m 150 YEARSBS X H OBSERVER Friday, April 22, 1994" Vol. XXVI No. 129 NOTRE DAME-INgg THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Administration changes the state of Grace By SARAH DORAN Residents of Grace were in­ conversion of intermediate to renovate the Main Building cut back on the actual amount News Editor formed of the conversion yes­ male dorms to female dorms—a within the next five years. Al­ of space availible in the build­ terday by O’Hara via letter. conversion which was done to though the building has been ing, it is necessary that Grace Following the 1995-96 aca­ Specific plans for the con­ accommodate the incremental under constant refurbishing, it permanently remain an admin­ demic year, Grace Hall will be struction of the new halls—as increase in female students has not had a major renovation istrative building. converted to a perm anent ad­ well as the conversion of Grace during the past 20 years. in its 115 year existence. Such The tower is expected to per­ ministrative office building and, and the Main building—will be As a result of these conver­ renovation is needed to make it manently house the University’s upon conversion, the Main considered at the University’s sions, the Office of Student Af­ accessible to people with physi­ purchasing and accounting Building will be vacated to un­ Board of Trustees upcoming fairs became concerned that cal disabilities and planned offices, among others. It is con­ dergo a major renovation. May 5-6 meeting. men were disproportionately changes include the addition of venient for these offices to be Benefactors of Notre Dame concentrated in large residence an elevator. located on the edge of campus ■ see REACTION, page 4 have donated funds for the new halls, said O’Hara. The addition “The building is not unsafe, in order to be accessible to out­ halls and a number of sites are of the two new halls will result but should be improved from a side vendors, said Brown. currently under consideration, in a better configuration of structural standpoint,” said Offices like those of the Current Grace freshmen, all of which fall in the South men’s halls on campus, she Brown. “It is also needed to President of the University, along with the incoming stu­ Quad area, said O’Hara. The added. improve the character of the Admissions, Financial Aid and dents to be placed in the hall multi-step plan is in the early “This design was chosen in an outside public areas. ” Student Affairs will return to over the next two academic stages, she added. effort to maintain famility and a Neither the estimated costs of the Main building upon renova­ years, will be moved “as a com­ The University is expected to community atmosphere,” said the new residence halls nor tion. munity” into two new residence break ground for the two 275- Dennis Brown, assistant direc­ those of the renovation were Grace Hall was constructed halls to be built by the fall of man residence halls next tor of Notre Dame public rela­ availible. with a gift from J. Peter Grace, 1996, according to Patricia spring. The decision to build tions and information. There is currently a shortage former member of the Univer- O’Hara, vice president for Stu­ two intermediate size men’s The origin of the plan devel­ of availible office space on cam­ dent Affairs. halls stemmed from the recent oped from the University’s need pus and as the renovations will see GRACE / page 4 Two professors awarded NASA research grants By JOHN CONNORTON News W riter To better study the effects of microgravity, Arvind Varma, Schmitt professor of chemical engineering, Paul McGinn, associate professor of electrical engineering, and David Leighton, asso­ ciate professor of chemical engineering were selected by NASA to receive a grant for their orig­ inal research proposals. Varma and McGinn received a joint two-year grant totaling $229,000. McGinn and Leighton both received individual two-year research grants totaling $100,000. Varma and McGinn are cooperating on a project entitled “Gasless Combustion Synthesis from Elements Under Microgravity: A Study of Structure-Formation Processes.” The two plan on studying the effects of micro­ gravity on reactions between solids to produce new materials. Varma explained that in combustion synthesis, one of the materials melts and spreads around the other reactant. This spreading is effected by gravity, and therefore microgravity experiments will better determine the outcome of such reac­ tions.', Varma will be the principal investigator of the grant, the person who directs the research, Rakow appears on “Larry King” because of his previous long term research in the field. McGinn will bring his materials processing By LIZ FORAN colleges and universities across the Security, Inc., a program which has background to his position of co-investigator. Assistant News Editor U.S. and abroad—Rakow is a well been