I O B S E R V E R Monday, March 23, 1998 • Vol. XXXI N o .lll THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S SECURITY BEAT Man attacks Regina Hall desk attendant By M. SHANNON RYAN Moyer over the head while holding a Saint Mary’s Security was then me. S a in t M a ry ’s E d ito r ________________ wallet which sent credit cards and called while another Notre Dame stu­ An immediate arrest was allegedly identification spilling onto the floor, dent pinned the assailant to the withheld, in order to medically treat A man charged through the front M cC orm ick ground. Two secu­ the assailant for possible drug abuse. doors of Regina Hall at approximate­ claimed. rity guards arrived “He said he was on acid, and his ly 1:30 a.m. Sunday, screaming Two Notre at the scene and girlfriend said he took drugs,” obscenities before attacking Beverly D am e s tu ­ HEN SECURITY CAME IN, HE handcuffed him. Morales said. Moyer, the front desk attendant. dents quick­ The Saint Joseph Saint Mary’s Public Relations said WAS SCREAMING ‘GlVE ME The man, who allegedly attends ly ste p p e d “W! C ounty S h e riff’s that an investigation is still pending. New York University, was visiting a in after the YOUR GUN, GIVE ME YOUR GUN.’ H e Department was The Saint Joseph County Sheriff’s Saint Mary’s student when he caused a g g r e s s o r called in for assis­ Department could not be reached for y e l l e d , ‘J u s t SHOOT m e, JUST SHOOT an abrasion on Moyer’s face and struck tance after the comment. broke her glasses. Moyer. ME.’” man attempted to Moye’s condition is also unknown, “There was no apparent cause for “A fter he grab a security although witnesses said she claimed this attack,” said Saint Mary’s Public pushed her, g u a r d ’s gun, immediately after the assault to be Relation’s office. “He was allegedly I ran behind M e g h a n M cC o r m ic k according to Saint unharmed. high on acid and marijuana.” the desk [to R e g in a H a l l r e s id e n t M a ry ’s P ublic “It’s terrible that this had to hap­ The man demanded medication and help],” said Relations. pen to one of the sweetest ladies,” yelled about a tumor when he Jaime “When security McCormick said. “I was really scared assaulted Moyer, according to Morales, a Notre Dame student who came in, he was screaming, ‘Give me because I’ve never experienced any­ Meghan McCormick, a Saint Mary’s helped restrain the attacker. “I threw your gun, give me your gun,”’ said thing like this. It was one of the most freshman who witnessed the attack. a shoulder into him and knocked him McCormick, a Regina Hall resident. frightening things I’ve ever seen in He ran behind the desk and hit down.” “He yelled, ‘Just shoot me, just shoot my life.” Students to hold And the winner is ... environmental rally at SDH By HEATHER MACKENZIE Assistant Managing Editor _____________________ T oday at 5 p.m., the Students for Environmental Action will hold a protest against the use of polystyrene cups and plates in the South Dining Hall. The rally is a reaction to the dining hall’s assumption that students are not CONCLUSION overly concerned with environmental issues, according to Chris Lomas, the president of SEA and co-ordinator of the rally. “It seemed to me that they Idining hall officials] did not feel that there was a whole lot of environmental awareness at Notre Dame,” Lomas said. “They think that students hardly recycle. This rally is to show that students do care about the environment." Students returned after spring break and discovered that the next phase of SDH’s renovation had been instituted while they were away: No longer would the students be eating off of reusable The Observer/Monica Garza china while indulging in meals. Instead, S hane Fimbel (left), proudly displays his science project for Notre Dame judge Eric Schear (right) in the annual students must use polystyrene, a rarely Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The fair featured projects of 400 students, in grades 4-12, recycled material that is considered an from public and private schools in Elkhart, Fulton, Marshall and St. Joseph counties. The students gathered in environmental hazard by many earth­ Stepan Center on Saturday, from 1-4 p.m. More than 100 awards were given in the areas of behavior and social sci­ conscious organizations. ences, biochemistry, botany, chemistry, computer sciences, earth and space science, engineering and many others. “Polystyrene is rated number six: That means that it is in the least recyclable category,” Lomas said. "The dining hall indicated to me that