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---------------------------------------~-- ----~---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~------------. Friday, October 18, 1996 • Vol. XXX No. 40 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S -~--"" ___ _Friday Feature Planes, trains, and automobiles When it comes to traveling to and from Notre Dame, there are many ways to go. By SASKIA SIDENFADEN News Writer hh .... holidays! You either love them or ou hate them. While the upcoming fall reak evokes images of rest, relaxation, and blissful hours devoid of routine and study, often the holiday season isn't as "stress-less" as we would like. Long-distance travel and transportation can prove to be some of col lege's most annoying hassles. Luckily. most images of overflowing Greyhounds, endless ticket lines, lost baggage, Oaring tempers, and traffic accidents are con fined to Notre Dame's football weekends and holidays. But for the transportation industry, these problems are a part of everyday life. Crowd control 'Tomorrow, we've got extra buses out there to handle the crowds," said United Limo's operations manager Bud Ousenamer. Even with a maximum of just under 50 passengers per bus, Ousenamer finds that sometimes "we'll need two or three buses on one run." axis line up at South Bend's Michiana Transportation Center (above) as drivers wave The first-come/first-serve policy at United Tgoodbye to students leaving early for fall break. Limo for football and vac·ation weekends may Left, Barbara Poehlman, an eight-year Indiana Toll 1 seem like a recipe for disaster - big crowds, Road attendant, hands a student his ticket before he long-lines and a general panic. But enters 1-80. According to Poehlman, students are Ousenamer maintians the contrary; "We're prone to yelling, "Going home, going home!" as they pretty much prepared for everything. At the depart for breaks. worst, students will have to wait an extra hour. but that is pretty rare." A majority of travelers are from out-of-town see TRAVEL I page 4 L::ls=®edede=====·P~~&~ ...~::=: ........ E::··· _jl Stadium history has heavy price Friday, October 18~_:::·_-_--_--'1 By LIZ FORAN 3·7p.m. Football Weekend Social Gathering Editor-in-Chief The Morris Inn Patio 3:30·5 p.ni. Center lor the Homeless Alumni Tours (C.H.A.T) Meet at the Main Circle Want to own a piece of Notre Dame 4:30p.m. Marching Band Rehearsal history? Step off ~ Main Building 6:45p.m. Band Steps oH for Pep Rally With the past year's ongoing recon Band Building struction of Notre Dame Stadium, 7:00p.m. PEP RALLY! marketing ploys for the discarded JACC Arena. enter Gate 10 materials are popping up almost as m•••••• • l .____ s=a.,...t~rdav. october 1'9 quickly as the new stadium did. 8:30a.m. Marching Band Rehearsal But the. price of this memorabilia Loftus Sports Center 9 a.m.-12 p.m. The Alumni Hospitality Center welcomes all alumni will hit you like a ton of bricks. and friends In advertising brochures mailed to Joyce Center. North Dome members of the Notre Dame family 10-10:30 a.m. PomPon Squad (10:00) and Cheerleader (10:15) Performances including alumni and parents of cur Notre Dame Bookstore rent students, the University is offer 10:40-11 a.m. PomPon Squad (10:40) and Cheerleader (10:50) ing decoratively mounted bricks from Performances JACC North Dome the "House that Rockne Built." For a 11:15- Air Force Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps small fee, that is. The Observer/Shannon Dunne 11:30 a.m. Joyce Center. North Dome The bricks are being sold in con Standing before the renovated stadium, Tim McCarthy displays a $125 brick from junction with the University through the original structure, one of several memorabilia items his company markets. 11:30-12 p.m. Glee Club· Notre Dame in Review Joyce Center. North Dome Admiral Awards, Inc., an 12·12:45 p.m. Shenanigans Performance Indianapolis-based company who Champion," a wholly preserved brick Joyce Center, North Dome undertook a similar project when the on a wooden base with a removable This is the last issue of 12·12:45 p.m. Marching Band Concert dust cover for $125; "The Stadium," Main Building (Step off at 12:55) floor of Assembly Hall was replaced The Observer before fall 1:10 p.m. Marchln!l Band Pre-game Show a few years ago. They are also cur a whole brick placed on a wood at the Stadium rently working on the sale of the plaque along with a picture of the break. The Observer will 1:30 p.m. BEATAIR FORCE! astroturf at Texas Stadium, home of stadium for $265; and "Hats Off," a NOTRE DAME STADIUM brick mounted on a solid walnut resume publishing on _____$Y!1.