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The O bserver VOL. XXV. NO.68 * WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Publication to help sell books & ' II 11,1 JKA By DANA ANDERSON News writer t y . Notre Dame junior Pete Morrill has come up with an alternative way for students to f " " ......... purchase or sell their books! He has devised a .................. m m student run publication that will put book % % * " ...... *•S.X .. buyers in touch with book sellers. * * - J « « * / -1 .1 - This catalog, which will be called the SOURCE, will come out the first day of the second semester. It will list by course and professor all the students who have books to fA ^ i t sell for that class, according to Morrill. This listing is similar to the way that DART lists classes. The books, however, will not be listed by title based on the premise that professors teaching the same course in succes sive semesters will be using the same books. The SOURCE will be distributed to every dorm room on campus, even if students did not place a book for sale in the catalog, according to Morrill. To get their names listed as sellers, students need only to fill out they flyer they received in the mail and return it with $2 per listing to Morrill. Morrill said, “ 1 got this idea after being fed up with the high price I was being forced to pay for my books. I thought there would have to be another option for buying and even selling books. I started brainstorming about we do with our old books here on campus. No matter The Observer/Marguerite Schropp what a student does, he rarely gets his original money back that he spent on a book.” Christmas 1992 After contacting the Student Activities office, All throughout the campus, lights and decorations have been placed to show some Christmas cheer. These trees near St. see BOOKS/ page 4 Edward’s Hall and the Administration are shining bright every night, reminding students that Christmas is near. American forces land in Somalia, greeted by pressGlee Club to MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — porters as the commandos, no major confrontations with arrival. Mobbed by media rather than faces smeared with black and Mogadishu’s thousands of The first troops appeared at hold concert militiamen, American soldiers green camouflage cream, armed young militiamen, the 12:50 a.m. local time. Marine began landing by full moon marched through sand dunes to Americans were taking no Lt. Kirk Coker told reporters at early Wednesday to begin an the lone runway of the airport. chances in a full-scale land and the airport that the main force Saturday armed mission of mercy to feed The Navy SEAL commandos sea operation. would start coming ashore by Special to The Observer Somalia's starving millions. Not were part of a reconnaissance They were under orders to 4:30 a.m. a shot was fired as the troops mission by U.S. special forces defend themselves in this The 1,800-member advance The Notre Dame Glee Club moved swiftly to seize for_a2anding^2^802_Marines^ chaotic land, and commanders team of America’s Operation will perform its annual Christ mas Concert Saturday at 8:15 Mogadishu airport. ■ Somalia / page 12, 13 made it clear they would shoot Restore Hope included a three- As reporters watched, the first first if threatened and ask ship amphibious assault unit led p.m. in the Joyce Athletic Con- group of six Navy frogmen came The Marines will take control questions later. by the USS Tripoli, backed by a vocational Center (JACC). out of the sea outside a broken, of the airport and harbor area But the troops didn’t know Navy battle group led by the The all-male chorus will per form traditional Christmas mu shattered city ruled by the gun in the first step of a plan to whether they ultimately would aircraft carrier USS Ranger sic, including the Sussex and be fighting or feeding Somalis. with 60 warplanes. and reeking of decomposed seize vital gateways for interna Coventry carols, renaissance bodies. tional aid and get food, And they didn’t know how long Scores of clansmen departed carols and the club’s renditions Then three rubber boats came medicine and other supplies they would stay. The Bush ad the airport with their heavy of “Sleigh Ride," “Jingle Bells” ashore, and about two dozen moving to those Somalis who ministration has spoken of weapons well before the U.S. and comical harmonies from a troops, armed with automatic need it most. ending the operation by Jan. 20, arrival. They were leaving be select quartet. rifles, anti-tank missiles and More than 300,000 Somalis but many expect it to extend hind a cash cow