instrumental in passing three “McGinn has a certain expertise which has been respected authority on campus federal laws and 18 state laws a great help in the past,” said Varma, and he You may have come up against crime. requiring campuses to reveal violent hopes their newest effort will be just as success­ him as he prevented you from storm­ Accompanied by a panel featuring crime statistics. ful. ing the field celebrating after a victo­ Secretary of Education Richard Riley Although campuses are not free Although their principal research will be done rious game. and president of Catholic University from crime, Rakow said, it is not a here on campus, Varma and McGinn will travel to You may have talked to him to Patrick Ellis, Rakow, who has been problem that has gotten out of hand. Cleveland, Ohio to take advantage of NASA’s clear up those tickets accumulated at Notre Dame for 14 years, dis­ “Certainly there is crime on cam­ Lewis research facility in the suburbs outside of for parking on-campus. cussed the safety of college campus­ pus. Crime does get into the campus the city. There, they will have at their disposal But last nig ht D irector of ND es, what is being done to alleviate environment, but I wouldn’t describe drop-tubes, drop-towers, aircraft that fly parabol­ Security Police Rex Rakow was more the problem of violent campus it as rampant,” said Rakow. ic trajectories and sounding rockets, all facilities than an imposing campus security crime, and whether or not colleges “Violent crime is 13 percent of all and equipment that can provide several seconds figure in dark glasses—he was an and universities attempt to cover up crime nationally, but only 3 percent of reduced gravity. imposing campus security figure on violent incidents to avoid negative on campuses. Campus is actually a Varma and McGinn’s research will prove of national T V. publicity. safer environment,” he added. great benefit to NASA if things proceed as The panel also included two fami­ But Kathy Booth and Kerdene planned. lies who lost children to campus vio­ DePriest disagreed with Rakow’s “NASA hopes to conduct material processing in ■ see SECURITY, page 4 lence and a woman whose roommate assertion. its space station at some point. With microgravity was brutally attacked at Wesleyan While Booth instituted a student experiments, there are a lot of things you can do Rakow appeared last night on University. run campus escort system at better in space than you can on Earth,” McGinn CNN’s Larry King Live as part of a Howard and Connie Clery lost their Wesleyan following the attack of a explained. two part series on crime in daughter Jeanne to campus violence friend, DePriest’s son was murdered In his separate project, McGinn will seek to America’s schools. in 1986 when she was raped, sodom­ by former students and acquain­ determine whether processing in the absence of As president of the International ized and strangled to death as a stu­ tances of his roommate. Both gravity will alleviate segregation of precipitates in Association of Campus Law dent at Lehigh University. DePriest and Booth agreed that more high-temperature superconductors. Enforcement Administrators The incident prompted the Clerys needs to be done about campus Leighton's project, “Oscillatory Cross-Flow Elec­ (IACLEA)—an organization of cam­ to initiate an effort to force campus­ security for students living both on trophoresis: Application to Production Scale pus law enforcement officials that es to reveal crime statistics. These and off campus. provide training and information to efforts have materialized in Campus see RAKOW / page 4 see NASA / page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, April 22, 1994 INSIDE COLUMN WORLD AT A GLANCE Bookstore’s Israel’s Rabin ready to uproot Golan settlements who have been demanding Israel dismantle settle­ JERUSALEM Since the 1967 Middle East War, 32 LEBANON just not for settlements have been created on the Mediterranean ments in the West Bank Israel is willing to Golan Heights and became home to Sea and Gaza Strip. It was uproot Jewish settlements 15,000 Israeli settlers. angrily condemned, how­ in the Golan Heights to LEBANON ever, by the Committee of everybody achieve peace with Syria, Golan Settlements, repre­ Prime Minister Yitzhak a miles senting the 13,000 Israelis Rabin said Thursday. in 32 communities who live Most Notre Dame stu­ “ For m e, p eace is a —Jordan f? Tel Aviv among the 17,000 Arabs dents anticipate the begin­ more important value for ning of the Bookstore there. the future of Israel’s secu­ sa le m “For the sake of peace at Basketball season with an rity than one group of set­ ISRAEL I GOLAN JORDAN any price with the Syrians, eagerness and excitement tlements or another,” HEIGHTS usually reserved for the the prime minister is likely Rabin told leaders of Zefat to bring about a split in the opening of a J.