Tuesday, September 14, 1993 • Vol. XXVI No. 12 THE INDEPENDENT NFWSPAPFR SERVING NOTRE DAMF AND \A!NT MARY'S Women's Students face burglaries, Committee . gtven• space cttattofis By SARAH DORAN By ANALISE TAYLOR Assistant News Editor News Writer A sixth townhouse at the The Women's Resource Lafayette Square complex was Committee, a subdivision of burgularized last night Graduate Student Union, was between 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. granted the temporary use of The townhouse's alarm system the former student government see Theft I page 3 conference center on the sec­ ond floor of LaFortune Center was activated at the time and went off during the theft, STUDENT SENATE according to wittnesses at the scene at the time of police by the Student Senate at yes­ arrival. terday's meeting. Residents reported the theft The proposal passed by a of a computer to police. majority of thirteen votes. The assailants apparantly Because space on campus for entered the locked apartment extracurricular activities and through a basement window. clubs is limited, the office will Security guards were on duty be used until the center finds at the complex from 8 p.m. more space. until 5 a.m. Majestic Security "They're going to set up what Protection Services, Inc., the they can in the former student company handling security, is government conference cen­ in the process of working out a ter," said Lynn Friedewald, plan with the complex to begin chief-of-staff of student gov­ 24 hour surveillance, according ernment. representative Brad Stool. Discussion focused on In a related security story, whether the Center's name the Stop Underage Drinking would exclude men and if the and Sales (S.U.D.S.) task force Center would divide men and cited 16 Notre Dame and Saint women on campus. Mary's students for underage "I think this would give the The Observer/ John Bingham drinking during a raid at 203 students an outlet," said Notre Budding Architects! E. Navarre Street in South Dame club coordinator Frank Bend at 12:45 a.m. Sunday McGehee. morning. Professor Duncan Stroik is surounded by his Design I Architecture class and their reconstruction of At the same time, the South an Andrea Palladio arch. This is the first time this arch has been built since 1570. Bend police cited Notre Dame see SENATE/ page 4 junior Brian Baumer, a res­ ident of the house, for violating the city of South Bend loud and ND/SMC community offers relief to flood victims raucous noise ordinance. The raid was carried out By ELIZABETH REGAN after officers saw several peo­ Assistant Saint Mary's Editor ple at the residence who MIDWEST FLOOD RELIEF appeared to be under 21 years In an effort to aid flood vic­ old. Plainclothes officers made tims of the Midwest, a three the observation after being mile fun walk will take place at permitted to enter the house, 5 p.m Tuesday evening on the according to the South Bend Saint Mary's campus. Tribune. The Walk for Flood Victims, Students cited for underage ( sponsored by Campus Ministry, drinking were: , Student Activities, and Athletics Alumni Hall sophomore see Students I page 3 $2,400- Michael Hynes. Dillon Hall junior Neil department, will begin and end Knowlton. at the Clubhouse at Saint $1,500- Grace Hall sophomore Mary's. 8/29 Michael Hughes. Participants are being asked Holy Cross Hall sophomore for a $3 donation that will go Kathleen McFadden. toward the purchase of "Gift of LeMans Hall sophomores the Heart" recovery kits which Molly Foley, Sarah Haiman, will aid in the clean-up, repair Maria Myers, and Mary Zervos. and recovery in the flood-dam­ "We are modeling in many dif­ kits to the World Church Pangborn Hall sophomores aged areas. ferent ways the true spirit of a Services Organization. Jill Albanese, Emily Hansen, "I am really glad that we are Catholic college." The Scottsdale Mall Target and Maria Schott. doing this," said senior Jennifer The kits,.which consist of Store has agreed to match the Morrissey Hall sophomores Moore, the Spiritual Life cleaning supplies, bedding supplies purchased by Saint Peter Geraghty and Kevin Coordinator on the Board of materials, health aids, kitchen Mary's to be included in the Janicki. Governance. "It provides an utensils and food staples, will kits. Sorin Hall sophomore Mark affordable way to help flood be delivered to World Church Both the Red Cross and the Gesell. victims." Services of Moline, Ill. on the Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Off-campus junior Michael The college exceeded its ini­ weeketid of Sept. 25. Bend are accepting monetary McEvilly and senior Matthew tial monetary goal of $1,500 at Volunteers will be needed at donations in order to assist vic­ Carbone. the Orientation Mass before it the Clubhouse on Sept. 23 from tims of the floods. Through the A fifth Lafayette Square bur­ began publicizing the project to noon to 8 p.m. to help assemble World Church Services, the