Quote of the day - page 7 VOL XX, NO. 21 the independent student newspaper serving notrt dame and saint man 's MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1985 Second quake rocks Mexico City; 10ND students ‘okay’ Associated Press area was not reported to have been have been killed or injured in one heavily damaged. high-rise apartment complex in MEXICO CITY - Exhausted Mexico City police said Saturday the Nuevo Leon neighborhood. rescue teams worked through the that at least 2,000 people were Gavin also said that five night Saturday, digging into the killed, 15,000 were injured and Americans had perished. He did rubble of collapsed buildings for 20,000 were homeless. They said not release their identities, but said more victims of the big 196 damaged buildings were a they were a couple staying at the earthquakes that ravaged the threat to safety and would have to devestated St. Regis Hotel, and a world’s most populous capital. be demolished. mother and her two children. The government put the death Mexico City’s mayor, Ramon Earlier Saturday, Greg Lagana, toll at 2,000, but unofficial es­ Aguirre, told The Associated Press spokesman for the State Depart­ timates said it could reach five late Saturday that 1,641 bodies had ment Earthquake Task Force in times that. been recovered from under col­ Washington, identified three of the A second quake hit Mexico City lapsed buildings in the capital, but victims as Mary Vallejo and her and four states Friday night, that 2,000 people were still children from Nebraska. spreading panic and toppling some believed pinned under debris and Mrs. Vallejo’s brother, Mike buildings damaged by Thursday’s possibly dead. Zgud of Kearney, Neb., said State devastating quake. The back to back tremors col­ Department officials contacted the All 10 of the Notre Dame stu­ lapsed 411 buildings in Mexico family Friday evening and told dents enrolled in the Mexico City City alone, Aguirre said. Six them that Mrs. Vallejo, 34, and her program were reported safe by an thousand people were treated for children, Use, 8, and Alonzo, 5, unidentified man who had visited injuries, and 5,000 capital resi­ were among those killed the students Saturday and dents rendered homeless by the Officials said at least 1,300 telephoned a parent from Hous­ quakes were being housed in bodies had been identified by ton, according to Isabel Charles, refugee centers, the mayor told the Saturday afternoon. Rescue assistant provost and director of AP workers continued looking for sur­ the Foreign Study Programs. U.S. ambassador John Gavin, vivors, but said they would have to The Notre Dame program who flew over the city Saturday, stop soon and clear the rubble to operates through the Universidad told reporters the death toll could avoid the possibility of an People roam the street in front of a collapsed building after an Iberoamericana, located in a sout­ reach 10,000, but that was “just a epidemic caused by rotting bodies earthquake hit Mexico City Thursday. The quake registered 7.8 on hern section of Mexico City. This guess. ” He said 1,000 people may in the debris. the Richter scale. A second quake struck Friday night. See story at left. Aid from around the globe arrives in disaster relief effort Associated Press medicines, plus a team of civil ana non-perishable food and dogs defense rescue specialists who as­ trained to search for victims. Aid ranging from U.S. helicop­ sisted in relief operations follow­ • SOVIET UNION A plane carry­ ters, Soviet medicines and ing the 1980 earthquake that ing 2.5 tons of medicine and tents proceeds from a Polish soccer devastated the Algerian city of El arrived in Mexico Saturday and the game were destined for quake- Asnam and killed an estimated Soviet news agency Novosti said ravaged Mexico City Saturday as 6,000 people. two more planes carrying 50 tons nations around the world pledged • BRAZIL The Mexican colony in of supplies were being sent. help. Rio de Janeiro, estimated at about • TURKEY The semi-official In Puerto Rico, businessmen 40 families, opened a bank account Anatolia news agency said the formed the Roberto Clemente to collect funds for victims. government would donate Relief Committee and sent • CANADA An air force Buffalo *10,000. The Turkish Red Cross 300,000 pounds of food. aircraft left Saturday for Mexico said it would send an unspecified Clemente, a Puerto Rican-born with communications equipment amount of food, medicine, cloth, member of the baseball Hall of and more than a ton of blankets tents and blankets. Fame who played with the Pit­ purchased by the Canadian Red • UNITED STATES The State tsburgh Pirates, was killed Jan. 1, Cross Department said help, including 1973, in the crash of a plane he had • ISRAEL The army is sending helicopters and mine rescue chartered to