Friday, December 1, 1995 • Vol. XXVII No. 65 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Existing levels of asbestos pose little threat to caiDpus .... By CORRINE DORAN asbestos. The results have always come News Writer back negative." Knight eould not specify the buildings but noted that "there is a While some buildings on campus con­ classroom building and a few other tain the hazardous fiber, students, facul­ buildings on campus" whose asbestos ty and staff who have seen "Danger" level is regularly tested. stickers warning of possible asbestos Faculty and student exposure to exposure have little reason to worry, asbestos on campus is minimal. The min­ according to Scott Knight, industrial eral, as it is used in building materials, is hygienist for the Office of Risk limited to floor tiles, pipe wrap insulation Management. and ceiling components. The stickers, which have appeared this "When you're walking down a normal year as a result of new federal regula­ hallway, exposure is nil. The only place tions, have been potential exposure is placed in all campus in tunnels and in buildings built before tearing things 1980. apart," said Knight. "A new legal stan­ "It is mostly places dard came out; you where the public is have to identify all FLOOR TILE AND/OR PIPE INSULATION not exposed. The asbestos in the entire MAY CONTAIN ASBESTOS FIBERS only people who are facility. Rather than AVOID CREATING DUST really affected by CANCER AND LUNG DISEASE HAZARDS spending the time CALL 631·5037 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION this are the employ­ and money to do ees like maintenance that, we chose to workers and house­ assume that asbestos is everywhere and keepers who are working in closets and put up the signs," said Knight. tunnels." "Just because that sticker's there The university is required by the regu­ doesn't mean that there is asbestos." lations to notify all people who may come Asbestos is a carcinogenic agent whose into contact with the mineral. partieles are very minute, according to "If it were to affect the general public, Lewis Price of the St. Joseph County we would be required to inform it as Health Department and Pollution well." Control. A list has been compiled to note areas "There is not an immediate threat. It known to contain asbestos and is takes a gradual exposure over a time of referred to when building repairs are 20 or so years for there to be a real done, aecording to director of mainte­ problem," Price said. nance Charles Thomas. The Observer/Rob Finch Areas on campus known to contain "We have an inventory of where all Glo-Dome asbestos are regularly tested for air qual­ asbestos is on eampus and any time ren­ ity, according to Knight. ovation or remodeling is done, we work The lights of the Notre Dame Christmas tree twinkle in the foreground, providing a "There are a few places in a few build­ lively frame for the image of the Dome. ings on campus that we know have see ASBESTOS I page 6 Moreau exhibit All the presidents' money promotes female By MARY KATE MORTON Associate News Editor niversity President Father Edward empowerment Malloy technically made $200,000 last By JESSICA ZIGMOND Uyear, but in reality he never saw a News Writ<r dime of it. Malloy's salary is entered in a pool with the pay of other members of the K. .Johnson Bowles, Director for the Moreau Art Congregation of the Holy Cross employed by c;allery at Saint Mary's College, recently discussed the University. Father Malloy's salary situation tlw thematic concerns behind "Women in Fear," is different that of many of the presidents of the Gallery's latest exhibit. Bowles explained that other private universities. all the pieces in the exhibit relate to the over­ In a recent survey conducted by the wlwlming feeling of fear that troubles many Chronicle of Higher Education, the financial women in Ameriea each day. status of university presidents from across the Eaeh work tells its own, unique story, and from country were compared in terms of yearly these stories, women are able to share- not benefits and salaries for 1993-1994. Compiled hide- their feelings of fear. "We share and gain from Internal Revenue Service Form 990s, strength through our dialogue," reflected Bowles. which reveal the financial expenditures of indi­ The exhibit runs through Dec. 8. vidual institutions, the Chroniele's list details The idea for the exhibit was designed last year the salaries and benefits of the ehief executive when a committee at the gallery reviewed "Hilclaiming the Night," a series by University of see SALARIES I page 8 Toledo professor Deborah Orloll'. Orloff, who was troubled by a fear of the night, confronted her fear by taking