l j J J j Thursday, January 19, 1995 • Vol. XXVI No. 68· TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT ' Report: Kinder, Farmer charged with battery description of the events of October 16. came to the hearing well prepared and Disciplinary hearing According to DuLac, student policy intent of poking holes in the alleged vic­ and resident life guidebook, Kinder and tim's story. If the panel exonerates enters second day Farmer could face disciplinary proba­ Kinder and Farmer, then they will con­ tion, suspension, or expulsion from the tinue their careers, both academic and due to testimony University. athletic, without any mark on their DuLac also states that the principals records. By DAVE TYLER are not allowed to bring legal counsel to If they are disciplined, DuLac gives the News Editor the hearing. The Tribune reports that players the option to appeal to President Kinder Farmer the players are being represented by Malloy's office or the office of residence The South Bend Tribune reported federal regulations governing student two female law students, termed "peer life within three days after being notified Wednesday that Notre Dame football student counsel" by DuLac. of the decision of the panel presiding players Randy Kinder and Robert privacy. The disciplinary hearing entered its University policy stipulates that the over the hearing. Farmer have been charged with battery hearing remain closed to all except the The Tribune report says the panel by the Office of Student Affairs, and are second day Wednesday at an undis­ closed campus site. According to the principals, their peer student counsel, isn't likely to hand down a decision until currently involved in a disciplinary hear­ witnesses and other appropriate resi­ several days after the completion of the ing to address that charge. Tribune. the first day of the hearing Tuesday lasted more than eight hours. dence life staff. hearing. No estimate was given as to A female student has alleged that Neither the Office of Student Affairs or how long the hearing might last. Kinder and Farmer were involved in an The report went on to say that most dis­ ciplinary hearings take less than half Notre Dame security are required to Kinder and Farmer are both sopho­ incident at Grace Hall in the early hours report the incident to the St. Joseph's mores and were heavily recruited by of October 16. shortly after Notre that time. The proceedings reportedly were County Prosecutor's office without the Notre Dame's football program. Kinder Dame's loss to Brigham Young. full cooperation of the person alleging was Michigan's high school player of the University officials are prohibited from extended by the lengthy testimony of numerous witnesses and a detailed the incident. commenting on the matter because of The Tribune reports that the players see REPORT/ page 4 • NEWS ANALYSIS Quake death toll mounting Little hope for success By P.H. FERGUSON Associated Press Earthquake devastates of planned cease-fire KOBE, Japan Hundreds of thousands of Kobe, surrounding area By BRAD PRENDERGAST people jammed the main road Assistant News Editor out of Kobe today. some limp­ ec ens ing and in bandages as they The proposed cease-lire that picked past collapsed buildings Kobe was scheduled to take effect and piles of rubble that were Port, which handles 12 percent last night in the war-torn reclaim homes and stores before a cata­ of Japan's exports, closed Hussian region of Chechnya has strophic earthquake struck. except for emergency usa. little hope of succeeding, said The death toll neared 2,700. Ferry tenninals also closed. Igor Grazin, a faculty fellow at territory Thousands who stayed be­ Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute hind huddled around campfires By BARRY RENFREW and caught water from broken for International Studies. Associated Press Grazin, a member of the for­ pipes, too terrified to go into mer. Soviet Union's first demo­ GROZNY, Russia their homes. eratically elected Congress of Chechen fighters recaptured Many phone lines in the west­ People's Deputies from 1989- Orozny's train station and ern port city were still down, 91, said that any cease-lire will were fighting for the central and friends and family strug­ only be temporary. market Wednesday in apush gled to find each other. People Unes tor the "A cease-lire is not going to that was close to wiping out all left notes tacked to what was high-speed trains solve anything," he said. "It is gains made by the Russian left of their homes, telling each damaged at 36 tlXtremely positive whenever a army in the last two weeks. other where they had taken places over a peaceful solution