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An Tostal - page 9 VOL. XXI, NO. 131 MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1987 the independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint M an’s Students injured in crowd for courses By JIM RILEY the crowd,” Hardiman said. “I News Editor was bleeding all over people.” He said two students noticed Im p v I At least two students were his condition and helped him recovering Sunday from injur­ exit the crowd and get his ies they received as they at­ checkmarked course. tempted to register for Assistant Director of Secur­ checkmarked courses at ity Phil Johnson said Security Stepan Center Friday. responded to a disturbance call at 9:10 Friday morning. r Two students were transported to St. Joseph Medi­ “Officers arrived at the cal Center at approximately scene and found two foyer 9:30 Friday morning by Secur­ doors broken,” Johnson said. ity. Security also assisted injured Sophomore Todd Hardiman students, he said. said he was pushed into a glass “We’ve been requested to door by the force of the crowd staff registration in the future” and suffered cuts which re­ by the registrar’s office, quired two or three stitches to Johnson said, adding that Se­ close. curity had not staffed registra­ It was not known whether tion previously. more than two students were “There was absolutely no one injured, though one student in any authoritative position,” said some students may have said Steve Traubert, another been injured when the crowd student who was waiting to en­ surged forward toward the ter Stepan Center. doors. At 9 a.m. when the doors “There really isn’t any one opened, people started “run­ person in charge,” said Daniel ning, pushing and screaming,” Winicur, dean of administra­ according to one student. Stu­ tion and registrar. dents said a “mob” then Winicur said each depart­ formed around the philosophy ment with a table in Stepan is table, though the other lines in charge of handing out its own were orderly. checkmark cards. These de­ The Observer/Fred Dobie Hardiman said that after he partments used to hand out the It’s the Pits was pushed into the door, he cards in O’Shaughnessy Hall, found himself running with the but they asked to have a larger The Chariot Race at the mud pits during An chariots and togos, these students dodge for the crowd, unable to stop. room a few years ago. Tostal produced a winner plus some very, very finish line. “I was bleeding all over the see INJURIES, page 6 muddy people. Armed with homemade place, but I couldn’t get out of Panel of Soviet and U.S. officials discuss arms control By BUDDY LUEPKE Strategic Defense Initiative, said. Milshtein said SDI would diplomatic policies. Senior Staff Reporter Don’t you remember the fall commonly known as Stars of 1972 when both sides agreed increase the possibility for an Wars. not to develop space-based accidental war because of the The discussions are part of Three former high ranking Secretary General Mikhail “The ABM treaty was the weapons?’ ” limits of technology. “Consider Soviet military officers and Gorbachev’s new policy of ope- three former ambassadors best thing in arms control,” Former Soviet Lt. Gen. M. I. accidents - Challenger and said former ambassador L. C. Chernobyl - it is dangerous for ness, and they come at a time from the United States met Milshtein said the ABM treaty when the two countries are Friday in the Center for Con­ Smith, who was the head U.S. has broken down from mutual everyone,” he said. negotiator for the ABM treaty. closing in on a treaty to remove tinuing Education to discuss accusations of cheating. The meeting was the second intermediate-range missiles in arms control. Smith said the Reagan admin­ However, Milshtein said, “A of three panel discussions at Europe. Both sides agreed that weap­ istration is amending the defensive treaty must go ahead the CCE. The Soviet officials An agreement from the pres­ ons reduction must begin with original interpretation of that of an offensive agreement.” arrived in Washington D C. on ent talks in Geneva “merits to an affirmation of the Anti- treaty in favor of SDL “ I would Defensive weapons like SDI April 19 to meet with former be a timeless document,” said Ballistic Missile Treaty, in­ very much like to hear some­ “undermine the stability” be­ U.S. military officers to discuss cluding the elimination of the one in the Soviet Union say, tween the two countries, he current military and see PANEL, page 3 Swartz appointed adviser Program honors Hesburgh of undergraduate academics By GREG LUCAS Theodore Hesburgh,is a con­ time” said Hesburgh. By DIANE SCHROEDER program of the assistant deans Senior Staff Reporter centration designed to com­ The new program will be Copy Editor of the College. plement a