Friday, November 3, 1995• Vol. XXVII No. 49 ,,, I~ INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Lovell The Minnesota architectural firm of Ellerbe Designs on relives Becket has pro­ vided the.§' University with .~ Apollo 13 a number of its .fi By MAUREEN HURLEY campus facili- ~ Notre Dame Saint Mary's News Ediwr ties, including~ Keough Hall~ It is a story of courage and and the College t?l., triumph in a crisis; of a disas­ of Business i5 Architectural firm helps ter turned to a drama that z Administration '5 eaptivated a nation, and still amazes after 25 years. Last building. shape school's new look night, Captain James Lovell spoke at Saint Mary's College By HEATHER COCKS about his experiences as com­ mander of the ill-fated Apollo News Writer 13 mission. any given moment, University of Notre Lovell and his crew were Dame alumni can be spotted taking that 200,000 miles from Earth and entimental journey around campus, 55 hours into their flight when A! during which they stop to admire the 'new' an explosion drained the high-rise dorms, or lament the placement of eruft's power and oxygen sup­ DeBartolo Hall right the middle of their favorite ply. "Lead weights went to the tailgating fields. The new College of Business bottom of my stomach. I Administration and the planned West Quad looked out the window, and dorms are the most recent in a string of campus saw gasnous substance coming expansions that cause graduates to marvel at from tlw spae11craft. and real­ how rapidly their alma mater has grown. iznd that shortly, we'd be out Designed to better serve the changing student of oxygr.n, then out of eleetrical body, these structures do have more in common power," Lovell said. than just their function or their ability to con­ l>nspile the faet that "ground fuse even the more recent graduates. Since the eontrol ealled and said they addition of O'Shaugnessy Hall in 1950, Ellerbe didn't think we'd make it Becket, Inc. has undertaken the design and honw." Lovell and the three­ construction of almost every new facility on man erew managed to bring campus, including Knott, Nieuwland, Loftus, tlw eraft safely haek to Earth. DeBartolo Hall, and Pasquerilla Center. Aeeording to Lovell. proce­ "They've always done great work for Notre durns to get the erew back Dame," said Director of Facilities Engineering home that would ordinarily Mike Smith. take weeks to develop were Dennis Moore, director of public relations, lwing developed in ground eon­ concurs. "You don't use a company as consis­ trot ancl tested in simulators in tently as we use Ellerbe Becket if there isn't a a rnattflr of hours. high level of satisfaction." While narrating actual film He added that continually working with the dips from the voyage that were ... same architects tends to augment the aesthetic prns•mtml in the Congressional value of their work by making the campus as a inV!lstigation of the mission, whole appear less disparate. "The new buildings Lovell took his audience step­ • all seem to fit together and complement one by-stnp through the miraculous another, which makes the differences between advnnture. • new and old structures less stark. Buildings that "We landnd safely in the Pa­ really don't fit may consequently seem less dfk Oeean, dose to where we attractive." would havn landed had it been Founder Thomas Ellerbe began his one-man a normal flight," he said. • see DESIGN I page 6 see LOVELL I page 6 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Navy game ends stadium era ~----------------------~--------~, By BRAD PRENDERGAST University, says the view of Touchdown Jesus, Friday, November 3 ' Associate News Editor the mosaic on the wall of Hesburgh Library fac­ ing the stadium, will not be completely obstruct­ After 65 years and 323 home games, Notre ed from within the facility. 12·2 p.m. Alumni - Senior Club tor lunch South of Stadium Dame Stadium is about to embark on a new 3:30·5:30 p.m. Alumni Tours Main Circle · see STADIUM I page 10 4:30p.m. Marching Band Rehearsal Main Building chapter in its storied history. 4:45·6:00 p.m. Glee Club Rehearsal Crowley Hall Tomorrow's game between the Fighting Irish and the Midshipmen of With the loss of p(lrking spaces around 6:45p.m. Band steps off for Rally Band Building Navy marks the final time that football the stadium due to its expansion, the B2/C2 7:00p.m. Pep Rally JACC (Gate 10) will be played there before expansion and 06 lots have been extended to include 462 and 298 spaces, respectively. In and renovations begin on Monday. ··-··- -·,~ Saturday, November 4 At that point, workers will raze the addition, the parking area south of the ~.,,,." .. stadium and west of Juniper Road has -"·' been reconfigured and designated 8:30a.m. Marching Band Rehearsal Loftus Center · • see PARKING, page 10 exclusively for faculty and staff. Parking for 9:00·1:30 p.m. Alumni Hospitality Center JACC North Dome off-campus students continues to be 9:30a.m. AA Meeting CSC available in lots south of the Joyce Center. existing press box and begin adding 26 The stadium expansion begins Monday. 