has a chance Chances of a cease-fire, shelter. length of about 56 The earthquake early Tues­ of being introduced, but in this scheduled for Wedne~day Kanullnt'l. Airport miles. At least case it is not a step toward per­ day triggered hundreds of fires, three months will night. appeared slim despite The newer of two area manent peace." earlier Russian pea,ce over­ and many of them burned be needed for The three-year quest by through the day and night. By airports sustained no repairs to track tures. In Moscow, President major damage. Chcchens to gain independence Boris Yeltsin. ruled out talks today, the wind-whipped fires and bridges. attracted the international spot­ with Chechen leader Dzhokhar had burned out. light in late December following Dudayev. In Grozny, the White smoke rose from the 25 miles a failed Russian invasion of the Chechen capital, defenders rubble and blackened debris, which extended for miles eapital city of Grozny. said they would never lay 25km But according to Grazin, Rus­ down their arms. through the center of the city. sian President Boris Yeltsin has Russian artillery and rockets Throughout Kobe, leaking gas manipulated the media cover­ hissed from ruptured pipes, raising the threat of explosions. age in an attempt to preserve see CHECHENS/ page 4 the last remnants of his power. The devastation, hundreds of The January 6 tongue-lashing "Third-. fourth-, and fifth rate aftershocks and lack of basic that Yeltsin gave defense minis­ soldiers have been sent to services sent hundreds of thou­ ter Pavel Grachev for his han­ Chechnya," he said. "The 2500 sands of people fleeing, many to dling of the conflict was an at­ casualties suffered by the Rus­ the shelter of family and tempt to stifle rumors that sian army so far have been due friends. Yeltsin was losing control of the to poor training." Makoto Hiroiyama was send­ military. "There are 18 and 19 year­ ing his wife. mother and child WATER: Supply to about60,000 households was suspended. olds fighting who don't even out of town to stay with rela­ Yeltsin has complained to re­ ELECTRICITY: About 916,000 households were blacked oul porters that his military officers know how to put bullets in the tives. have not provided him with ac­ magazine of their Kalish­ "It's dangerous here, and AP curate reports from the battle­ nikovs," he added. there's no water," he said. "It's primitive level. Telephone ser­ More than 120,000 people front. but that simply is not Moreover. the native no place for my elderly mother vice, power, gas and train ser­ sought shelter Tuesday night. true, said Grazin. Chechens have a crucial advan­ and my child." vice were still largely knocked In Kobe's Suma district, "lie is clearly lying," Grazin tage that the Russians have not The death toll from the out. 70,000 people were evacuated said. "All one needs to do is been able to overcome, he said. quake, the worst to strike a In Kobe, which had been a after gas leaked from cracked turn on the TV to lind out what "The Chechens are in the Japanese city since 1923, thriving, cosmopolitan city of tanks in a nearby industrial Hxactly is happening. Caucasian mountain region that climbed to 2,679 by evening. A 1.4 million, people crouched area. "Yeltsin is completely in is their home. They know the teacher from Los Angeles, 24- around campfires and used At shelters, people blinked in charge of the military opera­ land. For the Russians, this is year-old Voni Lynn Wong, was water from ruptured pipes. the sooty daylight, waiting for tions in Chcchnya," he added. unknown terrain. That, com­ among the victims. "It's 'like hell here," said food. A few wandered through But his control has come at a bined with that fact that the At least 14,572 people were Satoko Kawase, 26, who lives the rubble, poking at the smok­ price. In protest against the use Russian soldiers have never hurt. Nearly 900 people were on the city's outskirts. "It's like ing ruins of their former homes. of Hussian forces, 25 of the top been explained what their mis­ still listed as missing, but hopes World War II again." ''I'm helpless. All I can do is generals in the Hussian military sion is, has made the struggle faded of finding more victims Hundreds of aftershocks rat­ sit around the fire like this and have resigned, putting field op­ difficult," he said. alive in the rubble. tled the region. Many people wait," said a middle-aged man erations in the hands of the less Moscow has given numerous In the quake zone, life in a were too terrified to sleep in­ resting at a shelter in an ele­ competent, according to Grazin. high-tech country was suddenly doors and spent the night in the mentary school.