ACCENT: Letters to a lonely God No snow Partly sunny today with highs in the mid 60s. A 20 percent chance of showers tonight with VIEWPOINT: Rethinking London lows in the mid 40s. VOL. XXI, NO. 38 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1987 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Duarte, Reagan speak of peace Associated Press ment Duarte and four other area presidents signed two WASHINGTON - President months ago. Reagan welcomed Salvadoran “If peace is to prevail, so President Jose Napoleon must democracy,’’ Reagan Duarte to the White House on said, adding that a successful Wednesday and they agreed outcome of the Aug. 7 accord there can be no lasting peace remains “far from certain.” in Central America without Duarte, in a similar vein, democratic rule throughout the said Central Americans “still region. have a long way to go” in im­ plementing the peace plan. Duarte, a University of Notre He added, “I am convinced Dame graduate in 1948, was of­ that there cannot be peace in fered an enthusiastic official Central America without reception as he began a state freedom and democracy.” visit and he showed his ap­ Some administration offi­ preciation for U.S. support by cials have been privately criti­ kissing an American flag dis­ cal of Duarte for signing the played on the White House peace agreement, contending South Lawn. that it does not address key The Observer / Susy Hernandez Legal investigations After a ceremony that fea­ questions, such as Soviet- tured full military honors, Cuban military ties with Prospective law students Lisa Karpowicz and Jackie tatives were at Stepan Center Wednesday to answer Reagan said peace prospects Nicaragua’s leftist govern- Hengebaugh visit law school representatives at The questions and hand out information. for Central America have been Law School Caravan. Over 50 law school represen­ enhanced because of the agree­ see DUARTE, page 6 Have a good break $26-million computer renovations proposed By PATRICK O’CONNOR cluded that the University task force have already been Schmitz maintains that “we News Staff “must change its posture funded and some even imple­ are moving fast,” with regard toward computer-based tech­ mented, said assistant provost to these renovations, but the Recent additions to the Notre nologies and services if it is to and chairman of the task force major obstacle still remaining Dame computing system are achieve its goal. of becom- R oger A. Schmitz. is to generate funds for some only minor indications of the ming a great university, excell­ Some of the measures pres­ of the bigger implementations. $26.6 million w orth of sweeping ing in teaching and research.” ently underway include: the es­ The more costly of the renovations that have been pro­ University president father tablishment of a university recommendations made by the posed for the next four years. Edward Malloy has shown his committee on computing, the task force to referbish the out­ The Task Force on Univer­ concern for the matter by funding and development of dated university computing . _ * - < o sity Computing, established by stating, that computing capa­ new software for the adminis­ system include: the installa­ This is the last issue of The provost Timothy O’Meara to bility is “an integral part of a trative computing system, the tion of a full campus computing Observer before the October “conduct a comprehensive good university,” and that,“it allocation of funds to link the network, the acquisition of a Break. The Observer will resume study of all aspects of comput­ is imperative-that we upgrade university to the NSF super­ state-of-the-art-mainframe publication on the day following ing at Notre Dame and to make our computer facilities.” computing network, and the in­ system for academic use, the the vacation, Tuesday, October recommendations for a univer­ Various aspects of the 11 stallation of the UNLOC 27. sity wide strategy,” has con­ recommendations made by the automated library system. see COMPUTER, page 4 Beauchamp murder suspect arraigned Observer Staff Report Conviction on the murder home or car theft because of charges could be punishable by the life sentences mandated by The carnival worker accused mandatory life imprisonment the murder conviction, Sul­ I of strangling the parents of without parole. The sex charge livan said. Notre Dame Executive Vice is punishable by up to life im­ Lopez was arraigned Sept.14 President Father Edward prisonment, Ferndale Police in 77th District Court in Big $ Beauchamp pleaded not guilty Chief Patrick Sullivan said. Rapids, Mich, on two counts of Wednesday to murder and The day after the murder passing bad checks, a court sexual assault charges in a police