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1 5 0 YEARSg?wscHOBSERVERTuesday, N ovem ber 22, 1994* Vol. XXVI No. 57NOTRE DAME-INTH E I N D E P E N D E N T NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME A N D SAINT MARY'SAlumni inducted into Hall of FameRosenthalamong thoseto enter SouthBend shrineBy BRAD PRENDERGASTAssistant News EditorR ich ard R o se n th a l, a th le ticdirecto r at the University, w asone of th ree Notre Dame alum ni inducted into the South BendHall of Fam e on Sunday.A l s oinducted d u r in g th e c e r e m o n y h e ldatth eC e n t u r yC e n te rind o w n to w nS o u th B endDickw e re R o b ertRosenthalG ra n t, c la s sof 1928, andLeRoy Troyer, class of 1971.“1 w as very p le a se d w h en Ile a rn e d I would be in d u c te d ,”Rosenthal said. “It’s a trem en dous thrill to be recognized inyour own com m unity.”R o sen th al, a 1954 g ra d u a tewith a b ach elo r’s degree in fi nance and a tw o-tim e b a sk e t ball All-A m erican, played p ro fe s s io n a l b a s k e tb a ll fo r tw ose a so n s w ith th e F o rt W ayne(Ind.) Pistons before beginninga care e r in banking.After serving as ch airm an ofthe b o ard and ch ief executiveofficer of St. Joseph Bank andT rust Co. - now Society Bank -R osenthal b ecam e ath letic di recto r at Notre Dame in 1987.According to Ron Bella, exec utive director of the South BendAlumni Association, which runsthe hall, can d id ates for in d u c tion m ust have m ade significantcontributions to the South Bendcommunity.“We se le c t p eople b a sed onw h at they have done for th eirfellow m an ,” Bella said.R o s e n th a l, s a id B ella, c e r tainly qualifies.A ctively involved in P ro jectF u tu r e , a n o r g a n iz a tio n d e signed to a ttra c t businesses toth e S o u th B end a r e a , an d inS p e c ia l O ly m pics, R o s e n th a lalso helped develop the CenturyC enter and h as w orked ex ten s iv e ly w ith th e C h a m b e r ofCommerce.“P roject F u tu re pulls all theenergy from the institutions inth e e c o n o m ic c o m m u n ity tobring in com panies and createjo b s,” he said.“So fa r, w e ’ve b e e n able tocreate thousands of jo b s.”A c c o rd in g to R o lan d Kelly,v i c e - c h a ir m a n o f th e S o u thB e n d A lu m n i A s s o c ia tio n ,R o s e n th a l h a s b e e n v ery in stru m en tal in the city.“He is a very good guy,” Kellysaid. “He is m ore th a n ju s t agood ath lete.”T ro y er, an a rc h ite c t, h a d ad iffe re n tre a c tio nth a nR osenthal w hen he le a rn e d hehad been inducted.“I w as s u r p r is e d ,” he sa id .“My w ife th o u g h t t h a t I h a dbeen inducted into the CollegeFootball Hall of Fam e [locatedin South Bend and designed byTroyer] w hen she first h e a rd .”Besides designing the footballhall of fame, the 1971 graduatein a rc h ite c tu re h a s also beena n i n t e r n a t i o n a l le a d e r inH abitat for Humanity, w orkingw ith fo rm er P re sid e n t Jim m yC a r te r in th e Jim m y C a r te rWork Project as well.T ro y e r’s in te re s t in helpingothers build hom es stem s froman experience he had w hen hew as younger.“As a student, I w as invited toa U nited N ations in tern atio n alconference on housing in NewYork,” he said.T royer co n tinues by adding,“a t the final m eetings, I becam equite aw are of the m agnitude ofth e h o u s in g p r o b le m in th eworld. I learned th a t one q u a r te r o f th e w o rld is n o t a d e quately sheltered.”T ro y er no ted th a t the dormroom s of stu d e n ts on cam pusmay ap p ear small, but in poor e r countries, m any hom es a reonly 1 6 x 1 6 ’.“T h o se h o m e o fte n s h e lte rfa m ilie s of six o r s e v e n ,” hesaid.G ran t, a fe d e ra l m a g istra tefor th e p a st 37 y e a rs, e a rn e dhis bachelor’s and law degreesfrom Notre Dame in 1928 and1930.T he ro b in g c h a m b e r of th eNotre Dame Law School’s mootcourtroom w as nam ed in honorof G rant in 1992, and last yearth e fe d e ra l b u ild in g in S outhBend w as nam ed for himT h e N o tre D am e A lu m n iA ssociation p re sen te d its JohnJ. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Award toGrant this year.U niversity tru ste e E rnestineR a c lin w a s a lso in d u c te d .Artist Jam es Borden and boxerH arold B raz ie r w ere h o n o re das well.Begun in 1986, the hall nowh a s 46 m e m b e r s , in c lu d in gF a th e r T h e o d o re H e s b u rg h ,A ra P a r s e g h ia n , a n d Ed“Moose” Krause.T h e S o u th B e n d A lu m n iAssociation solicits nom inationsfor ind uction from th e public,a n d th e n a c o m m itte e o f 15people review s the can d id atesand selects five to six people forinduction annually.N o m in ee s a r e c h o se n fromfive categories, including lite ra tu re and th e a rts , public s e r vice, ed u catio n , ath letics, andbusiness.A sixth category, from whichhistorical figures of South Bendwill be nom inated, will be initi ated in 1995 or 1996.Kelly says, “this sixth catego ry to h o n o r p e o p le s u c h asKnute Rockne, and others whohave helped South Bend in thepast. ”The hall w as begun becauseth e r e w as no p lace locally tor e c o g n iz e th o s e w h o c o n tributed to the com m unity, ac cording to Bella.