Wellness' Accidental Acid Spill RHA Is Trying to Coordinate a by PEGGY LENCZEWSKI Shaw
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I1 1 1 l Wednesday, October 5, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 28 1 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S 'Future Force' wins landslide freshmen election By ANNE DELANEY tickets, Shelley Kay Hackett of News Writer McCandless Hall and running mate Meghan McNally of Saint Mary•s Freshman Class Elections Marin Shaughnessy of Holy McCandless Hall had 20 per Cross Hall and Debbie Dziekan cent of the votes; Katie Mahon of McCandless Hall, who ran of LeMans Hall and Carrie Marin Shaugnessy/ under the title the "Future Kootz of LeMans Hall, 15 per Debbie Dzeikan Shelley Kay Hackett/ Force of 1998," gained 55 per cent; and Brenda Barry of Meghan McNally cent of the vote to win a land McCandless Hall and Kathleen slide victory vote in the Saint Policy of McCandless Hall, eight Mary's freshmen class election percent. yesterday. Students also voted for the The new president and vice general board, which has 13 president have many goals for members. but only six ran. and the school year, which include therefore won by acclamation. class unity, community in The new members are Anna volvement, more interaction Antes of Holy Cross Hall, Ellen with Notre Dame. and campus Coleman of McCandless Hall, improvements, such as refur Jennifer Groszak of McCandless bishing the recycling program. Hall, Claire Konstant of Holy Forty-six percent of the fresh Cross Hall, Lisa Perry of Holy Brenda Barry/ man class voted and two per Cross Hall and Rachel Kathleen Policy cent abstained. Of the other zm • RESIDENCE HAlL ASSOCIAT!ON Tragedy averted in Week to focus on 'wellness' accidental acid spill RHA is trying to coordinate a By PEGGY LENCZEWSKI Shaw. By LIZ FORAN flushing her skin with water. News Writer RHA hopes that the activities recycling program through the Assistant News Editor She was later released the it plans for Alcohol Awareness individual halls. Once again, same day. Hurley said .. The Residence Hall Associa Week will encourage students although the activity is coordi An accident at the Radiation Risk Management, a division tion focused on wellness last to become well; Shaw noted nated through RHA, it is up to Building Tuesday morning of the Notre Dame Security night at their weekly meeting, that it is not the intention of individual halls to decide what caused a minor injury to a Department, took care of the and discussed ways to help stu RHA to preach the evils of alco they would like to do. Notre Dame graduate student. spill, according to Hurley. dents achieve wellness, as part hol, or point the guilty finger at Other RHA news Assistant Director of Notre Tom Quarandillo, captain of of Alcohol Awareness Week ac weekend party-goers. • Regina will be selling sweat Dame Security Charles Hurley the C-shift of the Notre Dame tivities. Currently, no concrete activi shirts and hair clips soon. said that at about 11:36 a.m. a Fire Department who was at According to Colette Shaw, a ties have been planned, but There will also be an aerobics 28-year-old graduate student the scene, said that Risk Man Saint Mary's College Resident many ideas have been dis class in the dance studio in the was carrying a 1 liter bottle of agement appeared to have Hall Director, "wellness is an basement Mondays at eight o' acid when she dropped it. The cleaned up the spill safely and cussed. acid splashed onto her and effectively. active process" composed of RHA will be sponsoring a clock. spiritual. physical, intellectual, around the room, causing the "We were out there about United Way drive between Oc •Le Mans Hall would like to half an hour," he said. "It was career-oriented, environmen entire building to be evacuat tober 4 and October 21. Com start a tutoring program at St. ed due to irritating fumes a very serious incident, but it tal, emotional, and social mittee members are needed to Stevens. Anyone interested in from the spill. was taken care of with mini facets. make this event a success. being involved should talk to The student was transported mum fanfare and no addition The goal of being well is to Representatives will be nomi their Hall council Representa to St. Joseph Medical Center, al injuries. Everyone involved "have a balance between all of nated at the individual Hall tives. where she was treated by did a great job." those things," according to Council meetings. Weekend Wheels safe-for now By BRAD PRENDERGAST ridership," Bonner said, However, in the event that News Writer "because if we can save one life Weekend Wheels does not be with this, then it's worth it." come more widely used, the Despite recent