glary took place early in the the student body. After such a the contents of the kits. College is able to aid physically morning of Sunday, September promising start, the goal was "As the amount of money in the rebuilding stages, ac­ 12. raised to $2,500. raised increases, so does the cording to Fean. The suspect apparently en­ As of yesterday afternoon, need for volunteers," Fean said. The World Church Service tered through an unlocked win­ $2,400 was received through Volunteers from the South Organization, an ecumenical dow and stole a VCR and a student registration and vari­ Bend area have also con­ group, has linked Campus portable stereo, he said. The ous donations from faculty and tributed in the effort to aid the Ministry with a Methodist apartment's alarm system was alumnae. flood victims. church in Moline, Ill that is not activated during the time of "The support across the cam­ Van Dyn Crotty Inc., a local monitoring volunteers in the the burglary. he said. pus has just been great," said uniform company, has donated area. The suspect fits the same de- Judith Fean, acting assistant a truck and driver to deliver the director of Campus Ministry. see FLOOD/ page 4 see SECURITY I page 4 page2 The Observer· INSIDE Tuesday, September 14, 1993 INSIDE COLUMN WORLD AT A GLANCE Inside the Inside Exiled Aristide Demands Resignations Haiti assassination PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Column Exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide demanded on Monday that the police chief and army leaders quit following the assassination of a leading Aristide supporter. Caribbean For the first time ever, I'm going to give you, Aristide urged the international community to "help us rid ourselves without Sea the reader. a whirlwind course in the art of the delay of the leadership of this state-sponsored terrorism." inside column. His speech, broadcast to Haiti, followed U.N. envoy Dante Caputo's characteri­ This is the way it usually happens. Those of us zation of squads of plainclothes police as "killers." that sign up to do an inside..-------1 Clerics and human rights advocates accuse the special police agents of catry­ column usually do so well in ing out the killing Saturday of pro-Aristide businessman Antoine lzmery and advance and invariably have making a wave of death threats during the U.N.-backed transition to democra­ put little concrete thought cy. into it until a few minutes The hundreds of plainclothes special agents and 1,000 municipal police offi­ before it is due. In fact, if it cers in the capital are commanded by Joseph Michel Francois, an army colonel wasn't for the persistent who was a leader of the 1991 coup that forced Aristide into exile. "Those in command of military institutions and the chief of police have quite pestering of the affable 300mlles Rolando de Aguiar, very few simply given themselves other tasks to accomplish: the massacre of the popula­ Atlantic ~ of these columns would tion for the benefit of sordid interests," said Aristide. Ocean 300km probably be written at all. Jay Hosler The wave of violence has threatened the U.N. peace plan, under which This isn't because those Canoonist Aristide is scheduled to return Oct. 30. Under the accord, Francois and army of us at the Observer have commander Raoul Cedras, who signed the agreement with Aristide, must quit. nothing to say. No, this an Aristide, however, asked for their immediate resignations. opinionated lot that Later Monday, Aristide asked Parliament to consider a law shifting the police resides up here on the third flour of LaFortune. from military to civilian control, which is also part of the U.N. plan. The separa­ It's just that when you finally sit down to write tion is stated in the 1987 Haitian Constitution, but it has never been enacted. this thing your profound opinion seems to have A new democratic government led by Aristide's premier, Robert Malval, has dwindled to an inconsequential anecdote. After been helpless in the face of rising terror by its armed opponents. you've typed the first line, even the anecdote Malval's government, in a communique Sunday, said legal steps had been has evaporated and you are left with this nag­ taken against the attackers and the army had been ordered to "dismantle these ging desparation in your stomach as you try to armed bands." draw something, anything at all, from the ether. But Antoine Joseph, president of Haiti's lower house of parliament, said that At this stage in the game, everyone else in the "Malval's authority is null." AP/Carl Fox office has noticed your plight and are assailing you with a barrage of "What-are-you-writing­ abouts." Or better yet, they offer their sugges­ Judge grants opening of Chicago schools Ethnic dolls gain in popularity tions for really cool topics and then run away laughing when you otTer to let them write the CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA column.