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Cupid~s biJ,( day approaches Kosovo massacre Friday • Look inside for insights on Valentine's Day. • Mourners gather for the burial of Kosovo's latest massacre victims. FEBRUARY 12, Viewpoint • 9 World & Nation • 5 1999 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXII NO. 88 WWW. ND.EDU/-OBSERVER Fire causes $75,000 damage at the Inn at Saint Mary's By M. SHANNON RYAN Dame Fin~ llnpartnwnt. "I would not lw Saint Mary's Editor surprised if it would lw morn I than $75,000 worth in damages!." A fire ripped through two floors of the Most of the damage took placn in bath­ Inn at Saint Mary's Thursday afternoon, rooms on the second floor when~ tlw lin~ causing $75,000 in damage, said Clay began. Township lire chief Tim Shabbnl. "The rooms were typically very wet and Clay Township fire department respond­ dr.bris was all over," Quarandillo said. ed to the emergency call at 2:01 p.m. "We had to knock out sonw walls and German and Harris Township squads and water damagnd some ceilings." the Notre Dame Fire Department were Upon arrival, firelighters noticed smoke called for back-up within six minutes. Thn coming from tlw windows. No other signs squads had the lire under control within of lire wern nvidnnt on the outside sincP 35 minutes, Shabbel said. the building is mainly c.on!Tell', Shahlwl The firn began on the second lloor, after said. plumbers "sweating the pipes" ignited After extinguishing tlw lin~. firnfightPrs insulation in the pipe casing within the remained for more than four hours "sort­ walls. It sprnad quickly into the third lloor ing out details," Shabbnl said. and damaged about four rooms. Guests at the Inn W!~n~ evacuated imnw­ Ten to 12 other rooms were damaged by diatllly. water, Shabbel reported. Water also The second and third-floor south wings seeped through the ceiling into the first have been shut off, and occupants in those The Observer/Manuela Hernandez floor, causing additional damage. rooms arc staying in the north wing. A fire moved through two floors of the Inn at Saint Mary's Thursday, damaging four "There was considerable damage," said Louis Christian, manager of the Inn. rooms. Water damage affected another 10 to 12 rooms. captain Tom Quarandillo of the Notre declined commnnt. ~roo cemeteries, 150 _years of trabttton Notre Dame graveyards provide final resting place for local legends By FINN PRESSLY cast iron New' Writer with paint­ ed informa­ Wlwtlwr driving up Notrn Dame tion. but AvPnUP or walking along Saint concerns Mary's Hoad, most visitors encounter ovnr upkeep orw of Notre~ Danw 's two graveyards: and tiHl the lloly Cross Community Cemetery possibility or C«Hiar c;rovl' Cenwtery. of sinking Th«' Community CenwtPry operwd ground in I X45 on what was oncn known as «~ausnd oiTi­ "St. Mary's Island" - the elevated cials to land hPtWPPn t.lu~ lakns that is rnplace prnsPnlly occupi«HI by Columba llall. them with The "Island C:Pmntery" served as tlw engraved linal rPsling plar«' for all rlergy in tlw concrete ar«'a. while thP Cedar Crove crosses C:Pmnt«'ry was usnd for tlw lay «~on­ mountnd on grPgation. concrnte In I S!i7. following I hP ordPrs of baS!)S. Father Basil MorPau. thn decnasnd Father nuns WI'I'P nxhunwd and rnlocatnd to Edward thn graveyard at what was then Sorin's known as Saint Mary's Acadnrny. grave is according to tlu~ Aug. 15, 1 S95, edi­ among the tion oJ' C:hroni«:lns of' the sea of headstones, located at the Congr«'gation. Tlw remains nf' the head of tho graveyard under a large he headstones in priPsts and brotlwrs were also woodnn crucifix and flanked by army rnmovnd and rPburied in a tract of' chaplains Father William Corby and T Notre Dames land in nearby St. Aloysius Grove. Fat.lwr Cooney. According to the June whnrn tlwy n~main today. 1906 edition of Scholastic Magazine, two cemeteries bear the Tlw move to the n«)W Community Sorin's grave was oncn markr.d by a Cemdnry was eomplotnd in 1 S6S, "magnificent marbln statun of the names ofSorin, Dillon, wlwn Fathnr .lames Dillon becamn Hednnmer resting on a pndnstal that tlw first person to be officially ... is. the rival of any like piece of art Zahm and many other interred tlwre. according to a 1961 in the country." map of tlw ennwtery. While the Hcdeemer has since been Tlw lwadstorws that face Saint removed. onn piece of statuary docs members ofthe Notre Mary's Hoad arn actually those of' dis­ rnmain. A marble replica of tinguislwd lay professors such as Michnlangnlo's Pieta honors those Dame family. .JanH~s Hdwards. Joseph Lyons and Holy Cross dergy who died ovnrseas Allwrt J.'rarH:is Zahm, brother of in missions to Bangladr,sh and the Fatlwr .John