enroll in courses at either Scott Romback. speaker for see that the migrant farmers are paid "Chance co Dance" even though it school, and both campuses operate a meal ticket exchange. The Campbell's, and :vterriman a decent wage. was competing with the Keenan strength of student participation in the co-exchange program indi presented their opposing positions In other business. the presidents Revue. Connolly hopes to decorate cates that the idea is a popular one. and tlelded questions from the presi presented Lyons Hall with the Sow LaFortune Ballroom for Valentine's At Saint Mary's, there are 330 students out of about 1 700 who are dents. der award for hall spirit displayed in Day. have free refreshments served currently enrolled in Notre Dame courses, according to Sr. M. Fran Romback pointed out that the months of November and at the dance and possibly award cesca Kennedy, registrar at Saint Mary's. The tlgure does not include migrant farmers do not work for December. Lyon's winning hall door prizes. courses within the Communications and Theater major or the departments of religion and theology, which are cross listed at both schools, Kennedy said. The earliest record of Saint Mary's students taking WEDNESDAYIIII courses is for the spring semester of 1965. Originally, a Saint Mary's student could ocus only enroll in a Notre Dame course which was not offered at her own school. Now, however. students can choose from a variety of courses in many disciplines. Some of the more popular Notre Dame courses among Saint Mary's students include those in the departments of American Studies, History, Sociology, and Art, and in the College of Business Administration. according to Kennedy. Saint Mary's junior Bridget Baker is a Communications and Theater major whose classes and theater work require her to spend a great deal of time at Notre Dame. "I work on plays a lot, so I'm over at Notre Dame almost every night for rehearsals," Baker said. "But it's more convenient to be at Campbell's representatives ( l. to r.) Scott Rom Pangborn President jot,n Callagher listen on. Saint Mary's because if I'm working at a rehearsal and we don't get back, Cathy Costello and jack Clober~y address FLOC representatives were on band also and saw out until late, I would rather be close to my dorm." the HPC last night in an attempt to present the the HPC ·vote to recommend a boycott of company's side of the FLOC debate. At right, Mor Campbell's. See above story. (Photo by Ed Car· see EXCHANGE, page 4 rissey Vice President Tom Breitenbach and rom - - -- ------- - ~ - ~ ------ ------------------ Wednesday, February 2, 1983- page 2 An annual competition for essays dealing with the history of Notre Dame or Saint !\1ary's College is now open. All Don't save the Fie1ldhouse undergraduate or graduate students at the two schools are eligible to compete tor the prize of SSO. Entries must be receivnl by Philip .. .Shall we go wbile u•e haue tune~ Gleason. chairman of the Committee on the History of the l iniver· For, if not we depart. tbeu it. sity, by Apr. 18. There is no limit on the length of the essay. - The into tbe dust .from u•hence we came . .. Margaret Fosmoe Ohserc•er Above is an exerpt from a poem I found posted in the Saint Mary's Exec. Editor entrance of the Old Fieldhoust• yesterday. It was ded Former defense leaders of the United States, icated to "the old Fieldhouse and the princely ghost Inside Wednesday Great Britain and West Germany called vesterday f(Jr the Western that lives within." Alliance to build up conventional forces and then renounce the first The Fieldhouse is slated to come down soon. Already use of nuclear weapons. They argued that a S I 00 billion strengthen most of the art department, housed in the Fieldhouse Now that the demise of the fieldhouse is again im ing of non-nuclear power in Europe over six years would keep the for more than ten years, has been relocated to the old minent.