Jhey had Santa Claus will make his an machine guns, hopped off and already have died in one of months into President Clinton’s milked for months through ex nual appearance, and the audi walked across the beach into history’s most savage famines term. orbitant demands for landing ence will participate in certain the glare of television lights. and the United Nations says 2 Marine Maj. Frank Libutti, and cargo handling fees. familiar carols. The only sounds were the million more are at risk of star briefing reporters Tuesday, had Both the port and airport have Tickets for the concert are $2 waves, the jangle of gear, and vation. said newsmen were free to be been closed sporadically by clan and are available at the LaFor- questions fired by 50 to 75 re Although they had expected at the airport to cover the tune Student Center informa see SOMALIA/ page 4 tion desk, the JACC ticket office and the Morris Civic Box Office. A portion of the admission pro Air shaft drilled Kirk: RA selection process ceeds will benefit the South Bend Homeless Center. The concert was moved this for trapped miners is extremely important year to the JACC due to the By KENYA JOHNSON The position of an RA is held event’s popularity and will ac NORTON, Va. (AP) - Mine The effort to drill the vertical in high regards, he said. commodate an audience of up air shaft began after searchers News Writer safety officials began drilling “There’s a strong interest in to 10,000 people. In past years, an air shaft Tuesday toward retreated from the mine. They The extensive resident assis the positions,” explained Kirk. the concert was held in Stepan an area where eight coal had detected smoke, heat and tant (RA) selection process is “It’s nice to see so many people Center, and many were turned miners were believed trapped, dangerous levels of explosive one of extreme importance, ac wanting to be positive role away from the packed facility. and planned to lower a and suffocating methane gas cording to William Kirk, assis models for other students.” The ND Glee Club is currently camera to search for signs of about 300 feet from the cham tant vice president for Resi Sometimes, although rare, in its 77th season, with 65 stu life. ber where the miners were dence Life. there is a problem with there dent members from all fields of not being enough candidates in Rescue workers have had no working. “Notre Dame tries to stress see CONCERT/ page 4 contact with the men, who in Drilling the narrow shaft the strong sense of residential- one hall. When this situation cluded a pair of brothers, but down 1,000 feet could take at ity,” said Kirk. “We need the arises there are usually plenty relatives kept up a vigil at the least 18 hours before a camera best candidates, which will of other qualified students who Good luck mine. could be lowered. promote this residentiality, for applied in their own dorm and did not receive the position, but “I’m one of those that still “We will try to look around the positions.” on finals Key qualifications for RA can are willing to move in order to has hope," said Michael Gen and see what we can see. We didates include prior hall activi provide the service, according try, 17, nephew of trapped will check for smoke or how This is the final issue of the ties, involvement in liturgy or a to Kirk. Pangborn experienced semester. The Observer will miner Danny Ray Gentry. “The the visibility in the mine is.’’ this problem last year with the strong sense of faith, ability to resume publication on Jan. family is waiting, hoping they said Benny Wampler, assistant work well with authority, and switch from a male to a female 13,1992. Have a relaxing find the bodies. They don’t be director at the Virginia most importantly, the ability to dorm. vacation and a Merry lieve they’re alive." handle tough dorm situations, said Kirk. see KIRK / page 4 Christmas. page 2 The Observer Wednesday, December 9,1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST Cloudy and warmer I nnnnrnin kink tnm nnrnti ira Trvnoo {nr tk a JdW Christmas: today with a 30 percent chance of afternoon rain. Highs in upper 30s. Cloudy Give for the and cool tomorrow with a 100 percent sake of giving chance of snow. TEMPERATURES To some degree or another, there is a C ity H L Anchorage 22 12 feeling that is present Atlanta 43 32 in everyone’s mind Bogota 55 46 Cairo 68 66 during this time of Chicago 28 25 year. This feeling is w Cleveland 31 28 Dallas 47 42 the Christmas spirit Detroit 33 30 w hich, for many, is Indianapolis 31 29 Mike Hobbs Jerusalem 59 48 represented by the act Advertising Manger London 48 45 of giving.