Zahm. Philippines. The rnst of' the cemetery is made up Cedar Grove Cemetery occupies 25 of' orderly rows of identical concreto acres of land along Notre name crosses. The crosses were originally Photos by Kevin Dalum see CEMETERY I page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, February 12, 1999 • INSIDE COLUMN Beyond utside the Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports Boxing Wisconsin sweatshop protest reaches three days "Thern are some things women just shouldn't do," a sexist ar.quaintance said to saying he is only "amplifying and me OIH'P. "Boxing is most definitely one of MADISON, Wis. clarifying" tlw stance lw took last them." "David Ward, who's your neigh­ Thursday. lie dm~sn 't know the bor? We say no to sweatshop labor!" Ward said he plans to push the women I know. So chanted a group of more than CLC to include full disdosun~ of fac­ Since October, more 200 protesters at the Bascom Hill tory locations within thn code. If' it is than 100 women at this rally Wednesday. The bleary-eyed not added to tho codo within a University have pushed sweatshop activists - tired after a year's time, Ward said UW will with­ tlwmsnlves to the limit two-day sit-in - energized their fight draw from thn codn and CU:. for a sport that has typi­ against what they call UW-Madison "I will now insist on full public dis­ cally been off-limits. complicity toward sweatshops. locations, mandatory living wago; closure," lw said. "If not included They learned not to Thursday marks the third day of the and a concern for women's rights. within a yoar, it's ovnr and the uni­ Today, the group said they hope to assumn that b<~caus<~ Heather MacKenzie student sit-in, as the activists contin­ versity will withdraw any involvo­ arrange a meeting with Ward to out­ ment with tlw code or itself'." thny are female tlwy Assistant Managing Editor ue to press Chancellor David Ward to cu: could w~t by with agree to a stronger apparel licensing line the major differencns in their In addition, Ward said ho consid­ knncs-on -the-ground, code. proposed codes. ers offering a living wage to bn a "girl" pushups or do less stomach crunches The sit-in has gradually increased Ward met with students briefly priority in the eodo's dcvelopm<~nt. because they arc "weaker" than the men. in size, with nearly 60 students now Wednesday, saying his opinion of Ilowevcr, lw said the CLC universi­ Th11y learned jabs and powers and hooks; occupying the hallway outside of the proposed Collegiate Licensing ties shou lei bn allownd tim<~ to they shrouded their hands in smelly wraps Ward's office. The students say they Code has not changed. Ward said h<~ rnsearch the economies of <:ountries and hid thr.ir grimacr.s when their hands hit will stay in Bascom until Ward agrees spent the morning updating develop­ where the appar<~l faetories are the cold, pntrified sweat of the boxing glovr.s. to sign a written statement agreeing ments in CLC codes at other univer­ located, so an official means of cal­ Thr.y an~ a team, even in a sport that to three main code additions, namely: sities. The chanwllor released his culating a living wagn can lw <1stab­ rewards individual effort. immediate, full disclosure of factory official statement again Wednesday, lishP.d. There is a certain novelty attached to the idea of women wearing boxing gloves in this country; the thought conjures visions of perky • UN!VERS!TY Of CONNECTICUT • DAIHMoum Cmu:cr blondes in spandex tittering "punch-and-one­ and-two-and-three!" to perky music in a Students support same-sex marriage Trustees pledge not to change on frats perky aerobics room. This farcical attempt to' turn women's aerobics into cute, manageablr. STORHS, Conn. IIANOVEH, N.II. parodies of' a sport that is traditionally male­ Tho Undergraduate Student Government became one of Chairman of the College's Board of Trustees St11phon dominated is popularly called "aeroboxing." the first student governments nationwide to support equal Bosworth '61 said Wednesday the Trustees an~ pre­ This is nothing close to what goes on at our civil rights for same-sex marriages. In a vote of 23 to 6 pared to weathor any and all opposition to their plan to boxing practices. Wednesday night, the senator's approved a "Marriage eliminate single-sex frat<~rnitiPs and sororities from the The Notre Dame Women's Boxing Club is Resolution," written by the Lambda Legal Defense and College - and it appears tho Board will havn quito a perhaps the largest collegiate women's box­ Education Fund, a gay advocacy group, that says "the state fight on its hands, as approximately 1,000 mostly Grel'k ing club in the country.

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