HERE WE COME A-CAROLIN' • After days of indirect communica­ • Looking for New Life • As the holidays approach, traditional tion, student body president Matt The Notre Dame men's hockey team will music of the season fills Notre Dame. Griffin and senior Jeremy Lingen­ face Western Michigan tonight in Michigan Find out about the upcoming concerts felser, who authored a petition to have and tomorrow at the Joyce Center. The on campus in Accent. Griffin recalled from office, will meet Irish will attempt to end their four-game p. 10 & 11 on the radio today. p. 3 losing streak. Back Page Friday, December 5, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 65 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • SECURITY BEAT Fire damages student's Campus View apartment By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN Associate News Editor Holy Cross College student Brendan Kelly lived every tenant's nightmare yes­ terday afternoon when his apartment caught on fire. Kelly, who lives at 1777 Irish Way in Campus View Apartments, smelled smoke filtering through his apartment at 3 p.m. "Me and my friend were sitting here when we smelled the smoke," he said. "We went around unplugging every­ thing, but that didn't stop the smoke. So we went and got the maintenance guy. He looked around and couldn't find any­ thing, so he thought that it was coming from the walls and called 911." The South Bend Fire Department responded with five fire vehicles, and had the fire extinguished by 4:30 p.m. "We are not sure if there was a mal­ function in the furnace, or a defect in The Observer/Bryan Furze the wiring caused by the furnace due to Fire trucks from the South Bend Fire Department responded to a 911 call that led them to the residence of Holy Cross College student the installation of the electrical wiring Brendan Kelly, whose Campus View apartment caught fire yesterday due to faulty electrical wiring. which was in close proximity to the heat too. Right now its going to take some "One other complication that we found Apartments, said that Kelly would be runs," said Capt. Tim Paczkowski of the electricians and furnace guys to deter­ here was that there was no battery in moved to a new apartment until his South Bend Fire Department. "Over a mine which part malfunctioned first." the smoke detector," Paczkowski said. apartment could be cleaned. ·"The period time, heat can deteriorate the The Fire Department said that they "If this had been three o'clock in the important thing is that no one got hurt," insulation of wiring. We do know the thought the damage could have been morning, it could have been a lot worse. she said. "It could have been a lot furnace filter was clogged up, but it much worse if Kelly had not been home He probably wouldn't have survived." worse, but the fire department got here could have been clogged up by the fire at the time of the fire. Clare Myers, manager of Campus View in time to put it out before it spread." fRIDAY FEATURE • SECURITY BEAT INVESTING IN THE FUTURE Solvents remove Endowment tops paint from some $1.5 billion in '97 vandalized areas By MICHELLE KRUPA By DEREK BETCHER Associate News Editor Associate News Editor A synthetic chemical solution created by a Propelled by successful investing and significant alumni private consultant to remove paint from vari­ contributions. the Notre Dame endowment has enjoyed ous University buildings that were vandalized ncar-record growth in 1997, and now stands at $1.515 over the weekend was partially successful, billion - a total which makes it the largest endowment in according to Bob Zerr, director of Risk Catholic higher education. Management and Safety. Despite October's downturn on the stock market, Notre "The chemical removals ~'1::~,.-, 1 -.."''•Ja Dame's endowment will finish 1997 with a robust 20 per­ that we used worked on the • See "Senate cent approximate growth rate, a figure which contributes granite wall [around the stat- to inquire to an unprecedented 52 percent total appreciation during ue of the Sacred Heart of aboutvandal­ the last four years. Jesus], but were not very sue- ism to ND Because over half of the endowment's proceeds are cessful with the limestone in reserved for scholarships and endowed faculty positions, front of Bond Hall," he said. Security" P· 7 students hoping for larger financial aid packages may The statue's wall will be treated with the chemical, which clears up see ENDOW I page 4 paint that was determined to have a similar makeup as Rustoleum, during the next few Endowment Allotment days. june 1997 Zerr noted that it would require "quite a bit of effort" to completely clean the area. He went on to say that other areas did not react