On-Campus Life: Is the Price Right? Senate Focuses on Old Business
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-~~------ Thursday, September 4, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No.9 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY' he cost of • SECURITY BEAT 'room and T board' at Notre Dame is the Police: Three same for each stu dent, regardless of the different ameni men abducted ties present in each dorm. Pictured Below: ND freshman The flat rate buys many Morrissey res idents the right to a By HEATHER COCKS small room that can News Editor fit a couch - at the expense of floor A Notre Dame student was abducted space. Tuesday night when three men allegedly Pictured Left: Some forced her into a car near Hesburgh Farley Hall resi Library, according to Notre Dame dents have enough Security/Police. space to create a The female student, a freshman, was mini-living room. walking along St. Joseph Drive at approx imately 9 p.m. The street runs toward Douglas Road from Decio Hall, passing the library and North Dining Hall. She told police that a male voice called her name from a nearby vehicle. As she On-campus life: approached, one occupant got out and pulled her inside the car, according to director of Security Rex Rakow. "We don't know what went on while Is the price right? she was inside the car," he said. "We're in the process of interviewing her fur ND rooms have the same price ther." A short time later, the occupants released the student on the south side of tag, even if they're worlds apart campus. Rakow said police have not established the length of time she was By MICHELLE KRUPA fees for room and board: held in the car. Associate News Editor $2,480 to $2,530 per semester. Police are searching for three suspects "The only changeable part of Some dorm residents sweat the rate has to do with the uncomfortably during the local telephone charges," said warm weeks of school while Jennifer Gooley, undergradu others enjoy the comfort of air ate housing clerk. "The fees conditioning. are different if there are one, Some have to trek across two or four people in the room campus to do their laundry who will use the phone." while others simply walk to Aside from that minimal their dorms' facilities. Some fluctuation, all on-campus stu have meetings in huge social dents are billed the same ~;~'.·-. / areas, others in dark, dingy amount, but receive different e Student was walking along St. basements. ~v· Joseph Drive when she was allegedly if But all pay nearly the same see DORMS/ page 4 forced into the vehicle • • STUDENT SENATE • TECHNOLOGY BEAT } Senate focuses on Grant guarantees fast networks old business, duties ND Internet will become more By DEREK BETCHER However, neither Hambright Associate News Editor nor student government lead efficient in future ers anticipate any problems. Student Senate opened the "Right now Lee is our assis By LAURA PETELLE fall semester slowly by review tant controller and he's going News Writer ing duties, procedures and old to be our controller until you business in last night's meet guys tell us he can't be," stu The National Science ing. dent body president Matt Foundation (NSF) recently "We've got Griffin told the senate. awarded Notre Dame a an ambi The issue is clouded by $350,000 grant for the further tious group uncertainty of whether the development of the University's of people," senate should have voted to Internet capabilities. senate confirm Hambright last spring. The grants were awarded to chairman "The first thing we need to 35 major research universities, including Notre Dame, to con The new Notre Dame Internet connection: Erek Nass do is decide who is going to NO's new DS-3 cable willtransmit44.5 Mbps. said after interpret the constitution and nect to the NSF's Very High 38.5 Mbps will be dedicated to ND research the meeting. Nass decide what it means. This Performance Backbone "It's good probably won't be an isolated Network Service (vBNS) and efforts and 6 Mbps to the "commodity" that these details come up incident," Alumni senator Bob brings the country another Internet, or the Internet services used by the now." Chapski said. small step clo·ser to Internet2, a average consumer. newer, higher-speed version of A con!1ict of interest discus Also, senate members exten The grant will allow Notre the six research teams that sion followed opening reports, sively discussed whether they the Internet. While Notre Dame's Internet Dame to connect to its Chicago helped Notre Dame get the and senate members turned would sign a petition circulat server with a DS-3 cable, grant. their attention to a constitu ing which would call on the services have not been up to par up to this point, according which tranfers data at a speed Keeping the current six Mbps tionality