VOL. XXIII NO. 54 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Cause of laundry fire still unknown By JOHN O'BRIEN out and responsibilities as­ News Writer • Lewis reacts I page 6 signed," he said. The Earth Science portion of University officials and fire • Reimbursements/ page 6 Brownson Hall sustained minor department investigators spent the Laundry and the dry clean­ damage, including broken win­ much of Thursday assessing ing "escaped in relatively fair dows and some "water damage "1934 Section"­ the damage and preparing a shape. All our records and our to their computer room but as Heart of the laundry response to the fire which gut­ computer in the office appear far as we know it was not ex­ operation; sustained C/J CD ted St. Michael's Laundry early to be, at this time, salvage­ tensive," Mason said. the worst damage (J Thursday morning. able." "With the· way the wind was c: ~.l__J...l CD Vice President for Business The laundry is one of the few blowing, we could have lost a .... ·u en DJ Affairs Thomas Mason said buildings on the Notre Dame number of buildings," Mason .r:: 0 that it would be some time until t: :e campus that did not have a fire· said. !1:1 ;:, the cause of the fire could be Malloy praised the work of w alarm, said Rex Rakow, direc­ -... 8 determined. tor of Security, in an interview firefighters who battled the ._ ;:, "We have to get the roof out with the South Bend Tribune. blaze. "There was a time where !1:1 :X: ~ ~ of there before the investiga­ University President Father we were at serious risk of los­ c: tors can go in," Mason said. Edward Malloy, who cancelled ing a couple of other buildings. !1:1 E While there is no damage es­ a speaking engagement at the They did a great job of contain­ .r:: timate yet, Mason said that the Air Force Academy, said "We ing it and controlling it." C/J 'it. ~ middle portion of the building, are so happy that there was no "The loss of the Laundry is a ,...___ __ LL called the "1934 section," is injury or loss of life." bad situation, but when you "gone." The roof to this section Malloy met on Thursday look at the potential of what collapsed in a rush of flames at afternoon with the officers of could have happened, we have a 3 a.m. Thursday morning. the University and administra­ lot to be thankful for," Mason Mason said. however. that the tors whose departments were said. 69cRy5Y~ end sections of the building, involved in the fire. "All of the which contained the offices of immediate steps have been laid see FIRE I page 5 Source: Thomas Mason, vice president for Business Affairs The Observer I Sean Donnelly ND computing launches major networking program By SARAH VOIGT News Writer -o University The Office of University Com­ ,1 Computing puting has just launched some Improvement Project of its most exciting and inno­ vative projects as the University progresses into a more ad­ linked them into the National vanced phase of its campaign Science Foundation [NSF] net­ to improve the computing sys­ work," he said. tem on campus. Wruck explained that this de­ For example, by the middle of velopment allowed researchers next semester the Office of Uni­ to gain access to the large versity Computing will have ex­ store of information in the NSF tended a fiber backbone net­ supercomputer. work to link all the principle This summer a fiber-based acauemic and administrative network was put in place that buildings on campus. linked together computers in James Wruck, director of the Administration Building, systems and networking ser­ the Hesburgh Library and vices, coordinates the network­ Nieuwland Science Hall, said ing project. "About a year and Wruck. a half to two years ago we put This expanded networking in a backbone network that system has allowed the Univer- linked the engineering, science and biology buildings and also see COMPUTE I page 7 Six Jesuit priests killed in San Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador America. "For example, they (AP) - Armed men killed and (the troops) took out their mutilated six Jesuit priests, brains." their housekeeper and her Roman Catholic Archbishop daughter Thursday after Arturo Rivera Damas com­ bursting into their house at a pared the killings to the slaying leading university. A priest of his predecessor, Oscar Ar­ quoted witnesses as saying nulfo Romero. That 1980 as­ government forces were in­ sassination marked the begin­ volved. ning of years of killings and The government denied re­ kidnappings by right-wing sponsibility, condemned the death squads. slayings as "savage and irra­ "If this spiral of violence con­ tional" and said an investiga­ tinues, death and destruction tion was under way. will sweep away many, espe­ The U.S. National Council of cially those