Arrest Made in Fake Bomb Case

Sweater weather IACCENT: Dorm of the Week Partly sunny and cool today. High 60 to 65. Clear and very cool tonight. Low in the mid to upper 40s. Sunny and warmer I VIEWPOINT: Victim counts her blessings Wednesday. High 70 to 75. VOL. XXII, NO. 1C TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's I Arrest made in Senate fake bomb case slates Associated Press service·s office pending ar raignment later Monday, said election HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -A Jim Ruse, special agent in man carrying what police charge of the Secret Service By FLORENTINE thought was a bomb was ar field office in Detroit. HOELKER rested shortly before a cam Ruse said he did not know News Staff paign appearance Monday by why the man had the device. GOP vice presidential can "We hesitate to speculate un The Student Senate met Mon didate Dan Quayle, police said. til an investigation is com day night in LaFortune Student The device, which looked like plete," Ruse said. Center to discuss the upcoming several sticks of dynamite Another man was taken into special election for a new wrapped in duct tape, turned custody but was released after senator from district 2. out to be fake. police determined he knew The resignation of Mary "It was made up to look like nothing of the incident, Ruse Feliz has forced the Senate to a bomb. It would have fooled said. call a .mandatory meeting for me and anybody else,'' said Jim The suspect was seen at the those interested in running for Huse, special agent in charge South of the Border Bar & Grill office. The meeting will be held of the Secret Service field office near the parade reviewing at 8 p.m. Sept. 7 in the Student in Detroit. stand by someone who saw Government office in LaFor The Secret Service said that what looked like a bomb and tune. District 2 includes shortly before Quayle's arri reported it to police. Siegfried, Knott, Zahm, St. Ed val, a man was arrested near The bomb squad of the ward's, ·Farley, Cavanaugh, the parade reviewing stand Detroit Police Department and Breen-Phillips Halls. when he was seen carrying removed the device, contained The Student Reports to the what appeared to be a bomb in a paper bag, and determined Notre Dame Board of Trustees containing sticks of dynamite. it was a fake, Ruse said. were discussed. The reports deal with co-ed housing, off The device turned out to be a The Observer I John Studebaker campus student transporta fake. The incident forced Quayle to To skip or not to skip The 38-year-old Hamtramck be delayed at Detroit City Air tion, campus parking, and fun man was arrested on charges port, and to miss a scheduled Senior Pangborn resident Liam Canny appears to debate the merits of . ding of student activities. Student Body Vice President of interfering with a Secret Ser walk in Hamtramck's Polish going to class or playing golf as he looks wistfully at the Burke Memorial Mike Paese considers the vice agent and was held at the Day Parade, Ruse said. Golf Course. reports very important and says they are "one of our most vital links to the Administra Student returns to campus after accident tion." The Senate also brought up a By REGIS COCCIA attended classes yesterday. staying in the University sence, she said. Mackett serves relatively new service. A Senior Staff Reporter "I'm doing great, slowly but Health Center. She had been in as campus entertainment com shuttle now runs to Chicago surely learning the hell of hand the hospital since the accident missioner for the Student every weekend for $10. Tickets Lisa Mackett, the student icapped people on this on Wednesday. • Union Board and is active in and more information are who was hit by a car near the campus," Mackett said. "Everybody in Knott Hall both the Center for Social Con available at the LaFortune in JACC last Wednesday, is out of "Physically, I'll be in a cast for was so super. This was the cerns and her dorm. She said formation desk. the hospital and eager to get 10 weeks. Outside of that, I am worst time for me to throw this she was very grateful to those Concern was expressed over back to her responsibilities on happy as a lark. I feel so good on them. Everybody still found who helped cover for her. the fact that of the 10,000 tickets campus. to be back on campus." time to come see me," said Yesterday Mackett met the Notre Dame received for the The Knott Hall sophomore Mackett, 19, sustained a bro Mackett, a government major. driver of the car that hit her. was released from St. Joseph ken right leg and cuts to her Many of Mackett's friends Medical Center on Sunday and face and left hand and is now assumed