1I 1 I VOL. XXIII NO. 45 MONDAY , NOVEMBER 5, 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND settles out-of­ court with victim By KATE MANUEL agreement, made to the South News Writer Bend Tribune on Friday, the agreement between Wang's The University of Notre Dame parents and the University, has entered into an agreement which has admitted no fault or with the family of Zheng-de responsibility in the accident, Wang. a graduate student in­ will not affect the family's abil­ jured last fall in a hit-and-run ity to sue the driver in the hit­ accident while walking along and-run accident. Notre Dame Avenue south of The driver of the car that the Morris Inn. struck Wang is alleged to be a According to the terms of the priest from the Newark, New agreement. the University will Jersey, diocese who was in pay nearly $100,00 in expenses town to view a home football for Wang's family, in exchange game. for his parents signing an St. Joseph County Probate agreement stating that the fam­ .Judge Peter Nemeth approved ily will neither file suit nor take the agreement Friday morning. legal action against the Details of the agreement were University. finalized last Wednesday after Notre Dame will pay $350 per two to three weeks of negotia­ day for seven months, or up to tions, according to another $75,000 total, for Wang's comment made by Reinke to treatment at Healthwin the South Bend Tribune. Rising from the dead The Observer I Macy Hueckel llospital. where he will undergo Court approval of the agree­ intensive therapy for head in­ ment was necessary in order A Carroll Hall res~dent, posing as Dracula, ~as only one of the many attractions at the dorm's annual juries. Wang was moved from not to jeopardize the Medicaid haunted house th1s past weekend. In many Instances, students used this once-a-year tradition for a lit­ the St. .Joseph Medical Center to benefits Wang has been receiv­ tle pre-dance entertainment. llealthwin at the end of last ing since the accident, said week. Philip Faccenda, general coun­ The University will also con­ sel of the University, in the Iraq is ready for a 'dangerous war' tinue to pay $550 per month in same South Bend Tribune arti­ housing for Wang's parents for cle. In a new outburst of called into combat. The prime minister, Yasuhiro seven more months. At present, Court approval was also re­ belligerence. Iraq said Sunday presidents of Egypt and Nakasone, met with Saddam his father, Guo Ton Wang, and quired because Wang's parents it was ready to fight a France expressed hopes that - and said the Iraqi president his mother, Xue Ying Wu, are were acting on behalf of their "dangerous war" rather than economic pressure rather had demonstrated "great living at St. Paul's Retirement son, who still remains impaired ever give up Kuwait. One than military might could earnestness and seriousness" Community, but they may move from his injuries in the acci­ European official warned that force Iraq out of Kuwait. about seeking peace. closer to llealthwin if housing dent. divisions over the hostage Meanwhile, four American ean be found. Wang's health insurance ben­ issue are endangering the ex-hostages were on their way Nakasone's visit, aimed at The final provision of the efits had expired a short time anti-Iraq alliance. home a day after being freed, winning the release of agmement ealls for Notre Dame before the accident without his "Iraq is not going to negoti­ and fifteen Europeans arrived Japanese hostages, comes as to provide a sum of $15,000 for knowing it, according to Dennis ate on Kuwait," Iraq's infor­ in Jordan after being released Japanese lawmakers are the family's return to China. Moore, associate director of mation minister, Latif Jassim, by the Iraqis. They were considering a plan to send The University paid for Wang's Public Relations and told a news conference in among thousands of troops to the gulf to join the parents to fly here from China Information. He said, "He had Baghdad. He insisted Iraq's foreigners were trapped in multinational force arrayed shortly after the accident last had insurance in the two years annexation of Kuwait, which it Iraq and Kuwait when against Saddam. fall. before, then came the tragedy overran three months ago, Saddam Hussein's troops took The troop-deployment pro­ The amount paid by Notre when it would have been would stand. over the emirate Aug. 2. posal has drawn strong criti­ Dame under this agreement important to have it." The first POWs of the Persian cism from those who say it will be in addition to the Wang's accident has directly "We are going to defend our Gulf crisis - three French sol­ would violate Japan's postwar proceeds, which themselves prompted a change in the uni­ 19th province on any diers - had a homecoming of peace constitution, even exceed $100,000, raised by a versity's policy on insurance condition, even if we have to their own in Paris on Sunday, though the troops would be special edition T-shirt sold for coverage for foreign students, fight a dangerous war," he but it wasn't exactly a hero's confined to non-combat roles. the Notre Dame-Miami game. according to Moore. "The way said, referring to Kuwait. welcome. French officials Iraq's official news agency According to comments by the program is administered Iraq also said it was have said the soldiers, who said Nakasone had told Sad­ William Reinke, a lawyer repre­ recalling an unspecified were captured last week, dam it was unlikely senting Notre Dame in the number of retired army might have strayed into Iraqi lawmakers would approve the see ZHENG I page 6 officers to active duty. territory, and that they proposal. Nakasone, speaking Secretary of State .James probably face punishment for to reporters, made no mention Baker visited U.S. troops in their carelessness. of such assurances, but the the Saudi desert earlier The new Iraqi vow to keep report underscored the way Sunday and said it was hard Kuwait at all costs came only the hostages can be used as to say whether they would be hours after a former Japanese leverage. Freshman Writing Program to be reviewed By SARAH VOIGT seven year cycle," Loux said. years. Originally, Freshman News Writer Chris Vanden Bossche, asso­ Seminar was taught by profes­ ciate professor of English and sors from all disciplines. Yet, A recently appointed commit­ chair of the committee, plans to over the last twenty years it has tee of faculty members will examine how the writing skills come to be taught primarily by evaluate the twenty year old and needs of the students have Arts and Letters professors, Freshman Writing Program to changed over twenty years to Vanden Bossche said. determine how effectively its determine whether the curricu­ "Freshman Seminar is not courses meet the needs of stu­ lum needs to be altered. very popular with the students dents from all academic disci­ "Studies have shown that our because they cannot choose plines. students' SAT scores have risen their topics. One suggestion Michael Loux, dean of Arts over the last twenty years. The that the Committee will con­ and Letters, said that the study will try to determine the sider is to make the class more Committee on the Quality of right mix of analytical writing like the Arts and Letters Core Undergraduate Education sug­ instruction and nuts and bolts course with a uniform book gested the formation of this grammar," Vanden Bossche list," said Vanden Bossche. new committee in a report last said. Another negative trend in the May. The new committee's re­ Vanden Bossche added that program's evolution has been port is due to the Provost by the the committee also plans to re­ the decrease in the number of end of the academic year. search whether the freshman full time faculty members "The Freshman Writing Pro­ writing courses are in tune with teaching the course. Vanden current theories of composition. Bossche estimated that full The Observer I Macy Hueckel gram has never been examined Hacker's heaven closely since its inception However, the Freshman professors teach less than 30 Don Spicer, assistant Provost for University computing, cele­ twenty years ago. Other de­ Writing Program has changed brated the opening of computer labs in a computer fair last ni ht. partments are reviewed on a somewhat over the last twenty see FRESHMAN I page 6 Monday, November 5, 1990 page 2 The Observer INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Forecast for noon, Monday, Nov. 5. Media, politics Lines show high temperatures. make sleazy 40 bedfellows Yesterday's high: 48 50 Yesterday's low: 42 By election day, Nation's high: 88 North Carolina's (Tampa, Fla.) Jesse Helms will have Nation's low: -7 spent around $18 (Laramie, Wyo.) million to fight off the challenge for his cov­ Forecast: eted Senate seat. Highs near 45 today with Experts estimate a 100 percent chance of that Helms, and every Monica Vant rain. 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