photographs after dark. Bowles, who bneume mortl aware of the issue of fear when she startfld working at an all-women's college, thought that other women could relate to OrloiT's theme. "Wiwn I started at Saint Mary's, I was struck by all the signs warning students not to walk alone, and I beeame more aware of women's vulnerabili­ ty in today's world," Bowles said. In reference to Orlofrs work, Bowles is eareful to point out. "We arfl not suggesting that students go out into the night to take pictures. Instead, we want them to Sfle that fear ean be confronted." Sinee Bowles understood that this topic was uni­ vnrsul, she sent advertisements to national art magazines in the hopes of creating an exhibit that would expand nationwide. Bowles said she was .·.·,'~ 1o.r;.il!IUV amazed at the number of proposals she received. .Grad. Dean (Hatch) !'..···:·{·.:,· . -·----· see FEAR I page 6 page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Friday, December I, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • Wmn.u AT A GLANCE Smoldering Nicaraguan volcano forces evacuation 'Tis the LEON. Nicaragua the foot of the 2,200-foot volcano were The Cerro Negro volcano spewed hot frustrated Thursday because the heavy Christmas ash, steam and 50-pound rocks 1,000 ash, dampened by rain, downed tree feet into the air Thursday, blanketing limbs that blocked roads. the area with what looked like black About 6,000 people live in the imme­ season snow and sending people fleeing with diate vicinity of the volcano, which is the few belongings they could carry. dumping ash and soil over a 30-mile It's that time of year The likelihood of an explosive, full­ radius that includes Leon, a city of again. That time when Dan Cichalski Assisrant Accent Ediror scale eruption from the volcano, locat­ 150,000 people 15 miles away. all the stores put up ed 7 5 miles northwest of the capital of The government on Monday began to plastic trees and strings Managua, was not clear. A group of evacuate people near the volcano, of red lights to remind customers to start buy­ American volcano experts arrived in which rumbled to life Nov. 19 after a ing presents for all those loved ones before all Nicaragua Thursday to assess the situ­ three-year lull. It declared a state of the good gifts are gone. Yup, it's Christmas ation. emergency in the region Wednesday. time, when all the advertisers have a field day But ash from the volcano's continual "The water has run out," said with Santa Claus on Coke cans and Absolut belching piled up across thousands of Ernestina Delgado, 70, who took refuge Tradition ads in Life and in Rolling Stone. acres of fields and forests and on the with 75 others Thursday in the town of Each year the commercialization of roofs of peasant huts. Lechecuagos. "The wells are full of Christmas increases. There always seem to Trees, shrubs, harvest-ready sugar sand and we don't have anything to be more gift ideas, more home decorating cane, corn and other crops have col­ eat." tips, more Martha Stewart "simple" recipes, lapsed under the weight of the ash. Jairo Vargas, a young peasant from more kinds of wrapping paper, more televi­ People covered their heads with hats or the village of El Porvenir, said at least sion specials, just more Christmas. rags; those on horseback resembled three families there wanted to leave but The stores are decorated earlier every year. desert Bedouins. could not because fallen trees and (University Park Mall was on top of things "We are facing an ecological disas­ limbs left them trapped. way back in November-the 8th to be exact.) ter. This area will have a hard time Vargas reached his brother's farm Ted Turner colorizes yet another Christmas recovering from this," said federal and helped him and his family leave in Movie Classic. NBC promotes "Home Alone" deputy Omar Cabezas as he toured the stricken area. an ox cart piled high with bedding, pots and pans, a as a "Thanksgiving family tradition." Civil Defense workers struggling to evacuate families at dozen chickens and a pig. Saturday Night Live reruns its "Christmas Spectacular." Notre Dame students are snug­ gled in their beds (or library cubicles) with Monarchy finally goes to mass Illini mascot okayed in ruling visions of bowl games dancing in their heads. Recently there seems to be an abundant LONDON CHAMPAIGN, Ill. production of Christmas music. Musicians Queen Elizabeth II stepped across a The University of Illinois' controversial mascot, Chief feel obligated to release a Very Special centuries-old divide and into London's. llliniwek, does not create a hostile environment for Indi­ Christmas album of "original and contempo­ Roman Catholic cathedral on Thurs­ ans, the U.S.