IOBSERVER Tuesday, August 26, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 2 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S 0 SECURITY BEAT Local teen kills cop near O-C apartment complex South Bend Police Department. who was inside.” Arrest, shooting are When Deguch approached him, He said he was stopped again on Campus police said, the youth shot Deguch, S.R. 23, when several police cars and life of then fled down a nearby alley. The 30- more than 20 officers swarmed hooting c'.lose to ho’ year-old officer was pronounced dead around one of the houses. Menghini just after 8:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s said there was screaming moments off-campus students Medical Center. before the police rushed to the front Police conducted a comprehensive door and dragged the suspect from By HEATHER COCKS three-hour search of the area in an the house. Area suspect News Editor attempt to apprehend the suspect, “They were yelling, ‘Get your hands w as found later identified as Gregory Dickens Jr., away from there, don’t reach down A South Bend police officer was a neighborhood resident. there!’ I think he must have been killed Sunday night near the Lafayette John Menghini, a Notre Dame reaching for a gun or something,” Square apartment complex, shot four senior, was driving toward Lafayette Menghini said. “It felt like an episode Lafayette Square times in the head by a 16 year-old Square at approximately 11:15 p.m. of ‘Cops.’” local boy. when he saw the police preparing to Other witnesses confirmed that the Officer Paul Deguch was driving on arrest Dickens. shooting and subsequent arrest Mary’s students. Talbot Street, just off S.R. 23, when he “We were on the way to Lafayette occurred just a few blocks from “Everyone there was pretty freaked, stopped to investigate “the out of the when the cops stopped our car near Lafayette, which houses a number of since it happened so close to home,” ordinary behavior” of a young boy, S.R. 23, “ Menghini said. “An officer off-campus Notre Dame and Saint said Sergeant John Williams of the shined a flashlight into our car to see see POLICE / page 6 Shoo fly, don’t bother me... would really lov 7 initiate conversation. I’m here to provide students a them to a - Marilou Eldred, president of Saint Mary’s College Eldred prepares to lead SMC community By SARAH CORKREAN students to initiate conversa­ Saint Mary’s News Editor tion,” said Eldred. “I’m here to provide students a mentor, to As attendance at women’s lead them to a degree.” colleges continues to decline, Already, Eldred has planned many challenges face their to host picnics with student advocates, including the new body leaders and was seen this Saint Mary’s College president weekend greeting incoming Marilou Eldred. freshmen as they unloaded As she assumes the leader­ their cars. The door of Eldred’s ship of one office has been open for stu­ of the top- dents drop in and say hello. rated mid- Mary Lou Gorno, chair of the western Colege’s Board of Trustees, women’s introduced Eldred as “the best colleges, she person to lead Saint Mary’s is stressing into the next century.” her role as a She described Eldred’s lay leader, accomplishments as a tribute so m e th in g to the president’s long-held she believes E ldred goals, which are in accord with women need those of the Saint Mary’s mis­ to see more often in today’s sion statement. society. Revealing her hopes and “Women’s colleges are criti­ intentions for the College, cal because women need to be Eldred said that she plans to The Observer/Kevin Dalum able to identify themselves and continue to increase the Construction workers in the Galvin Life Sciences building have been dealing with pests lurking in every nook and cranny. Galvin is being expanded to add more laboratories. assum e a role in society,” endowment, make available Eldred said. “Saint Mary’s more financial aid, make College prepares women well diversity more of a campus for that role.” issue and expand both acade­ In April, the Board of mic programs and enrollment. Ticket prices stay at $96, $128 Trustees presented Eldred as According to Eldred, only 2-3 the 10th president of Saint percent of graduating high Observer Staff Report enues. Schedule for ticket sales: “We just sat Mary’s. Eldred, who was then school women consider attend­ Breaking a three-year trend of down and went the vice president and acade­ ing women’s colleges. eniors $6 increases, the Notre Dame over the office’s S : Wednesday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. mic dean of the College of St. “Because women’s colleges Catherine, a Catholic women’s are only able to recruit half of Ticket Office said general admis­ budget and fin­ Juniors : Thursday, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. sion and student football ticket ances, and we re college in St. Paul, Minn., the population, they will prices have not risen this year. doing really well at Law /G rad : Thursday, 2 p.m.~7 p.m. assumed the post in June. always struggle academically,” Notre Dame students, buying this point,” Fra­ She stated her eagerness to she said. each ticket for half the price of a leigh said. “We Sophomores : Friday, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. meet with present students One way to increase enroll­ GA, will again pay $96 for their prefer not to raise and alumnae. She plans on ment at Saint Mary’s would be book of six tickets. Saint Mary’s prices if we can Freshmen : Friday, 2 p.m.-7 p.m. implementing informal recep­ to recruit by word of mouth students will pay $128, two- avoid it, so this tions with groups of students through alumnae, noted thirds of the regular price, and year, we held them at $96.” friends’, provided the buyer and hosting alumnae reunions Eldred. In this year’s incoming each GA will still cost $32. Seniors will begin lining up on shows all four student ID cards. to acquaint students with the freshm en class, 19 percent Jim Fraleigh of the athletics Wednesday at the Joyce Center, Juniors, law students, and networking opportunities were recruited through alum­ department said the decision armed with checkbooks and stu­ graduate students can buy tick­ available within the Saint nae clubs. was not connected with the dent ID cards. Each student can ets on Thursday; sophomores Mary’s community. According to Eldred, contact- increased stadium capacity and purchase four ticket books - and freshmen lining up on T am eager to meet with stu­ Friday. dents and would really love for corresponding high ticket rev­ their own, and three of their see ELDRED / page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, August 26, 1997 ■ Inside Column ■ M ap Playing God Slipping into a S with God Quad Another summer, another slew of changes Dome offices relocate during construction. around campus. Forget the impressive stadium or the addition of women to Golf Quad. And who cares about RecSports or South Dining Hall, both of which will not be fin­ Dan Cichalski ished until long after the Assistant Managing n '9gins Lab, ground thaws. Editor But there is another area of campus into which the University felt ee'afz'on» ^ it needed to throw some money: God Quad. The circle has been repaved; fresh sidewalks radiate from the statue of Jesus, which has a new retaining wall and lots of shrubbery ; and there are fewer trees and more benches. The changes are recent, judging by the bare patches of dirt where the liquid grass has yet to grow, and the quad should look complete by the time NBC — OK, the alumni and fans too — returns to campus September 5. It will surply look better by then. But did God Quad need all these improve­ ments? Sure, the road needed repaving and the benches are a nice touch. But the extra vesfmenf sidewalks and the changes around Jesus look gaudy when compared to the simple mound and flowers that once surrounded it. In making these changes, the University removed several trees and bushes that made God Quad a unique place on this campus — a green, almost wooded area that could seem like a forest far away from South Bend. Especially at night during a snowfall. But the removal of too many trees and the addition of too many sidewalks makes God Quad just another section of campus deprived of the enjoyment of walking through the grass, over the roots of an oak and under the boughs of an evergreen. This University has gone construction- happy. It began in 1995 with the renovation of what is now Bond Hall and will continue to 1999. And the new golf course could be under construction into 2000, depending on when the issues with the Department of Natural Resources are settled. I will have to come back to campus with my own kids to see what Notre Dame can look like without backhoes and cranes. What scares me is all this land that now makes up the nine-hole golf course. With the new links opening across Douglas Road, will the administration be able to keep its hands off that undeveloped land? Somehow I think not. It would be nice if they added more trees and maybe even put in some wood-chipped walking trails. But every­ one will be able to get their exercise trekking to the new bookstore to open south of the Morris Inn on Notre Dame Avenue.