Welcome Back Ahmni—Many Events Planned by Melissa Goodman this year. Men's Basketball Coach Tom Penders will Athletes—Ridiculous." The seminar will This weekend the Rose Hill campus will be From 10 to 11 a.m. Associate Professor of present a sports seminar in Freeman 103 en- discuss a proposal that suggests the paying of bustling with activity as Fordham students Afro-American Studies Mark Naison and titled "Salaries for College salaries to college athletes as opposed to welcome alumni home to celebrate in the awarding scholarships. festivities of homecoming. Runners will gather at 10:30 a.m. in front ji is expected that Homecoming Weekend, of the McGinley Center for the start for For- sponsored by the Alumni Association will at- dham's Fourth Annual three-mile campus tract crowds numbering around 6500 people. run. Commonly known as the "Fun Run", Assistant to the Director of Alumni Relations the race is being renamed in honor of Yd Buckley commented, "This is one of the O'Connor. biggest events of the year and we really expect While the "Artie O'Connor Three Mile a large turnout." Run" is going on, Weekend Activities Com- The weekend events will begin on Friday mittee will be sponsoring a Champagne with a Big Bancl Mixer featuring the Stan Brunch in the cafeteria. Rul)(n Hand, at 9 p.m. in the cafeteria. The Annual Tailgate Picnic for alumni, ' Homecoming day events begin at 9 a.m. students and their families will begin at 11:00 Saturday morning with a memorial mass at a.m. on Jack Coffey Field. Picnickers will be ':\\K University Church. University President entertained by a Dixieland band and the For- • lames Finlay S.J. will offer mass in honor of dham Ram mascot will be on hand with ;tl'ic hue Fordham College alumnus and track helium balloons for the amusement of young '• coach Artie O'Connor. O'Connor graduated Ram fans. Saga will be operating food con- ijn'ihe class of '28 and served as Fordham's cessions from beneath a 40' x 60' circus tent. : men's track coach for 28 years until his At the same time, Fordham soccer will play irciirement in 1962. O'Connor died in July of football Rams to host Georgetown Saturday. Continued on page 6 ; Postage PAID Bronx, New York Permit No. 7608 Non-ProfitOrg. Thursday October 7,1982 Volume 64 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK Number 21 Housing For Alumnus, Elderly Student Planned Mugged by Ellen McClure by Mark Dillon If everything goes as planned, Fordham v A Fordham College alumnus and a senior University could soon add a new dimension . wei?_mugged at gunpoint Monday evening at to campus life while helping the Bronx. For- the foot of the staircases leading to Faculty dham has announced that it recently received Memorial Hall. Although no one was in- preliminary approval of a $6.54 million mor- jured, the assailants are thought to be invol- tgage from the Department of Housing and ved in other incidents of crime in the Ford- Urban Development to buijd ,11£ units of ham area of the Bronx and are still at large. housing for the elderly and the handicapped. Bob Kaufmann, FC '82 and senior Chris- Assistant to the President 'for Urban Af- topher Layer, members of the rock band The fairs Brian Byrne said the proposed site for Watts had just finished practice and were the apartments will be on 2.9 acres of un- walking through parking area B on the way developed Parks Department Property, to the building at 11 pm. As the walked which is across the street from the New York down the staircase, they saw two men whom Botanical Garden and behind Fordham they described as a skinny black and a stocky Preparatory School. Hispanic, sitting on the grass and smoking, This land had been used by the Botanical Above: Blueprint for Rose Hill yet thought nothing of it. Garden , but then was returned to the Parks apartments. Inset: X denotes When Kaufmann and Layer reached the Department. Byrne said it soon became a planned location of apartments bottom of the stairs, the assailants jumped "dumping ground." The University had con- in relation to campus. up, demanded Kaufmann's and Layer's stantly asked the city to clean up the area, but watches and the contents of their wallets, and even now there are three abandoned cars on threatened to kill them if they did not the property. The city finally agreed to sell Brief By Two Law Students comply. According to Layer, the black the land to Fordham. pointed a long barreled pistol at the back of Byrne said the University did not originally Kaufmann's head and began to curse loudly. have any plans for the land, but when the After taking approximately $75 and two idea of