~------------------------------~--~----~--------------·---------------------- -- ~150 YEARS~ u: r:r. u: . ,~. € ~ --;~ i 2 ' '":l - . '" tr. SAINT 2 • Y'S 2 I 11 I I I 1; I s:I:"" Monday, September 19, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 16 ~NOTRE DAME·IN ~ TI IE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Off-campus conditions vary greaty with owner Multinational force By ZOE MARIN dent. Some of the countries that have agreed to participate in the U.S.-Ied News Writer Besides the initial problems invade; Cedras with flooding, the students en­ operation to restore democracy to Haiti: For many, the final year of countered difficulties with the will pull out Argentina: About 100 border police, 10 engineers the Notre Dame experience of­ running water as well. and 50 doctors after invasion. ten includes venturing off cam­ "The water still smells bad, By SUSANNE SCHAFER like sulfur," said the resident. Associated Press pus to live in a house or apart­ Bangladesh: About 800 soldiers for peacekeeping ment. The freedom that a "We've put in five bags of rust operations after invasion. house can offer contrasts remover salt in, but it hasn't WASHINGTON sharply with the restrictions helped." President Clinton's nego­ that dorm life can impose, at­ The residents are also in tiators arranged a last-minute Belgium: 30 to 60 military policemen for peacekeeping tracting students every year to need of a new water heater, deal that staved off a U.S. inva­ and to help train Haitian police after invasion. make this move. which rests in the basement sion of Haiti Sunday, senior However, some students are still in its box. They have administration officials said. Britain: A Royal Navy guard ship for search and rescue seeing their visions of freedom encountered obstacles with or shipping management during invasion. shattered when they are faced Schroeder involving the actual One official said dozens of with unexpected difficulties ei­ installment. aircraft ferrying troops from ther with the house itself or "He told us he would put in the 82nd Airborne were France: 100 police to help train a new Haitian police with the landlord. Simple the new water heater if we recalled Sunday night as for­ force after invasion. problems that were once easily found students to move in next mer President Carter reached solved by a quick phone call to year for him," said the resident. agreement with Haitian mili­ India: About 2,500 combat troops, plus support a rector or rectress can become Another resident said tary leaders. personnel, to help train Haitian police after invasion. monumental by comparison Schroeder promised to relieve Provisions of the agreement when a landlord is uncoopera­ him of lawn mowing if he also were unclear. Israel: About 25 active and retired police officers and tive or unfair. found future residents for the "There's a deal," said a border police to supervise Haitian police after invasion. Four fifth-year architecture house. senior official at the Pentagon, students have discovered this "We have every intention to who insisted on not being iden­ Jordan: 300 policemen for peacekeeping after tified by name. dark side of off-campus. One of steer people away," added the invasion. the residents ended up staying resident. in a hotel the first day back due According to one of the resi­ Clinton arranged an Oval to the condition of the house, dents, they have spent $160 Office address at 9 p.m. EDT to Netherlands: For invasion, the frigate Willem van der one of many owned by Dave into the house for cleaning sup­ announce details. Zaan, with crew of 160 and a Lynx helicopter, and an Schroeder of South Bend. plies, paint, and other materi­ "We launched airplanes from Orion airplane for transport and surveillance; after "[Schroeder] told us the als they shouldn't have needed. Pope," the official said. He invasion, 135 marines for peacekeeping. house was clean. He hadn't "We spent the first week back referred to Pope Air Force Panama: A 140-person medical mission would be Base, which is near Fort Bragg, touched it since the former ten­ cleaning day and night," ex­ stationed in Haiti for four months after invasion. ants moved out last spring," plained the resident, "and I'm N.C., home of the 82nd --~ Airborne. said one of the residents, who still allergic to this house." Several countries are considering participation in post-invasion wishes to remain anonymous. Although the students_ are "They were in the air and peacekeeping efforts, but have not made commitments. They include "There were cobwebs every­ renting out the entire property, they were recalled," one offi­ Chile, Denmark, ~apan, the Philippines, Poland and South Africa. where," added another resi­ they are unable to use the cial said. dent. garage. Everything from old The Pentagon's invasion AP/Wm.J.Castello When the students began