as well to the treatment. Among these were areas outside of Bond Hall, wooden (11.4%) benches near Badin Hall, and wooden doors Libraries (3.5%) Academic Programs at the Knights of Columbus building and the Joyce Center. "We're going to take the benches and remove them from their sites to take them to a carpenter's shop to have them stripped and repainted. We may also have to remove some (16.5%) Other of the doors that were painted," Zcrr said. While these four chemical solutions did not AFP Photo clear up all damage, Zerr said that the con­ .. trong capital and equity markets both on Wall Street and sultant will formulate different removal Sabroad have influenced the recent rocketing growth of agents over the weekend which will be tried Notre Dame's endowment investment. on Monday. page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Friday, December 5, 1997 • iNSIDE COLUMN Where is the utside the Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports Compassion? HOPE scholarships to benefit families with college students When I think oftoday's LA JOLLA, Calif. both middle and low-income families." society, I have to wonder: Kristi Klitsch President Clinton's new HOPE schol­ Credits are subtracted directly from where did all the compas­ Wire Editor arship program will make tuition costs the taxes people owe. Deductions, on sion go? a little easier for many students and the other hand, are subtracted from This is the season of giving, when every major their parents. The program provides incomes before taxes are calculated. street comer is adorned with a Salvation Army parents and independent students with There are limits to eligibility for the tax Santa and a red bucket for donations. the opportunity to claim tax credits to credits. First, the tax credits can only This is the season of "Toys for Tots," and help cover out-of-pocket tuition be given to students whose scholar­ "Project Warmth"; yet why is this compassion only expenses. ships do not cover all of their tuition. seen at Christmas, and as a mere side effect of the There are two possible tax credits. Second, eligibility is reduced on a ecstasy that the holiday brings? The ftrst, the HOPE Credit, is designed Learning Credit will provide each tax sliding scale. For single filers, the Why is it that thousands of homeless people to help with tuition costs for the first filer with no more than the $1,000 amount of the credit is reduced for ta{{­ walk cold, dark streets on Christmas Eve, while two years of college. maximum credit. payers with adjusted gross incomes millionaires spend Christmas in Vail, or Pari<;? The program provides a credit of up Both credits cannot be applied to the between $40,000 and $50,000 per I am not expressing pessimism, rather dissatis­ to $1,500 per year, applicable only to tuition costs of the same student in a year. The reduction for joint filers faction. Dissatisfaction with society, as it tuition costs. The credit can be claimed single tax year. On the other hand, the applies to taxpayers with adjusted approaches the Christmas holiday with a "Bah for each qualified student, regardless two credits can be claimed on the same gross incomes between $80,000 and Humbug attitude"; toward the government for of how many students are in the family. return for different qualifying students $100,000 per year. allowing so many people to go homeless and poor; A second program is the Lifetime in the same family. Also, taxpayers must have incomes and with capitalism, for replacing the ideas of Learning Credit. This is a tax credit of "[The tax credits] will affect just high enough so that their tax liability is compassion and community with selfishness and up to $1,000 per year, which can be about every student at UCSD who is eli­ at least as large as the credit. The egotism. claimed for every year in school. gible," said Richard Backer, UCSD income level required for the HOPE Let's face it: in our society the rich continue to However, regardless of how many stu­ assistant vice chancellor for enrollment credit is about $16,000 for single fliers get richer and the poor continue to get poorer. dents are in the family, the Lifetime management. "The program will help and $21,000 for joint filers. The current welfare system isn't helping anyone, and housing projects merely represent society's desire for a quick fix to societal problems. Many • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN • BROWN UNIVERSITY people think that if you give every needy family a check every month, and every homeless person Students split on diversity issue Gray recounts sexual assault "three hots and a cot," that the problem will be solved. ANN ARBOR, Mich. PROVIDENCE, R.I.