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              REMEMBER TO VOTE NOV. 8! THE LOYOLA MAROON VOLUME 67, NO. 10 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 NOVEMBER 4, 1988 Why Care? hfhf page 4 f 1 College-aged voters are statistically silent on Election Day. But with or without the student vote, one candidate wil emerge victorious. Many will simply choose not to choose and forgo their time in the voting booth. This week, The Maroon' looks at the 1988 cam ?aign from a student perspective: • Bush and Dukakis on Education What's in store for higher education and student financial aid under the next administration? IP age 3 •The 'Zzzz' Campaign Why we deserve to be bored and why we deserve better/Page 3 •Loyolans Pick Bush \ random survey finds two-third S student body will or BushlQuayle They Care ok at students have devoted heir time to aigning/Page 5 sr's Reflections mer Presidei mmy Carter speaks on Issues past mdpresen Biever resident killed by falling snack machine By Andrea Leßoeuf Managing Editor Oct. 28 by a Biever Hall vending machine, which cut off his oxygen supply. Mark Waidner, 18, of Tucker, Ga., died at Charity Hospital at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 30 after spending about 36 hours on a respirator, Robert Reed, director of Residential Life, said. According to the students Waidner was with on Biever 4N the night of the accident, he went to buy cigarettes in the dormitory kitchen at about 11:45 p.m., Approximately 10 minutes later, a resident discovered him pinned under a candy machine and alerted Residential Life. Security was called at 11:55 p.m., and officers were at Biever within two minutes, according to Alan Abadie, director of Campus Security. Senior Resident Assistant Chuck Lee, on-duty RAs Mike Bush and Shan-  nen Coffin and Campus Security Officers Snd Fortunia, t Haydel and Rutherford were at the scene of the accident by midnight, Reed and Abadie said. Security also contacted Sister Catherine Siracusa, 0.M.8., the univer- I  sity nurse who was on  duty. She said she went to the Biever kitchen immediately.Abadie said security called Tulane Emergency Medical Service, secured the area and assisted in moving Waidner."It took seven or eight people to get the machine off Mark," Reed said, explaining that the machines weigh between 700 and 800 pounds. When Waidner was found, he had no pulse or heartbeat and was not breathing, Reed said. TEMS brought Waidner to Charity Hospital, which has one of the city's best trauma centers, Reed said. Within a half hour, doctors got a pulse and put Waidner on a respirator. Reed contacted Waidner's family around 1:15 a.m. His family arrived Saturday. "I met the family and stayed with them until they left campus [Sunday afternoon] after they packed up all the boy's belongings," Siracusa said. The New Orleans Police Department was called to make a perfunctory report, Abadie said, but security is "It's devastating to the family. He enjoyed Loyola; he never caused any difficulty. It was a totally unforeseen accident." — Robert Reed See Waidner/page 7 Inside ThisiCHffi^Y of the Jesuit 'm». Scholastic  See Life and Times/ Page 111