~-- ~-- ---------- Friday, October 6, 1995 • Vol. XXVII No. 35 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • Mayoral candidates head down homestretch Editor's Note: In an effort to help ignored the problem of crime, and has inform the student body about their even gone so far as to say his opponent .) I community, The Observer presents the has yet to admit the issue is a problem . first of an occasional series of updates He claims Kernan blames the lifestyles \ on the South Bend city mayoral elec­ of crime victims for their fates. I tion. Election Day is November 7. Kernan says that he has taken mea­ 1 sures to address crime, citing the fact By ETHAN HAYWARD that 34 officers have been added to Associate News Editor South Bend's police force since 1991, JAMIE HEISLER and that the rate of violent crime has Assistant News Editor decreased 19 per cent since last year. Financing for the College Football Hall of Fame has also been a divisive Crime. The College Football Hall of issue. Waite claims that secret con­ Fame. Unpaid child support. Arrests. tracts have been drawn up between Taxes. Hockey. friends of the Hall of Fame and corpo­ The issues are clearly drawn in this rate contributors, and have yet to be year's South Bend mayoral campaign. made public. It remains to be seen whose views on Kernan counters by affirming that the each issue will have the force of law. public bonds used to construct the Hall Incumbent Democrat Joseph Kernan is of Fame will simply be paid back by seeking his third term as mayor, while . corporate sponsorships and donations, Republican Michael Waite seeks to gain without any clandestine agreements. control of a traditionally Democratic Much of the campaign has focused on city. Waite's financial and legal problems, The two candidates have formed their including delinquent child support pay­ platforms on opposing sides of several ments (which were paid in full on issues. Each has different ideas about Wednesday of this week) and his arrest The Observer/ Angela Addington what is best for the city as well as who involving claims of unpaid bills. Waite Democratic incumbent Joseph Kernan is seeking reelection with several achievements in should run it. his career including the construction of the College Football Hall of Fame. Waite has alleged that Kernan has see CAMPAIGN I page 6 Kernan seeks third term Republican candidate Comptroller from 1980 to 1984. ing further ones. Incumbent runs He was elected to his first term South Bend has also been ap­ criticizes incumbent as Mayor in 1987 and was re­ proached by a minor league ice on past record of elected in 1991. His wife Mag­ hockey franchise, an addition By JAMIE HEISLER gie, a graduate of Purdue Uni­ which could bolster the City as Assistant News Editor accomplishments versity, is a career woman. a major sports market. Kernan Focusing on the issues of By ETHAN HAYWARD Among Kernan's achieve­ is currently putting together a ments in ollice is the construc­ citizen committee to examine crime, reallocation of funds, Associate News Editor tion of the College Football Hall where the team would be lo­ and government inefficiency, Republican candidate Michael Henowned for his capacity for of Fame in South Bend. Financ­ cated, its operating costs, and bringing economic development ing for the Hall of Fame has its foreseeable benefits. Waite hopes to defeat incum­ bent Joseph Kernan in his sec­ to South Bend and St. Joseph come under fire from Republi­ Further economic growth has REPUBLICAN ond attempt since 1987. Waite Gounty, Joseph Kernan is·seek­ can candidate Michael Waite been seen in the Blackthorn ing a third term as the city's and local resident John Cierz­ development, a privately-man­ actively campaigned for mayor niak. Kernan says the financing aged public golf course sur­ in 1987, but withdrew after the MAYOR mayor. " murder of his ex-wife. ' . Kernan graduated from Notre was simply paid for with bonds rounded by office sites. While -------·...--- name in 1968, and served five sold by the city. Corporate Waite opposes the project, Ker­ Waite, a 47 year old, attend­ held public office. sponsors and donors in turn nan contends that it has added ed Indiana University at South Concerning the present ad­ and a half years as a Naval Bend and is now President of flight ollicer. lie has worked in pay off the bonds. The Hall of 3,000 new jobs and $25 million ministration, Waite sees several the High Tech Alarm Corpora­ business for eight years, collec­ Fame currently has four corpo­ rate sponsors and is still seek- tion Inc. He has not previously tively, and served as City see KERNAN I page 6 see WAITE I page 6 Unidentified suspect O'Hara: Changes affect students assaults ND student By ANDY CABINESS unique to Notre Dame stem vides. "The very thing we think News Writer from the fact that women have of as supports for the rest of only been admitted into the stu­ our students may not be sup­ By BRAD PRENDERGAST mately one week's growth of The improvement of gender dent body in the last 23 years. ports for them." She went on to Associate News Editor facial hair, and muscular arms. "Some of (the gender problems) cite that recently, more steps He smelled of alcohol and was relations is a significant and come from the fact that at an have been taken to provide wearing a black faded t-shirt, difficult change going on in stu­ A female sophomore student institution that is 150 years old, more opportunities for non­ was assaulted by an unidenti­ unknown color of sweatpants, dent life at and dirty white tennis shoes. Notre Dame, 25 years is a relatively short Catholic minorities. fied male while walking along time to fully integrate women." A third area in which O'Hara the path around St. Joseph's The student does not know according to V i c e - Notre Dame's increasing cul­ sees increasing changes is in Lake near Lewis Hall yesterday the suspect and had never seen President for tural diversity is another signif­ student spiritual development. afternoon. him before. The man fled in an Student icant change that O'Hara ad­ She pointed out that children At approximately 1:15 p.m., undetermined direction follow­ Affairs dressed. Nine years ago, only raised after the time of Vatican the suspect approached the ing the assault. Patricia seven percent of the students II receive less moral guidance student from the rear and Security is looking for any in­ were minorities. That figure is growing up than their parents formation regarding the attack, O'Hara. placed his forearm around her O'Hara was O'Hara now around fifteen percent. did. She went on to point out throat in a headlock position. according to Chuck Hurley, as­ "We've been working very hard that the university has accepted sistant director of University the keynote The student struggled with the speaker Thursday at the Presi­ since then, to put resources into some of that burden, saying, attacker and was able to free Security. dent's Luncheon for Michiana place for both white and minor­ "What we are about is trying to herself. "If anyone observed this sus­ ity students. Also we've been model for our students a way of Notre name Security is cur­ pect before or after the assault Business Leaders, where she addressed Notre Dame student really proud of our restructur­ life." rently investigating the assault. and can provide any detailed ing of our financial aid services This kind of attitude has pro­ information, please contact life in the 1990's. The suspect is described as a "Part of (the problems) we to get us to those percentages." duced many unpopular deci­ white male in his late 20s or Notre Dame Security," Hurley One hindrance O'Hara sees to sions that have come from said. experience reflects the com­ early 30s, approximately 6 '1" plexity of society," said O'Hara, cultural diversity is that many O'Hara's office, but she main­ with dark hair and a mustache. The student was not seriously noting that many gender prob­ groups of minorities are tradi­ tains that, "for every negative The man's hair was dirty, injured as a result of the as­ tionally not Catholic, meaning article in The Observer, there sault. The rector of the dorm lems at Notre Dame are com­ straight, and hanging over the mon to all people of college age. that they do not benefit from are ten times as many positive in which the student resides ears. O'Hara also said that many of the large amount of spiritual comments from students." The student also described notified Security about the support that the university pro- the suspect as having approxi- attack. the problems that are more page2 Th.e Observer • INSIDE Friday, October 6, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Life Hurricane Opal leaves destruction in its wake PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. many, many homes destroyed." Under blue skies, the damag Opal lost its punch as it blew through after wrought by Hurricane Opal b . ·Alabama but still knocked out power to • clear Thursday: hundreds of h 2 million in Florida, Georgia, Alabama smashed into splintered boards, and the Carolinas. Many homes also cnme miniums flattened, hotel walls caved had no water or phone service. I saw an interesting . and boats tossed ashore along 1 political cartoon recently ~eggy I;enczews~ miles of eroded beach. Almost 4,500 National Guardsmen before verdict _ Mike Samt Marys News Edttor were posted in Florida to prevent loot­ Tyson, at a press confer--------­ "This is what I call utter destruction, ing.