Bookstore Tourney Bans 'Unfit' Names

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XXI, NO. 115 MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1987 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Ma11·'s Flanner fire had electrical Bookstore tourney cause: Security By JIM RILEY bans 'unfit' names News Editor By CHRIS BEDNARSKI In a letter to the editor in News Editor today's Observer, however, The origin of a fire in a Flan Wenc said team names were ner Hall room Friday night was ,, Approximately 100 names of "reconsidered by a student electrical, said Assistant the 662 teams competing in this committee, ultimately working Director of Security Phil year's Bookstore Basketball in agreement with the Office of Johnson Sunday. tournament were struck from Student Activities." · The fire was noticed by a the tournament schedule by a Many team names in the past Flanner resident at approxi student committee and altered have been terrible, said Rocca. mately 10 p.m. in Room 620. or replaced with numbers this At one point a couple of years No one was in the room at past weekend. the time and no one was injured ago, University President Fa in the incident, according to "(The names) were unfit for ther Theodore Hesburgh con Flanner rector Brother Mi publishing and they were ter sidered cancelling the tourna chael Smith. .... ribly gross,'' said Assistant ment, said Father David The fire was contained to one Vice President for Student Ser Tyson, vice president for Stu room, Johnson said. vices Father Peter Rocca. dent Mfairs. According to tournament "It was clearly in the presi The damage to the room and dent's mind," to eliminate the its contents was estimated at commissioner Steve Wenc, members of the the Office of tournament, said Tyson, who under $2,000. was Hesburgh's executive as Smith said the dorm was Student Activities approached evacuated when he ordered a him concerning the names of sistant at the time. resident assistant to pull the the teams. That year every team name dorm's fire alarm. Residents Wenc said some team names was eliminated and replaced returned to the building about were replaced with numbers, with a number, Tyson said. 30 minutes after the alarm +: ~--- '.· '".- ,?- and an attempt was made to "The entire schedule was done went off. .. ~;~~';, .. contact the teams whose with numbers," he said. "The Johnson said that when names were changed. entire schedule was deleted." firemen arrived, an up The ObServei'!Zoltan Ury No teams were eliminated After that year, team names holstered couch was on fire. A fire in Flanner Hall on Friday resulted in extensive damage from the tournament, said were better, according to Roc- Firemen broke out the to one room. The cause of the fire is believed to be electrical. Wenc, who declined further room's bay window and threw Story at left. comment. see NAMES, page 4 the couch outside. He said this The Observer~oltan Ury was standard procedure in such a situation because it is difficult to get upholstered Hesburgh to be honored with Laetare Medal furniture to stop burning and smoking. By BETH CORNWELL Hesburgh responded to the ganized by retiring vice special ... but don't ever take Gary Gamino, a sixth-floor Staff Reporter news of his award by saying, president, Father Edmund these things too seriously. resident, said he discovered the "I'm flabbergasted, amazed, Joyce. Hesburgh noted that "One thing you should al fire when returning to his room The University of Notre astounded, and staggered." "the secret was a hard one for ways remember 'sic transit that evening. Dame will give the 1987 the committee to keep. The real gloria mundi' (so passes the "I got off the elevator and Laetare Medal to its retiring The medal, the University's problem was this, I kept asking · glory of the world). The was walking into the section president, Father Theodore highest honor, is the oldest why we didn't get going on the cemeteries of the world are when I saw smoke around the Hesburgh. award given to American Cat meetings. So the secret had to filled with indispensible ceiling," said Gamino. "I In making the announce holics. It is awarded annually come out ... This was the first people. This place--it'll get on heard the smoke detector going ment, Notre Dame Board of to honor an American Catholic time in thirty-five years I didn't swimmingly without me.'' off in 620," he added. Trustees Chairman Donald or Catholic husband and wife get in on it. Hesburgh is in his thirty-fifth Gamino said he notified the Keough said, "Conferring on for extraordinary service to "You know you don't expect year as president of Notre rector. The two returned with Ted Hesburgh the oldest and their church and to the nation. to get awards from your own Dame, the longest tenure resident assistants and a most prestigious award given group-- they mean more, but among active presidents of master key, Gaminio said. to American Catholics affirms The committee to choose the you don't expect them. You can American institutions of higher When they opened the door, his dedicated and unparalleled medal recipient is usually get awards from all over the learning. He will step down fol service to church, country and headed by Hesburgh, but this world but when your own take lowing University Commence see FIRE, page 4 higher education." year a secret session was or- time to honor you, that's extra- ment Exercises May 17. North Dining Hall to be expanded and given 'classier' look By CHRIS JULKA intended to make the dining With this set-up, which would the current long tables. The ef Pasquerillas. Whereas it is ex Assistant News Editor hall "fit in better with Breen resemble that of South Dining fect would make the dining hall pected that the new dorms will Phillips, Farley and other ar Hall, Hickey said, "scramble seem "less like a high school be finished by June 1, 1988, ac· The North Dining Hall may chitecture in the North Quad," lines'' would replace the cur cafeteria" and would better cording to Dedrick, the North have a new look within the next said Don Dedrick, director of rent single files. With diners befit the atmosphere of the Uni Dining Hall will have its new two years. the physical plant. going only to those stations versity, Hickey said. To further look by the fall of 1988 "at the Director of Food Services It is also proposed that the which specifically suit their rid tbe dining hall of the earliest." William Hickey said plans for north and south ends of the preferences instead of passing "institutional" "linear effect," the renovation of the cafeteria dining hall be expanded. Each through an entire buffet line. round salad bars are also Said Dedrick, "Building the are currently under considera of the new wings would serve People would have to wait planned to replace the current dorms is relatively simple be tion because of the shift in pop as additional dining sections much less time before obtain long rectangular ones, Hickey cause you're starting from ulation to the North Quad oc with capacities of 100 seats. ing their meals, Hickey said. added. scratch. But the renovations curring with the addition of the Each could be reserved for spe In addition, dirty dishes may All of the renovations will will be rather complicated be two new dormitories near the cial club functions when not be returned to seven-deck, combine to give an effect cause you are modifying an P asquerillas. being used for the purposes of "merry-go-round soil-tray similar to that of the Faculty already existing structure." Blue prints have already daily student meals. returners,'' instead of con Lounge in the South Dining Dedrick emphasized, "All of been drawn for the construc Not only does the University veyer belts or bus carts, accor Hall, according to Hickey. In this is still in the early planning tion of a two-story structure plan on increasing the ding to Hickey. Also, carpeting general this would make the stages." He said no projected with a capacity of 300 seats to cafeteria's dining space, but may replace tiles to "reduce North Dining Hall look "clas cost for the renovations had yet be added to the front of the also foresees radical restyling the overall noise level," Hickey sier," Hickey said. been calculated. dining hall. The proposed mez of the hall's interior. said. Hickey said the completion of Beyond the renovations zanine would include a high Among the proposals, sepa Finally, round tables and the renovations will hopefully listed above, Hickey has also overarching roof of the kind rate deli, dessert, and entree booth seats, as already exist in coincide with the completion of agreed to a request from Stu- found in the South Dining Hall. stations may replace the cur the dining section entered the two new dorms currently The cafeteria's taller look is rent linear buffet displays. through F-Line, would replace under construction near the see DINING, page 3 ~----------------------- .. The Observer Monday, March 30, 1987- page 2 In Brief Man continues to build cubes Maria von Trapp died Saturday at Copley Hospital in Morrisville, Vt. at the age of 82. Von Trapp's marriage while striving for classy look to a baron and their escape from the Nazis with their children inspired the Academy Award winning movie, After learning of the details of the proposed "The Sound of Music." She had been hospitalized Wed renovations on the North Dining Hall, I had one Chris nesday with intestinal, heart and diabetic problems, said reaction, even if it is naive and absurdly roman Johannes von Trapp, one of her 10 children and step tic: go further.

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