Dual Careers Subject of Foreign Service Talk ND Dining Halls Cited For

----------·--------------------~------------------------------------------------------------------~------------------------------------------· VOL. XXIII NO. 20 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Dual careers subject of foreign service talk service since 1965, spending By PETER LOFTUS most of that time in embassies Staff Reporter of Middle East countries. Mrs. Ransom, executive assis In a joint lecture Thursday tant to the counselor for the entitled "Making the Dual Ca U.S. Information Agency, has reer Family Work: Perspectives also been in the foreign service from the Foreign Service," for over twenty years in the married foreign service officers same stations as her husband. David and Marjorie Ransom Both speak fluent Arabic. addressed such topics as the A major point of the lecture • Ransoms speak about was the situations that the Ransoms had to deal with in foreign service I page 7 the Middle East. The couple struggle of an American family often had to entertain diplo in a foreign nation, the role of mats from the Arabic nations. women in the foreign service, "It was always a challenge," and the improvement of inter Mrs. Ransom said, "to figure national relations over the past out what you could do to cross forty years. the cultural barriers." The Hansoms have been in The couple also had to raise foreign service for over twenty three daughters while in the years. Mr. Ransom, director of Middle East. Mrs. Ransom said The Observer/Suzy Hernandez the U.S. State Department's Of that the children had difficult SunsetSilhoutte lice of Arabian Peninsula Af The Church of Our Lady Loretto rises above the fall foliage and setting sun in this photograph taken fairs, has been in the foreign see RANSOM I page 7 from atop McCandless Hall, Saint Mary's. ND dining halls cited for numerous health code violations By SARA MARLEY never received notice from (St. a greater potential dining halls were cited for one Dining Hall report stated, News Editor Joseph County Health Officer) "contribution to food-borne ill five-point violation which "Rodent activity in food storage Dr. Plain," said Director of ness," according to Plain. reads, "Toxic items properly area." The latest sanitation inspec University Food Services The violations regarding the stored, labeled and used. Only "We dealt with that this tions done by the St. Joseph William Hickey. storage of toxic items and ro necessary toxic items on hand." summer," McCauslin said. The County Health Department on "I don't think this report dent activity were also noted in A comment on the report University contracted with a North and South Dining Halls (from May) reflects adequately Carter's inspection of North made in North Dining Hall said, new pest control company. show a 20-point decline in on University Food Services. I Dining Hall on Oct. 13, 1988. "Properly store insecticides "With the students gone it scores over the last two years. think Mr. Hickey has come That inspection yielded a score (not with cleaning supplies)." was a golden opportunity to do The dining halls were in great distances in the past few of 90. "That is a real technical area. a very intensive job, which will spected on May 2, 1989, by years," said Michael McCauslin, On April 15, 1988, North It is unfortunate that in South include follow-ups. If the prob Emma Carter and Hex Emrick. environmental health and Dining Hall scored 99 with one Dining Hall and in North Dining lems continue, they can attack South Dining Hall scored 74 safety specialist and industrial violation. On Jan. 15, 1988, its Hall even with the remodeling again over winter break," said out of a possible 100 points hygienist with the University's score was 97 with three viola there is a shortage of storage McCauslin, formerly a health and was cited for 15 violations Risk Management department. tions; 98 on July 22, 1987, with space. Both are technically department inspector in Michi out of 44. North Dining Hall 'There weren't any violations one violation; 81 on April 29, chemicals, but they must be gan. scored 73 and with 16 viola directly relating to the quality, 1987, with 11 violations and 90 kept separate from one an "Especially in South Dining tions noted. wholesomeness or condition of on Jan. 20, 1987, with three vi other," said McCauslin. Hall, the tunnels are a great Both dining halls were cited food," McCauslin said. olations. A four-point violation was breeding ground for rodents. for two major violations involv The 2-hour inspections are In a 1988 inspection, South also noted on each of the re It's the way the building was ing the storage of toxic items completed on standard inspec Dining Hall scored 94 with four ports. This violation