... First-rate day Partly sunny and mild I~A~C=C=E=N=T=:=R=o=m=e='s==n=ig=h=tl=ife========~~~~~~ lQI~' Thursday, highs near 45. A 30 percent chance of snow showers Friday, with temper­ ISPECIAL: 1988 Football Section . l.A._J atures in the upper 20s. ~DI'ME GOU£Cn0H 08/1t./:3'i' Zl t.: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS -/1/···.r•/~ HESBURGH LIBRARY VOL. XXII, NO. 68 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1989 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's National Champions! Holtz puts Irish over the top Team, Holtz in '88 with 8th national title greeted at By MARTY STRASEN Hurricanes 31-30 on Oct. 15, White House Sports Editor received the remaining 1 lt2 votes. Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz.--Someone "This football team is what once told Lou Holtz that Notre Notre Dame spirit is all about," WASHINGTON-- President Dame is supposed to be on top Holtz said. "There may be Reagan met with the champi­ when it comes to football. more talented teams, but there onship Notre Dame football Now, three years after taking won't be any that typify the team Wednesday in one of the over as head coach of the Fight­ Notre Dame spirit better than last public events of his eight ing Irish, Holtz has put them this one." years in the White House. there. In addition to beating Miami "The INF treaty and George "It's important for Notre when it was No. 1, Notre Dame Bush's election were impor­ Dame to be on top, and I say tant, but having the Fighting beat Southern Cal 27-10 when Irish win the national champi­ that because that's what some­ the Trojans were No. 2 and body told me," Holtz said after West Virginia when the Moun­ onship is in a class by itself," Notre Dame's 34-21 drubbing of taineers were No.3 coming into Reagan said. In return for West Virginia in the Sunkist the Fiesta Bowl. The Irish the sentimental tribute Reagan Fiesta Bowl gave the Irish their opened the 1988 season with a received a sweater once pre­ eighth national championship. 19-17 triumph over Michigan, sented to-- who else? --George "There are just some people which finished the season Gipp. who are supposed to be on top, ranked fourth. Reagan, whose role as Notre and people get the impression "I'm so happy for our Dame star Gipp in the movie that Notre Dame should be players," Holtz said. "It's "Knute Rockne, All­ good," Holtz continued. "This really a dream to win the na­ American" gave him his first is an outstanding football tional championship. I dreamt big break in the movie career team." about winning it, but I never that helped propel him to the The Fighting Irish are back thought I'd be a part of some­ presidency, told the players: on top, even though many said thing like this as a head coac­ "I can't help thinking that this team was a year away h." somewhere a long way off from a shot at the national Holtz joins the list of Irish there's a fellow with a big grin championship. coaches that includes Knute and a lot of pride in his school, The 1988 Irish completed the Rockne, Elmer Layden, Frank and he might be thinking to first 12-0 season in Notre Dame Leahy, Ara Parseghian and himself that maybe you won history and were nearly a unan­ Dan Devine--all winners of na­ another one for the Gipper." imous choice as national cham­ tional titles at Notre Dame. The line was a paraphrase of pions. Notre Dame received 58 For the seniors, being No. 1 The Observer I Suzanne Poch one spoken by Pat O'Brien as 112 votes out of a possible 60 in marks the end of a long climb Freshman Lou LaGrange joined the thousands of other Irish fans who Rockne in the movie, invoking the Associated Press poll. from the days of Gerry Faust, stormed the field at Tempe, Arizona's Sun Devil Stadium after the Notre the memory of Gipp after his Miami, which lost its No. 1 Dame Fightin' Irish beat West Virginia to claim the coveted national death to inspire the team to vic- see CHAMPS, page 8 ranking when the Irish beat the championship title. see REAGAN, page 8 ND junior struck by car and killed By REGIS COCCIA The driver of the car, Senior Staff Reporter Deborah Gomes, 23, of South Easton was charged with two Celebrations after the Fiesta counts of vehicular homicide, Bowl turned to grief Jan. 2 when Hurley said. Gomes, who knew a Notre Dame junior and his both Macrina and Charis, was friend died after they were hit not under the influence of alco­ by a car outside their homes in hol, he said. South Easton, Mass. A police officer estimated Richard Macrina, a Grace Gomes was going about 45 Hall junior finance major and miles per hour, the