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I OLUME 41 : ISSUE 45 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER2, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Lottery includes graduate students Groups

officials from Student Affairs — noon and 5 p.m. and roughly funds SUB. But Student Affairs By MARY KATE MALONE who were also concerned with 230 of them, or 10 percent, were officials decided that reason apply for News Editor SUB’s reasons for excluding from graduate students. “was not significant enough.” graduate students in the first Although SUB is solely respon­ “We were completely in sup­ At the urging of the Office of place — decided “to tell [SUB sible for the distribution of the port of the decision [to exclude club status Student Affairs, the Student manager] Patrick [Vassel] to 300 tickets allocated to students graduate students],” Vassel said. Union Board (SUB) decided open up the lottery to graduate for away games, the Student “We stood behind it and this Wednesday to include graduate students.” Activities Office advises the change in policy has nothing to By EILEEN DUFFY students in the Notre Dame vs. The last-minute instruction organization and it delivered an do with us.” Assistant News Editor USC football ticket lottery less came as a surprise to Vassel, “instruction” that SUB include He did not want to comment than an hour before it began. who was called into Coughlin’s graduate students in the lottery. further on the inclusion of grad­ Wednesday marked the final The threat of a possible protest office around 11:30 a.m. “It was a hard thing to do and uate students until the lottery day for Notre Dame students by graduate students was a cata­ Wednesday and told of Student we don’t like to do it. ... We like was completed, he said. interested in forming a club to lyst for the change in policy, said Affairs’ concerns. to be advisors, we don’t like to On W ednesday, SUB put for­ apply for University recognition Director of Student Activities Vassel was able to send out an tell student groups what to do,” ward a compromise to appease through the Office of Student Brian Coughlin, who spoke on e-mail to grad students notifying Coughlin said. the disgruntled graduate stu­ Activities. the phone with senior staff mem­ them of the change around noon Graduate students were origi­ dents, who had hoped to be Assistant Director of Student bers in Student Affairs around and clearly the word spread fast. nally excluded from the lottery included in the USC ticket lottery Activities Amy Geist had received 11 a.m. Wednesday. Vassel said 2,200 student ID because they do not pay the 15 applications by mid-afternoon, Together, Coughlin and top cards were swiped between Student Activities Fee, which see LOTTERY/page 6 but was expecting upwards of 25 by the 5 p.m. deadline. Groups turned in a thick pro­ posal packet, which included a S tudent S enate constitution, schedule of events, tentative budget, written approval from impacted depart­ ments or offices on campus, list Members pass Native American resolution of officers and official proposal form. Despite the preparation, they have to wait about a year ♦ The Office of the President to and a half before they’ll learn By MARY KATE MALONE appoint a permanent member of the whether they’ve been granted News Editor faculty or staff to serve as an “official club status, Geist said. advisor” to Native American students. Before granting club status, the The Student Senate unanimously ♦ Campus literature and public University requires a club to go passed a resolution Wednesday that, addresses to “render” a greater sensi­ through a probationary year, if implemented, will provide more tivity toward the Native Americans where the club puts its proposal resources for Native American stu­ who previously inhabited the into action. And before that pro­ dents — a group making up less than University area. bationary year of club status one percent of the University’s stu­ ♦ The student body to stand behind even begins, a prospective club dent body. the inclusion of all Native American must meet three approvals. Six Native American students sat students in “all spheres of the Notre The process begins with Geist, behind Minority Affairs committee Dame experience.” who looks through proposal chair Destinee DeLemos as she pre­ When Social Concerns committee packets to make sure they’re sented her committee’s resolution, chair Sheena Plamoottil asked about complete. which called for: the experiences of Native American She then hands the proposals ♦ Academic departments to make students at Notre Dame, senior Nikki to Student Activities Director seats available for non-majors in Williams, of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Brian Coughlin for the courses that examine the history and tribe in Nevada, described her experi­ “University filter.” Coughlin culture of Native Americans. There ence. makes sure the groups aren’t “in are currently four such classes, all “For me, coming here as a Native conflict with the teachings of the under the American Studies American person and not having any Catholic Church of the mission of Department. other Native American people to the University,” Geist said. ♦ Academic departments to explore share my experiences with ... it was PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer Geist said she could not specify the possibility of creating a modern Senator Sheena Plamoottil spoke in support of the Native American issues course. see SENATE/page 6 Minority Affair’s resolution at Wednesday’s meeting. see CLUBS/page 6

Ethicist discusses AIDS in Africa Chicago lawyer rails Farley addresses issues of gender and faith in epidemic response against death penalty

By KATHLEEN McDONNELL imposing a moratorium on the By KAITLYNN RIELY News Writer death penalty in Illinois. News Writer Lessons about social justice While many African nations from the Holy Cross priests at continue to see a rise in the num­ Thomas Durkin, the first speak­ Notre Dame and his work in the ber of HIV infected citizens, Kenya er in Notre Dame Against State legal profession instilled in him a is one country that has seen a Killing’s (NDASK) four-part lec­ belief that the death penalty was decline. But that shouldn’t be ture series, told audience mem­ wrong, Durkin said. taken as a sign that the global bers Wednesday night he hoped “The one thing I have become pandemic is under control, Yale they did not expect an impartial convinced of in my thirty-three ethicist Margaret Farley said discussion of the death penalty — years of being a trial lawyer and Wednesday in a lecture entitled as he proceeded to speak passion­ [from] the experiences I have “Gender, Faith, and Responses to ately in the Snite Museum’s been involved in death penalty lit­ HIV/AIDS in Africa.” Annenberg Auditorium about his igation is that it’s wrong,” Durkin “It is outrunning both them and involvement in the death penalty said. “It’s morally wrong, it’s pro- us,” Farley told students and fac­ abolition movement and his moral cedurally wrong, it’s stupid and it ulty in the Law School Courtroom, opposition to capital punishment. has no business being in a civi­ referring to the people of Africa “This system wrongfully con­ lized country.” and those in the Western world victs people,” Durkin said. “This A letter from a death row trying to help. system cannot pick out who is inmate claiming he was the victim Farley said when she asked a innocent and who is not.” of an unfair system and pleading CHRISTIAN SAGARDIA/The Observer Kenyan woman why her nation’s Durkin, a 1968 Notre Dame for a good lawyer to defend him Ethicist Margaret Farley gestures during the lecture she gave graduate, is a Chicago-based trial Wednesday in the Law School Courtroom on AIDS in Africa. see AFRICA/page 4 lawyer who was involved in see LAWYER/page 4 page 2 Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, November 2, 2006

In side C olumn Question of the Day: If you could have th re e w ish e s , w h at w ould th ey b e ? Hey, I just take the pictures Alex Hale Adam Cunningham Casey Scott Alex Kelly Theresa Welch Tim Roy When you read the newspaper, do junior freshman senior freshman senior junior you ever see a photo that sums up Stanford Keenan off campus Lewis off campus O'Neill the entire news article right then and there? They say that a picture is worth a thousand words and it could­ “Invisibility, “Everyone goes “Endless “Notre Dame “Som ething I “A pool o f Jello, n’t be more time travel and to heaven, a am ounts o f wins a national always wish world peace true. As a Christian Sagardia photographer ______flight." hundred million money to give championship, for: to take over and a national for The dollars and to the poor, parietals are the world... championship. ” Observer, I Photographer irresistible sex world peace abolished, and with love. ” get a view th a t m ost appeal." and special we live by the people don’t get: one on the outside power. ” spirit o f looking in. You may wonder, how is inclusion." that? Aren’t I supposed to be the guy behind the scenes or on the front lines, there when things go down? Indeed, I am there, but with different eyes. Seeing things through the lens of a camera gives one a new view. An In B rief editorial or news article can have bias toward one particular side, no matter how “objective” the writing is. Frank Sharry,e x e c u tiv e A picture, on the other hand, doesn’t director of the National really show a bias, because it is what Immigration Forum, will speak it is. Pictures don’t lie, and the good on “Immigration and the ones can tell us volumes about an Midterm Elections” a t 5:30 event. Sometimes words fail where tonight in th e A nnenberg only a photo can succeed. Auditorium of Snitc Museum When I go on assignments and of Art. shoots, people always ask me how the news article is going to be, or F ath er Bill Miscamble will how it’s going to be written. I always be signing his book “From reply, “Hey, I just take the pictures.” Roosevelt to Truman, ” from 1 I’ve thought about that saying, and p.m. to 3 Friday a t th e what it really means. I sometimes Hammes Notre Dame feel like I can tell a story through my Bookstore. work. I take pride in my pictures, because it’s a means of communicat­ Tera Hunter of Carnegie ing with people. I remember one Mellon University will speak assignment, a recent one, in which I on “Until Death or Distance shot some photos for a student the­ Do You Part: Marriage and atre production. I had done the shoot Slavery in the Nineteenth several days before the review was Century”at 11 a.m. Fridayin going to come out, during a tech room s 2 1 0 -2 1 4 McKenna rehearsal, and I decided to run one Hall. of the photos as a floater on the inside cover of The Observer. The Emeritus Catholic Bishop photo was a beautiful photo, with PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer Paride Tabanwill give the lec­ amazing colors and tones (unfortu­ English professor Thomas Hall reads from the epic poem “Beowulf” Tuesday night tu re “Post-war Challenges of nately, the photo ran in black and in Reckers as part of Lectio at Eleven, a late-night event of music and readings. Faith: Southern Sudan in the white). This single photo convinced Shadows of Darfur” Fridayat several people I know to go see the I p.m. in the Center for Social show, and I’m sure many more Concerns. enjoyed the photograph. Point is, that O ffbeat image told a story and had a mean­ North Carolina Governor ing to it that people saw. Needless to Mean squirrel attacks the mail in the box and Executive Andrew Spano. Michael Easleywill give the say, after hearing the positive feed­ letter carrier turned to walk away and The former inmate, le c tu r e “Intersection of back, I was proud of my work, of my OIL CITY, Pa. — L etter it jumped on me.” Oscar Aponte, was taking Values and Politics in Modern art. carriers occasionally The animal ran up her his daughter trick-or- American Life” Fridayat 2 I admit, my writing skills aren’t the have to deal with angry leg and onto her back, treating in Peekskill on p.m. in 102 DeBartolo Hall. best (this article was proofread sev­ dogs or maybe even a she said. Tuesday night when a eral times, natch), so I turn to pho­ spider’s nest in a mail­ county correction officer A panel will be discussing tography to get information out to the box, but a mean squir­ Ex-inmate's costume — also out trick-or-treat­ “The Role of Religion in people. My job allows me to express rel? Barb Dougherty, a sparks jail lockdown ing with her child — Peacebuilding” Saturdayat what people can’t with words. It 30-year Postal Service WHITE PLAINS, N Y. — spotted the familiar II a.m. in th e A nnenberg allows me to communicate feelings employee, said she was A jail went into lockdown jumpsuit, Tolchin said. Auditorium of the Snite and emotions. 1 can evoke a sense of attacked and bitten and recounted its prison­ “She confronted him, Museum. The event will fea­ beauty, anger, patriotism, happiness, Monday by a squirrel ers on Halloween night and he ran and drove ture speakers from the Kroc bliss, sadness, a whole spectrum of while delivering mail in after a former inmate off,” Tolchin said. The Institute for International sentiments with a simple photograph. Oil City, about 75 miles was spotted trick-or- officer took down the Peace Studies. It allows me to do all this, with little north of Pittsburgh. treating in his old orange man’s license plate and bias and without being subjective. “It was a freak thing. It prisoner’s jumpsuit. called authorities. To submit information to be Being a photographer has given me a was traumatic,” “Bad choice of cos­ included in this section of The new perspective on life. I see things Dougherty told The tume,” said Susan Information compiled Observer, e-mail detailed from the outside, as a silent observer. D errick in Oil City. “I saw Tolchin, chief adviser to from the Associated information about an event to My job is simple: tell it like it is. it there on the porch, put Westchester County Press. [email protected] Rather than using words, I let my photographs speak for themselves. In the end, they tell it like it is, and they TODAY TONIGHT FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY speak the truth. Contact Christian Sagardia at csagardi@n d. edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and 5 not necessarily those of The Observer. < O C o rrectio n s O HIGH HIGH 29 HIGH 42 HIGH 45 HIGH HIGH 50 LOW LOW 25 LOW 26 LOW 35 LOW LOW 41 The Observer regards itself as a professional publication. We do, however, recognize that we will make mistakes. If we have made a mistake, please Atlanta 60 / 31 Boston 52 / 35 Chicago 39 / 25 Denver 53 / 37 Houston 68 / 46 Los Angeles 73 / 56 Minneapolis 3 4 /1 9 call us at 631-4541 so we can correct our error. New York 53 / 37 Philadelphia 53 / 33 Phoenix 86 / 59 Seattle 48 / 47 St. Louis 52 / 26 Tampa 85 / 62 Washington 53 / 34 Thursday, November 2, 2006 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS page 3 Deloitte exec gives lecture Guatemalan advocate

By STEVE KERINS works for peace, justice News Writer

Ethical business practices are The political system no increasingly a primary concern By LAURA BODIEN longer consists of multiple for American businesses, and News W riter parties, but simply recycles students should capitalize on past military personnel as Notre Dame’s educational oppor­ When her sister was mur­ politicians, she said. The mili­ tunities to prepare themselves dered on Sept. 11, 1990, Helen tary, she said, basically served for a more ethics-conscious Mack Chang was enlightened. to kill off Guatemalans workplace, a business executive “I was born,” Chang, one of opposed to those in power for said Wednesday. Guatemala’s most vocal advo­ a long while. Sharon Allen, chairman of the cates for justice and reconcili­ Fourteen years of hard work Board of Directors at Deloitte & ation of the country’s 36-year and perseverance have not Touche, USA, delivered a lecture civil war, told an audience been enough for Chang. Even entitled “Leadership and Ethics” Tuesday in the Hesburgh after the sentencing of her sis­ — the fourth talk in this year’s Center for International ter’s murderers and the Berges Lecture Series, which Studies. “My spirit was acceptance of responsibility addresses issues of ethics in busi­ enriched.” for its occurrence by the gov­ ness. Chang is the winner of the ernment, she recognizes the Allen stressed that American 2005 Notre Dame Prize for problem still exists. corporations are viewing ethical Distinguished Service in Latin There are currently 185 conduct with a growing serious­ America. After she won the pending cases of persons who ness. 1992 Right Livelihood Award have disappeared, been mur­ “My message for you today is — a Swedish award often dered or tortured in correla­ that ethics is a mandate, not an called the “alternative Nobel tion with political motives, she option,” she said. “We at Deloitte Prize”— Chang used the mon­ said. It is Chang’s hope that cannot sustain the public’s trust etary portion of her award to one day all such cases be rec­ without each of our people acting found the Myrna Mack onciled completely. with integrity.” Foundation in honor of her PHIL HUDELSON/TTie Observer “Every community has the Allen reiterated a theme com­ deceased sister. government it deserves,” mon in this year’s Berges lec­ Sharon Allen delivered the fourth talk of this year’s Berges Chang said she formed the Lecture Series at the Mendoza College of Business Wednesday. Chang said. “We need to pro­ tures — the need for companies foundation to bring justice to voke [that government] in to effectively translate their codes political villains who m ur­ Guatemala.” of ethics into an active, adaptive neither approves nor is a part of has been concern over a per­ dered and brutally stabbed With 70 percent of the culture of ethical business. [unethical business practices].” ceived gap between ethical val­ her sister 27 times and who Guatemalan population lack­ “As its essence, true progress Allen echoed speakers in previ­ ues and practice in today’s young have tortured, tormented and ing an education, Chang said it comes not in compliance, but in ous lectures in speaking about adults, she said, but their empha­ killed countless other is difficult to rally people and transformation,” she said. “You the change in business culture sis on maintaining a balance Guatemalans. help them understand the cannot legislate ethics.” following from the Sarbanes- between work and life will prove Different groups or regions solution to oppression. Allen illustrated her point by Oxley Act of 2002. Although she beneficial in the corporate world. work in conjunction with Chang said she hopes stu­ enumerating several policies in argued that the responsibility for “It’s my view that maintaining organized crime to control dents in the U.S. — including place at Deloitte designed to train ethics in the workplace falls pri­ that proper balance in your life various sections of the coun­ those at Notre Dame — will and assist employees in making marily on companies, she said actually makes ... ethical choices try, she said. take an interest in the ethical decisions at work. She the government has laid impor­ easier,” Allen said, citing her While more than 60 percent American political system. said Deloitte has been able to dis­ tant groundwork for large-scale company’s outreach efforts to of Guatemalans live in poverty, Young people need to be tinguish itself as a leader in this improvement. promote ethical development “th e g o v e rn m e n t d o e s n ’t informed, she said, and need area because of its large size. “[Sarbanes-Oxley] put a legal among schoolchildren. worry about trying to better to recognize that many of the “[We] help people navigate structure in place that demands Deloitte is an accountancy and life of the citizens,” Chang fears Americans are experi­ through the gray areas, because a new level of accountability,” professional services firm said. encing now are similar to ethics are seldom black and Allen said. employing nearly 40,000 people In addition to the socioeco­ those experienced by white,” Allen said, highlighting Allen also spoke about com­ in the United States and tens of nomic concerns, she said, Guatemalans nearly 30 years her company’s “consultative cul­ plaints raised in the business thousands more worldwide, and modern times have incited ago — specifically, censorship ture” as a strength enabling community regarding the high is known locally as a popular fresh incidences of violence and limits on personal free­ employees to work with one cost of implementing changes in employer for graduates of Notre and oppression. doms. another when facing issues of ethics oversight. Dame. Roughly 6,000 people die But Chang said she refuses ethics. “Surveys indicate that the The Berges Lecture Series is each year and nearly 96 per­ to be paralyzed by fear any Allen noted the recent rash of Sarbanes-related costs are going sponsored by the Center for cent of the homicides go longer and will continue her corporate scandals that have down by as much as 40 percent Ethics and Religious Values in unpunished according to struggle for justice and recon­ received extensive media cover­ for larger companies,” she said. Business and the Institute for records from the justice ciliation. age, but said a small number of “As far as cost [at Deloitte], I Ethical Business Worldwide. The department, she said. Chang is an honorary mem­ individuals have prompted a loss don’t think about it as dollars next lecture in the series will be Statistics like this further ber of both the National of public trust in American busi­ spent, I think about it as dollars entitled “Business and Human validate the mission of the Advisory Security Council and ness at large. protected.” Rights” and will take place Nov. Myrna Mack Foundation, Guatemala’s Commission on “Have we lost our way?” she The characteristics of the gen­ 14. Chang said, adding that such Strengthening Justice. said. “1 don’t really think so, eration currently entering busi­ numbers prove that the justice because I believe that a great, ness might affect the future of Contact Steve Kerins at and security institutions are Contact Laura Bodien at great majority of our population business ethics, Allen said. There [email protected] not working like they used to. [email protected]

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od than what we’re facing today “Whole generations have been relationships in fear of losing eco­ hope is also crucial for relations, with the AIDS pandemic,” she wiped out. In some villages it is nomic support, and women with she said. Africa said. possible to find no one over the AIDS are more likely to be stigma­ Farley said there is also a cross- continued from page 1 Much of Farley’s work is done age of 14,” Farley said. “Women tized,” she said. cultural aspect of her work, as it is through two projects — a women’s bear a disproportionate burden.... The current solutions are not not possible to transplant beliefs numbers of HIV infected citizens initiative that consults with the But without power, women who enough to control the “over­ and practices wholesale from one are declining, the woman Circle of African Women could, and I believe do, hold the whelming problem,” Farley said, culture to the next. answered, “I think it may have Theologians and an All-Africa key to stopping the pandemic are offering ideas for effective “We can stand in solidarity with been because we all already died.” Sister to Sister Conference, which shut out.” responses to the pandemic gar­ those of the culture who may criti­ This is the reality of the situation works with women from 21 differ­ Farley said many women are nered from her own experiences cize a certain aspect of it, as long in sub-Saharan Africa, a place ent countries. “blatantly excluded” from posi­ in Africa. as we look to our own culture with where HIV has already claimed “On the basis of I the women’s] tions of economic, social, and polit­ Farley said women breaking the the same critical eyes," Farley the lives of 14 million people, said experiences, let me begin by ical power, allowing the patterns silence and bringing the issues to said. Farley, who has been battling this observing that we have sisters and of sexism and submission to per­ the forefront of people’s minds is Action is required based on our crisis for the past six years. While brothers everywhere ... and lives petuate. key. understanding of the world some progress has been made, 28 are destructed, families are being Much of women’s powerlessness She also said a working partner­ church, she said. million people in the region live destroyed.” comes when sex is demanded on ship with African women is vital “We are all equal shares in the with the devastating disease, she Farley focused on the role religious or cultural grounds, she because “it is not we who interpret one life of the Church,” Farley said. women can — and should — play said. Women arc often coerced a woman’s experience or call for a said, “called to bear the burdens of Farley said her time in Africa in controlling the disease. Women into marriages and into having change of cultural or social behav­ one another. It is often said in this has been a “marvelous and terri­ are at a greater risk for infection unprotected sex, Farley said, even ior — the Africans shouldn’t be regard that Christ has AIDS.” ble journey.” and death, she said. For every 10 if the partner is potentially infect­ expected to come into our agen­ “fit is] difficult to imagine a more men infected, 13 women are ed with HIV. da.” Contact Kathleen McDonnell at difficult situation in any time peri­ infected. “Women may have to stay in A common goal and common [email protected]

bar exam after three failed From that point on, Durkin said, guardian for anyone considered was the most amazing thing I’d attempts. He lost his appeal and he and his wife — who works as insane on death row. ever seen.” Lawyer was executed on Dec. 8,1994. a partner in their legal practice — His work toward abolishing the Notre Dame must be a force in continued from page 1______Durkin spent the last day of vowed to do whatever they could death penalty over the years has the anti-death penalty movement, Resnover’s life in South Bend, do to put an end to the death given him some hope that there is he said. drew Durkin into his first death working with other lawyers to penalty. a possibility for change, Durkin “I don’t know how the premier penalty case. Gregory Resnover convince the judge to halt the exe­ It’s a serious issue for the United said. Catholic university in this country was sentenced to death in Indiana cution. States, he said. And the turning point, he said, has a law school that isn’t doing for the murder of Indianapolis “1 am absolutely convinced ... In 2005, the United States was may have been at Northwestern anything about the death penalty,” police sergeant Jack Ohrberg. that with a good lawyer, he one of six countries that con­ University in November 1998 at he said, citing the absence of a This case, Durkin said, showed wouldn’t have ended up being tributed to 90 percent of the state- the first annual National wrongful convictions clinic. him why the death penalty system executed,” Durkin said. sponsored executions in the Conference on Wrongful Durkin urged students to “raise is flawed. There had been no After his unsuccessful effort to world, according to Amnesty Convictions and the Death Penalty, hell” about the death penalty meaningful pre-trial investigation, halt the execution, Durkin heard International. The United States which he attended. At the semi­ issue. no depositions taken of key wit­ on his car radio that Resnover’s ranks fourth in the number of nar’s end, approximately 30 of the “This campus has been conspic­ nesses or any of the basic steps family had sent a hearse to the death penalties carried out, 58 men who had been exonerated uously silent on this issue, much taken to defend Resnover, Durkin Michigan City prison to pick up his behind China, Iran and Saudi from death row were introduced. to my chagrin,” Durkin said. said. body. Arabia, and before Pakistan and One by one, the men walked to The next NDASK lecture in the “Resnover was absolutely right, That image has been seared in Yemen, Durkin said. the center of the stage, laid a series will feature Deacon George in my opinion, that he was getting his mind, Durkin said. Since his involvement in daisy in a vase of water and told Brooks November 8 in the set up,” he said. “What is going on here?” he Resnover’s case, Durkin said he their story of how they were saved Hesburgh Center auditorium. Resnover, a black man, was rep­ asked. “They brought this man in has been a part of five or six death from capital punishment. resented in his appeal by a young in chains and they are bringing penalty cases as a trial lawyer, a “1 was never so moved by any­ Contact Kaitlynn Riely at lawyer who had just passed the him out in a hearse.” habeas corpus council or a thing in my life,” Durkin said. “It [email protected] We now own the most popular student apartments and townhouses in the area! Leasing for 2007-2008 school year

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International N ew s Sunni coaches abducted in Sadr City Al-Jazeera to launch internationally BAGHDAD, Iraq — Gunmen abducted a top Iraqi basketball official and a blind ath­ Arab network set to be first English-speaking station based in the Middle East letic coach, both Sunnis, on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Iraqi forces lifted a blockade on Baghdad's Shiite militia Associated Press stronghold of Sadr City. DOHA, Q atar — Al- The attack took place at a youth club on Jazeera’s taboo-smashing relatively prosperous Palestine Street in newscasts regularly vex eastern Baghdad near the Sadr City dis­ politicians in Washington, but trict, which is controlled by anti-American not nearly as much as they cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. The anger leaders in the Arab militia has been linked to scores of abduc­ world, where the news chan­ tions and torture killings of Sunnis. nel has been banned from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered operating in 18 countries at military roadblocks dismantled Tuesday one time or another. around the sprawling slum of 2.5 million. Now, the network is Al-Maliki acted under pressure from al- launching its biggest gamble Sadr, whose political faction is a key part of on its 10th anniversary — an the governing coalition. English-language channel with an Arab perspective. Al- 16 killed in attack on police station Jazeera International plans BOGOTA, Colombia — H undreds of leftist to hit the airwaves Nov. 15 rebels bombarded a remote police station and hopes to steal viewers with makeshift mortars in a pre-dawn from CNN and the BBC. attack Wednesday and ambushed a column Feisty and sometimes of police reinforcements, killing at least 16 graphic coverage of global officers, authorities said. carnage is an Al-Jazeera spe­ The six-hour assault in the village of cialty, as is bracing commen­ Tierradentro, 230 miles northwest of tary that has shaken up the Bogota, was the bloodiest since President Arab world and rattled the Alvaro Uribe was re-elected in May in a West. landslide that endorsed his get-tough poli­ “We have an edge over the cy with the rebels. other networks: We’re Authorities blamed the Revolutionary already based in the Middle Armed Forces of Colombia, better known East. And we have a different as the FARC. At least 10 police officers perspective,” director Wadah were missing and four civilians wounded, Khanfar told a news confer­ said Jairo Lopez, the top security official ence at the network’s Doha for Cordoba state, where the attack headquarters Wednesday. occurred. Al-Jazeera has been through a lot in 10 years, with three staffers killed in Iraq, another locked away N ational N ew s w ithout charge at the U.S. AP prison facility in Guantanamo An unnamed producer works in the news room of Al Jazeera’s headquarters Wednesday. New York City to look for WTC bones Bay, Cuba, and a correspon­ The network’s English-language international channel will start broadcasting Nov. 15. NEW YORK — The city is planning to hire dent who interviewed Osama several more forensic experts to help hunt for bin Laden convicted on terror best seen in Saudi Arabia, appear to be having money Al-Jazeera says its goal is human remains around the World Trade charges in Spain. where the network has never trouble. Al-Jazeera to reverse the information Center site after a cache of human bones, Those it has covered have been allowed to send a International has hired more flow to the world’s 1 billion believed to be those of Sept. 11 victims, was also suffered. The network is reporter — even those mak­ than 500 staffers, poaching English speakers who now found there last month, a deputy mayor said credited with waking up ing personal pilgrimages to some of the world’s best- have no choice but to watch Wednesday. Arab TV viewers with brash Mecca. known journalists from net­ Western-oriented broadcast­ As many as 10 more forensic anthropolo­ discussions of banned topics. Worse, a Saudi boycott of works including the British ers. Al-Jazeera International gists will be hired temporarily to help in the It questioned autocrats the channel bars Al-Jazeera B roadcasting Corp., CNN, also appears to have natural next phase of the recovery project, which across the region and advertisers from doing busi­ CNBC and ABC. It will broad­ audiences among the world’s involves excavating more manholes and brought a large dollop of ness in the kingdom. The cast in ultra-expensive high- 1.2 billion Muslims, most of underground areas, tearing up parts of side diplomatic clout to Qatar, a boycott has chased away definition TV with four chief whom don’t speak Arabic. streets and exploring rooftops of selected tiny sheikdom on the Persian almost all advertisers, leaving broadcast centers rather Before taking on the big buildings near the 16-acre site, Deputy Mayor Gulf. A frustrated President Al-Jazeera dependent on the than CNN’s two or BBC’s one. networks, however, it first Ed Skyler said. Officials say that work could Bush even talked of bombing deep pockets of Qatar’s royal Although its one-time needs to be seen, which take up to a year. the channel’s headquarters in family. anchor, Riz Khan, is among requires coaxing hundreds of Some 200 pieces of bone and other remains 2004, according to a leaked “We are totally blocked those who departed for Al- global cable TV operators to have been found since last month, when some British government memo. from Saudi Arabia,” Khanfar Jazeera International, CNN carry its signal. This has been of them were discovered in a manhole along “It made the airwaves said. The station’s employees International said it wel­ tough in many countries, the the western edge of the lower Manhattan site. uncontrollable,” Amjad are also banned from Iraq, comed the new competition. station’s commercial director Nasser wrote Wednesday in Tunisia and Algeria, staffers “We’re not worried,” Lindsey Oliver said — not AWOL soldier disappears again the London-based pan-Arab said. spokeswoman Susanna Flood least the United States, where LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A U.S. Army soldier daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi. The network declines to said. “News channels are the Bush administration has who fled to Canada rather than return to The fear Al-Jazeera say virtually anything about judged by what they do and accused Al-Jazeera of anti- Iraq has disappeared again, this time just a inspires in the Arab world is its finances, but it doesn’t not what they say they'll do.” American bias. day after surrendering to the military. Pvt. Kyle Snyder, 23, of Colorado Springs, Colo., told The Associated Press he was sup­ posed to return by bus to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Louisville on Tuesday but didn’t go. He said he went AWOL after Fort Knox officials told him he would be sent back to Kerry apologizes for "botched joke" his unit, the 94th Engineer Battalion. Associated Press attacked President Bush for a “failed mittee, that meant pumping about $1 security policy.” Yet his apology, million into an Arizona race long WASHINGTON — Fearful of dam­ issued after prominent Democrats thought out of reach. For the coun­ Local N ew s aging his own party in next week’s had urged him to cancel public terpart Republican committee, it elections, Sen. John Kerry apologized appearances, was designed to quell a meant a foray into Maryland, also Long likely to be next leader of Senate Wednesday to “any service member, controversy that party leaders feared viewed as an unlikely state to pick up INDIANAPOLIS — Republican Sen. David family member or American” offend­ would stall their drive for big gains a seat. Long of Fort Wayne is likely to be the next ed by remarks deemed by on Nov. 7. Kerry beat a grudging retreat in his leader of the Indiana Senate now that the Republicans and Democrats to be With polls showing the public return to the national campaign spot­ lone remaining contender has dropped out insulting to U.S. forces in Iraq. opposed to the war in Iraq, light. Earlier, on the radio program of the race, a fellow senator said Six days before the election, the Democrats have expressed increas­ “Imus in the Morning,” the W ednesday. Democrats’ 2004 presidential nomi­ ing optimism in recent days that they Massachusetts senator said he was Sen. Thomas Weatherwax, R-Logansport nee said he wanted to avoid becom­ will gain the 15 seats they need to “sorry about a botched joke” about said Wednesday that he had dropped out of ing a distraction in the final days of win control of the House. Democrats Bush. He heaped praise on the the race. the battle for control of Congress. He must pick up six seats to win the troops, adamantly accused Weatherwax told The Associated Press in added he sincerely regretted that his Senate, a taller challenge, and both Republicans of twisting his words a phone interview that he met with Long at words were “misinterpreted to imply parties made last-minute efforts to and said it was the commander in noon Tuesday and later sent a letter anything negative about those in uni­ increase the number of competitive chief and his aides who “owe informing the caucus that he was dropping form .” races. America an apology for this disaster out. In a brief statement, Kerry For the Democratic senatorial com­ in Iraq.” page 6 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS Thursday, November 2, 2006

be “an integral part” of the reso­ financing. The Financial lution. Management Board gives the Senate “1 think this [resolution] lives up Clubs CCC one-third of the $95 stu­ Lottery continued from page 1 exactly to Catholic Social continued from page 1 dent activities fee all students continued from page 1 Teaching and if we don’t acknowl­ pay, which amounted to disheartening and really, really edge that then we’re not recogniz­ what type of group would be $278,000 last year, Geist said. after being denied access for the lonely,” she said. ing what this University is based denied club status at that Proceeds from The $hirt also Michigan $tate game earlier this Though the resolution passed on,” Shappell said. stage. benefit student groups. year. The compromise would with no opposing votes, some sen­ AllianceND, an unrecog­ “If it’s a group with an out­ have allowed graduate students ators had reservations about cer­ In other business: nized gay and lesbian student rageous budget, with no hope exclusive access to leftover lot­ tain provisions, such as the ♦ Senators unanimously passed group, is one group that has of raising funds and no grasp tery tickets on Nov. 8. demand that seats be opened for a resolution that supports the applied for and been denied of other alternatives, that But graduate students were non-majors in classes that study renewal of an existing contract club status for two straight might be a significant [deter­ still not satisfied, and decided to Native American history and cul­ that allows Holy Cross students to years. Similar proposals have rent] for the CCC,” she said, go forward with plans for a ture. have access to the Rockne been denied nine times in the “because they can’t financially protest outside Legends anyway. “If we do this, we should open Memorial Athletic Facility. last 10 years, according to a accommodate it and have the Janice Kenney, a graduate stu­ up courses for African American In 2001, then-University March 22, 2005 article in The other groups we have, too.” dent who helped plan the [studies], studies of the Holocaust President Father Edward “Monk” Observer, and no gay and les­ Once they’ve made their protest, had made six posters, ... to any group that has been dis­ Malloy renewed a contract that bian student group has suc­ decisions, the CCC sends its gathered about 40 graduate stu­ advantaged,” said Dillon Hall sen­ gave Holy Cross students access cessfully recommenda­ dents and was “fully prepared” ator Tyler Langdon, who added to the Rock while a new Holy secured official “If it’s a group with tions back to to protest when she heard about that he “completely” agreed with Cross athletic facility was being status. Coughlin. the policy change just after 1 the resolution, except for the part built. The groups an outrageous “For the p.m. Wednesday. that called for special access to That contract expires at the end that do make it budget, with no most part, he “I was very pleasantly sur­ Native American classes. of 2006, but Holy Cross’s new ath­ past Coughlin’s hope of raising supports the prised,” she said. “We were all But DeLemos insisted that letic facility will not be complete filte r a re recommenda­ prepared to launch the protest increasing access to Native by then, said University Affairs passed on to fu n d s ... that might tion of the but we were extremely glad we American classes was imperative committee chair Aly th e Club be a significant CCC,” Geist didn’t have to.” for a minority group with such Baumgartner. Coordination Ideterrent/for the said. Student body president Lizzi few resources on campus. Council (CCC), During the Shappell, who stood behind “I think it’s the minimum that ♦ Shappell, Plamoottil, student which is com­ CCC." three years SUB’s decision to exclude gradu­ can be done right now,” DeLemos body vice president Bill Andrichik prised of repre­ they’ve been ate students, said she was “very said. and chief executive assistant Liz sentatives from Amy Geist using this surprised ” when she learned Brown met with Director of Food In support of the clause, other S I X c lub divi- assistant director process, he’s about the changes. senators noted that it reflects Services Dave Prentkowski to dis­ sions — aca­ never contra­ “We need to see where the another Senate initiative from last cuss a recent Senate resolution demic, athletic, Student Activities dicted it, she communication breakdown year that calls for course require­ that called for Food Services to cultural, per­ said. occurred and avoid decision­ ments at Notre Dame to include only use Fair Trade coffee in all of forming arts, social service Of the 10 to 15 groups that making problems like this in the classes that promote cultural its non-franchised operations. and special interest. applied last year, four were future,” she said. competency. Prentkowski has created a task Prospective clubs then meet denied probationary status. Graduate Student Union mem­ DeLemos’ committee has force to address the issue, with the division they’d likely During Geist’s five years, she ber Paul Schwamm, who had worked on that initiative since the Plamoottil said, and Plamoottil be allocated to and the repre­ said she’s had several groups urged SUB throughout the fall to start of the school year. will “keep the lines of communi­ sentatives from that division apply more than once, but reconsider its decision to exclude Senators then voted to not cation open” as the Food Services return and present to the rest none have applied all five graduate students, was “very strike the clause from the resolu­ and student government continue of the CCC, she said. years. happy” with the policy change tion. to work on implementing the This year, those meetings Geist said in some cases, and viewed the concession as an Fisher Hall senator Drew Clary goals of the resolution. will take place in January, basic confusion is to blame for important step in graduate- had concerns about the wording Geist said. a club’s failure to obtain undergraduate student relations. of the resolution, saying that its ♦ Andrichik announced that “They’ll give a synopsis of recognition. “I think it really creates an emphasis on Catholic Social senior Notre Dame students will each of the groups ... and “I find sometimes students opportunity for the [Graduate Teaching sends a “subliminal now have access to Irish Online, they’ll recommend whether or don’t realize they didn’t even Student Union] and the SUB to message” that those who vote an online directory of contact not groups are given proba­ apply for club recognition,” continue to do things together in against it are “voting against information for more than tionary status,” she said. Geist said. “They’ll submit one the future. ... 1 think where we Catholic Social Teaching.” 100,000 Notre Dame alumni. The CCC then votes on thing or come talk to me about are right now is a great position But Clary’s comments were More details will be released in a whether to grant groups pro­ something, but not actually because we’re all ready to move quickly addressed by student press release today, he said. bationary status or deny follow our official process.” forward together.” body president Lizzi Shappell who recognition. said the reference to Catholic Contact Mary Kate Malone at Geist said a major factor in Contact Eileen Duffy at Contact Mary Kate Malone at Social Teaching was and should [email protected] the CCC’s decision-making is [email protected] [email protected]

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M arket R ec a p Stocks India attractive to surgery patients Dow 12,031.02 -49.71 Jones More Americans head overseas for hip replacements, angioplasties to save money Upt Same: Down: Composite Volume: Associated Press 1,150 130 1,150 2,929,519,920 NEW DELHI, India — Greg AMEX 1,948.95 -16.40 Goodell Dew from Iowa to India NASDAQ 2,334.35 -32.36 to have his arteries unclogged. Rick Thues made the trip from NYSE 8.718.14 -56.84 California for a new hip. John SAP 500 1.367.81 -10.13 Terhune ventured from Indiana NIKKEl(Tokyo) 16,242.32 -132.94 for a hip-and-knee combo. Combined, all three saved FTSE lOO(London) 6, 149.60 +20.40 about $140,(XX), including the cost of travel and hotels, by COMPANY %CHANGE I $GAIN I PRICE having their surgeries last NASDAQ 100 TR (QQQQ) -1.36 -0.58 42.00 month in New Delhi instead of America — where the health INTEL CP (INTC) 21.02 -1.50 -0.32 care system had simply failed SUN MICROSYS (SUNW) -2.21 -0.12 5.31 them. MICROSOFT CP (MSFTj +0.35 +0.10 28.81 All in their 50s and fully employed, these men are among the estimated 500,000 Americans who are taking their 10-YEAR NOTE -0.98 -0.045 4.561 health into their own hands by choosing medical care abroad. 13-WEEK BILL -0.10 -0.005 4.935 Many are stuck in a growing 30-YEAR BOND -0.89 -0.042 4.677 gap of uninsured or underin­ sured who are too young for 5-YEAR NOTE -1.12 +0.051 4.517 Medicare and left with only los­ ing health care options: siphon­ UGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) -0.02 58.71 ing their retirement, living in pain or possibly dying. GOLD ($/Troy oz.) + 12.50 619.30 “Our share of the American PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) -1.93 91.80 dream has been lost in the past Exchange Rates five years,” said Thues, 53, a YEN 117.2550 computer consultant from Orange, Calif. “Look at what EURO 0.7843 we’ve outsourced — I'm even POUND 0.5243 outsourcing my own health for CANADIAN $ God sakes.” 1 .1321 He is fully covered under his wife’s insurance and could have had total hip replacement back AP In B rief home for about $5,000 out of Patient James McLaurin recovers from surgery at a hospital in Thailand Wednesday. Many his own pocket. But it’s not the more Americans like McLaurin are choosing to be treated overseas for monetary reasons. newest procedure available CVS Corp. to buy Caremark Rx Inc. and would have severely limit­ gery, airfares, lodging and a trip could have put a big dent in the on a metal sign, resulting in six NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Drugstore operator ed his mobility, kept him from to the Taj Mahal totaled about family’s savings. stitches. CVS Corp. announced Wednesday it is buying his passion of skydiving, and $12,000, none of which was With a wife and five kids to Still, he said the setbacks pharmacy benefits manager Caremark Rx possibly sent him back to the covered by his insurance. consider, he said he put his faith were minor, given that his heart Inc. for about $21.3 billion in stock. hospital in 10 years with more “I was so let down by my in God and had an angioplasty was fixed without breaking the The deal, which the companies described problems. Thues lobbied to HMD. The whole idea that they with two stents inserted in India bank. The couple’s whole trip as a “merger of equals,” would create a $75 undergo hip resurfacing, a new, denied me because they could,” for about $10,000. ran about $16,500. billion drug distribution powerhouse that can less invasive technique he said while recovering at his “When you first start, you’re Uninsured Indianapolis chi­ take on retail leader Wal-Mart’s growing approved in the U.S. this year. hotel near the airport in New not sure. You think, ‘Wow that’s ropractor John Terhune, 57, presence in generic drug sales, analysts said. But he was denied. Delhi. “I’ve paid thousands of a long ways away.’ But when didn’t need any persuasion. He Company officials said the deal would cre­ So, he and his wife, Paula, dollars in premiums over the you’re faced with the other underwent hip resurfacing sur­ ate significant benefits for employers and hopped on a plane to Delhi and years. It’s their job to look after option, you want to check it gery in his left leg a year and a health plans through more effective cost visited Dr. S.K.S. Marya, chief me.” out,” he said two days after half ago in the southern Indian management and new programs, and for surgeon at the Max Super Greg Goodell, 57, from being discharged. “We felt com­ city of Chennai and was so consumers through expanded choice and Speciality Hospital’s Institute of $henandoah, Iowa, ended up at fortable. We didn’t really have pleased with the results, he more personalized services. Orthopedics & Joint the same Indian hospital as any red flags ever.” came back to have the right hip Under terms of the deal, Caremark share­ Replacement, who has per­ Thues. In August while bicy­ But Goodell did encounter a done by Dr. M arya in New holders will receive 1.67 shares of formed some 150 hip resurfac­ cling, he felt a strange tighten­ few downsides of traveling. He Delhi. And he got a partial Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS for each share of ing operations over the past two ing in his chest and realized and his wife, Kriss, both experi­ replacement for his left knee to Caremark. CVS shareholders will own 54.5 years for about $7,000 each. something was wrong. But the enced bouts of diarrhea during boot. percent of the combined company and Within a few days, Thues self-employed finishing painter the trip and their luggage was Both surgeries totaled less Caremark shareholders will own 45.5 per­ was up walking and already was uninsured and knew the lost for tree days. Goodell also than $12,000 — about 85 per­ cent. The board of directors will be split talking about his next jump price of an angiogram test had a slight mishap while walk­ cent off the U.S. price tag — evenly. from a plane in six months — alone, quoted at $4,000 to ing near Delhi’s congested plus another $3,000 for travel The new company will be called the whole trip including the sur­ $29,000 by nearby hospitals, roads: He sliced his head open and accommodation. CVS/Caremark Corp. and will be headquar­ tered in Woonsocket.

Time Warner reports higher earnings NEW YORK — Time W arner Inc. reported Truck sales helped by lower gas prices sharply higher earnings Wednesday thanks to a cable deal with Adelphia and an emerging turnaround at its AOL unit, but investors Associated Press year. Sales of GM trucks and SUVs Overall, U.S. consumers bought just fretted over slower new phone customer leaped 33.2 percent. over 1.2 million vehicles last month, a growth at the nation’s second-largest cable DETROIT — In showrooms across In fairness, the comparison figures 6.1 percent increase above October of company. the nation, consumers lured by lower were relatively easy to beat. October last year. The leading media conglomerate, which gas prices started buying trucks and 2005 was dismal for GM and the other “It’s a combination of the gas price owns the Time Inc. magazine publisher, sport utility vehicles again last month, major automakers, which had a hang­ decline and also the increased incen­ Warner Bros., CNN and HBO, earned $2.3 ending — for now — a yearlong slump over from a summer of huge dis­ tive spending for larger vehicles,” said billion, or 57 cents a share, in the third quar­ that has piled up losses at the domes­ counts. Jesse Toprak, chief economist for ter, versus $853 million, or 18 cents a share, tic Big Three automakers. Even so, Toyota Motor Corp., Ford Edmunds.com, a research site for car a year ago. Chrysler, Ford and GM have been Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. joined buyers. He said the trend toward Revenues rose 7 percent to $10.9 billion, struggling to match the offerings of GM in posting gains, Toyota at 9.2 per­ increased truck sales is likely to con­ shy of the $11.1 billion estimate of analysts Asian competitors as consumer tastes cent, Ford at 8 percent and Nissan at tinue at least into January. polled by Thomson Financial. have shifted toward smaller, more 3.9 percent, according to sales figures On average, the industry gave buy­ The earnings jump was driven by an fuel-efficient vehicles. But cheaper gas released by the companies ers incentives worth $4,800 per vehi­ adjustment related to its recently closed deal and automaker incentives appear to Wednesday. cle on large SUVs in October, and with Comcast Corp. to acquire the cable sys­ be changing the mix somewhat. Honda Motor Co. and $4,500 on large trucks, Toprak said. tems of Adelphia Communications Corp. as General Motors Corp. led the indus­ DaimlerChrysler AG reported sales Meanwhile, small cars, which gener­ well as several asset sales and other one­ try in October with a 17.3 percent declines, but all major manufacturers ate lower profits for the industry, had time effects. sales increase compared with last saw increased truck sales. an average incentive of just $700. " 'V ~TThe O bserver page 8 V» ie w p o in t^ ® Thursday, November 2,2006

T h e O b s e r v e r The Independent, Daily Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Of expletives and extra points PO. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 When my brothers and I were elections. The focus is less on the border with Mexico. But a majority of E d i t o r in C h ie f younger, we didn’t have to watch the issues raised by the candidates, and the “little things” (a.k.a. those con­ Mike Gilloon Chicago Bears’ games. The exple­ more on the candidates’ party affilia­ gressmen and -women whose issues tives emanating from the living room M a n a g i n g E d i t o r B u s in e s s M a n a g e r tions and what these will do to the you don’t care about) do, and so Maddie Hanna Jim Kirihara told us far more about their perform­ composition of Congress. Perhaps there will be a fence. ance than Cris most emphasized is how these elec­ And what about the Bears? Sure, A s s t . M a n a g i n g E d i t o r : Rama Goctumukkala Collinsworth ever tions will affect future presidential they’re undefeated — but because of A s s t . M a n a g in g E d i t o r : Robert Griffin could from the prospects — like those of Illinois a little thing. If Arizona Cardinals

N e w s E d i t o r s : Kate Antonacci broadcasting Senator Barack Obama, now that he’s kicker Neil Backers hadn’t missed a booth. Mary Kate Malone “not not running” in 2008. It’s big- 41-yard field goal wide left with 53 So while the picture politics. seconds to go a few Monday nights V i e w p o i n t E d i t o r : Joey King Bears played at And what about what I’ll be doing ago, neither the big scoreboard in the S p o r t s E d i t o r : Ken Fowler Soldier Field, we in 2007? What I’d really like to do Cardinals’ new stadium, nor the S c e n e E d i t o r : Brian Doxtader played our own now — in 2006 — is to live an entire Bears’ big picture, would look the S a i n t M a r y ’s E d i t o r : Kelly Meehan football games in day without being asked about my sam e. P h o t o E d i t o r : Dustin Mennella our suburban Coffey plans for next year. While I don’t take When it comes to your future, by all G r a p h ic s E d i t o r : Jeff Albert Chicago backyard, after my father in his fondness for means, be ambitious. I’ll be rooting A d v e r t i s in g M a n a g e r : Sharon Brown arguing over The Coffey profanity, the constant barrage of for you to get the job of your dreams, A d D e s ig n M a n a g e r : Nina Pressly whether or not my Grind questioning often tempts me to utter so that you can hang a big thing —

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 V ie w p o in t page 9 Comforting light Letters to the E ditor or silent darkness Catholics advocating What happens when people die? Are the belief that “for faithful believers, life is for gay rights accounts of near-death experiences where changed, not ended.” The promise Jesus the person moves toward a brilliant white Christ holds out to us is that the moment light with a deep sense of peace accurate? of death marks our passage from this life With only days before the elec­ ing to mislead voters on the so- Or is the story published last year about a to everlasting life. tion, a desperate President is called “marriage amendment,” man who “died” on an And so we live by faith in the face of the using a wide range of divisive an amendment that goes far operating table and Richard V. loss of a loved one. We trust in God’s love tactics to scare and confuse vot­ beyond same-sex marriage and reportedly spent a num­ Warner for us. And we place our lives and our ers. Most recently, President civil unions. But a recent poll ber of minutes surround­ futures confidently into His hands. George W. Bush stopped through found that most Virginia ed by darkness with “no FaithPoint I have often been taken by the many Georgia giving last minute Catholics are against the encounter with God” intentions Notre Dame undergraduates stump speeches. When his rhet­ amendment and don’t believe what occurs? give voice to in the residence hall Masses oric of fear wasn’t working, the the undermining of families and Yesterday, we celebrated the Feast of All every Sunday afternoon or night. President pulled an all-too-com- writing hate into the constitu­ Saints, where the Church rejoices with Sometimes the occasions remembered are mon trick out of his bag: attack tion is morally right. Virginia countless men and women who live in the happy ones. But as often as not, people gays and lesbians in the hopes Catholics rightly realize that presence of God, and see God “face to pray for loved ones or friends who are sick of courting voters. Why should marginalizing minorities and face.” or who have died. I have made it a habit to we care as a Notre Dame com­ supporting policies of inequality Today, it might seem like we remember remember all of these intentions at Mass munity? Because it’s time that rip at the moral fiber of this everyone else — All Souls. Are these the during the week. Catholics stand up for families country. people who are not saints like Mary, the As we celebrate these two feasts, we are and reject this ongoing cam­ It is time for all Catholics to apostles and martyrs and those who are confident that millions of faithful people paign of divisiveness and hate. reject the deafening rhetoric of “canonized,” mostly popes, bishops, who have gone before us live in God’s All too reminiscent of the seg­ bigotry and stand up for the priests and nuns? presence. Some of them, whose lives were regated 1950s, the President is moral dignity and rights of all As Catholics, we believe that our baptism characterized by virtue beyond the norm, using wedge issues and attack­ Americans. Maybe then, this in the name of our Trinitarian God unites are canonized. ing a large segment of campaign and the agenda of our us intimately and forever to Jesus Christ. But many others, especially ordinary Americans to appeal to his base. leaders might return to the And by uniting ourselves to Jesus through people, share their lot. However, using biblical scripture more important issues of unin­ the saving mysteries of His passion and to justify discrimination and sured children, global warming death, we also will share in His resurrec­ Father Richard V. Warner, CSC, is the religion to rationalize bigotry and the faltering economy. tion when all human history is brought director of Campus Ministry. He can be only mocks the faith of millions. together in God’s redeeming love in Jesus. reached at [email protected] Americans, of all religions, races Ken Seifert At funeral liturgies, we acknowledge The views expressed in this column are and sexual orientations, deserve alum nus death as a mystery that is hard to fully those of the author and not necessarily better. Here in Virginia, many class o f 2003 comprehend. But we also express our those of The Observer. politicians are strategically try­ Nov. 1 U-WlRE Women, students The audacity of deserve apology

Senator Obama These may sound like harsh 72-hour window. I think I need words, but I can find no better not add that the final four para­ Twelve hours is a long wait to have a audacious. However, if that’s labeled way to say it: Professor graphs do not give an argument book signed. But three friends spent audacious, too bad. Emeritus Charles Rice’s recent against Plan B, but are instead Friday night on an Fred But don’t mistake audacious for column on Plan B (“Implications nothing more than a slander Austin, Texas, street Afflerbach ostentatious. The senator’s voice proj­ of Plan B availability,” Oct. 31) against advocates of access to corner hoping to be ects and the audience Saturday often shows both a gross disrespect emergency contraception. There first in line to have Texas State interrupted him with applause, yet he for women and a gross disre­ is nothing inconsistent about U.S. Sen. Barack University — is soft-spoken. He mixes a gentle spect for his audience. advocating for access to emer­ Obama autograph a San Marcos demeanor with a command of lan­ Early in his groundbreaking gency contraception and con­ copy of his book, The The University guage that is uncommon today. book “After Virtue,” Notre demning brutal school shootings Audacity of Hope. Star In this divisive political age, where Dame’s own Alisdair MacIntyre or infanticide. When I arrived at the it’s red versus blue, you’re either with bemoans our culture’s pervasive In these ways, Rice has over­ 2006 Texas Book Festival at the state us or against us and if you speak out inability to distinguish between simplified the issue, and manip­ capitol Saturday morning, people about bringing home troops from Iraq, what he calls “manipulative” ulated his audience into associ­ waiting for Obama were lined up for you’re accused of cutting and running, and “non-manipulative” social ating Plan B with horrifying several blocks. Sitting in lawn chairs, it is refreshing to have someone reach relations. crimes. Rice’s caricature of sex wrapped in blankets, some had been out for common ground. As I understand this distinc­ as something men entice from waiting since 5 a.m. “Our country is not as divided as our tion, non-manipulative relations women or something women I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. Didn’t politicians suggest,” Obama said. “We — in the context of a newspaper deny them access to also shows the Rolling Stones play Austin last have a set of common values and column — show a deep respect further disrespect, for women’s week? The audacity of an Illinois sen­ ideals that bind us together.” for the intelligence of one’s sexual agency. ator coming down here to our book Obama’s life truly reflects America’s readers, and present them with Women are not just objects of festival and stealing the show. diversity. His father is from Kenya, his persuasive, rational arguments sexual desire, sitting around What is it about this relative new­ mother from Kansas. They met in without distorting or oversim­ passively waiting for men to comer to the national political stage Hawaii, where he was born, but plifying the issue. Manipulative conquer them, and feminists — that galvanizes people? divorced when Obama was two. He relations, on the other hand, including some deeply Catholic Those waiting in line on this chilly lived with his grandparents for a propagandize and use emotional theologians — have argued for October morning told me he was pres­ while and attended school both on the rhetoric, treating one’s audi­ decades that this view of human idential, charismatic, a good family West Coast at Occidental College and ence not as intelligent persons sexuality is perverse and unjust. man, concerned and connected. And it the East Coast at Harvard. He now to be persuaded with rational Whatever else one thinks of didn’t hurt that he was a hit on The lives in the Midwest. argumentation but sheep to be abortion and contraception, to Oprah Winfrey Show. Until a few weeks ago, Obama said manipulated. see them as means men use to Still, I had to see for myself. The he wasn’t interested in running for Sadly, it seems clear that Rice “trick” women into having sex is 500-seat House Chamber was full, but president. But recently on national has chosen to relate to his audi­ to see women as incapable of I slipped in and stood near the television, he said he may change his ence in a manipulative way, having desires, interests or tak­ upstairs rear door. The Texas State mind. Obama’s supporters might have ignoring the research showing ing action on their own. Capitol, site of much rancor the last to wait another year to see if he’ll Plan B (and hormonal contra­ On behalf of the Notre few years, seemed to take a deep run, and a year more to see if he ceptives in general) work only Dame/Saint Mary’s community breath and exhale. wins. Maybe 12 hours wasn’t that long by preventing ovulation; no evi­ as a whole, I would ask Rice to Obama spoke about the significance a f te r all. dence has ever been gathered to apologize for his column. I can­ of the title of his book, The Audacity support his contention that Plan not speak for the women of our of Hope. He said it’s easy to be over­ This column originally appeared in B prevents implantation of an community, but I would encour­ whelmed by all the problems in the the Nov. 1 issue of The University already-fertilized egg. Indeed, age him to apologize to them as world — war, poverty, genocide. It’s Star, the daily publication at Texas since implantation takes place a well. easy to accept that there is little one State University-San Marcos. week or more after intercourse, person can accomplish on a global if Plan B was successful in pre­ Dan Hicks scale. To hope, to believe, to aspire The views expressed in this column venting implantation, we would graduate student for such ideals as world peace and are those of the author and not expect it to be effective far philosophy harmony can be deemed naive, even necessarily those of The Observer. longer than the well-established Nov. 1 T h e O b s e r v e r page 10 Scene Thursday, November 2, 2006 DVD R eviews Crosby and Astaire shine bright in 'Holiday Inn'

shows and, after falling in love with her, By CASSIE BELEK struggles to keep Ted from whisking away Assistant Scene Editor yet another girl in order to secure a stable dancing partner. The magic and on-screen chemistry The romance of Jim and Linda remains between crooner Bing Crosby and dancer secondary in the film as the real couple Fred Astaire establishes 1942’s “Holiday emerges as Crosby and Astaire. In addition Inn” as one of the great holiday 01ms of to their skills in song and dance, the two classic Hollywood and more magnificent have undeniable comedic talent. Even even than Crosby’s 1954 holiday classic though Astaire portrays a scoundrel who “White Christmas.” Although the black-and- continues to steal loves away from best white “Holiday Inn” is sometimes not as friend Jim, it is impossible to hate any char­ well known as the latter movie — especially acter he may portray. The two effortlessly among younger audiences — it features the interact with each other as perfect comedic first on-screen performance of Irving and professional foils. Berlin’s pop sensation “White Christmas,” Astaire’s highlight occurs on the evening and it dazzles with one of the greatest of the Independence Day show. After Linda dance performances of Astaire’s career. becomes “sidetracked” and he is left with­ “White Christmas,” often characterized as out a dancing partner, Ted improvises a tap a Christmas movie, happens to feature all performance using an array of firecrackers the holidays of the year. When famous and explosives. The result is a rapid-fire, Photo courtesy of jk-cinema.com singer Jim Hardy (Crosby) tires of endlessly rhythmically perfect dance that comes performing, he leaves his act partner Ted from the genius of Astaire’s mind and took “Holiday Inn” features both stunning dance scenes with Fred Astaire, right, and the Hanover (Astaire) — who also steals his 38 takes to perfect. first performance of the perennial holiday favorite “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby. fiancee — and opens an inn in Connecticut. The musical climax of the film actually Instead of only getting holidays off like in his arrives in the first half. Just before New who composed all the music for the classic Other special features on the DVD include entertainment career, Jim decides that his Year’s, Jim and Linda sit at the piano, movie, expected the song to gain the popu­ a featurette, “A Couple of Song and Dance inn will only be open on holidays and each warmed by a crackling fire in the dark, larity that it did. He believed that the most Men,” which features a conversation holiday will bring a spectacular, themed when Jim decides to sing a new Christmas popular song of the movie would be “Be between Astaire’s daughter and Barnes floor show. Jim hires flower shop girl Linda song he has been writing. The song that Careful, It’s My Heart. ” While that song did interspersed with clips from Astaire’s and Mason (Marjorie Reynolds) to headline the melodiously floats through Crosby’s sell a great number of records, the wartime Crosby’s movies. Also included is a behind- sonorous voice is environment skyrocketed “White the-scenes look at the song and dance num­ none other than Christmas” to its fame. bers from the movie. Berlin’s “White This bit of trivia and more can be found in “Holiday Inn” can be enjoyed year round, Holiday Inn Christmas” — a the newly remastered “Holiday Inn” DVD. but because of the song “White Christmas,” song that has Ken Barnes, film historian and friend of it is especially touching during the winter H o u n w lN N Special Edition become one of the Crosby and Astaire, provides the commen­ holiday season. Crosby and Astaire reunited best-selling singles tary that is paired with archive audio com­ on screen only once more in 1946’s “Blue of all time and one ments from the talented duo. Barnes thor­ Skies,” but this initial pairing is the most Universal Studios that offered particu­ oughly explains the black-face number and memorable. Crosby sings from the soul and lar comfort to the its surrounding controversy and reveals Astaire dances like a dream. Apart, they are men and women in that in order to look believably drunk in one Hollywood legends, but together they are uniform during dance scene, Astaire actually did become iconic. World War 11. drunk. Even when intoxicated, however, he Not even Berlin, never misses a beat. Contact Cassie Belek [email protected] 'Amarcord' given star treatment in new release

Nino Rota’s (“8 1/2,” “The Godfather”) By BRIAN DOXTADER fantastic score and a wry sense of humor Scene Editor that punctuates the narrative. Most of Fellini’s post-“La Dolce Vita ” In the liner notes to the new Criterion work moved away from realist tenden­ edition of Federico Fellini’s “Amarcord,” cies, but “Amarcord” scales back some­ film professor Sam Rohdie notes that the what, giving the film an appealing title derives from the dialect phrase “mi dreamlike quality. “Amarcord” is a film recordo” (“I remember”), an explanation about remembrance, which makes it a that sheds a lot of light on the classic deeply personal film for its director. 1974 Italian film. “Amarcord” is a film While it may not be quite as strong a about memory, an impressionistic por­ picture as some of Fellini’s previous trait that purposely (and purposefully) work, “Amarcord” is equally — if not eschews realism in favor of nostalgia. As more — entertaining than even his best warmly affectionate as anything ever films. All of the director’s best films say committed to celluloid, “Amarcord” something about the human condition, remains one of the director's finest clas­ but rarely has that condition been so sics and one of his most enjoyable late close to Fellini himself. period films, now reissued and hand­ The film is in Italian, but, as with most somely packaged by Criterion. Italian films of the time, it was shot “Amarcord” is a portrait of the Italian silently and dubbed later — this is why Photo courtesy of dvdbeaver.com village Rimini over the course of four the mouths sometimes do not appear to seasons, with Titta (Bruno Zanin) and be in sync with the words, even in the Inhabitants of Mussolini-era Rimini stroll through the town’s square in Federico Titta’s family as the main focus. The film Italian track. The subtitles, as expected Fellini’s 1973 classic “Amarcord,” which has been re-issued by Criterion. is episodic, with various characters from Criterion, are very good, though it weaving their way in and out of the nar­ is not unlikely a few choice Italian definition digital transfer that is a page booklet that reprints the 1967 rative. Fellini’s affectionate, sometimes phrases (most of them vulgar) were lost noticeable step up from earlier versions. Fellini-penned essay “My Rimini.” bawdy portrayals make “Amarcord” one in translation. The first disc also features audio com­ “Amarcord” is perhaps the most con­ of his most fast-paced films, bolstered by T he DVD its e lf is fa n ta s tic . m entary by film scholars Peter Brunette sistently engaging film in Fellini’s oeu­ “Amarcord,” with a and Frank Burke as well as a dubbed vre, which is no small task coming from spine number of English track, though the original Italian the director of “La Dolce Vita” and “8 Amarcord four, was one of the is preferable. 1/2.” Winner of the 1974 Academy earliest Criterion The second disc contains most of the Award for Best Foreign Feature, it 2-disc Special Edition releases, but has extras, with a 45-minute documentary, remains a classic and one of the direc­ been reissued in a “Fellini’s Homecoming, ” as the center­ tor's most personal films. Though the brand new two-disc piece. A fascinating examination of the original Criterion single-disc was quite edition. Picture director and his hometown, “Fellini’s good, the re-release is a considerable C riterion quality is outstand­ Homecoming” is bolstered by the pres­ upgrade. “Amarcord” is a treat for any­ ing, especially con­ ence of other extra material, including a one remotely interested in Italian cine­ sidering that the video interview with Magali Noel and ma and comes highly recommended. film is more than some audio interviews. The DVDs come 30 years old, housed in an attractive foldout card­ Contact Brian Doxtader at restored in a high- board case, which also contains a 63- [email protected] T h e O b ser v er

Thursday, November 2, 2006 S cene page 11 DVD R eview Impossibly great results in latest 'Mission'

Julia in the dark. By SEAN SWEANY While the plot in “M:I III” offers no Asistant Scene Editor more or less than the previous two films, the storytelling is clearer and The mission given to hit television more intelligent. Abrams’ script keeps show “Lost” co-creator J.J. Abrams — the action coming while providing just should he choose to accept it — was to enough slower moments of character take an aging and unpopular movie development to allow the audience to franchise headlined by a controversial catch its breath. Hollywood star and revitalize it for the Directorially, Abrams does an excel­ modern film audience. lent job of shooting the four main Abrams accepted the mission and action scenes and maintains a slick completed it with stunning results, feel throughout the film. He also creating “Mission: Im possible III” (M:I deserves credit for managing Cruise — III), a film that grossed almost $400 recently plagued with controversy and million worldwide and was recently popular distaste — and preventing released on DVD. Not only was “M:I “M:I III” from becoming “The Tom III” a commercial success, but it was Cruise Movie.” less stylized and dramatic than John Cruise’s performance is actually bet­ Woo’s adaptation and less confusing ter than much of his recent fare and than Brian DePalma’s original film. points back to his “Jerry Maguire” Photo courtesy of puremovies.co.uk “M:I III” continues the saga of IMF days when he appeared to enjoy act­ agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), who ing. The film’s supporting cast mem­ Tom Cruise fires away in the latest installment of the Mission: Impossible has retired from impossible missions bers do a wonderful job, most notably franchise, which far surpasses its predecessor in both storytelling and tone. to spend time with his fiancee Julia Philip Seymour Hoffman, who devil­ (Michelle Monaghan, “Kiss Kiss Bang ishly plays the maniacal madman. Ray. the “Mission: Metamorphosis” feature, Bang”). Hunt is forced out of retire­ Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix”) This multi-format release is intend­ which details the complexities of cre­ ment to help an old colleague and and Billy Crudup (“Big Fish”) also give ed to allow fans to purchase as many ation and filming of the latex masks save the world from evil mastermind memorable performances as IMF lead­ special features as they would like. various characters wear throughout Owen Davian (Philip Seymour ers. Out of the various choices, the special the film. Hoffman, “Capote") while keeping “Mission: Impossible III” is one of edition is well worth the money of With such excellent special features the first major both casual and ardent fans. Unlike combined with a well-made and exhil­ films to be often boring director commentaries, arating film, “M:I III” is one of the bet­ released on sever­ the conversation between Abrams and ter DVD releases of the year. The film Mission: Impossible IH al DVD formats at Cruise is fun and revealing. The inclu­ itself stands far above the second the same time. sion of such an entertaining and “Mission: Impossible” movie and 2 Disc Collector's Edition The movie is engaging commentary is a sign that comes close to rivaling the first in available as a one- creators took great care in putting terms of its storytelling and tone. Just disc standard edi­ together such an outstanding DVD, as Abrams took on the mission of res­ Param ount H om e Video tion, two-disc spe­ notwithstanding the other special fea­ urrecting the “M:I” franchise, so cial edition or col­ tures. should film fans accept the mission of lector’s box set. Several “Making Of’ featurettes give purchasing and enjoying the “M:I III ” The special edi­ insight into virtually every aspect of DVD. IF f. tion comes either production and do an excellent job of on regular DVD, maintaining the excitement and ener­ Contact Sean Sweany at IJD-DVD or Blu gy of the film. Especially interesting is [email protected]

R estaurant R eview Local restaurant just what the 'Doctor' ordered

The food is quite good, although it’s By BRIAN DOXTADER and really not much different than what’s ERIN McGINN found at most eateries of this kind. At Scene Critics the very least, however, Doc Pierce’s is a step above chain restaurants, and since Everyone is familiar with the chain the prices are comparable, it is an franchises located on both Grape and attractive choice for hungry families and Main Rds. in students alike. Mishawaka. But The service was for the average Doc Pierce's excellent — prompt, Notre Dame stu­ attentive and dent, that’s where knowledgeable. the dining adven­ While the restau­ ture ends, leaving rant was mostly out many savory Location: 120 N. Main Street, Mishawaka empty on a Monday gems found in the H ours: Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m.- 9:30 p.m., Fri.- night, it often gets Michiana area. Sat. 11 a.m .-10:30 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m.- 9p.m. crowded on the One of these Price Range: $6 - $20 weekends and treasures can be sometimes requires found simply by reservations. While continuing south on Main Street into a bit farther than restaurants on Grape downtown Mishawaka. Doc Pierce’s Road — about a 20-minute drive from restaurant, located on 120 N. Main campus — Doc Pierce’s is well worth the Street, Mishawaka, offers casual but extra effort and a particularly good

classy dining at reasonable prices. choice on football weekends. Photo courtesy of eastbankemporium.com The food is pretty standard fare. The The atmosphere is one of the main Doc Pierce’s restaurant, with its convenient downtown location and unique usual assortment of chicken, salads, draws. With an antique bar and all steaks and burgers are available, but wood decor, the restaurant has a very atmosphere, is the perfect place for a casual dinner or a football celebration. with clever medical-based names like classy and inviting feel. The dominating “the intern” (beef in mushroom sauce) features, however, are the more than 60 assortment of booths and tables, isn’t too far from campus, but offers and “chicken M.D.” (chicken in teriyaki Tiffany-style lamps and backlit stained although the booths offer more privacy. something different than standard chain sauce). Meals come in two forms — glass windows that hang in every avail­ Speakers pipe classic rock and country, restaurant fare. The eatery offers good “over the counter” (baskets) and “full able free space. And if one of the lamps giving the restaurant a laid-back and food at acceptable prices — especially prescriptions” (entrees). The baskets or windows happens to strike a diner’s welcoming feel. With seating areas on for college students without a lot of dis­ include only fries, and prices range from fancy, they are all available for pur­ both the first and second floor, as well as posable income. about $6 to $9. Entrees include salad, chase. a full-service bar, it serves a wide-range bread, and choice of baked potato, Doc Pierce’s is a good place for a wide of patrons. Contact Brian Doxtader at French fries, coleslaw, rice or vegeta­ range of people and occasions, from Doc Pierce’s is a good destination for [email protected] and Erin McGinn at bles, priced between $10 and $20. family dinners to first dates. There is an those seeking a relaxed restaurant that [email protected] page 12 The Observer ♦ CLASSIFIEDS Thursday, November 2, 2006

NBA Revived Sixers defense dominates Hawks Orlando and Indiana open seasons strong; Magic upsets Chicago Bulls, O'Neil leads Indiana to victory over Charlotte

Associated Press The Hawks chipped away and pulled to 81-71 late in the fourth PHILADELPHIA — Allen on Childress’ jumper. The Sixers Iverson spent his summer wor­ handed Atlanta more opportuni­ rying Philadelphia would trade ties, on a shot clock violation, him. and missed shots by Iverson and Instead, he was back with the Webber on the same possession, 76ers for another opener. But but the Hawks went cold down with livelier defense and more the stretch and didn’t convert confidence down the stretch, it either of those chances. seemed to Iverson as if he was Not surprising. They are the with a whole new team. Hawks. Iverson scored 32 points and Webber then hit a 17-footer Andre Iguodala had 15 to lead and Dalembert dunked. The the 76ers over the Atlanta lead was back to 15 and the Hawks 88-75 on Wednesday Sixers were back on their way. night. “I think we used up too much Samuel Dalembert had 11 energy to get it to 10,” Childress points and 11 rebounds, and said. “It’s frustrating because it Chris Webber grabbed 13 was the first game of the season rebounds for the Sixers, who and we came out flat.” improved their mark on opening Defense was a training camp night to 39-19. priority for the Sixers after pret­ “If you play great defense, you ty much blowing a playoff spot get a chance to make your because they couldn’t play any offense better,” Iverson said. last season. The results were “That’s how we’ll get better, by promising: Philadelphia held the playing defense. If we can Hawks to 33 percent shooting rebound the basketball, I don’t and outrebounded them 47-42. think nobody can deal with us.” “It’s the first game, you Joe Johnson led the Hawks know?” Webber said, his twin­ with 25 points, and Zaza kle, if not his shooting (4-for-16), Pachulia and Josh Childress in m idseason form. “W e’ll see each had 15. Atlanta lost its how it goes after that.” eighth straight opener. Having an early cushion cer­ Maybe the Sixers didn’t have tainly helped the Sixers survive to change their roster to be a the late run. better team after all. With nearly the entire roster Orlando 109, Chicago 94 back from a team that missed Orlando Magic coach Brian Orlando forward Dwight Howard, left, drives toward the net in Orlando’s 109-94 season the playoffs for the second time Hill thought his team had no opening victory over Chicago Wednesday. Howard had 27 points and 11 rebounds. in three seasons and had no sig­ chance against the Bulls nificant additions, not much was Wednesday night after watching expected this season from the Chicago rout the defending Ben Gordon flashed a dazzling tive trips in 1:17. The spurtgave the Bobcats since Michael Sixers. champion Miami Heat to open array of reverse layups, drives Orlando an 80-55 lead before Jordan became a part owner And with the Eagles under­ the season. and fadeaway jumpers on his Malik Allen turned in a three- with the final say on all person­ achieving and the Flyers shaking “They just drove the ball way to 24 points that kept point play with 4:31 left in the nel decisions. But Jordan spent up their personnel, there was everywhere they wanted to go,” Chicago in the game — barely. quarter. the entire game in a suite and little buzz for the Sixers opener, Hill said. Kirk Hinrich had 14 points and was never introduced to the translating into plenty of empty Hill was happy to be wrong. four assists and Luol Deng Indiana 106, Charlotte 99 crowd. seats, especially in the upper Dwight Howard had 27 points scored 12 for the Bulls. Jermaine O’Neal and Sarunas The Pacers, trying to move to deck. and 11 rebounds and Jameer Grant Hill had 19 points on 5- Jasikevicius scored 20 points an up-tempo offense, took their The Sixers led by as many as Nelson scored 21 points as the of-7 shooting and Hedo Turkoglu apiece and the Indiana Pacers first lead on Jeff Foster’s layup 23 late in the third quarter and Magic surprised the Chicago had 11 points, seven rebounds pulled away in the fourth quar­ midway through the third quar­ were poised to turn this one into Bulls Wednesday night in and six assists. ter to win their season opener, ter. They led by as many as 14 in a blowout until the familiar Orlando’s season opener. “This is obviously a real good over the Charlotte Bobcats on the fourth, overcoming 41 per­ problem of wasting large leads The Bulls beat the Heat by 42 way for us to start the season Wednesday night. cent shooting. happened again. points the night before, but against what I think is an excel­ Stephen Jackson added 18 Morrison, the No. 3 pick in the In last season’s opener, the couldn’t find their stroke lent basketball team,” Brian Hill points to help the Pacers spoil draft, entered midway through Sixers squandered a late double­ Wednesday. Howard took con­ said. the NBA debut of Bobcats rookie the first quarter and hit his first digit lead in the final minutes trol, grabbing lobs in the low Orlando trailed only once — Adam Morrison, who scored 14. shot, a leaner along the left and lost in overtime, setting the post on fronting defenders and by a point — in the game’s open­ Emeka Okafor had 19 points, baseline. Morrison’s liability — tone for a familiar pattern the running the baseline for back­ ing minute. They won despite 13 rebounds and a team record- defense — showed itself early as rest of the year. Not this time. door dunks. committing 23 turnovers to tying six blocks for the Bobcats, he picked up two fouls trying to “After last year’s first game, “Dwight’s going to be one of Chicago’s 15, outshooting the who lost Gerald Wallace in the guard Jackson. this is a step in the right direc­ those guys in this league that Bulls 59 percent to 45 percent second quarter to dizziness, Morrison, who shot 5-for-13, tion,” coach Maurice Cheeks are going to make it hard, make from the field. neck and back injuries after he brought fans to their feet at the said. it tough for anyone who comes Nelson keyed a 13-2 Magic hit his head on the floor follow­ end of the first quarter. Catching But not before the Sixers took into this building to get a win,” run in the third quarter with a ing a flagrant foul by Danny an inbounds pass deep on the a brief detour toward a more Bulls center Ben Wallace said of jumper, layup and 3-pointer, Granger. left side, he spun around and troubling direction. the third-year player. scoring seven points on consecu­ It marked the first game for drained a 41-foot shot.

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NCAA F o o tb a ll NCAA Men’s Basketball USA Today Coaches’ Poll team re,cord points 1 Florida (30) 0-0 772 2 North Carolina 0-0 728 3 Kansas 0-0 714 4 Ohio Stated) 0-0 595 5 Pittsburgh 0-0 583 5 UCLA 0-0 583 7 LSU 0-0 556 8 Georgetown 0-0 538 9 Wisconsin 0-0 530 10 Arizona 0-0 478 11 Duke 0-0 477 12 Alabama 0-0 420 13 Texas A&M 0-0 335 14 Memphis 0-0 328 15 Boston College 0-0 284 16 Washington 0-0 240 17 Marquette 0-0 203 18 Connecticut 0-0 200 19 Texas 0-0 172 20 Syracuse 0-0 138 21 Georgia Tech 0-0 137 22 Kentucky 0-0 119 23 Creighton 0-0 113 24 Tennessee 0-0 106 25 Nevada 0-0 101

NCAA Women’s Basketball USA Today Coaches’ Poll team record points 1 Maryland (29) 0-0 773 2 North Carolina (1) 0-0 709 3 Oklahoma 0-0 686 4 Stanford (1) 0-0 655 AP 5 Tennessee 0-0 648 Spartan coach John L. Smith speaks at a press conference Wednesday afternoon in East Lansing. Michigan 5 Duke 0-0 632 State’s athletic department said Smith will not return as head coach next year. 7 Ohio State 0-0 587 8 Connecticut 0-0 557 9 Georgia 0-0 487 Smith ousted as Spartans' head coach 10 LSU 0-0 454 11 Rutgers 0-0 448 12 Arizona State 0-0 383 Associated Press Just two weeks ago, the president Lou Anna Simon State. He led the Spartans 13 Purdue 0-0 380 Spartans pulled off the said they reached the to the Alamo Bowl in his 14 Texas A&M 0-0 297 EAST LANSING, Mich. — greatest comeback in decision to make a change first season, but the team 15 Vanderbilt 0-0 262 John L. Smith will not 16 Kentucky 0-0 255 return next year as Division I-A history by ral­ on Tuesday. Mason met did not qualify for a bowl 17 Michigan State 0-0 204 Michigan State’s football lying from 35 points down with Smith on Wednesday, in 2004 or 2005. 18 Baylor 0-0 192 coach but will complete to beat Northwestern 41- and the coach agreed to The decision comes 19 DePaul 0-0 178 the rest of this season, 38. But typical of Michigan stay on the rest of the sea­ nearly four years to the 20 New Mexico 0-0 134 with the Spartans strug­ State’s inconsistency son. day after Michigan State 21 California 0-0 114 gling again in the Big Ten. under Smith, the Spartans Smith was expected to fired Bobby Williams with 22 USC 0-0 100 Smith is in the fourth (4-5) lost 46-21 at Indiana meet with the players three games left in a sea­ 23 UCLA 0-0 95 year of a six-year contract last Saturday to fall to 1-4 before Wednesday after­ son that was disappointing 24 BYU 0-0 93 that pays him about $1.5 in the Big Ten. They play noon’s practice. on and off the field. 25 Washington 0-0 92 million annually. Purdue Saturday. Part of the reason Smith has a 132-83 “The performance on Smith has been under behind the timing of the record in 18 seasons as a the field has not lived up pressure at Michigan announcement was so college head coach. NHL Scoring Leaders to what we hoped it would State. School officials gave Michigan State can search He was hired at be,” athletic director Ron him a vote of confidence for a new coach with Michigan State after hav­ 1 Jaromlr Jagr 18 Mason said during a new after last season’s losing transparency, Mason said. ing solid success at 2 Marian Hossa 17 conference Wednesday. “It campaign, but were look­ Smith did not immedi­ Louisville, where he went 2 Ilya Kovalchuk 17 comes time to make a ing for better results in ately return a message. 41-21 and made five con­ 2 Maxim Afinogenoy 17 change, and that’s where 2006. Smith is 22-23 record in secutive bowl trips from 5 Darcy Tucket 15 w e’re at.” Mason and university four seasons at Michigan 1998-2002. 5 Petr Sykora 15 5 Sidney Crosby 15 5 Daniel Briere 15 5 Michael Nytander 15 In B rief 5 Henrik Sedin 15 Johnson targets Lewis in Pitcher Mota suspended Gordon fined for caution this weekend’s game for drug violation during Sunday’s race OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Chad NEW YORK — Reliever Guillermo CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR Johnson issued a friendly warning to Mota was suspended for 50 games penalized Robby Gordon on around the dial Ray Lewis on Wednesday, joking that Wednesday after testing positive for Wednesday for intentionally causing when he faces the Baltimore Ravens a performance-enhancing sub­ a caution at Atlanta Motor linebacker Sunday he will “hit him in stance, becoming the third player Speedway that affected the race the mouth.” penalized this year for violating outcome for championship con­ T oday Johnson has 36 catches and two Major League Baseball’s toughened tender Jeff Burton. touchdowns for the Cincinnati drug policy. Gordon, who owns his own race NBA Bengals, who need a victory in In announcing the suspension, the team, was docked 50 driver points Baltimore to avoid falling two games commissioner’s office did not say and 50 car owner points, and fined San Antonio at Dallas behind the first-place Ravens in the why Mota was suspended. $15,000 for throwing a piece of roll 8 p.m., TNT AFC North. Mota, who gave up a tying two-run bar padding onto the track during Before each game, Johnson says he triple to Scott Spiezio in the seventh Sunday’s race at Atlanta. The debris NCAA F ootball makes a list of players he plans to inning of Game 2 of the NL champi­ caused NASCAR to call a caution, West Virginia at Louisville beat. onship series, filed for free ageqcy which helped Gordon to his 10th- “Chris and Samari have made the Monday. place finish but hurt Burton’s final 7:30 p.m., ESPN list before and haven’t been able to do “I have no one to blame but result. the job,” Johnson said. “So, I’m going myself,” Mota said in a statement NASCAR review ed NBC’s coverage to go ahead and move up in the that did not explain how he ran from Sunday’s race to determine if ranks.” afoul of baseball’s drug rules. “I take Gordon in fact threw debris onto the Johnson settled on Lewis, a seven­ full responsibility for my actions and track. The footage provided two time Pro Bowler, two-time Defensive accept MLB’s suspension. I used clear angles, and officials followed Player of the Year and captain of the extremely poor judgment and up with a re-inspection of Gordon’s defense. deserve to be held accountable.” car. page 14 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Thursday, November 2, 2006

NHL Hurricanes top Thrashers with help from Ward

Jose Theodore makes 19 saves from the net in third period to help Avalanche clinch 5-3 victory over Blue Jackets

Associated Press especially early, it always helps,” said Ward, the unlikely ATLANTA — Cam Ward star of Carolina’s run to the flopped all over the ice, blocking Stanley Cup championship last nearly every shot that came his season. “I knew I had to get bet­ way. ter at stopping the first five Then there was Kari shots so we wouldn’t get down Lehtonen, who had trouble stop­ early. I felt relaxed. I felt calm. ping anything. Anytime you feel like that, you Talk about a contrast in the know it’s going to be a good nets. night.” Ward made 40 saves for Ward blocked the first five and Carolina, while Lehtonen was just kept right on going. yanked in the second period of Marian Hossa picked up his the Hurricanes’ 5-2 win over the NHL-leading 11th goal and Atlanta Thrashers on 500th career point on a power Wednesday night. The Atlanta play but could have a much big­ goalie stopped only nine of 13 ger game if not for Ward. shots. Atlanta’s top scorer had a Carolina managed to win career-high 16 shots on goal — rather easily despite getting out- nearly as many as the shot 42-18. Ray Whitney and Hurricanes’ entire team and six Rod Brind’Amour scored two more than his previous best. goals apiece, but the unques­ Ilya Kovalchuk redirected a tioned star was in goal. shot from the point early in the “Cam made some really tough third but Ward still managed to saves,” coach Peter Laviolette smother it, prompting said. “A lot of them seemed Kovalchuk to look toward the headed for the net, but all sud­ roof in disgust. den there was a toe, a pad, a The Thrashers went 1-for-10 shoulder to get in the way. He on the power play, failing to con­ was extremely sharp, extremely vert a lengthy two-man advan­ focused.” tage late in the second. Whitney’s second goal gave “The power play was playing AP Carolina a 4-1 lead and prompt­ like five individuals and not a Carolina goaltender Cam Ward makes a save against Atlanta left wing Ilya Kovalchuk ed Thrashers coach Bob Hartley five-man unit,” Atlanta’s Greg de Wednesday. Ward made 40 saves in the 5-2 Hurricane victory over the Thrashers. to yank Lehtonen with 4:51 left Vries said. in the second period. Carolina has won all three for all but one of the goals. shoot from everywhere and ties the goalie is going to lead “This game was definitely meetings between the Southeast Colorado 5, Columbus 3 that’s what they did,” Theodore the way and he did.” played in the nets,” Hartley said. Division rivals this season. The The Colorado Avalanche got said of the Blue Jackets, which “Cam Ward was the best player first two were much closer, with off to a strong start and Jose entered tied for the league low Detroit 3, Calgary 2 on the ice.” Carolina winning 4-3 on a goal Theodore was there to finish it with 19 goals and fell behind 4-1 The Detroit Red Wings got two Johan Hedberg went the rest in the last second of regulation, off. in the second period. “It was quick goals and then held off of the way in the Atlanta nets then prevailing 5-4 in overtime. Theodore made 19 of his 41 obviously a lot of work, but we Calgary with some suffocating and was barely tested, facing This time, the Hurricanes did­ saves in the third period to help didn’t panic and got the job defense. just four shots while Ward was n’t need a dramatic goal at the the Avalanche hold on for a vic­ done.” Johan Franzen and Tomas sprawling all over the ice at the end. Their top line of Whitney, tory over the Columbus Blue Wojtek Wolski, Brett McLean, Holmstrom scored 79 seconds other end. Brind’Amour and Erik Cole was Jackets on Wednesday night. Joe Sakic, Mark Rycroft and apart in the first period, and “When you make some saves, especially dominant, accounting “I knew they were going to Brad Richardson scored for Detroit stifled the Flames’ Colorado, which has won five of offense in a victory Wednesday its last seven. The Avalanche are night. 18-1-2 all-time against Dominik IJasek made 13 saves Columbus. and Brett Lebda also scored for “We have balance in our the Red Wings, who won their lines,” Colorado coach Joel fourth straight after losing the Quenneville said. “We feel that final three games of a four-game everybody can score and tonight trip to the West Coast. we did have everybody on the “Since we got back from the score sheet.” West Coast, the guys have dug Sergei Fedorov, Fredrik Modin in,” coach Mike Babcock said. “I and David Vyborny scored for think it’s evident in how we Columbus, which has won once play.” in its last seven games. Dion Phaneuf and Andrew “We had probably our best Ference got the goals for offensive game of the season Calgary, which lost its third in a with scoring chances and put­ row. Miikka Kiprusoff stopped ting a lot of shots on net,” Blue 31 shots for the Flames, who Jackets coach Gerard Gallant have been outscored 14-6 in the said. “But every time we made a first period this season. mistake it ended up in the back “The first is where we’re get­ of the net.” ting ourselves in trouble,” Modin scored a power-play Jarome Iginla said. goal from the low slot at 18:50 Franzen opened the scoring in the second to cut it to 4-1. with a goal from the right circle Vyborny made it 4-3 at 14:21 of 4:29 into the game. Chris the third, skating down the right Chelios got the puck to him after wing and snapping home a cross a turnover in the Calgary zone ice pass from Modin. by Jeff Friesen. Coffee and Conversation But Richardson stole the puck “I got a pass right in the mid­ from Rick Nash at the Columbus dle of the slot,” Franzen said, For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Questioning Students at Notre Dame blue line and skated in alone “and got off a pretty good shot.” before lifting a shot over Pascal Holmslrom’s power-play goal Leclaire just 27 seconds later to made it 2-0 just 1:19 later, when Tuesday, November 7 give Colorado a two-goal advan­ he put in Jason Williams’ tage. rebound off the goal post for his 7:30-9:30 p.m. “I was just trying to play good fourth tally of the season. defensive hockey, but he tried to Holmstrom has three goals make a move and fumbled it a and two assists in his last three 316 Coleman-Morse bit,” Richardson said. “Luckily I games. grabbed it from him. I went in, The Flames got on the board The Gore Council for Gay and lesbian Students invites gay, lesbian, and bisexual members saw a hole and shot for it.” on Phaneuf’s power-play goal at the Notre Dame family then friends, and supporters to an informal coffee at the Co-Mo. I The Avalanche weathered sev­ with 7:31 remaining in the first eral short-handed situations in period. His one-time slap shot Everyone is welcome and conf*ntiality is assured the final period, including a 5- from the point beat Hasek /AX on-3 and a 6-on-3. through traffic. Coffee and refreshments will be served “Jose was great,” Quenneville Lebda added his goal with said. “He had a lot of stuff 8:36 remaining as he completed FOR GAU LESBIAN around the net. He found pucks a solo rush from his own blue through traffic. Generally, if line with a wrist shot from the STUDENTS you’re successful killing penal­ right circle that beat Kiprusoff. Thursday, November 2, 2006 The Observer ♦ SPORTS page 15

NCAA F o o t b a l l Big East gears up for national spotlight

No. 3 West Virginia takes on No. 5 Louisville; Slanton and White head up Mountaineers powerful back field

Associated Press winner should get a big boost in Rodriguez said should stay with the BCS standings — West the program no matter the out­ LOUISVILLE, Ky. — West Virginia is in third-place this come. Virginia and Louisville were week and Louisville’s in fifth — “One game will not define our expected to play the Big East’s and be left with a very plausible program,” Rodriguez said. “Now, game of the year, two similarly scenario to reach BCS title game if you’re playing for a national prolific though vastly different in Glendale, Ariz., on Jan. 8. championship, obviously that’s a teams vying for a Bowl “You don’t want to put too defining moment. If you’re play­ Championship Series bid in a much emphasis on it, but you ing in the Sugar Bowl against the rematch of last year’s triple-over­ don’t want to underplay it SEC champs, that’s a defining time classic. either,” Louisville coach Bobby moment. I just hope we play Instead, it’s a possible spot in Petrino said. “Guys who have well.” the national championship game been there for the last two, Few teams have played as well the third-ranked Mountaineers three, four years now, they know as the Cardinals and and the fifth-ranked Cardinals how to prepare for a big game.” Mountaineers. Both rank in the will be shooting for Thursday The Cardinals learned all top five in the country in scoring night. about the dangers of getting offense and in the top 10 in scor­ Those are heady aspirations ahead of yourself last year in ing defense, though they do it in for two programs that have Morgantown. Louisville lead by dramatically different ways. never won a national title, from a 17 points in the fourth quarter The Mountaineers dominate league that was falling apart just before West Virginia came behind Slaton, White and full­ three years ago. storming back to win 46-44. back Owen Schmitt and an But they seem reasonable now “It’s not over until it’s over,” unorthodox 3-3-5 defense that that West Virginia running back Louisville quarterback Brian gives up lots of small plays but Steve Slaton and quarterback Pat Brohm said. “It has been our few big ones. The Cardinals are a White have developed into one of motto. I think we learned.” balanced blend of Brohm’s pass­ the nation’s most explosive back- For Slaton and White, last ing, a running game that keeps fields and the Cardinals have year’s Louisville game stamped churning along even without star emerged as one of the country’s their arrival. White had been Michael Bush — who broke his most resilient teams. sharing the job until that day right leg in the season opener Hype for the game has created when Adam Bednarik’s injury and is lost for the year — and a a frenzy in Louisville usually made it a solo act. Slaton came defense that has come into its reserved for the Kentucky Derby. off the bench to score six second- own. Tickets were going for $1,000 on half touchdowns against the A year ago, losing Bush for the the Internet and more than 700 Cardinals. season would have been cata­ media credentials have been West Virginia hasn’t lost since, strophic. The fact the Cardinals issued, double the usual allot­ winning a school-record 14 have kept their national title ment for a Cardinals’ home straight games behind a spread- hopes alive without arguably game. option offense that forces defens­ their best player is a testament to “You have two top-10 teams es to make a difficult choice how far the program has come that are undefeated so it’s a big, between two of the country’s under Petrino. big game,” West Virginia coach most dynamic players. “We know what’s at stake,” Rich Rodriguez said. “But if we “We know w hat they’re capa­ Petrino said. “It’s fun. We enjoy don’t win the game, I’m not ble of, th at’s for sure,” Louisville it. This is what we work for. This going to kiss the wife and kids defensive tackle Earl Heyman is w hat we want. ... Hopefully it goodbye and jump off the said. “Last year we were like, won’t go to triple overtime, it West Virginia quarterback Pat White dives for a gain in Westover Bridge (in ‘They’re new, they’re just fresh­ could be hard on the heart.” the Mountaineers 37-11 win over Connecticut Oct. 20. Morgantown). There might be men.’ Now everybody knows some fans who want to throw me what they’re capable of, not just off of it, but I’m not jumping.” us. We’ll do everything we can to Keeping it all in perspective prepare for them.” could be the key for the Preparation hasn’t been Cardinals (7-0, 2-0) and enough to stop the Mountaineers Mountaineers (7-0, 2-0). The this year, momentum that NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL

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Crowne Plaza Tribe square off against second-seed­ been playing a lot more dou­ Invitational. In addition to its Tourney ed Suzi Babos and Zsuzsanna bles than normal over the past National host, Notre Dame will also Fodor from California. Babos is few days in order to get ready continued from page 20 compete against Maryland continued from page 20 also seeded first in the singles for this m eet,” Louderback and North Carolina State. tournament. Buck and Tefft said. “Both teams know what to The Tribe will play without performances at the ITA qualified for the event by win­ expect.” Bayliss said. “We are just its top doubles team of Colin Regional Finals last week at ning the ITA Midwest going to take it one match at O’Brien and Alex Cojanu, as Michigan State. Riolley defeat­ Championships. Contact Chris Hine at a tim e.” the duo will be competing in ed Ciobanu 7-5, 6-4 in the “The doubles teams have [email protected] Parbhu will take on Old the ITA National Indoor finals of that event, marking Dominion’s Harel Srugo, the Championship along with the first time freshman team­ ITA Mideast Singles Parbhu and Keckley. mates have ever faced each Champion. The Irish will other in ITA Finals history. Srugo captured have to play “It’s been tough for them to the title by “[Parbhu] has been without top-five practice this past week because defeating team­ singles player they’ve had a lot of tests,” mate Henrique working on sophomore Louderback said. “But they’re Cancado 7-5, 6- getting a better Brett Helgeson, very excited. We’ll just see how 2 . rhythm to his game who sustained they do because they’re up Parbhu earned an ankle injury against some of the top com­ his spot at the and developing last week. petitors.” National Indoors more consistency. ” While Bayliss Riclley faces Clemson’s Carole w h e n he acknowledged Salge while Ciobanu will play advanced to the Bobby Bayliss the challenge in third-seeded Kristi Miller of Midwest Singles losing Georgia Tech. Irish coach Final, where he Helgeson, he On the doubles side, All- fell to Ohio said the team American seniors Catrina and State’s Steven still looks for- Christian Thompson earned the Moneke 7-6(2), 6-2. w ard to the opportunity to No. 1 seed in the 16-team field Bayliss said that Parbhu Play. by virtue of their second place has been working on devel­ Senior Barry King will lead finish at the Rivera All- oping an even stronger game the Irish in the eight-player American Championships since losing to Moneke. round robin tournament. October 5-8. The good news for “[Parbhu] has been work­ Senior Irackli Akhvlediani the pair is that Arizona State’s ing on getting a better follows King at the No. 2 sin­ Roxanne Clarke and Cady rhythm to his game and gles spot for Notre Dame. Pooler, who defeated the sisters developing more consisten­ Bayliss said he is excited to in the Rivera Championships, cy,” Bayliss said. see how the team performs are not listed on the bracket for Bass reached the tourna­ when younger players have a this weekend’s tournament. ment as an at-large selection chance to see more of the The Thompson twins recently — he was selected based on court than usual. won their first professional ranking and fall performance “This is an opportunity for tournament over the summer — and will play against everyone to play up in an in the Via Christi Women’s 10K Florida’s Greg Ouellette. opportunity they wouldn’t of Wichita in July. The pair is Ouellette garnered the ITA normally see,” Bayliss said. “I allowed to compete in profes­ Southeast Championship title want to see how some of the sional tournaments while main­ after his competitor, guys play in roles they’ve taining NCAA eligibility by not Georgia’s Travis Helgeson, never had the opportunity to cohering prize money from any withdrew from the match. assum e.” events. The rest of the Irish squad At the opposite end of the GEOFF MATTESON/The Observer will head down to William Contact Deirdre Krasula at bracket, junior Brook Buck and Sophomore Kelcy Tefft fires a shot during a match against and Mary Friday for the [email protected] sophomore Kelcy Tefft will Illinois March 3 at the Eck Tennis Pavilion. ALL PHONES ARE FREE! THE POWER TO PICK THE ONE YOU WANT

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points but played just 19 min­ utes due to foul trouble. “That’s the way it goes some­ times,” Brey said of Zeller’s foul trouble. “We just had to put another guy in there.” Senior guard Colin Falls reprised his three-point special­ ist role from the last few sea­ sons, hitting three shots beyond the arc and scoring 15 total points. Falls also displayed an ability to get to the basket, cre­ DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer ating opportunities for his Freshman forward Michelle Weissenhofer, right, com petes with teammates when double­ Saint John’s defender Susan Byrne for a loose ball Sunday. teamed. McAlarney was effective in “And so I think [the defense has] his first game starting at point Injury confidence in Amanda Clark and guard for the Irish, putting in Haley Ford, whoever we put eight points and dishing out five rAMhLA Luutv I ne uoserver continued from page 20 back there.” assists. Irish guard Colin Falls, right, drives past Michigan forward Waldrum said the Irish were Freshman point guard Tory Chris Hunter in the Wolverines’ 71-67 win Dec. 3. Waldrum said. “But I think right fortunate to have time early in Jackson spelled McAlarney, now she’s probably done.” the season as well as the Big East going 2-for-6 for five points Without Dew, the Irish defense tournament to play without Dew. points and two assists. create for him.” men Joe Harden, Jonathan managed two 3-0 victories — However, Dew — who Waldrum “Tory was excited tonight,” Brey said the two point Peoples and Tim Andree, as Cincinnati last week and St. said was reported to be one of Brey said. “Sometime he was a guards allow the Irish to put well as senior walk-on Kieran John’s Sunday. Freshman Haley the top two center backs in the little too excited.” full court pressure on the ball Filler. Ford slid into the center Sunday world at the U-20 tournament — The two point guards were on on most possessions. Notre Dame will be in action to join senior captain Kim leaves big shoes to fill. the court together briefly with “If we can keep a fresh guy in next Monday in another exhibi­ Lorenzen, as senior Christie “It’s never a good thing when around 10 minutes left in the there on the ball handler, that tion against Bellarmine at 7:30 Shaner and junior Amanda Jones one of your top players goes first half, with both players really helps us,” he said. p.m. at the Joyce Center. The held the left and right posts. down with an injury,” he said. bringing up the ball. The Hawks were led by cen­ Irish open the regular season Freshman Amanda Clark also “At least if it were going to hap­ “Whoever gets the ball ter John Torson, who scored Nov. 10 against IPFW at home. saw action in the back. pen, we’ve got some time ... [brings it up],” Jackson said of eight points on 2-for-6 shooting. That rotation is what Waldrum hopefully two more games in the the two-point guard system. All 13 players saw the floor Contact Chris Khorey at expects to stick with unless Big East [tournament], and then “[Kyle] creates for me and I for the Irish, including fresh­ [email protected] something changes his mind dur­ hopefully you can get can deep in ing the Big East semifinals. the NCAA. We’ve got some time For Dew, it’s “definitely h ard ” to get them some games together to be watching from crutches on before you get into [it] if you’re the sidelines. fortunate to make it to a final “I’m disappointed that it hap­ four.” pened at such a crucial time in Lorenzen acknowledged the the season,” Dew said. emotional challenge Dew’s injury Dew witnessed the defense presents to the team — a chal­ allow 10 Red Storm shots — lenge she said teammates will compared to a season average of tackle. THE BEfKH BOYS just over five per game. Waldrum “There’s two different parts to SPECIAL QUEST blamed miscommunication it,” Lorenzen said. “She’s a great ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS between unfamiliar faces for a player, and, personally, I’m going Sunday November 12 couple slipups and said overall to miss playing with her if we 7:30p.m. he was pleased with the group’s can’t get her back. The other Morris Performing firti Center performance. part is we have talented fresh­ South Bend, Indiana While the defenders have been men who can step in for us. Tickets On Sale • Clear Coat practicing together throughout Haley Ford has stepped up for . Now! _ the fall, Lorenzen said it would us, and Amanda Clark has OFF • Premium Soft Cloth take “a little bit of time” to adjust stepped for us in the back.” Wash to the rotation. A tournament return after an “We’ll see,” she said. “Having ACL tear is not unprecedented Bour • Polish-n-Sealer last weekend under our belt for Waldrum. In 2000, then- W b * ,4 p p W should help, and having this freshman forward Amy Warner weekend before the tournament missed seven games after tearing • 2-S#) W e/W y BEST P/ofecfanf ^ ^ will help.” her ACL before working into the Sunday was the first Irish starting lineup during the tour­ • Spot-Free South Bend, Indiana 46637 game Dew has watched this year nament and scoring the lone in which she w asn’t able to play. Irish goal in a semifinal loss to WASH P i n s e Just north ol Noire Dame on U.S. 31 However, the Irish played six North Carolina en route to selec­ games, including exhibitions, tion to the all-tournament team. without her earlier this year Waldrum said health is his when she and sophomore for­ biggest concern for Dew, who SUQFRLFND ward Brittany Bock were playing has two more years to write her little Caesars in Russia for the U-20 World soccer future at Notre Dame. special gaeit TAYLOR SWIFT Championships — during which “More importantly, I feel badly Friday November 17, 2006 * 8 30 pjm. Norris Performing flirts Center time Notre Dame surrendered for her because she’s having Sooth Bend, Indiana two goals and went 6-0, includ­ such a good year and is a big A» Wow** B«* 'Oflfcttv Sapw $s#wfo to , '/A y / ie UwPwto CM* AWtW*** Box <3#k« ing wins over current No. 19 part of our team,” he said. “We’ll dbm** b-y pkea* at online Virginia, No. 3 Santa Clara, No. get her healthy, and sh e ’ll be 22 Southern California and No. back.” Tkkeb On Sale fit 24 SMU. Morris Box Office, Super Sounds In Goshen ■ j J “We beat a lot of good teams Contact Tim Dougherty at Charge By Phone f f t ' ? f M without her,” