Activist Will Speak on Military School for Several National and Inl!~Rna Tional Conferencns and Tnchnieal for Its Dosing
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.... ------,_.,.--------------:----------~---- -- - --- ~- Rocking into Tibet Leapin' Leifer Hddie Vedder, Run/JMC and the Beastie Boys Senior Mary Leffers leads the Irish volleyball Tuesday were just some of the artists rocking into the team to a new season and new outlook. night at the Tibetian Freedom Concert. page 24 SEPTEMBER page 15 7, 1999 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 11 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU LocKED Out Kareelil leads civil eng1neenng• • By KATE STEER News Writer Led for four years by interim chairmen, the department of" civil engineering and gnologiGal sd!mc11s named Ahsan Kanwm its pPrma nent chairman. A membM of Notrn lhtme's facul ty since 1990, Kareem is recogniwd as a leading researchnr in probabilistic s t .r u c t u r a I dynamics, fluid structure intnr aetions, structur al safety and the mitigation of nat ural hazards. Kareem specifieally wind. waves and earth- quakes. Kareem said he hopos those qual ifications will help him dnVI~Iop a long-term vision for the dnpart ment. "One of my goals is g!ltting us excited about the work W!J do horn, and also reshaping tho und!~rgradu ate focus," h!~ said. "We're looking at the undergraduate curriculum and h"oping to better pn~pare our JOE STARK /The Observer studnnts for futurn job markPts. ·: While fulfilling his duties as Off-campus senior Tom Weiler is dismayed Monday at having to spend another day with dirty clothes. Many University chairman, Karnem will continue to and College offices, including St. Michael's Laundry, were closed for Labor Day. serve as chid" editor and associate editor for two major international journals. lie also will rntain his ---------=-========================================================:= positions on the editorial boards of five other journals which report wind. wave and earthquake issues. Kareem has served as chairman Activist will speak on military school for several national and inl!~rna tional conferencns and tnchnieal for its dosing. "Father Roy knew thn have ordered thn death of committees. llfJ is the irnnwdiate By JESSICA DANES "Wn think studnnts should [three nuns! killed, and it Archbishop Oscar Romnro; past president of tho American N<·w,Wrir<·r como !war Fatlwr Hoy talk stimulated him to look and three of five Association for Wind Engineering, bneausn thnir tax dollars deeper into the atrocities in Salvadoran military officers which deals with wind-rolal!~d haz "Fa tlw r Hoy Borgnois will are paying for Latin Latin America." said U.N. investigators found ards like hurricanes and tornado1~s. spPak out against thn Anwrican soldinrs to Elizabeth Moriarty, another guilty of the 1980 murders In 1984, Kareern reenivnd th1~ Srhool of opprnss and murdnr their member of Pax Christi. of three American nuns and Presidential Young lnvnstigator Award from the National Science School of l h ow n p n o p I n , " s a i d S lw i I a ·"lie researched another one lay social worker. Anwricas. a McCarthy. a member of incident. the murders of six When the Pentagon Foundation. lie also received tlw the 1997 Engineering Award from thn training No tr!~ Dame's e hap tor of Jesuits priests, their maid admitted in 1996 the School National Hurricane Conference in Americas ramp for Pax Christi, which joins the and her daugh tf1r, and had usnd manuals on the I. a t i n honm: of his contributions to tlw Father Roy Cnnter for Social Concerns found the murderers were use of fear, torture, and Amt>rican to sponsor thn !Wnnt. graduates of the School of truth serum, its confession dnvelopment of saf!~r. more hurri Borgeois, military ofTi Borgeois has spent a total the Americas," Moriarty added to an already grow cane-resistant construction. Hecently lw was IHtmed cnrs spon of four years in fednral pri said. ing movement against th1~ founder. Distinguislwd Alumnus of Colorado son~d by the sions for various nonviolent Established in 1946 in sehool. School of the U.S. govorn protnsts against the School Panama to battle the Cold Rep. Joseph Kennedy State Univ!lrsity for his serviee to Americas mnnt, at 7 of Ameriea's aetivites. llis War, the School of the recently introduced a bill to the field of engineering through p.m. today most recent six month scn Americas moved to Fort dose the training camp. education, publieation. lnadnrship • 7 p.m. in t IH~ tencn nndPd last Benning. Georgia, in 19X4. The founder of the .School and service. • Hesburgh II n s burgh Septnmbnr. Its 60.000 graduates have of the Americas Watch. Kareem received his doetoral degren from Colorado State library Library Borgnois Pntnrnd the earned themsnlves a repu Father Roy Borgeois. will Auditorium. Maryknoll Missionary Ordnr tation for brutality and present "School of the University in 1 97X. lin oanwd his Auditorium As a critic in 1972 aftnr snrving in human rights abuses. Amnricas: School of master's degrno through a joint of U.S. poli Vintnam. !In worknd with Notable alumni include Assassins" at 7 p.m. today program of Massachusntts lnstitutn cy in thrfle Amnriea nuns who Manuel Noriega. a former in the Ilesburgh Library of Technology and University of Hawaii in 1975. C!