1 VOL. XXV. N0.23 The ObserverWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Irish Guard disbanded for alcohol- related offenses By MONICA YANT Guard: Unfair Editor-in-Chief dismissal For the second time in five years, the Irish Guard was dis­ By MONICA YANT banded Tuesday for alcohol Editor-in-Chief • Guard History I page 4 For seniors Pat Bednarz and violations and improper Chris Boone, the news of the conduct, according to Professor Irish Guard's dismissal travelled Patricia O'Hara, vice president like a cruel - and unfunny - for Student Affairs. joke. Citing multiple reports of al­ "Due to rumors, blasphemy cohol-related offenses, O'Hara and numerous other reports dismissed the Guard and made that have gotten back to Stu­ provisions for a probationary dent Affairs, we're being group minus veteran members. blamed for actions we did not While O'Hara would not commit," said Boone. elaborate on the reports, The The reprimand hit Bednarz, Observer learned that one of the captain of this year's Guard, the alleged incidents involved especially hard: "I think they forced drinking at theNorth­ are just making a precedent of western game. us." A student speaking on the The Guard was disbanded condition of anonymity re­ yesterday for alcohol violations ported that a Guard member and improper conduct, accord­ dressed in uniform poured a ing to Professor Patricia bottle of alcohol down the O'Hara, vice president for Stu­ throat of a Guardsman with his dent Affairs. head propped backward Boone maintains that the against a tree. The incident oc­ dismissal was made in haste, curred near the Alumni Asso­ without probable cause. ciation tailgater. "(O'Hara) did not address us "They were in uniform, less personally. She never accused the hat, and it was plainly obvi­ us of anything," he said. ous that they were in the The Guard was questioned Guard," he said. "It was in last week by Student Affairs plain, public view." about sponsoring gatherings But member Chris Boone involving alcohol. But Boone said the allegation is un­ said that the meetings were founded. "It's the covenant law one-sided. "There was no of the Guard that we are not to The Observer/John Bingham be associated with a tailgater discussion," he said. "There The Irish Guard, shown here during the Michigan game, appearing in their first and last home performance before a game and no one is to as a group of ten. The Guard was disbanded yesterday for alcohol violations and improper conduct. see REACTION/ page 4 consume alcohol in uniform," he said. "This is one of the many blasphemous rumors." Kissinger: U.S. did all possible on POWs in Vietnam Boone said that Student Af­ fairs also accused the Guard of WASHINGTON (AP) - Henry accounting for missing Committee on POW-MIA Affairs. Kissinger said neither man ritualistic ceremonies and pub­ Kissinger on Tuesday Americans. The bipartisan panel is trying ever expressed those views at lic disorderly conduct before denounced as "a flat-out lie" And in a sometimes hostile to answer lingering questions the time. games. the allegation that he and exchange with members of a about the fate of missing "If we had known, if we had By reprimanding the group, others knew U.S. servicemen Senate committee, Kissinger soldiers and airmen two heard this, we would have the University is "calling into were left behind when the war didn't rule out the possibility decades after the conclusion of acted on it," Kissinger said. question the very existence of in Southeast Asia ended two that some Americans survived the Vietnam War, which divided He bitterly disputed the Guard itself," O'Hara said. decades ago. after U.S. soldiers were the nation. suggestions "that when The behavior and attitude of Two people who made such withdrawn from the jungles of Kissinger testified a day after President Nixon announced that the probationary group will de­ suggestions Monday were Southeast Asia in 1973. other former Nixon officials, all prisoners were on the way termine if the Guard will con­ Kissinger's colleagues from the including Schlesinger and home, he or his aides knew that tinue after this season. Nixon administration - defense "I think it's improbable any Laird, said they believed some many were left behind." "We've tried to preserve the secretaries James Schlesinger are alive today," Kissinger said. American prisoners were still in "The allegation is a flat-out positive potential of the Guard. and Melvin Laird. "I have always kept open the Vietnam or Laos after the lie," Kissinger said, blaming the Whether that will happen de­ But the former secretary of possibility in my mind there withdrawal of U.S. troops and assertions on "leaks that could pends on the Guard. They're state and national security were some in Laos." the 1973 release of 591 only have come from this pretty much masters of their adviser acknowledged that even Kissinger's intensely prisoners of war. The