Salvadoran Earthquake Victims Are Being Denied

~------~--~~-----------.----------------.----------------------------------------------------,U: c (J' L- I 'C ; -- ,- ., VOL. XXIII NO. 36 MONDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Police punished for handling of assault Special to The Observer professional manner. Two St. Joseph County police The victim claimed he called officers were suspended with the police department, but the out pay Thursday for their roles responding officers were in investigating the Oct. 7 off unwilling to file a report on the campus attack and armed incident or call an ambulance. robbery of a Notre Dame stu dent. The Notre Dame student said Cpl. Daniel Wisniewski was he was assaulted with a metal suspended for 15 days and Cpl. pipe and struggled with the as Donald Gruler for five days for sailant, after which the as "-conduct unbecoming an offi sailant ripped off the victim's cer." pocket and took his wallet. Sheriff Joseph F. Nagy said in The victim reported $38, a press release issued Thursday identification and credit cards that the suspensions are missing. retroactive to Tuesday. The victim was later taken to The Observer/Macy Hueckel Nagy said the suspensions St. Joseph's Hospital and re Highstepping were based on the officers' ceived 16 stitches on the top of Members of the Irish Guard march past Washington Hall Saturday morning before the game. Their audi failure to assist the victim in a his head. ence stretched from the theater to the stadium. Salvadoran earthquake victims are being denied aid By COLLEEN GANNON Victims of El Salvador ipal police took more than half gave them permission to do "We find ourselves again with News Writer (UNADES) was formed. of the supplies that they had this, the families said, nothing as we began," she said, Ramirez serves as the received from humanitarian "Necessity gave us permission." "But this time at least we have The poor families of El Sal Treasurer and Executive organizations. "The govern The repression has also been experience." Now, UNADES vador have not received any of Committee member of ment that we were hoping to severe, she said. "Because of continues forward and are now the international aid sent to re UNADES. a Salvadoran human receive supplies from sent peo our successes, the government looking for new support, said lieve earthquake victims be rights organization. ple to come and take the sup and armed forces gained a cer Ramirez. cause of the Salvadoran gov Because threats of removal plies away from us," she said. tain amount of respect, a little ernment's intervention, said remained constant, many poor bit of fear, and some hate for Ramirez' lecture titled Lucia Ramirez, a representative Salvadoran families decided to "This is one example of how us," Ramirez said. "Democracy Beyond the Ballots: of the urban poor of El Sal join together and look for va one community was formed, a Campaign for Democracy vador. cant lots. Eventually Ramirez but many of the other commu On July 18, 1989, the police through Community Self After the earthquake of Octo and 39 other families found a nities were formed in the same ransacked UNADES' office and Development in El Salvador," ber 10, 1986, many Salvado lot in front of the presidential way, facing the same obsta took everything, including was part of her one month tour rans found themselves in the theater in one of the wealthiest cles," Ramirez said. "And we Ramirez and fourteen others. of the United States. Ramirez street because their low income communities. On the fifth of never received any of the inter "We were there for 72 hours hopes to raise funds for a Vo housing had been destroyed. September 198 7, 40 families national humanitarian aid." without sleeping, without eat cational Community School to Although aid arrived from other arrived on the lot and named Ramirez said she noticed that ing, or without drinking a drop empower poor communities in countries, Ramirez said, the the community "Fifth of each of the communities had a of water, with continuous beat El Salvador and other self-de poor did not see any of it. September, #1." need for basic necessities such ings and tortures," Ramirez velopment projects of UNADES. "We began to unite and or as drinkable water, electricity, said. She also hopes to generate ganize ourselves and form However, elements of the and sanitary services. After the "They repress us because we active U.S. support for a committees representing com armed forces quickly arrived at national water company and say we have a lot of needs, and negotiated solution to the war munities of homeless families," the lot. "Through the press, we city government refused to help we are hungry," she said. in El Salvador. she sard. "Even with these asked for support from inter them, the community