~nlral America for ynars, wnre murdnrnd in 19XO in Panamanian dictator cur auditorium. BorgPois founded the El Salvador. The U.N. rently serving 40 ynars in Borgeois also will speak Kareem's bachnlor's degnw was S c h o o I o f t lw A m o r i c as charged five Salvadoran prison for drug trafficking; Wednnsday at 7 p.m. at awarded with distinction from the Walch, an organization that military o!Tieers with the Roberto D'Aubisson, a Saint Mary's Little Theater West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology in collncts information on crinw; thrt~n had attended Salvadoran death-squad in Moreau Center for the School artivitios and calls thn School. leader widely thought to Arts. 196X. page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, September 7, 1999 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "There's been many "The current status of "It's important for "I thought it was a other bars with worse SafeRide is that it's members of the Task disaster." Dream. tnakes situations and worse not running and Force to see this. We fights than ours. it's under a don't want Christine Veliky loss harder Compared to those reconstructive effort. " to be naive. " Farley senator on bars. we're the football ticket distribution boy scouts. " Tim Lyden Bille Hoye to bear Student Union Sweatshop Task Force chainnan on the group's If the month before Dec. 25 was not full of Leon Townsend transportation coordinator anticipation, Christmas morning may not invoke Irish Connection owner trip to El Salvador an overwhelming sense of loss after actually opening gifts. If young adults did not work 18 years hoping to get into their college of choice, rejection may not be as hard to take. OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports Anticipation. Expectation. Hope. Dreams. Perhaps these are the real reasons behind the IU fraternity faces charges of sexual assault depression felt by the Notre Dame family after INDIANA UNIVERSITY "All I wanted was an apology house arrest. Saturday's loss to Tracy Guthrie battled nine years and for the members to stand "It was extremely frustrating," to hear the news she received this Guthrie said. "We had a taped con Michigan. up and be responsible men." Sure, each year Notre Laura Rompf summer. fession. I had practiced in the (wit Dame begins a season with After a series of legal delays and ness) box and the day before the the hopes of winning a contradictory rulings by lower Tracy Guthrie trial he gets this plea bargain. lie national championship; courts, the Indiana Supreme Court just had to sit at home; he didn't Copy Editor decided she would tell her story to plantiff in lawsuit against IU have to sacrifice anything." however, this year more chapter of Delta Tau Delta hype was added due to ele- a jury. She said the entire process left ments of tradition. The unanimous July 12 decision her feeling powerless. 1966 ... 1977 ... 1988 ... every Notre Dame fan allows Guthrie to go forward with "I just wanted control over some her lawsuit against the IU chapter married. thing," she said. "I would never knew what logically followed those years. In her first public interview about Wasn't it our destiny to be playing Jan. 1 for the of Delta Tau Delta, and may bring pursue this for moQey. Initially, all changes and set legal precedents the sexual assault and lawsuit, I wanted was an apology and for national title? Guthrie said late Wednesday Or what about the third year of Davie's coach that affect local Delts' members, the members to stand up and be fraternities- nationwide and any evening her goal with the litigation responsible men. If there is any ing era? Holtz. Leahy. Devine. Parseghian. is and has always been to seek jus Who says history doesn't repeat itself? private property owners. financial gain it will go to a rape tice and a public apology for the As I returned from the Michigan State game Guthrie was an 18-year-old crisis fund." actions of Motz and the fraternity. last season, of course there was some sense of freshman when she was sexually Guthrie added that she has noth She filed suit after being dissatis depression. The weekend before had seen a tri assaulted by Joseph Motz during a ing against the greek system.