10:00·10:30 a.m. Cheerleader Performances NO Bookstore rows of seats around the House that 10:40·11:00 a.m. Cheerleader Performances JACC, North Dome Rockne Built, where the Irish have post­ 11:30·12:00 p.m. Glee Club~ NO in Review JACC, North Dome ed a 24 7-71-5 record and played before 12:00·12:30 p.m. Shenanigans Performance JACC. North Dorne 16,901,145 fans entering this weekend. 12:00·12:45 p.m. Marching Band Concert Main Building The $50 million project, expected to 1:10 p.m. Marching Band Pre-game Show Notre Dame Stadium be completed before the 1997 season, 1:30 p.m. NOTRE DAME VS. NAVY No. tr.e Dame Stadium : will increase the seating capacity 45 min post-game Mass Stepan from 59,075 to 80,990. With the 4:30·7:00 p.m. Candlelight Dinner Buffet Dining Halls added seats, the stadium moves . ' up from 44th in seating capacity · Sunday, November 5 among the 106 Division 1-A foot-.· ball facilities to 14th. The additional rows will extend ' 8,9:30,11 a.m. Mass Basilica the stadium upward and out­ 1,2:00 p.m. Men's lnterhall Football Stepan Fields. ·· ..... ward, but Mike Smith, director of 1:30 p.m. Women's lnterhall Football Notre Dame Stadium facilities engineering for the page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, November 3, 1995 • Wom.o AT A GuNcm Death the only way out for some Brazilian Indians A plea for DOURADOS, Brazil Before the 1990s, only a handful of When Silvinha Cavalcante, a Kaiowa the tribe's 25,000 members killed Indian, didn't return to her straw­ themselves each year. By contrast, the understanding roofed hut one evening last April, Lu­ suicide rate for Brazil as a whole is less ciano Arevalo knew where to find his than one for every 25,000 people, the Election Day is next 12-year-old niece. census agency says. Tuesday, and while 1995 He crossed the dusty plain of his Indian experts attribute the phenom­ may be an off-year for reservation where a forest once stood enon to poverty, the disintegration of national political cam­ and stopped at the foot of a lone guava families and forced acculturation of the paigns, Tuesday still tree. It was there that Silvinha's wid­ Guarani-Kaiowa in the face of a violent holds some significance in owed mother had hanged herself a westward push by white settlers, an that it marks the one-year year earlier. encroachment similar to that on North countdown to the 1996 From a branch a girl in a sundress American tribes a century ago. presidential election. All dangled by the neck, her body swinging Anthropologists also blame the clear­ Republicans on campus can take comfort in Brad Prendergast in the moonlight. ing of forests for pasture and planta­ Associate News Editor "Silvinha went to her mother," said tions and the loss of more than half of knowing that Bill Clinton Arevalo. "She had eight baby brothers. the tribe's ancestral lands to ranchers may be in office for only -------- They were going hungry, and she could and farmers. 366 more days. not bear to watch this. It was killing "To resist giving up their identity, the Whether the conservative candidate of her soul. To save her soul, she killed Guarani-Kaiowa appear to see no alter­ choice be Dole, Gramm or even Lugar, the her body." native but death," said Rubem Thomaz right-wing political pundits are pointing to a Suicide, once rare among Brazil's de Almeida, an anthropologist who has better future and the days when the GOP native Indians, is ravaging the Guarani-Kaiowa tribe that studied the tribe since 1973. "It's not only a disgrace, returns to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and lives on the remote brushlands of the western frontier but the shame of a country that likes to call itself the strong leadership resides in the Oval Office. state of Mato Grosso do Sul. most racially integrated nation on the planet." Conservatives have criticized Clinton greatly, In the first nine months of this year, 43 Guarani­ "Our sorrows begin with the lack of land," Chief Amil­ and deservedly so, for wavering back and Kaiowas killed themselves and dozens of others tried, ac­ ton Lopes and seven other Guarani-Kaiowa leaders forth on dozens of issues, but a Republican cording to the government's National Indian Foundation, wrote in a letter to Congress earlier this year.