her duties in her ab- see MACKETT, page 5 see SENATE, page 5 SMC Board opens student input table By JOANNA GRILLO box will be placed on the Input News Staff Table so that students may familiarize themselves with it, The Student Government In added Hill. put Table was granted top bil Also of primary importance ling at the weekly meeting of at this week's meeting were the Saint Mary's Program reminders to students about ming Board. campus events this week. The Input Table will be lo These events include SAB 's cated in the Haggar College first Club Tuesday, which takes Center lobby Friday Sept. 9, place tonight from 8: 30 until 11 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. "Stu p.m. in the Haggar Parlor and dent Government representa features professional singer tives will be on hand to recieve and guitarist Mike Rayburn. any questions and concerns Students are also reminded that students may have," said that SAB is sponsoring a Wel· Lisa Hill, Vice President for come to America picnic for all Student Affairs. foreign Saint Mary's and Notre Hill added that this is a great Dame students Wednesday opportunity to make Student Sept. 7 from 4:30 until 6 p.m. The Observer I John Studebaker Government more visible to on the Haggar Terrace. Amer The great outdoors the students. The Input Table ican is the featured cuisine, in gives Student Government the cluding such delicacies as hot An obedient professor answers the statue's inscrip outside on the "God Quad" near the figure of Jesus. chance to kick off their sugges • tion "Venita ad me omnes" by giving Monday's lecture tion box as well. The suggestion see BOARD, page 5 page 2 The Observer Tuesday, September 6, 1988 INSIDE COLUMN IN BRIEF A car hit senior Greg Rodrigues early Saturday morning, Student ticket problems fracturing three bones in his lower back. Rodrigues was hit as he and some friends tried to cross Eddy Street in South Bend. They were going from Bridget McGuire's stem from poor planning Filling Station to meet a group at The Commons, a bar adjacent to Bridget's. Confined to bed in the infirmary, Problems and controversy have clouded the the Alumni Hall senior said he gets frequent back spasms. recent distribution of football tickets to stu Mike "I feel fine as long as I don't try to move," he said. -The dents. The football season is one of the biggest Observer social events of the year, yet there will be many Moran students that will not sit with the rest of the Mrs. Elizabeth Abeyta-Price, a graduate student student body because of a lack of proper plan • in psychology at Notre Dame has received a doctoral fel ning in ticket distribution. Unfortunately, there lowship award from the Ford Foundation's Doctoral Fel are some students that are confusing the issue, lowship Program for the Minorities. Mrs. Price, a native and are questioning why Saint Mary's students of Espanola, New Mexico, graduated from Notre Dame should get tickets with the Notre Dame Student in 1984. Her research is in the area of adolescent devel Body. opment. The Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Pro First and foremost, it is inexcusable that the gram for Minorities is intended to increase the presence Athletic Department failed to allocate enough of minorities on the nation's college and university tickets for the student body. They should over faculties. -The Observer estimate student demand for tickets with a com The University of Notre Dame will celebrate the fortable margin, and sell any extras after the 25th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Coun students have bought theirs. Although, the cil by holding a major international academic conference ticket office had planned on an increase of 300 during the fall semester of 1990. Professor Timothy season tickets over last year, the simple fact O'Meara, University Provost, has appointed a seven mem that Knott and Siegfried Halls both house over ber faculty commitee to plan the conference. Rev. Richard 200 additional students explain why they fell McBrien, Crowley-O'Brien-Walter Professor of Theology short. and chairman of the Department of Theology, will chair What's even more appalling is the recent at the committee. Other members are Frederick Crosson, titude expressed by many Notre Dame students John Cavanaugh, professor in Humanities for the Pro regarding Saint Mary's students getting tickets grams of Liberal Studies; Catherine LaCugna, associate alongside Notre Dame students. Recently, I've heard remarks like, "Why should Saint Mary's A • • professor of theology; David Leege, professor of govern ~ .

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