-~----------- -- Monday, March 2, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 102 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • SECURITY BEAT Drunk driver collides with student's car, injures 3 By HEATHER COCKS At about 11:15 p.m., a speeding, until he crashed into a pole on the side Leonardo said. "Her neurosurgeon ran News Editor southbound vehicle turned onto of the road." a CAT scan and said it came back Mishawaka Kubiak, who clear, so that was a huge relief." A drunk driver allegedly hit a car Avenue from sat in the Kubiak's mother requested that her containing three Notre Dame students 32nd Street, backseat and daughter receive no calls or visitors Friday night, seriously wounding one smashing into 'THE OTHER GUY HAD A STOP SIGN, BUT was not wear­ while she recuperates, said Leonardo, passenger and leaving the other two the driver's I DON'T THINK HE SLOWED DOWN FOR ing a seatbelt, adding that Kubiak will leave school girls with only minor injuries. side of struck her for the rest of the semester. Walsh Hall sophomore Serena Gorman's east­ IT. HE JUST BLEW RIGHT THOROUGH AND head after the "As soon as Serena's up to it, she'll Kubiak suffered a head injury and did bound car, she HIT MY CAR, AND THEN HE KEPT ON GOING impact of the go home to recover there," she said. not regain consciousness until Sunday said. collision threw The other driver may have emerged afternoon in the Intensive Care Unit of "The other UNTIL HE CRASHED INTO A POLE ON THE her around the unscathed, according to Gorman. St. Joseph Medical Center, according to guy had a stop SIDE OF THE ROAD.' car's interior, Police tests listed the his blood alcohol her roommate, Kristin Leonardo. sign, but I according to level as 0.22, she said. That is more Senior Luz Maria Rodriguez, also don't even Leonardo. than twice the legal limit; the South from Walsh, needed stitches in her think he JENNIFER GORMAN "It was a Bend Police Department could not be forehead and treatment for an elbow slowed down OFF-CAMPUS SENIOR, Cf!ASH VICTIM deep lesion - reached for comment. sprain; the driver, off-campus senior for it," Gorman the doctors As of Sunday night, no charges had Jennifer Gorman, escaped with minor said. "He just blew right through and needed staples to close it up, but cuts and scrapes. hit my car, and then he kept on going Serena's doing really well now," see ACCIDENT I page 4 I A lliance Denied: Are you losing your .fl. voice?' gang life T-shirts worn by Alliance protestors Brother Bill Tomes has funerals of young· victims cro$sfire. of Chicago's gang Students protest club status refusal mber of the Brothers and order from the Catholic Saturday afterno.on to a By ALLISON KOENIG hisministry experiences Saint Mary's News Editor Chicago's many lowM Members of The Alliance gathered outside of Saint Mary's College president Marilou Eldred's office Friday for almost eight hours to protest her denial of official club status to the group. Several demonstrators wore T -shirts featur­ ing the word "SILENCED" and placed red tape on their mouths as a symbol of the silencing of the student body, which is what they claim Eldred's decision mandates. Alliance member Poogie Sherer wore a shirt stenciled with the phrase, "Alliance denied. Are you losing your voice?" and asked students passing through the LeMans hallway to sign petitions that stated simply, "I will not be silenced." "I think the demonstration was a strong sign to the president of the College that her propos­ al does not meet student needs," stated Alliance member Kelly Curtis. "We had really positive reactions," said demonstrator Stephanie Lancaster. "People stopped, asked questions, went away to think about what we told them, and then would come back and sign a petition." "We were able to initiate one-on-one dia­ logues with students," Sherer said. "If people declined signing the petition, they had to ver­ bally refuse, and I think that caused many of them to walk away and really evaluate why they said no." "It was very non-confrontational for students, and I think they responded well to that," Lancaster added. "It was certainly confronta­ tional for Dr. Eldred, however." ''I'm glad to see so many students involved," said student body vice president Lori McKeough. "It's good to see the expression of a lack of concern about the student voice." "I was proud of the way that the students who protested reacted. They handled them­ selves in a respectful manner," said student body president Nikki Milos. "My hope is that President Eldred will give students a way to express their opinions, other than in a protest." The Observer!Manuela Hernandez Vice president of student affairs Linda Timm, Senior Coutney Mollan was among students who protested out­ who was out of town during the protest, side the office of Saint Mary's College President Marilou Eldred believes that Eldred will continue to seek out · Friday. The students were concerned about Eldred's denial of offi­ cial club status to The Alliance of Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Straight and Questioning Women of Saint Mary's College. see PROTEST I page 4 r----------------------------------------------------------------------------~------------·----~------~~---------- page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Monday, March 2, 1998 • INSIDE COlUMN $100,000 (~~utside"'\.."'