deliver supplies to equipment designed to locate and teams, was on Its way. President victims of the big Nicaraguan dig out survivors from collapsed Reagan is sending his wife, Nancy, earthquake. buildings. The equipment was to Mexico City to explore ways to Following is a brief summary of designed in Israel and will be deliver aid. Churches and corpora­ operated by Israelis experienced tions joined with relief agencies to AP Photo aid being sent to Mexico by Rescue workers evacuate one o f those injured in the damaged areavarious countries. in its use. commit at least *650,000. A telet­ of doumtown Mexico City after Thursday morning’s earthquake. • ALGERIA The government sent • ITALY The Civil Defense Mini­ hon planned in Los Angeles hopes See story at right. a plane carrying tents, blankets and stry is sending 35 tons of medicine to raise *500,000. Student government to study possible activity fee increase By MARK PANKOWSKI creased, she said doubling the *35 the activities fee, yet there has been A recommendation then will be No student club or organization, Copy Editor activities fee would not be excessive “no great impact on social life. ” made based on “what information except for the class governments, if “all all the groups bring in good “There’s been a big increase in they get and what this campus can has made a presentation to the Should the mandatory student ac­ entertainment ” funds over last year and (social life) and is willing to absorb, ” she said. senate requesting more funds, said tivity fee be increased to improve An increase is necessary to hasn’t improved, ” he said. “In fact it “If we raised it to *150, the stu­ Abood. students’ social life? provide adequate funding for all stu­ has decreased.” dents would revolt, ” Neal said. “Right now no one has shown me Student government is planning dent organizations, Neal said. Neal said students’ social life did If the recommendation is why they need more money for any an In depth study to decide this “There are simply too many benefit from the increase in funds favorable to a fee increase, she said, a specific reason,” he said. "There has issue, and if it makes a recommenda­ groups that (the funds) must be dis­ and cited the Around The Corner request would be made to the office been no presentation to (the tion favoring an increased fee, it is tributed to that no one group is club as one example of the improve­of student affairs. If Tyson approves senate X except for the classes, com­ likely the administration and the receiving adequate funds," Neal ment. the request, it would go to the of­plaining that they need more funds ’ Board of Trustees will approve it, ac­ said. “These groups need a larger Approximately 80 percent of the ficers of the University and then cording to Father David Tyson, vice budget to bring in either more funds the University provided Stu­ would be presented to the Board of Neal, who is now in the process of president for student affairs. programming or more well-known dent Activities went to finance the Trustees meeting during its spring allocating *2,000 saved for student But whether a favorable recom­ entertainment. "Not just rock n’ club, which has “events planned for spring. groups appealing for more money, mendation is made remains in ques­ roll stars but also lecturers, ” she every weekend of the semester," Tyson supports an increase in the said she is hearing a lot of complain­ tion. said. Neal said. fee. ing. Director of Student Activities Joni Student Senator Chris Abood dis­ When student government does “I think if they make a recom­ “So far during the September ap­ Neal advocates increasing the man­ agrees with Neal. study the issue, said Neal, it will take mendation to raise the activities fee, peals, 38 organizations are asking for datory fee, which she said now According to Abood, the Univer­ into account what fees other similar I would recommend it to the officers first time money or appealing for brings in approximately *247,000 sity provided the Student Activities universities charge, whether those and the Board of Trustees,” Tyson more money than they received last per year. Board last year with an increase in fees are mandatory or voluntary, and said. "If it’s well documented, I think spring," she said. Although Neal said she is unsure funds equal to *15 per under­ what student organizations that fee I could get it approved by the of­ how much the fee should be in­ graduate that remains separate from provides funding for. ficers as well as the board. ” see MONEY, page 6 The Observer Monday, September 23, 1985 - page 2 Medical issues in the media: In Brief more harm than good? From the National Enquirer to Newsweek, nearly K e v i n H l i r l e y , the Howard Hall freshman injured in a every publication is screaming the same message.