circulated composite clerk said. Michigan District Court. drawings of a lone suspect, Conviction on each one of the Michael Root, 30, was for­ Swiercz said. The suspect had felony counts is punishable by mally arraigned on two counts been seen driving away in the up to 14 years in prison, the of murder and one count of Beauchamp’s 1983 Oldsmobile clerk said. sexual assault, prosecutors Cutlass. Lopez had allegedly cashed said. Police from three agencies two checks at a grocery store f t arrested Root and a female in Mecosta County, according No trial date was set. companion five days later at a to state police Lt. Tom Powers. Root may have been under cabin in rural Mecosta county. It was later determined that the influence of drugs at the Root and Nilda Lopez, 26, had the checks had been stolen time of the murder, been staying at a Detroit motel from a car near the Beau­ prosecutors said. about a mile from the Beau­ champ home about the time the Edward Beauchamp, 75, and champ’s home while working couple was slain, he said. M arion B eaucham p, 74, w ere at the Michigan state fair, Sul­ The store owner obtained the % found strangled in the bedroom livan said. car’s license number, and state of their Ferndale, Mich, home Police at the time also police determined that it was Sept. 8. recovered a car allegedly the stolen Beauchamp vehicle, I, i The elderly couple’s car had stolen from the Beauchamps Powers said. Body shop murder AP Photo been stolen and the house had after they were slain. Root will Polices would not, however, been broken into through a win­ probably not face charges provide details about how in­ Five men were found shot to death at a Pasco, Wash, body shop Tuesday dow Ferndale Police Lt. Joe stemming from either the vestigators tracked the night. Two men are suspected in the shooting. See page 4 for related Swiercz said. break-in to the Beauchamp suspects to the rural cabin. story. page 2 The Observer Thursday, October 15, 1987 In Brief Personal ads, Hite report have no ‘relation’ to truth "STUPID will not be printed on Russell Reynaga’s “Personals are people’s sexual frustrations license plate, because of objections by the Connecticut in print,” a friend said the other day. Mark Department of Motor Vehicles. Reynaga, with an IQ of She’s right, you know. But only partly so. 142, requested the license plate nam e as he had done before The Observer’s personals section has increas­ Pankowski when he lived in New York and Texas and expected no ingly become a place for readers to vent their objections. A computer scientist, Reynaga is an 11-year frustrations about male-female relationships. Managing Editor member of MENSA, an international organization whose The personals started last month with “The members’ IQs must register in the top 2 percent. The He-Man Woman Haters Club,” which gave Ob­ license plate may have humorous intentions, but Mike server readers the top 10 reasons for joining Kozlowski, executive assistant to the motor vehicles com­ their “organization,” the top reason being “You missioner, said it can be construed as a negative comment are allowed to say, ‘Get out of my way before against the state agency or the driver who reads it. - I dominate you.’ ” Associated Press Then came the ads from the “Females Against Guys” and the “She-Ra Man Haters Club.” Reasons to join those groups included “ (Guys’) bottom half is their only redeeming quality,” and “ (Men’s) tolerance for alcohol is Of Interest inferior (like everything else).” Now, all these ads were innocent enough. There was some hostility (and perhaps some truth) in them. And they showed a few people’s Fill shots will be offered today by Student Health frustration about relationships. Services at LaFortune Student Center from 8 a.m. to 10 But it was all in good fun. p.m. and in the North Dining Hall during lunch and dinner Then came this week’s “Susie vs. Mike” ads. meal. The shot will be effective against influenza this win­ “To my Alumni SYR date, Mike, who brought ter. - The Observer me to his room & indirectly told me to put out This is a pretty grim picture of modern male- or get out, I’m glad I got out! . I may have female relationships. More men are needed for senior reflection groups. been the first but definitely not the last to turn Nationally, then, women are extremely dis­ Twice as many women as men have signed up. Senior you down. - Your thoroughly disgusted date satisfied with their love relationships, accor­ men are invited to come to the Center for Social Concerns from Regina. P.S. Girls Beware!” ding to Hite’s report. And here on campus, men to sign up. - The Observer To which came the reply in today’s personals, and women are brutally insulting each other.