... fohn & Yoko -page 7 VOL. XV, NO. 67 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1980 Students to meet Roemer i':i·' concerning weekend melee By Mary Fran Callahan keep their appointment with Senior Copy Editor Roemer. Roemer declined all comment The group of Notre Dame on the situation, saying he owed students who plans to bring the students "the courtesy" of charges of . false arrest and discussing the matter privately incarceration against the South with them before commenting Bend Police Department will publicly. The dean said, meet today with Dean of however, that he will issue a Students James Roemer. statement today clarifying his 1 Roemer became involved in position on the entire matter. the incident when he was The seven students contend notified by an assistant rector in that they became involved in Carroll Hall of the student fights with men aged 45-50 after arrests. He then arranged for the one of the men allegedly stole a release of the students, at 10:30 student's wallet, following the p.m. However, the students Notre Dame-Air Force football claimed in yesterday's Observer game. The students say they that Roemer first learned of the never retaliated in the fighting. incident at approximately 5 Police, however, contend that p.m., and did not act on their the students exhibited disorderly behalf at that time. conduct. Four of the students Two days later, the students spent approximately six hours in This is a picture of Pasquerilla East. Women will be living i11 Pasquerilla West after the break. (photo by Rachel visited Roemer in search of jail, though the police did not Blount). sound legal advice, but were officially press charges, unable to arrange for an ap­ Since no witnesses of the pointment until today. Mean­ incident have come forward, the while, the students contacted a details of the confrontation re­ local attorney who agreed to main nebulous, with students counsel them free of charge. and police still pleading their Senate election results stand They do intend. however, to cases. By Tim Vercellotti submission of receipts for campaign expendi­ Senior Staff Reporter tures, and the placement of poste.rs in" restricted In Caribbean areas" on election day. The seating of the five recently elected student Tara Kenney, spokeswoman for the committee, senators, including Frank Tighe, the contested elaborated on the violations. According to Force may shut down victor in District 2; and a presentation of proposed Kenney, the posters in question consisted of sheets of computer printout paper, taped converted submarine school on revisions in the constitution of the Campus Life By Stephm C. Smtih Council dominated the business considered in last together. Kenney pointed out that was an Associated Press Wrtter the once-bustling U.S. Naval infraction of an election rule which required that base here. night's meeting of the Student Senate. A report submitted by a special Senate the size of posters be limited to eleven inches by "But whatever brought about KEY WEST, Fla.- When investigative committee upheld the decision of seventeen inches. "This was admitted by Hans," Sens. Richard Stone, D/Fla., and this task force, when Carter Kenney stated. established it he fulfilled a long­ the Ombudsman Election committee to disqualify Frank Church, D/ldaho, bally­ District 2 Senate candidate Hans Hoerdemann, The second violation concerned Hoerdemann's hooed the presence of Soviet standing, extremely valid mili­ receipts for his posters. As told by Kenney, it was tary requirement to have a group making Frank Tighe the winner. combat troops in Cuba last year, The report stated that "OBUD has the right to Hoerdemann's belief that the computer sheets they threatened to stall action on of people focus in on the which were used to create the posters had "no Caribbean." disqualify a candidate." The full Senate voted to the SALT II treaty until accept the decision, in spite of Keenan Hall resale value", in this.case Hoerdemann felt that no President Carter acted. But the future of the task force receipts were necessary. is now up to Ronald Reagan. President Bill Carson's announcement that five of So with great fanfare, Carter the six hall presidents of the dorms in District 2 The election rules as set up by the Election set up a new military command Some high-ranking military Committee require that all donations, with the officers say a Carter administra­ support a new election, or a count of the ballots here, just 90 miles from the from the recent runoff. The ballots are in OBUD's exception of human labor, be counted in the $25 tion plan to scuttle the task force communist island. possession at present, according to OBUD budget accorded to each candidate. Although Today, as Carter, Stone and has been tabled until Reagan Hoerdemann was in violation oft he rule, it