took the Due to international pressure, A worker on a North Ameri committees representing us, we national and national organiza initiative to connect water pipes the government returned most can campaign in support of were not able to get any of the tions that we be allowed to stay to the city's water system. of the supplies they had taken UNADES translated Ramirez' aid." on that piece of land," Ramirez As they were digging from the office. However, they lecture. The Center for Social On January 18, 1987, the said. trenches, the armed forces ar returned to the office on Concerns and the local branch central committee of the Although they were allowed rived and began asking ques November thirteen and re of the Pledge of Resistance National Union of Earthquake to remain on the lot, the munic- tions. When they asked who mained there for five months. sponsored the lecture. More students choosing to reside off-campus By KATE MANUEL News Writer OFF-CAMPUS The number of Notre Dame HOUSING students living off-campus has increased in the 1990-91 school FIRST OF A THREE year, with the largest increase PART SERIES taking place among senior fe males, according to figures re not due to an unavailability of leased by the Office of Student on-campus housing, according Residences. to Evelyn Reinebold, the direc tor of Student Residences. The total number of off campus students for the 1990- While there are waitiu'.! lists 91 school year is 1157; 515 of for on-campus housing. •hese these are senior males and 129 lists are comprised of tra.nsft:r are senior females. students, students who got stuck in leases, and students 1085 undergraduate students who are returning from foreign lived ofT-campus in the 1989-90 study programs conducted school-year, according to these through other universities. Nor same figures. Of this total, 512 are these waiting lists unman The Observer!Macy Hueckel were senior males and only 82 ageable, according to Students rap were senior females. Reine bold. N~ stud~nt group M.C. Bones performs some "stone cold rhyming" at the annual Sorin Talent Show on This rise in the number of Fnday n1ght. students living off-campus is see HOUSING I page 7 page 2 The Observer Monday, October 15, 1990 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Forecast for noon, MONDAY, Oct. 15. NO-Miami '88: Lines show high temperatures. sti II exciting after two years They said that even the weather was in their favor. Brent Musburger and Pat Hayden had given the game to Miami before anyone came out of the tunnel. But wflen it was over. they Michael Muldoon called it the Game of Art Director the Century. It was two years ago today. October 15, 1988, that Notre FRONTS: Dame defeated the number-one Miami Hur •• • ricanes in what is colloquially known as The • • Game of the Century. It seemed like everyone COLD• • WARM STATIONARY on this campus was among the 59,075 in Pressure the stadium. At least, that's how it looked ®© on television. HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T·STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Now, I never watched much Notre Dame football before I came here. I knew about 58-7 and 24-0, thanks to my wonder-alum dad. When I rooted for Miami in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl-cool uniforms, man-Dad nearly threw me out of the house. The week before The Game, there was no OF INTEREST way that I could get as jacked up as my fel low students. In my infinitely freshman Oversees Development Network has a Call for Auditions foi- Tom Stoppard's naivete, I flew home Friday. Telling my Meeting tonight, Monday. at 6:00 pm in the C.S.C. We will "Rosencrantz and Guildstern are Dead" will be held roommates, "We're gonna lose anyway." I be discussing our activities for the rest of the fall. Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 17-18 at 7 p.m. in the Old sold my game ticket for $30 and took off. including tutoring Central American refugees. Please Band Room in the Basement of Washington Hall. Anyone Miami was untouchable. They were Na come. who cannot make these nights should contact Gerry Smith tional Champions, and just too good. But I at 232-7269. saw something happen on TV that day. Tony Rice scampered into the end zone, 7-0. Pat Terrell flew down the sideline on an in terception return, 21-7. WORLD Later. right after Brent said, "Wouldn't it be something if it came down to the two Police have rounded up Chancellor Helmut Kohl's party strengthened its point conversion?" I saw Andre Brown, all dozens of Moslem extremists and for dominant national position Sunday with a near sweep in by himself in a corner of the end zone, catch eigners suspected of involvement in the elections across former East German territory in Berlin.

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