speed limit Donald Charis, both 20, were on the unlighted street, Hurley killed crossing the street be­ said. The case has not gone to tween their houses when a car court yet, he said. hit them at about 8:30 p.m., A double funeral was held Easton Deputy Police Chief Friday, Jan. 6 for Macrina and f Kenneth Hurley said. Charis, who were longtime i. They had been watching the friends, Hurley said. They ~ Notre Dame-West Virginia were buried beside each other. football game on television at A funeral Mass was con­ Macrina's house, he said. celebrated at Macrina's Macrina was taken by am­ parish, Holy Cross Church, by bulance to Goddard Memorial Grace Hall Rector Father f APPhoto President Reagan rears back to pass a football pre­ Hospital and Charis was taken Gerald Lardner and Father of the White House. Behind Reagan is Irish head to Cardinal Cushing General Wilfred Borden, chaplain of the if sented to him by the Notre Dame football team Wed­ coach Lou Holtz. Reagan invited the national football ; Hospital. Both were nesday during honor ceremonies in the Rose Garden champions to the White House. (Story, above right) pronounced dead on arrival. see MACRINA, page 4 page 2 The Observer Thursday, January 19, 1989 IN BRIEF INSIDE COLUMN Irish, Bush both No. 1 South African President Botha suffered a stroke at home Wednesday, but was "clear-minded" and might ap­ point a Cabinet member as acting president, his office in year of transition said. Botha, who turned 73 on Jan. 12, was in stable con­ dition at No. 2 Military Hospital in the Cape Town suburb The year 1988 is over-- finally. The new year, of Wynberg after suffering a mild stroke, his office said. 1989, is a year of transition. Matt According to South Africa's Constitution, the president <?ne transition became evident in Tempe, can appoint a Cabinet minister to fill in for him tempo­ Anzona, on a cloudy day in early January. The Gallagher rarily. If the president is incapacitated, the Cabinet can Notre Dame football team is back where it elect one of its members as acting president. Botha has belongs-- on the top of the heap in the world of Assistant News Editor refused to comment on his possible retirement.- Associ­ collegiate football. Notre Dame won its first ated Press national championship in eleven years, largely through the work of Coach Lou Holtz. Notre Dame will most likely be the pre-season favor­ ite to repeat as national champions in the 1989 Contracts have been awarded for the repaving of football season. U.S. Route 31 from south of the South Bend bypass to Wednesday's meeting at the White House be­ Lakeville, and also for the "Michigan Strip," the section tween the football team and President Ronald of U.S. Route 33 from 1.5 miles north of the St. Joseph Reagan foreshadows another important transi­ River bridge to the Indiana-Michigan border. Signal tion taking place in 1989. On Friday afternoon modernization on McKinley Avenue from Logan Street to George Bush will be sworn in as the forty-first Division Street is also planned for the spring and summer president of the United States, signaling the end of 1989. -The Observer of Reagan's eight-year tenure in that office. The team's visit Wednesday with Reagan is a fitting conclusion to the Reagan years. Since 1981, when he visited Notre Dame with actor Two S':'per Bowl tickets and some Watergate Pat O'Brien to receive an honorary degree, memorabilia, but not the cash that was stolen from his Reagan has been closely tied to the University. car, were returned to North Carolina Secretary of State These ties were most evident during Reagan's Rufus Edmisten. Edmisten considers the tickets and campus visit last March, to witness ceremonies statesmen as James Baker (chief-of-staff, Trea­ memorabilia to be far more valuable than the money. dedicating a stamp to Knute Rockne. sury secretary, and now secretary-of-state­ Someone entered Edmisten's unlocked, state-owned Chev­ George Bush is not Ronald Reagan. When he designee), to clowns such as James Watt rolet in Raleigh Saturday and stole a briefcase, a raincoat takes office on Friday, Bush will be facing the (Interior). Bush's choices for Cabinet positions and $500 to $700. Edmisten reported the theft to police. awesome task of leading America into the 1990s. have been for the most part long-time Wash­ But on Monday morning, Edmisten found that all the items Indeed, in a sense the 1990s are already upon ington veterans such as Baker, John Tower except the money had been placed in the back seat of his us, for the 1980s were most certainly the Reagan (Defense), and Jack Kemp (HUD).