housing for the elderly came up, Byr- Named Best In The World watches, the alleged suspects told them to ne decided to combine the two proposals. turn and walk in the opposite direction. Byrne said Fordham wants to construct the Kaufmann and Layer then ran to a friend's by Elaine Giacomello complex, which will be called Rose Hill Apar- around the research section of the library and apartment and notified the police. Officers at tments, "to make a contribution to the Two Fordham Law School students' brief figure out what the issues were." the 48th Police Precinct told them to appear Physical revitilization of the Bronx" as well on a human rights problem has been selected The team worked on the problem "every in person to report the crime. Having heard as to help the elderly. Byrne added that there the best in the world and another two Ford- day," according to Brennan, putting in six to this, Kaufmann and Layer notified campus are many elderly people in this area who are ham Law School students' brief the runner- seven hours a day on weekends too. Said security. IBI then notified the 48th Precinct, i'i need of housing. up for the best respondent's brief in the Gaden, "We were constantly battering ideas which sent a uniformed officer to Fordham. The Rose Hill campus can provide the world in the Philip C. Jessup International back and forth." Later Dectective Robert Duffy of the precin- elderly and the handicapped with services Law Moot Court Competition. The basic research resulted in an outline ct's robbery unit came to investigate the in- cident. already in existence. The University is con- Barbara Gaden, Stephen Vincent, William which was submitted around Thanksgiving. Duffy said later the "two fellows couldn't sidering allowing the residents to take free Brennan and Natalie Blaney were second Professor Maria Marcus, the coach of all give a positive description. We don't have courses, use the library and the Lombardi year law school students when they signed up Fordham interschool moot court teams, anything to go on, although the matter is still Center, participate in cultural events, join for the competition last fall. The Jessup helped edit the brief and made suggestions to being investigated. There are no suspects." clubs and ride the Ram Van, according to Competition is an interschool competition, the students. Additional help came from stu- Layer said that because the assailants "yrnc. The residents will also have easy ac- now in its 23rd year, which allows law school dents and teachers who aided in the oral threatened to use their weapon "we gave cess to Conrail, buses and the shopping students from all over the world to argue arguments and practice sessions. them what they wanted." district on Bedford Park Boulevard. The questions of international law. Althought the team was split up, with two Kaufmann described the suspects as being apartments will also have a full view of both After a twofold interview process with a members arguing each side, Gaden said all around 18 or 19 years old and about 5'7" in <w Botanical Garden and the Rose Hill student-faculty committee and Fordham Law of the members helped each other. The height. He said "it was partly our fault. We campus. School's moot court board, the four were closest work, she said, was really between didn't think anything would happen. It's not Even though Fordham did receive picked to work as a team on the problem two members from opposite sides because safe on campus. There's real danger out nary a rovaI of the received by the school. they helped alert each other to different m n" PP mortgage from there." He also added "they (IBI) didn't H The problem involved a fictitious colonial issues and questions. UD, the University must fulfill other have any guards out there. It's a really dead power in conflict with an independent revo- At the regional competitions involving requirements before construction can begin. area." lutionary power. Gaden and Vincent wrote a about 14 schools who gathered at Pace »ynie said his department, the Office of the Kaufmann said the IBI supervisor on duty south Bronx Development Affairs, is in the brief, which sets forth the main argument, University in March, Blaney was named for the colony and Blaney and Brennan third best speaker in the region and the that night told him the suspects are Process of negotiating the sale of the city's implicated in other robberies, based on the and to Fordham. Byrne said Fordham feels represented the revolutionary power. team's cumulative score was the highest. descriptions he and Layer provided. Layer ue my has asked too much for it.