“These people who have beeninducted p u t South Bend in thelight as a community of doers,”he said.P laq u es for the m e m b ers ofthe hall are located on the wallsof the Century Center.The Century Center is locatedin downtown South Bend at 120South Saint Joseph Street.studentarrestedafter gameBy LIZ FORANAssociate News EditorA N otre D am e stu d e n t w asa rre ste d afte r an incident in volving a St. Joe County policeofficer after the football gam eS a tu rd a y , a c c o rd in g to Sgt.C h arlie F ie rre ll, public r e la tio n s o ffic e r fo r th e St. Jo eCounty Police D epartm ent.A 21-year-old off cam pus se nior w as arrested at 5:30 p.m.in the north end zone of NotreDam e Stadium on c h a rg e s ofpublic intoxication and re sist in g la w e n f o r c e m e n t a f te rw h at F ierrell d escribed as “acelebration after the gam e.”A ccording to the rep o rt, thes t u d e n t w a s r id in g on th esh o u ld e rs of a frie n d on th efield of the stad iu m a fte r thevictory over Air F orce, w henthe County officer told him toget down.The student allegedly said toth e o fficer, “W hy sh o u ld I? ”The officer th e n a ssiste d thestu d e n t in gettin g dow n. Thestu d en t th en allegedly shovedth e officer, w hich re su lte d inhis subsequent arrest.“If he h a d ju s t listen e d , hewould have walked away w ith out a pro b lem ,” F ierrell said.“In the sta te of In d ia n a, th a t(sh o v in g a p o lic e o ffice r) iscalled b a tte ry of a police offi cer.”Peace possible in Northern Ireland Suspicious soundBy MIKE DAYNews WriterA lthough it may take a littlem ore tim e, th e re is a se rio u sc h a n c e of a tta in in g p e a c e inN o rth e rn Ire la n d for th e firsttime in 25 years, according toGerald Powers, a foreign policya d v is o r for th e U.S. C ath o licConference.Pow ers, who e a rn e d his lawdegree a t Notre Dame in 1986,gave a le c tu re on th e c u rre n tsituation in N orthern Ireland atthe law school yesterday.In h is r e c e n tly p u b lis h e dbook, P e a c e M a k in g . P o w ersco m m en ts on the co n tro v ersyth a t h a s e x iste d b e tw e e n th eone million Protestants and thehalf million Catholics in Britainand Ireland.“The conflict in the a re a m ustnot and will not continue,” saidPowers. “M aintaining the s ta tus quo would be morally unac c e p ta b le a n d p o litic a lly u n equitable.”P o w e rs h a s s p e n t th e la s te ig h t y e a r s w o rk in g fo r th eb is h o p ’s c o n fe re n c e a n d h a sm a d e n u m e r o u s tr ip s toN orthern Ireland. He acknowl e d g e s th a t th e r e c e n t c e a s efires are a dram atic step in thepeace m ovement.“The c e ase fire s of th e IRAfirst and the p aram ilitary th a tfollowed illustrate the reth in k ing th a t h a s b e e n in itia te d ,”said Powers. “It will be a slowprocess since the w ounds of thesee POWERS / page 4The O b serv er/ B randon C anduraLearning To FlyA young Domer practices his take-off from the edge of Stonehenge.investigated in crashBy MIKE ROBINSONAssociated PressCHICAGOA s tra n g e“ w h o o s h in gsound” aboard a USAir jetlinerb e fo re th e Sept. 8 c ra s h th a tkilled all 132 aboard a p p aren t ly w as n o th in g m ore th a n anop e n p u b lic a d d re s s sy ste m ,industry sources said Monday.T he re p o rt a p p e a re d to endspecu latio n over the w eekendt h a t th e m y s te r io u s s o u n dcould be a clue to the crash ofFlight 427 n e a r Pittsburgh, thefifth fatal crash of a USAir je t liner in five years.Airline industry sources saidthe so-called w hooshing noiseh a d b e e n tr a c e d to a n o p e np u b lic a d d re s s sy ste m . T heys a id th e p ilo t h a d m a d e a nannouncem ent and did not turnoff the sound system im m edi ately.They said the account of thenoise w as confirmed by an offduty pilot who w as riding freein th e co c k p it en ro u te fromCharlotte and got off the planein Chicago. The sources spokeon condition of anonymity, say in g it w a s p r o to c o l fo r th eNational T ran sportation SafetyBoard to disclose such inform a tion.M ichael Benson of the NTSBsaid “We have one indication ofth at . so far we have not beenable to assess the significanceof these rep o rts.”A ndrew McKenna, Chairm anof the Board of T rustees of theUniversity of Notre Dame, w asa p a s s e n g e r w ho got off th eplane in Chicago after travelingfro m C h a r lo tte . He s a id heh e a r d th e s o u n d a n d m e n tionned it to a flight attendant.“ She a c k n o w le d g e d it a n dth a t w as it. P re su m a b ly , sherep o rte d it,” said M cKenna, ap a r t o w n e r o f th e N a tio n a lF o o tb a ll L e a g u e ’s C h ic a g oB e a r s a n d m e m b e r o f th eC hicago T r ib u n e ’s b o a rd . “ Ican tell you th at it w asn ’t any thing alarm ing.”Also M onday, USAir n a m e dthe fo rm er top U.S. Air Forcegeneral in Europe to head all ofits s a fe ty o p e r a tio n s a s itla u n c h e d a m ajo r a d v e rtisin gdrive designed to refu rb ish itssafety image.Gen. R obert C. Oaks re tire dj u s t th is p a s t y e a r a s c o m m a n d e r of U.S. Air F o rces inEurope.This is the last issue ofThe Observer untilTuesday, November28th. Have a safe andhappy Thanksgiving.