was the takes over. director Tom Phillis. Church savor their last weeks in The report pointed out that Hoerdemann was committee's conclusion that "the rule is Other sources say Reagan's office- all were ousted by the found in violation of three election rules; the rules ambiguous", and that the "decision on computer voters- the future of the f continued on page 4} governed the size of campaign posters, the Caribbean Contingency Joint famtinm:d on paxe 3} Task Force is cloudy. "I hope to God they don't disband this headquarters," said Rear Adm. Robert McKenzie who heads the task force. "We've left a rotten apple in ND reseachers work toward cancer cure the middle of the Caribbean basin down here and that rotten • apple v.;,e left down here is Fidel Castro. By Sheila Shunick classifications of Alpha, Beta and interferons, according to and he claims the best anti-tumor Gamma interferons. One of the Burleson. Both kinds are being interferon may be known in less Cancer researchers in the major dilemmas, said Burleson, used by ND researchers. than three months. Notre Dame microbiology de­ is in determining which type of The exogenous approach in­ The second approach, the partment may be close to some interferon would be most effect­ volves the synthesis of inter­ endogenous method, focuses on important findings regarding the ive in the treatment of cancer. ferons in the laboratory. These interferon inducers rather than use of interferon. According to Much research has been done on interferons are then purified and the interferons themselves. The Although he's aware some Prof. Gary Burleson, enthusiasm Alpha and Beta interferons but injected into the patient. Prof. ideal interferon inducer would military officials scoff at his is running high as a group of Gamma interferons, for the most Morris Pollard has developed produce high levels of circulating command, McKenzie says he's talented professionals and stu­ part, have been ignored due to animal models to be used in these interferons when injected into a convinced he and his 70 officers dents push toward their ultimate the difficulty involved in the cancer research experiments. patient It would be non-toxic and enlisted men have an goal: development of a way to production of them. Researchers These animals have different and would not illicit an immunity important military mission in an use interferon as an effective, in the ND microbiology depart­ kinds of cancer, and by injecting response. At present, noted area the United States has ig­ non-toxic anti-tumor agent, a ment believe that Gamma inter­ the purified interferons into Burleson, an ideal interferon nored for too long. "cure for cancer." ferons may be the most effective. these animals, their effectiveness inducer has not been found. "I've heard all the rumors. I've Interferon is a glyco-protein Research is being done in all with the different kinds ofcancer Several studies are being made heard it was conceived because discovered in 1957. It may be three categories. can be compared and contrasted. and much progress has occurred, of political motivations," the found in many different forms, There are two main approach­ Much progress is being made in (continr1ed on page 3} admiral said in his office in a all falling within the three main es to the study and research of this area, according to Burleson, ------------~- NeWS Brie,b Thursday, December4, 19so- page 2 c============*==============================~ by The Observer and The AJJociated PreiS Inside Thursday Mao Tse-tung's widow admitted in court yesterday that she led a group in rigging up false evidence Senateseardhesforrespect against then-Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and ordered the arrest of his glamorous, U.S.-born wife on charges she was an American spy, the official Xinhua news agency reported. "No taxation without representation." Peking Radio reported earlier that Jiang Qing quibbled and -Anonymous American battle cry, mid-18th evaded questions in response to charges that she led "the century .Tom nation's greatest frame-up"- the seizure of Liu, who died in "You guys must be really hard up for stories." jail in 1969, and his wife Wang Guangmei. ('hinese sources had - Paul]. Riehle, Dec. 1980 Jackman. said Jiang Qing, leader of the Gang of Feu, appeared self­ It is not a new idea to propose that the term · Executive News Editor assured before the Supreme People's Court as she denied "student government" is a misnomer. cha.rges she ordered the persecution ofLuiand Wang. They are "Government" implies the power to govern, belteved to have been arrested in the summer of 1967. Liu was legislate and take action, three powers which our don't think the people who work underneath the exonerated posthumously last spring; Wang works as the student government is notoriously lacking.