states, designed before there were uni and rodent activity. tion forms. Each of the 44 vio violations. On July 22, 1987, it "No evidence of insects or ro form health codes for food "None of our facilities have lations carries a weight from scored 94 with four violations dents present and outer open establishments." ever been put on any type of no one to live which are then de and on Jan. 12, 1987, 97 points ing adequately protected. No Structural planning problems tice. We do our own internal ducted from 100. with two violations. other animals present." sanitation checks. We have Violations weighted five have In the May inspection both A comment on the North see REPORT I page 5 USAir pilot cannot explain crash Hurricane Hugo strikes Associated Press South Carolina Thursday Crash of USAir Flight 5050 Associated Press winds were reported in NEW YORK-I\ USAir pilot Charleston. The roof cracked told the control tower he was CHARLESTON, S.C.- at City Hall, a 188-year-old aborting takeoff moments be Hurricane Hugo struck brick building that has fore his jetliner slid into the South Carolina with renewed withstood several hurri East River, killing two passen 0 fury Thursday after thou canes, and torrents of water gers, but did not say what the sands of coastal residents in poured into the paneled problem was, officials said Q southeastern states grabbed council chamber. Phone and Thursday. what they could carry and electric service to the com "There was no indication of fled inland on jammed high mand post was knocked out. why he was aborting," said ways. No injuries were immedi Federal Aviation Administra "This is a disaster staring ately reported. tion spokesman Fred Farrar. us right in the eye," Mayor Hurricane-force winds "Until we know why the guy Joseph P. Riley Jr. said from first hit the coast by 9:15 aborted the takeoff, we have no his City Hall command post p.m. EDT, and about three way of knowing the cause of in Charleston, where the hours later the eye of the the accident." hurricane downed power and storm passed over the Isle of Survivors clung to the wings telephone lines, snapped Palms just east of of the broken aircraft or trees and caused utility Charleston, said Bob Sheets, grasped floating timbers after transformers to explode. director of the National the Boeing 737-400 slid into "All we can do now is pray Hurricane Center in Coral Bowery Bay off LaGuardia Air and hope all the precautions Gables, Fla. port at 11:29 p.m. Wednesday. we have taken have been The eye was about 10 miles Two women were killed, but 59 sufficient," Riley said as across and top winds were people including crew members Hugo's eye bore in on the still at 135 mph. Hugo was survived. city. "I just hope and pray expected to turn gradually to The jet's flight data and we can get through this the north, causing severe without any loss of life." flooding as it moved up the see CRASH I page 8 8/JMd on preliminary mports; locations approximate By midnight, 119 mph East Coast. -----------------------------------------------~ --~ ~---------- page 2 The Observer Friday, September 22, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Campus attacks can lead to Fearing for her life, Colombian Justice Minister Monica de Greiff resigned Thursday in Bogota, less than a month after sign racial paranoia ing an extradition order that brought alleged drug money laun derer Eduardo Martinez Romero to Atlanta to face U.S. charges. Last weekend, a group of us were walking DeGreifT. who reportedly left her 3-year-old son in the United across campus around 2 a.m. I expressed my 'The way we should States because he was also threatened with death, held the pos relief that I wasn't walking home alone in light tion for less than three months. of all the recent attacks on campus. think about this "You're right," someone replied, "You situation is predator wouldn't want some group of black guys to at against victim, not NATIONAL BRIEFS tack you." It wasn't the first time I heard some one say that in reference to our recent crime black against white.' wave. As the number of assaults reported on and off Robyn Simmons Democratic leaders of Congress rained on President Bush's campus increases, a lot of students are dwelling Assistant Accent Editor education summit parade Wednesday by announcing ambitious - on the race of the attackers. No one refers to and probably costly - goals for America's schools.The these assailants as "crazy kids," "perverts," or Demoerats assembled at a showcase school in a Washington sub even "townies"- the definition of choice seems people in that description. Everyone will be so urb to unveil six "National Goals for Educational Excellence," in to be limited to one race of people.

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