former inquiry." own fate," she said. as he negotiated peace with the defensive, sometimes combative defense secretaries cited Kissinger acknowledged O'Hara alluded to Guard-or­ North Vietnamese, he testimony came under oath reliable reports of more POWs, receiving "some reports ganized gatherings involving recognized they had not before an extraordinary particularly in Laos, than were alleging that live Americans alcohol and "unacceptable" ori- provided an adequate hearing by the Senate Select released. were still in Indochina." see GUARD/ page 4 'Victims' left in wake of apartment sale By JOE MOODY But even with the rehabilita­ whole community," said Rev. Viewpoint Editor tion underway, there are still a Timothy Rouse, paster of the few units with people living in First African Methodist Episco­ Broken glass and several them, people that were not part pal Zion Church and president dumpsters sit outside the of the problem, waiting to move of the local NAACP. boarded-up doorways of what into new housing when it be­ Rouse added that if there had was once a hub of off-campus comes available. been any wrong-doing in issu­ student living, Notre Dame These tenants are perceived ing the eviction notices, he Apartments. But, to the sur­ by some in the community as "would have been the first to prise of many, one of the three victims--victims first to an array protest." buildings remains open with of crime swirling in their midst Debbie Thomas is one of the some tenants still living inside. and later to an abrupt tenants still living in the apart­ The recent history of the notification that their lease ments. She moved in on the last apartments is a grim one. In a agreements were void as the April with her husband and two period of months, tne apartments were going to be children. residences transformed from a evacuated for complete Thomas was happy to be in popular student location to a restoration. the "spacious, comfortable" center of urban violence in However, most in the com­ apartment located close to her South Bend. munity agree that the drastic maintenance job at Notre The buildings have been pur­ measures were necessary in Dame. chased since, all tenants light of the situation. To her dismay, she happened were informed they would need "We want to see adequate to move in right at the time the to relocate, and plans for housing provided for everyone, area was experiencing a rise in rehabilitation have already but the problems related to violence. been set into motion. these apartments stressed the see APTS. I page 4 .__ __ -------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------~ ~ .... ,.., "'r" .. ,..,.J...,.. __ ? ,., page 2 The Observer Wednesday, September 23,1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST Sunny and cool today with highs in P.C. pictures the low 60's. Scattered light frost is possible tonight. Mostly sunny and need the color warmer Thursday. of knowledge TEMPERATURES City H L Anchorage 40 27 Pictures are a very Atlanta 86 72 strange thing. Many Bogota 68 50 Boston 76 59 people take them, with Cairo 88 68 many types of cameras. Chicago 70 52 Cleveland 77 67 Photos are an illusion of Dallas 95 69 reality, carrying an Detroit 74 62 Indianapolis 74 64 essence apart, yet Jerusalem 75 59 intertwined with the John Rock London 68 49 Los Angeles 93 69 past, present and future. Managing Editor Madrid 86 61 U n fortunately,-------­ Minneapolis 76 51 Moscow 61 41 photographs also compartmentalize the world Nashville 85 71 we see every day. Most photos evoke an New York 73 69 FRONTS: Paris 66 59 emotion, which as an art form complete their Philadelphia 76 70 task, but as a paradigm for thinking, reduce Rome 88 61 •• Seattle 74 59 what we see to a image on a two dimensional • •COLD • WARM STATIONARY• • South Bend 76 62 piece of paper. Tokyo 75 63 The brain takes that image and gives it life. It Pr8ssur8 Washington, D.C. 79 74 makes a three-dimensional story about living. H L [3 ~ B Our 3X5 glossies from Saturday's party capture HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY :;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;.;:;.;.;:;:;.;.; !·!·!·!·!·!·!·!·!·!·!·!·!·!·!·:·:·:·:·:·::·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:········ ·.·.·.·.·...-........... ·. the moment for us, so that the brain translocates our beings into the past. We take certain types of pictures every day and review these over the course of our lives. We don't take them with cameras, but with our TODAY AT AGLANCE brains, and the images come to us frequently. There are many reasons we take these CAMPUS NATIONAL pictures. Most are involuntary, stemming back to childhood where, from the womb through the intervening two decades, the images, or Business school Dean named to board P&G to test products without animals stereotypes, we conceive now were starting to .NOTRE DAME-John Keane, •CINCINNATI - Proctor & Gamble Co.