issue left over from University to reconsider its of 44.5 megabits per second for students will still allow stu last spring. Lee Hambright "Spirit of Inclusion" decision to Larry Rapagnani, assistant provost for Information (Mbps), compared to the cur dents to see a jump in transmit currently serves as Hall not to include sexual orienta rent four Tls which each speed, because the research Presidents' Council treasurer tion in Notre Dame's non-di5f, Technologies, this grant will allow Notre Dame to leapfrog transmit 1.544 Mbps. The DS- projects, which transmit huge and student government assis crimination clause. · 3 cable will be partitioned, amounts of data, will no longer tant controller, and the senate Most members declined to ahead of the curve and become a leader in Internet services. keeping six Mbps for the stu be on the same bandwidth. ethics committee has decided sign because they felt the dents, about the same capacity The partition can be moved as that holding those two posi wording, composed by the "We'll be one of the front- running institutions," as is currently in use, and demand requires. tions represents a conflict of College Democrats, was mis using the other 38.5 Mbps for interests. leading. Rapagnani said. see INTERNETI page 4 ~~----- ---- -~- page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Thursday, September 4, 1997 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Diana's funeral procession route extended for mourners Anything you palace officials said. LONDON Princess Diana's funeral • The route to Westminster Fearing that mourners could r. ·. · Abbey has been extended "It is important there is a be crushed in the throng, \~FinchleyRoadl • Huge TV screens will be set up in Hyde Park longer route so we can have as \\'ant to kno\V Buckingham Palace decided -rowostmtn$1er • Loudspeakers will relay many people able to partic Wednesday to more than triple -To A/thorp Hall Regents Park the service to crowds outside the abbey ipate," said Prime Minister the length of the route for Tony Blair, who spoke by tele I don't mind talking Princess Diana's funeral pro phone Wednesday to Diana's about myself. I'm an cession through London. ex-husband, Prince Charles. honest, easygoing per The royal family said it was The funeral proceedings at son, and I'll tell you any "deeply touched" by the public Westminster Abbey will be thing you want to know. outpouring of grief over the shown live on two giant TV However, I resent the princess's death in a high-speed screens - about 16 feet high medium into which I car crash in Paris early Sunday. and 22 feet wide - in Hyde have lately been forced The coffin, borne aboard a Park. Diana's coffin then will to describe myself: one gun carriage. will leave travel a 77-mile route to the side of an 8 1/2 by 11 Allison Koenig Saturday from Diana's princess's home village for bur piece of paper. Saint Mary's News Editor Kensington Palace home ial. Some call it a resume. instead of St. James's Palace as Diana's coffin will be taken I call it a farce. first planned, adding 2 1/2 from St. James's Palace to I probably should have commenced work miles to the original one-mile Kensington Palace on Friday on this document long before the fall of my route. to Westminster Abbey, night. senior year in college. I should have known better than to procrastinate on the one item that will magically bring me a fulfilling and Kevorkian assists 48th suicide Study: Three cheers for menopause successful career. BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. BOSTON I understand the purpose of a resume; it Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted in the Menopause, with its stereotypical hot flashes, mood will give my prospective employers a general swings and night sweats, has long been viewed as a idea of my previous work experience, my suicide Wednesday of a Pennsylvania woman with ovarian cancer at a motel dreaded time in a woman's life. But 52 percent of skills, my education level. American women aged 45 to 60 told a national survey That is, if I'm honest. Every human being here, his lawyer said. Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said Carol Fox was in that they consider menopause the beginning of a new knows how to use multi-syllabic language to her 50s. He did not know where in and fulfilling stage. The study by The Gallup turn a simple phrase or experience into a concept of earth-shattering proportions. A Pennsylvania she was from. "She was Organization also found that 79 percent of menopausal and postmenopausal women would advise others to summer of life-guarding could be described, in tremendous pain and she did not for a biology major, as field research on the wish to suffer any more," Fieger told approach the change with a positive attitude.