\ /"' .,~-·~\'J the Dome What can you get for Spencer Stefko \..! Compiled from U-Wire reports $100,000? Assistant Viewpoint Editor A night in the Lincoln bedroom, I think. Tufts community debates racial content of magazine You could buy a Hummer. MEDFORD, Mass. Senators discussed whether or not You could sing about one-tenth of a Student complaints over the Feb. the Senate or the Media Advisory Barenaked Ladies song. 12 issue of The Primary Source, the Board (MAB) should sponsor a $100,000 is a Brobdingnagian sum of money, campus magazine of Tufts forum to discuss the campus media. probably more than I'll ever have at_one time in .,. University, sparked dialogue at the Senator Samar Shahcryer said, "We my life as a high school teacher. To understand Community Union Senate and have decided to postpone the forum it, let's bring this to a more immediate level. prompted the senators to decide [originally scheduled for this You could throw one helluva tailgatnr (with whether or not they should hold a cially African- Americans. Wednesday]. We really want to get your parents, of course). forum to discuss the responsibility "I believe the Source should exist. a better idea ... There have been a And you eould buy a college football player for of campus media groups. My concern is as far as their fund­ lot of questions raised on whether four years. During open forum, the Senate ing is concerned. I was wondering if we should be holding this forum. I know it comes to more than $100,000 once heard from Pan-African Alliance the Senate could have an open "We want to know what people you figure in books, travel, free dothes and (PAA) president Gareth Robinson, forum for all campus media for us think. First, to sec whether anything stipends, but I lose mathematical aeeuracy over who voiced concerns about The to sit down and discuss these should be done at all. There are a $100,000. Primary Source. issues." lot of ideas out there - from a mag­ OK, so what do the football players get for "The issue is the writing of The A representative of the Arab azine to counteract the Source, to their $100,000 worth of services? Primary Source. A lot of what is in Students Association said, "Many funding," she said. Don't choke on your lunch in your hurry to here is a lot of offensive imagery," Arab students on campus found Shaheryer added that MAB also answer. I know you, like everyone else, have a Hobinson said. many things particularly offensive. has the authority to hold such a long list. Women \-\ill be at the head of your list, Referring to the most recent issue We would also hope to have an open forum. I'm sure. Preferential treatment probably ranks of the Source which parodied the forum on this issue," she said. Senator Larry Harris said he wor­ pretty high. I won't go through the lists I've Task Force on Race report, he said, A representative from the Tufts ried that "it might appear as though heard lest I use the rest of my allotted space. "They did something that is very Community Union Judiciary also we are putting this group [The But frankly I'm getting horribly tired of hear­ offensive to many students, espe- endorsed an open forum. Primary Source] on trial." ing people go through these lists, so let me add my items to your Jist. For four or five years, you get a big target painted on your baek. In class, in the dining hall, • PENN STATE UNIVERSITY • OHIO UNIVERSITY in the dorm. Everything you do, every day, is scrutinized. C'mon, how many of you have called Professor prepares for zero gravity School reports most rapes in MAC a friend either here or at home with some tale of your run-in with a Notre Dame football player? STATE COLLEGE, Penn. ATHENS, Ohio As a liJOtball player, if you trip in the dining During his 16 days in space, university professor James From 1994 to 1997, no Mid-American Conference hall. you know someone will recount the story Pawelczyk will have a chance to run for three straight (MAC) school reported more than five rapes in a one that evening.