concerns and Ridership has been higher on council will be prepared with controversies that threatened to home football weekends, with other options. shut it down, the Hall Presi around 200 people using the "We'll be researching the al dents Council (HPC) determined service on the weekend of the ternatives by looking at what last night that the Weekend Michigan game. However. on other schools around the coun Wheels program will continue other weekends, the numbers try are doing," Bonner said. through this school year. have been much smaller. Only Palermo stressed that no However, Rich Palermo, co 30 people used it on the week other options have been dis chairman of the council, said end of Sept. 16-17. cussed seriously yet. that the HPC will form a com As part of its renewed sup "Nothing is concrete," he mittee to investigate alterna port, the council plans to in said. tives in the event that the pro crease students' awareness of In other news discussed by gram becomes less useful. the program. the HPC in its meeting last "We are continuing it," Advertisements aimed at off night: Palermo said, "but we are ex campus students will increase, The HPC is sponsoring the ploring other options just in and schedules of the bus ser painting of two South Bend case." vices will be made available to homes on Saturday as part of The four-year-old program, everyone. the Northeast Neighborhood which helps students at off "We want people to talk it up Rejuvenation Project. campus bars and parties return in their dorms," Bonner said, According to Karen DuBay, home safely, has been plagued "and we will also work with the coordinator of the project, any by occasional low ridership and bars, since the service obviously one is welcome to volunteer. abuse of its services. benefits them as well." "The project gets Notre Dame The HPC voted strongly to From the increase in advertis students involved in the com maintain Weekend Wheels, a ing, the HPC hopes to establish munity," DuBay said. "We're sign of the council's strong en a wider base of student sup trying to give a more positive dorsement of the program, ac port. image of students at Notre cording to Tara Bonner, coor "We want to get the program Dame." dinator of Weekend Wheels for up and ready," Bonner said, Anyone interested in volun grace the HPC. "and then we'll re-evaluate it at teering should contact DuBay memoer of the Bharata Natyam Dance Troupe performed last "We're not concerned about the end of the year." by Friday evening. LaFortune as part of the Multicultural Fall Festival. page2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, October 5, 1994 'f • INSIDE Cm.. oMN • Wmn.o AT A GLANCE r r BC's not the Appearances aside, suing a company doesn't guarantee success NEW YORK Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis Sometimes it seems like suing a who works in employment law. only reason company is guaranteed to make a In product liability law, despite plaintiff a millionaire. some large, well-publicized awards, A secretary is awarded $7.1 mil the number of suits has actually to hit the lion in a sexual harassment lawsuit declined since the mid-1980s and against the Chicago law firm Baker consumers are finding juries less road & McKenzie, although she worked sympathetic to their causes, legal at the firm for just three months. experts say. Here I go again. An 81-year-old woman receives a Furthermore, one in two awards is Ah, autumn. The leaves $2.9 million jury award against either reversed or reduced by juries lose their luster. The air McDonald's after suffering third or judges, said Michael Rustad, a packs a bit more bite in degree burns from the fast-food professor at Suffolk Law School in the morning. The sounds chain's hot coffee. Boston. of the gridiron reverber Big awards like these grab big State courts, which handle about ate through campus. headlines. But the public often 100 times the case load of federal Spirit oozes from every hears little about the aftermath - a courts, say that while 18 million new corner of this campus. judge cut the award against lawsuits are filed each year, less And I once again hit Michael O'Hara McDonald's to $480,000, and the than 2 percent are tort cases - the road. This year off Assistant Viewpoint Baker & McKenzie decision is likely those involving wrongful acts, injury, to Milwaukee, Editor to be appealed. negligence or damage. Wisconsin. I have seen The sense from media reports is In federal court, of the more than more of this country on that the number of individuals suing 200,000 civil suits flied, only about 6 weekend trips in early November than I have companies and winning is increas percent are product liability cases. on any vacation for quite some time.