~@y..._Q~~iJ~J:..~.Q _______ __j the Dallas Cowboys. Among the prized pieces from frame along with a genuine usher's Tuesday, October 29. 8 0 ~ ~1 :~~OO, M~~~ilica of the Sacred Heart Notre Dame Stadium are "The Have a great break! see BRICKS I page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, October 18, 1996 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Hurricane Lili leaves 8 dead, closes in on Cuba You in ISLAMORADA, Fla. Thursday evening, Lili was centered Leaving eight people dead in its Hurricane Lili about 125 miles southwest of Havana wake across Central America, and 300 miles southwest of Miami. It Twenty years? Hurricane Lili closed in on Cuba was moving northeast at 12 mph. with 118 mph winds Thursday and Lili left thousands homeless and If you are reading this, you have probably unloaded rain on already saturated stranded more as rain-gorged rivers finished midterms and have time to kill. You South Florida. made bridges and roads impassable in are either a very relieved student, {midterms News reports out of Cuba said Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua. went well) or a very panicked student {penny 28,000 residents had been evacuat Costa Rican authorities said a child and pitchers got to you last ed from low-lying central and west two adults were reported dead Tuesday?). Maybe you Kaiser Meany ern coastal areas and 100,000 stu Wednesday, in addition to the five are a visiting alum. Saine Mary's dents were sent home. Cuba also drownings reported Tuesday. Which is why this col Accent Editor said it was ready to evacuate Along the Florida Keys, a smattering of umn is about the best 86,000 people in the Havana area. businesses and homes had storm shutters Notre Dame alum I Meteorologists met Thursday in place. In Key West, few tourists milled know. evening with President Fidel Castro about the shops. Ernest Hemingway's Htfs my dad. You've all seen him on cam to discuss Lili's path toward home had closed to the public and board pus. lie is the one in those loud plaid pants Havana, the state news agency ed up windows with plywood. and matching sweaters. Everything he Prensa Latina said in a Havana dis "I've put up some shutters on the wears is either blue, gold, or green. He's patch monitored in Mexico City. house, but not the business," said Ed been known to wear one of those big "God The hurricane was expected to Davidson, a dive shop operator in Made the Irish #1" pins, and he doesn't wear cross Cuba early Friday, squeeze Marathon, Fla. "In the Keys, in 'Manana it in support of our ranking for binge drink through the Florida Straits separat County,' we don't get too serious. When ing. Maybe you'll be inclined to picture him ing Cuba and Florida, and head for it starts to blow the foam off your beer, in his natural habitat. .. the Hammes the Bahamas. Forecasters said then it's time to get serious." Bookstore. Florida will probably get no more In Mexico, the port on the island of His eyes glaze over when he enters the than glancing blow. AP Cozumel was closed. building. As an avid fan, he'd wait in line for hours just to get a look at the new Notre Dame golf balls .... However, the man is too smart for that. He'll get to South Bend on Nixon told Kissinger about tapes Presidential debates set low ratings WedntJsday night, just to beat out the ama teurs. Then he has as much time as he COLLEGE PARK, Md. NEW YORK wants to putz around the store, pushing all of Richard Nixon revealed to Henry The second debate between President Clinton and Bob those musical pins. What does he buy? Kissinger, then his national security Dole drew lower ratings than any other presidential What does he not buy? In my twenty years adviser, that their conversations were faceoff ever televised, according to Nielsen Media on this earth, I've never seen anyone get so secretly recorded, apparently to keep Research figures released Thursday. Wednesday night's excited about liquid soap before. him from taking credit for successes in debate captured a 26.1 rating on ABC, CBS, NBC and However, he cannot spend his entire life in foreign policy. This was in November CNN. That means 25.3 million households were tuned in, the bookstore. He has to embarrass me on 1972, when the secret White House Nielsen said. Since that translates into an estimated campus as well. lie has been known to run taping system was supposedly known 36.3 million viewers on the four networks, it may have around quads like a rabid dog, pointing out to only a handful of staffers.