I 6 4 2 · I 9 9 2 SESQUICENTENNIAL ,•'. VOL. XXIV NO. 11 0 · THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Beel·er's parents sue bus company SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - per hour, the suit claims. The parents of a University of The suit also charges that Notre Dame swim team mem­ Dixon was unable to slow down ber killed in January in bus while changing lanes, causing crash filed a wrongful death the bus to slide off the road, lawsuit Thursday against the rotate about 180 degrees and bus company and driver. flip upside down into a ravine. Gordon and Kathy Beeler of Colleen Hipp, 19, of St. Louis Granger filed the lawsuit in .St. also was killed in the crash. Joseph Circuit Court on behalf Another swim team member, of their daughter, Margaret Haley Scott, 18, of Phoenix, "Meghan" Beeler. suiTered severe injuries. Miss Beeler, 19, was one of The lawsuit seeks unspecified two students killed Jan. 24 damages for lost love and af­ when the private bus transport­ fection, as well as funeral, ing the swim team home from a burial and administration ex­ meet at Northwestern Univer­ penses. sity went out of control on the No charges have been filed Indiana Toll Road near South from the crash, but the St. Bend during a snowstorm. Joseph County grand jury is The suit alleges that United scheduled to review the case The Observer/Jon Novak Limo Inc. and bus driver later this month. If stone could speak Howard Dixon were negligent An investigation into the in the crash. Dixon was driving crash found no mechanical These statues outside of O'Shaughnessy Hall have seen a lot of football and baseball games the at an excessive rate of speed for problems with the bus, officials past few days as students have enjoyed the weather with a game on the quad. the icy conditions at 65 miles said. Underground gay group files for recognition By JULIE BARRETT University censor- in other and is, therefore, unable to versity, the organization must and procedures, represents the News Writer words, be able to do what other comment on the issue, accord­ not "encourage or participate in underlying problem that the student groups do," said ing to Student Affairs Vice any activity which contravenes group faces in being recognized Michael Yore, a former co-chair President Patty O'Hara and As­ the mission of the University, or by the Administration. The In what may be viewed by the for the group. sistant Vice President Father the moral teachings of the Order refuses to deal with the Notre Dame administration as a The group's move for recog­ Peter Rocca. Catholic Church." issue of homosexuality, Yore bold move, The Gays and Les­ nition now has been motivated University President Father According to Yore, the said. bians at Notre Dame and Saint by the recent attention gay and Edward Malloy could not be GLND!SMC does not contravene "Besides the mistaken im­ Mary's (GLND/SMC) registered lesbian issues have received reached for this story. the University's mission or pression that gay or lesbian yesterday to be officially recog­ through the Safe Haven and Yore said that members of Catholic teaching. orientation is unacceptable in nized as a student group by the Burtchaell issues this school the GLND/SMC have been meet­ GLND/SMC "is set up to ad­ Catholic teaching, the biggest University. year, according to Yore. Be­ ing with the administration for dress issues that surround a roadblock in the way of getting GLND/SMC "realizes that we cause these issues are "alive too long without any real re­ person's realization that he or GLND/SMC recognized is the could help more students if we enough in people's minds," Yore sults, and that it is time to "take she has a lesbian or gay orien­ Holy Cross Order," Yore said. could sponsor lectures, have asserts that the time is now to the procedure out of the back tation," Yore said. "There's Officers of the group signed a meeting space in LaFortune, a try to effect change. rooms of the administration and nothing in Catholic teaching letter stating that the Order still telephone line, be able to hang Student Affairs has not re­ into the public." which says 'You can't do that."' maintains that it ordains no posters up with educational in­ viewed the group's letter and In order for the group to be The Holy Cross Order, which homosexuals, even though an formation and be able to adver­ registration form at this point officially recognized by the Uni- guides the University's policies see GAYS I page 6 tise in The Observer without a Farmer's Senate victory NO vehicles stands despite charges