who are of most Churches also denounced the use to our people," said Rivera slayings, and the U.S. ambas­ Damas after leading a prayer sador said the slayings would over the mutilated bodies. have a "negative impact" on The slayings came on the President Alfredo Cristiani's sixth day of fierce combat rightist government. around this capital following Two witnesses said about 30 an attack by leftist Farabundo uniformed police or army sol­ Marti National Liberation The Observer/Kevin Weise diers entered the campus be­ Front (FMLN) guerrillas. A farewell to fall fore dawn and killed the eight The dead included Ignacio "with lavish barbarity," said Ellacuria, rector of Jose The Grotto, in the final days of fall, awaits the blanket of snow that would hit Thursday. The South Bend the Rev. Jose Maria Tojeira, the area received five to seven inches of snow in the storm. Jesuit order leader for Central see SLAYINGS I page 7 page 2 The Observer Friday, November 17, 1989 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Don't abandon Forecast for noon, Friday, November 17. Lines show high temperatures. problems after 30 40 the hype ends I pass that table on the way out of the 60 Yesterday's high: 30 dining hall everyday. Christine Gill Yesterday's low: 28 Often there are people Nation's high: 92 there; they are selling Saint Mary's Editor (McAllen, Texas and things or trying to Fallsbrook, Calif.) sign you up for Nation's low: -6 something; T -shirts, (Bismarck, N.D.) blood drive, Chicago trip, "Fast for a Forecast: World Harvest." Cloudy and colder today I walk past with a with a 60 percent chance glance and continue of afternoon snow. Highs on with my day. Wait from the middle to upper a minute. Fast - what is this? Actually, 20s. Cloudy and contin­ what was this. ued cold tonight with a 60 Yesterday, the Saint Mary's community percent chance of light participated in Oxfam's "Fast for a World ©1989 Accu-Weather, Inc. snow ending around Harvest." This is a nationwide day of fast, Pressure midnight. Lows in the to show support and raise money and IXiC1 lower 20s. Partly sunny awareness for people who have little or no ®© ~ ~ HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY and cold Saturday. Highs food. in the upper 20s. How did I walk past with hardly a glance all those days? I paid attention four years ago when Bob Geldof brought "Live-Aid" to the forefront WORLD of the hunger fighting campaign. Deborah Fahrend, an American A Siberian gas pipeline explosion caused by a journalist, and two West German sharp drop in temperature destroyed 2 1/2 miles of pipe, I was one of the many people who gave up a day for "Hands Across America." friends were reported safe Thursday, the Tass news agency said Thursday. There were no in­ the day after a previously unknown What has happened to my h1,.1manitarian juries in the blast, which occurred Tuesday night near the spirit? group claimed to have kidnapped them Siberian city of Norilsk, 1,600 miles northeast of Moscow, in Beirut. Police said they had not been Trying to figure out what happened, I Tass said. Repair teams have been flown to the blast site, abducted. A statement Wednesday but cold weather was hampering efforts to fix the came to the conclusion that the American claimed a group called The Organiza­ public has been under a barrage of "causes" pipeline, Tass said. In June, a gas pipeline leaked and ex­ in the last few years. tion of Just Revenge kidnapped the ploded in the Ural Mountains as two pa~senger trains three "because of their activities in were passing. More than 600 people were ktlled. First, there was the famine in Ethiopia. Lebanon." A police spokesman said Then, human rights and homelessness. the case "involved a robbery report." Now, we have the Amazon rain forests and environmental destruction. I do not mean to say that there is anything NATIONAL wrong with the efforts different or­ Thousands of residents strolled along the newly The notion that teenagers who read or hear ganizations have made on behalf of various intact San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Thursday, about teen suicides will be more likely to kill themselves causes. saluting the workers who got it back in shape just a appears to be untrue, says a study published in today's The American public has been made month after the earthquake. Repaired at a cost of about Journal of the American Medical Association. Teenagers aware of atrocities that are occurring in the $2.5 million, the bridge's reopening ceremony featured who committed suicide were found to have had lives dis­ world and the time and money it has con­ Tony Bennett singing his trademark "I Left My Heart In rupted by frequent changes in schools, residences, and tributed have helped.