carpets and furniture to an old plans had called for para­ cement a deal. J. Phillip Wogaman said Clinton moving their belongings in, car fills up the space. troopers to drop into Haiti as Former President Carter, who is burdened by "awesome and they found an inch of rusty wa­ "[Schroeder] uses it as a junk part of the leading edge of the headed a Clinton-backed dele­ sometimes very lonely ter in their basement. storage place. We can't even fit assault. gation trying to convince the responsibilities." "[The resident] couldn't move our bikes in there," said the military leaders to leave Haiti, in the basement. I couldn't resident. A White House official, who extended his talks hours He returned to the White move in because his stuff was "It's like we're renting out also declined to be identified by beyond the scheduled conclu­ House and spent the rest of the in my room," said one of the the house and the yard, but he name, confirmed that a deal sion, raising hopes that a U.S. day in the Oval Office with his residents. gets the garage," added an­ had been reached to avert an military invasion could be senior foreign policy advisers, The saturated carpeting in other resident. invasion. averted. including Secretary of State the basement ended up being Another group of students In a possible sign of progress Warren Christopher, Defense the next problem. Schroeder are finding similar difficulties earlier, Clinton had dispatched An invasion could have Secretary William Perry, Gen. tried to salvage it by setting it with their house also owned by National Security Advisor Tony brought American casualties, John Shalikashvili, chairman of outside to dry. Schroeder. Lake and Haiti envoy William U.S. military leaders warned. the Joint Chiefs of Staff. and "After we finally got rid of the A resident of the house, who Gray to brief ousted elected Clinton began his day in Vice President AI Gore. musty smell in the house, also wishes to remain anony­ President Jean-Bertrand church, bowing his head as a .Clinton kept in continuous Schroeder brought the carpet, mous, said one of their big Aristide on negotiations with prayer was said for American contact with the diplomatic which .was still wet, back problems was getting repairs the men who deposed him. troops, and the commander in team, which also included through the house and smelled Aristide's approval almost chief who might have to send retired Gen. Colin Powell and certainly woul? be needed to them in harm's way. The Rev. Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga. it up again," said another resi- see HOUSES I page 5 Computers at Notre Dame: from Gutenburg to Gates The following is the first in a Computing at the University of computers Assistant Provost for Computing three part series examining the Notre Dame. This report. from -turn the library catalog into Donald Spicer, whose job was status and capabilities of the University Committee on University a conviently accesible computer created by the initiative. "When University Computing. Computing and Information database I got here in 1988, there was no Services (UCCIS), made several Computing -Provide services to maintain campus network, an obsolete By DAVE TYLER recommendations about how and update these new comput­ mainframe, and very little soft­ Assistant News Editor the Univeristy could adjust in a Where We Stand ing systems ware available oil campus. quickly changing educational - appropriate the funds We've been able to change the Having trouble telling your climate where print media was Notre Dame community." neccesary to complete this task· way teaching, research, admin­ bits from your bytes? being replaced by electronic The report advised the - proceed to develop these istration, and publication are Don't worry, you're not alone, media as the weapon of choice. school's officers to: services as quickly as possible done here at Notre Dame" and there's hope for you.You go The Task Force report grew -connect all buildings to a (a four or five year Indeed, there has been a con­ to Notre Dame. into a five year Computing campus wide computing net­ period) siderable change in the direc­ Until a few years ago, the Initiative, beginning in 1988 work -establish the Office of tion of campus computing. In whole University of Notre Dame and ending in 1993. The - replace the old central University Computing to over­ 1988, there was one computer was in the same boat. Since University spent twenty six mil­ mainframe computer see the entire system cluster on campus. As of this 1988, the University has made lion dollars developing a -establish a system of com­ The development of computer year, there are ten clusters con­ the jump from the age of comprehensive computer and puter clusters related services proceeded even sisting of almost 400 hundred Gutenburg to the age of Bill information network.