switch to By MICHAEL SCHOLL Carroll Hall after the desig­ News Writer nated campaigning period natural gas ended at midnight on Monday, Tyler Farmer's victory in the March 2. By TRAVIS SMITH District 1 (South Quad) Student For his two convictions, News Writer Senate election will stand even Farmer was assessed a fine of Notre Dame Transportation though he was found guilty of $30, which will be donated to Services are converting six of two counts of campaign viola­ an Alumni Hall charity accept­ their vehicles from liquid gas to tions, according to a ruling re­ able to Certo and the commit­ natural gas as a trial program. leased by the election ethics tee. In charge of the conversion are committee of the judicial board. The maximum penalty for Marty Ogren of Notre Dame In a hearing held Wednesday, such violations is forfeiture of vehicle maintenance and the committee reviewed allega­ candidacy. However, judicial Northern Indiana Public tions made against Farmer by board chairperson Ellen Lewis Service Corporation, NIPSCO. · his opponent, Alumni Hall ju­ said the committee found As of now, three of the six nior Dave Certo. Certo charged Farmer's violations to be cars have been converted, but Farmer, a Morrissey Hall "limited" and "not of malicious none are in use yet. According freshman, with violating several intent," and thus chose not to to Ogren, "We have a target of the campaign regulations overturn the the election·reslilt. date of April 2 to have all the listed in the Bylaws to the "The committee found my vehicles in use." Undergraduate Constitution. campaign in general to be ethi­ The vehicles being converted The committee found that cal and informative to the stu­ include one campus security Farmer had violated the Bylaws dents of this university," car, one landscaping truck, one by posting three of his cam­ Farmer said. · laundry truck, two preventive paign posters over Certo's Certo, the incumbent senator maintenance trucks, and one posters on bulletin boards lo­ for District 1, said he would not building services truck cated in Alumni Hall. It also comment on the case until he "We arc trying out natural found Farmer guilty of posting read the committee's written gas as an alternative fuel be­ two posters in Morrissey Hall opinion. cause of our concern for air that violated the 11" by 1 7'' size The ethics committee held a quality," said Ogren. limit stated in the Bylaws. similar hearing last night con­ Although natural gas does not However, the committee ac­ cerning AI Nicgorski's challenge The Observer/Kristina Roderick eliminate emission, it does burn quitted Farmer of charges that of Tim Callahan's victory in the much cleaner than liquid gas. he included "ethically question­ District 3 (North Quad) senate Did a hurricane hit? In addition, natural gas is much run-off. A decision on that case able messages" on some of his Pasquerilla East Freshman Buffy Morris and Rita Hajjar don't cheaper. While a gallon of is expected to be released posters and of the charge that normally live in this clutter- they're just packing for spring break. he had been campaigning in today. see GAS I page 6 J ·.-. page 2 Friday, March 6,1992 INSIDE COLUMN FOR!CAIT: Mostly cloudy today with a 40 Too much percent chance of showers in the afternoon. High in research can the middle 40s and low around 40. TEMPERATURES: be a bad thing City H L Atlanta 65 50 Bangkok 95 75 Boston 55 40 Brisbane 80 66 Caracas 81 61 Chicago 36 32 It's hard for a reporter Eugene 59 43 Flagstaff 34 23 to not be critical, even of a Helena 45 28 place like Notre Dame. Hong Kong 59 57 lstarbul 53 43 Despite its greatness, this Juneau 33 30 Knoxville 55 42 University has set Kelley Tuthill london 45 39 standards so high for itself Editor-in-Chief los Angeles 61 4 7 that it is difficult not to get --"=="'-~~~'- Nairobi 81 54 New York 53 45 disillusioned every once in a while. North Platte 53 29 Paris 46 36 In the past four years, the focus of this Manila 91 72 University has changed dramatically. It South Bend 36 32 appears that the commitment to Tallahassee 71 38 Pressure Washington. D.C. 56 45 undergraduate education is being passed up Yuma 61 36 for the more glamorous goal of becoming a H L ~ ~ fTII EZl !;21 National Catholic Research University. HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Who's goal is this anyway and how realistic is it? At a Board of Trustees meeting last month, a group of trustees met with students, including myself, to discuss a report we had TODAY 1~T AGLANCE done on the future of undergraduate education at Notre Dame.