they would have Physics professor dies at age 67 had to pay a lot of money to people to get them to take it off of their hands. Observer Staff Report joined the Notre Dame faculty as an worldwide for his expertise.” That’s why they are not recycling." associate professor in 1996 after In addition, Cason said, Biswas Lomas indicated that the dining hall Nripendra Biswas, professor of having been a senior research sci­ mentored many graduate students staff had done a great deal of research physics at the entist at the Max Planck Institute in at Notre Dame, including 14 who before making the decision to switch to University of Munich, Germany. earned doctorates under his advi- polystyrene. If the regular dishes con­ Notre Dame, According to Neal Cason, a pro­ sorship. tinued to be used, he said, the died unexpect­ fessor of physics who came to Notre “He was a popular thesis advisor University would have to by more china edly Monday of Dame in 1996 collaborated with for graduate students,” said Gerald and hire extra workers to wash the a heart attack. Biswas on several research pro­ Jones, chairman of the department dishes, which would have to be trans­ He was 67. jects, Biswas was an experimental of physics. ported to another location because of Biswas was physicist with a strong theoretical Biswas received his bachelor’s the construction. Plastic and paper one of three bent. degree in physics, chemistry and were also considered. Notre Dame “Nripen was responsible for sev­ mathematics from Scottish Church According to Lomas, Dave physicists alive Biswas eral connections between theory College in Calcutta, and his mas­ Prentkowski and Jim Yarborough of in a F e rm ila b and experimental results, and made ter’s and doctoral degrees from the Food Services indicated that plastic group which in 1995 claimed evi­ many major contributions in that University of Calcutta. would have been too costly and that dence to verify the existence of the regard,” Cason said. “Notre Dame He taught introductory laborato­ paper would have allowed some types of “top quark,” the last of the six is recognized internationally for its ries in physics and life sciences for food to seep through or would have quarks predicted to exist by current important research in meson spec­ pre professional and physics stu- sagged in the middle. scientific theory. troscopy, and Nripen was a leading A native of Pakistan, Biswas figure in that work, and was known see PROTEST/ page 4 see BISWAS page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, March 23, 1998 Insid e C olu m n ROTC and V. Outside the Dome . C ompiled from U-Wire reports Billy Madison Friends find Harvard student dead in apparent suicide What do Billy Madison’s 1 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ed in 1985 from San Diego State principal, Jack Nicholson, Students and administrators at the University with a major in political Tom Clancy and the writ­ School of Public Health participated science, Frank Minore earned a J.D. ers on page 8 and 10 in a gathering last night commemo­ degree from the University of San have in common? rating the life of master’s degree can­ Francisco in 1989, graduating with They all have something didate Frank Minore Jr. honors. to teach you about why Concerned friends found Minore Minore, an enthusiastic celebrant of David McMahon is wrong dead in his Boston a p a rtm e n t his Italian heritage, also spent a year about ROTC on Notre Wednesday evening in what Boston at the University of Florence during Dame’s campus. Spencer Stefko police spokesperson Margot Hill has college, and maintained close lies With apologies to Assistant Viewpoint Editor confirmed was an apparent suicide. with his family in Sicily, his brother Billy’s principal, 1 Minore was 35. University Health Services clinical said. would like to start with a modified version of According to Hill, state officials social worker Nadja Gould, represent­ After several years of working as an the critique he gave of one of Billy’s mono­ found four prescription drug vials and ing the support group Life Raft, facili­ associate for the San Francisco law logues to describe just how Mr. McMahon’s a bottle of liquor next to the body. tated the discussion. firm Tobin & Tobin, Minore enrolled article contributed to thought on campus. Minore showed no vital signs upon SPH Acting Dean James Ware said in the SPH’s one-year Law and Public Mr. McMahon, what you just wrote is one of discovery, and was pronounced dead students were also able to share their Health program in 1997.