variety of majors, funded by a $300,000 grant “The assistant deans handle “Citizen training has fallen Leege said. from the Exxon Education Undergraduates enrolled in the formal advising of under­ Foundation, said Leege. He into a sad state of disrepair,” “The program certainly the College of Arts and Letters graduates very well,” he said. said the proposal was con- said David Leege, professor represents a marriage of fac­ at Notre Dame will have access sructed and submitted by “They do an excellent job with of government and interna­ ulty interest and a beacon of to more specialized advising as Nathan Hatch, associate dean the routine advising such as tional studies at Notre Dame, someone who we all emulate a result of the recent appoint­ of the College of Arts and Let­ helping students with registra­ adding, “It’s our task to help for his contribution to public ment of Professor Thomas ters. tion. The College Fellow’s of­ people understand the func life in this country,” he said. Swartz as College Fellow, ac­ fice will supplement their tioning of a democracy.” “Exxon has always been cording to the College’s dean, work, to facilitate the flow of Leege has been named the Hesburgh, who has served very good to us,” Hesburgh Michael Loux. information to students so that first director of the Hesburgh on 14 presidential commis­ said, adding that his col­ Swartz, an economics profes­ they can find a good academic Program in Public Service, sions, said he was honored to league, Robert Payton, pres­ sor, will be responsible for en­ fit for their interests.” according to Michael Loux, have the program named ident of the Exxon Education hancing the quality of under­ dean of the College of Arts and after him. “I think presidents Foundation, was largely re­ Swartz believes the College graduate academic advising in Letters. of universities have to do sponsible for the grant. “It’s the University’s largest col­ Fellow can also send a signal The Hesburgh Program, things that many don’t do. I nice to have an old friend do to faculty: excellent work with lege. According to Loux, the named to honor the retiring think you have to be clear on see STUDIES, page 5 College Fellow’s office will sup­ see ADVISER, page 6 University President Father the great moral issues of the plement the current advisory The Observer Monday, April 27, 1987 - page 2 In Brief Involvement with Druids reveals Officials of Italy,Luxembourg and Spain have conformist attitude on campus expressed increasing support for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s proposal to eliminate all of the superpowers’ It was a dark and medium-stormy night. ballistic nuclear missiles in Europe. Other members of The fifteen mile-an-hour winds blew the Mark NATO, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, also are matches out four times before we got the believed to support the proposal. - Associated Press torches going. The sacrifice for the night’s ceremonies, the Spirit of Winter, was ap­ M cLaughlin Organizers of a protest at CIA headquarters parently trying to thw art us by kicking up some Projects M a n a g e r say their non-violent demonstration is a sign of opposition wind for our journey across the sea (Saint to Reagan administration policies in Central America and Mary’s Lake, actually). But we overcame. South Africa. Several hundred people were expected to The journey across the sea was a nightmare gather outside the Central Intelligence Agency offices in beyond all proportion. As we made our way nearby Langley, Va., early today, and they planned to across the lake, a sea serpent (no, not a duck) invite arrests by disrupting traffic, according to a spokes­ reached up and snapped our magical fishing man for the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace line, our only link to safety on the shore. in Central America and Southern Africa. A ssociated “Druids adrift!” was the cry heard at Holy P ress Cross and at Old College, our scheduled landing point. We were forced to douse the torches for fear of creating flaming Druids - not the kind A collapsed apartmentbuilding in Bridgebort, of publicity An Tostal needs. But we overcame. Connecticut Sunday led to a search party by a community We poor stranded Druids used the litter of workers looking for missing friends in the wreckage, bearing the Spirit of Winter to make a sail, and while officials and counselors tried to help the searchers we made our way towards Carroll Hall. Some­ cope with exhaustion, anger and despair. The death toll time during all the excitement, the wind was listed at 15, with 14 bodies pulled from the rubble of snatched up the Spirit and carried it into the L’Ambiance Plaza and one other spotted and presumed oblivion.

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