Town Meeting to Bring ND Community Closer
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Bomb scare causes search, evacuation of Hayes-Healy by Bob Mader asked the business department to News EdJtor have "key people" check the offices for suspicious packages or any container which was ticking. A bomb scare emptied the Raymond said two faculty mem Hayes-Healy business building bers searched the offices and six yesterday afternoon after an unid faculty members went through entified male caller notified the both the old and new classroom business dean's secretary that a buildings to evacuate the building. bomb planted in the building was Arthur Pears, security director set to explode at 2:30. said he approached the threat No bomb was found in the seriously but that South Bend building after an extensive search. police were not called because they Bro. Leo V. Ryan, business have no jurisdiction on campus. He college dean, said his secretary added that the South Bend bomb received the threat at 1:55 and squad would have been called if a Campus Security was alerted im bomb had been discovered. ~undreds of students and faculty members stood outside of the Hayes-Healy business building as mediately. e1ght faculty members checked out a bomb threat yesterday afternoon. (Photo by Mike Kron) The building was evacuated in Classes resumed in the building ten minutes and approximately 300 before 3 p.m. students and faculty members James Roemer, dean of students stood calmly in the courtyard said the caller ''will be immediately outside the building while business se~arated from the community" if building personnel conducted the he Is a student and is apprehended. search. A false bomb threat was also Vincent Raymond, associate bus ph_oned in to Flanner Hall early e iness dean, said the Security Offict> Frtday morning. St. Mary's parietal system swamped by male visitors by Karen Hinks ically. "The whole process only university of notreserver dome st mary's college Staff Reporter took about twenty minutes and Vol. X, No. 82 Tuesday, February 10, 1976 The St. Mary's parietal system everything was fine," commented faced a tense moment last weekend Kovatch. when LeMans Hall was swamped The men were asked to leave with male visitors. around 10:15 p.m. To add to the Hearst on revolutionary Tania: The combination of two hall confusion, the shuttle bus did not parties and several pre-sophomore arrive for over an hour. According formal parties brought over 100 tn an unidentified source, the bus men into the hall in a one-hour driver fell asleep during his run, ''I was told I would be killed'' - period, sources say. forcing everyone to stay in the SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Patricia teenager Tom Matthews · was to be on April 15, 1974, but said she was According to Nina Huber, Le· lobby. Hearst testified Monday that her . the first government witness when forced to do so by her SLA captors. Mans hall director, no real parietal LeMans Hall houses approx terrorist kidnapers sexually the hearing resumed Tuesday. "I was told I would be killed," violations occurred. Only one resi imately 500 women, most of whom assaulted her and forced her by Also, it was learned that three she said as she incriminated a long dent was stationed at the desk and are sophomores. Since the exten threat of death into posing as the other witnesses would testify about list of participants in her violent she was unable to see that the men sion of male visitation last year, bank-robbing revolutionary seeing a docile Miss Heart in an underground odyssey and, under signed in properly. As a result, IDs each resident in the dorm is "Tania." SLA hideout after the kidnap. questioning, told of being assault- were scattered on the desk and required to collect IDs at the desk In a dramatic day of testimony However, Susan Jordan, an atto ed by someone she once described floor when the male visitors in the lobby for one hour each with the jury absent, Miss Hearst rney for two of the three, said later as "the gentlest, most beautiful swarmed upstairs. semester. said William Wolfe, the Symbion her clients would take the 5th man I've ever known." As the resident began to alpha· Each guest is then required to fill esc Liberation Army "soldier" for Amendment. "They simply do not ''Did you have any affection for betize the IDs, the men and women out an information card containing whom she once declared her love, choose to be government witnes William Wolfe?" asked her attor- came back downstairs. Students the woman's name, her room was only the first of a number of ses," she said. ney, F.Lee Bailey. who were in the lobby commented number and her phone number. SLA members to attack her sex The testimony was expected to "No," she replied. that the entire situation was chao- The male visitor must then leave ually. be followed by arguments on " Did William Wolfe do anything tic. his ID card at the desk where it is The 21-year-old defendant ans whether to admit the evidence. to you?" Bailey then asked. "We often wondered what would filed in alphabetical order. wered questions for nearly four There was no indication when U.S. Miss Hearst paused and appear- happen if all of the guys decided to An R.A. from LeMans said, hours at a hearing to decide District Court Judge Oliver J. ed to swallow hard. Then she said come down at once, and now we "The system, as it stands, was whether the jury should hear some Carter would rule on the question, softly, almost inaudibly, "He know," said Huber. unable to handle the number of of the most crucial evidence against which could determine in large assaulted me sexually." The only way to restore order to guys who arrived on Saturday. lt is her · tape recordings from the measure the path taken by the trial. Bailey asked how long after her the muddled lobby, according to impossible for one girl to handle underground and the testimony of In one of the strangest confes kidnaping this occurred, and she the h11ll director, was to call the situation such as this." a witness who heard her confess to sions ever given on a witness said, "About one month." Campus Security. Several students expressed their the bank robbery. stand, Miss Hearst admitted that "Was he the only one?" Bailey Anthony Kovatch, director of St. fear that the logjam of men in That witness - Los Angeles she had robbed the Hibernia Bank asked. Mary's security, stated that it was LeMans Saturday will have a "No," came the reply.. necessary to ask the men to step negative effect on future parietal policy discussions. Bailey asked her where Wolfe's outside and call them in alphabet- Town Meeting to bring sexual assault took place. "In the closet," she said, referr ing to the cell-like closet where she said she was kept in the days after ND community closer her kidnap. by John DeCoursey body president; Tom Fitzgerald, After eliciting the testimony that Staff Reporter student body vice president and Wolfe was only one of a number of Diane Merten. attackers, Bailey picked up some Fr: Theodore M. Hesburgh, "The purpose of the meeting," legal papers and changed the prestdent of Notre Dame, is one of Byrne said, "is to give people in S\lbject. Miss Hearst appeared to nine panelists scheduled to partici our community a chance to talk be fighting back tears, and her pate in a Town Meeting for the about our problems. Last year Pat mother, Catherine Hearst, also University community. McLaughlin,(last year's . student appeared to brush away a tear. The meeting will be held in the body president) held a gripe ses Wolfe died with other SLA LaFortune ballroom, Thursday sion, and it served the double members in a fiery Los Angeles night at 7, and is open to all purpose of kicking off the Student shootout one month after the bank members of the community. Government election. However, robbery for which Miss Hearst is The meeting will bring together the meeting was not very construc standing trial. It was in a taped the three elements of the N.D. tive as the candidates did most of communique after the shootout community: students, faculty and the talking and there was little that Miss Hearst professed her love administration. Each group will feedback from students. for Wolfe, known in the SLA as have five to ten minutes to make "This- year, however," he cont "Cujo." general statements about what inued, "there will be more empha Miss Hearst was followed on the they feel the community is, and sis on partic.ipation by the audi witness stand by Dr. Margaret ought to be. Afterwards, members ence, which hopefully will be com Thaler Singer, a clinical psycholo of the audience can question the posed of all segments of the gist who examined the heiress in philosophies and statements of the community. jail. Dr. Singer, a specialist in various panelists and can state "The name for the meeting," speech patterns, said she could tell their own interpretation of the Byrne added, "is prompted by the by listening to Miss Heart's SLA community. Bicentennial theme of this year, communiques that she had not Besides Hesburgh, those repre and is taken from the town meet written them. senting the administration are Bro. ings held in colonial New England "It does not resemble her spon Just Paczesny, vice president for towns. The members of the taneous speech style as we saw it student affairs, and James A.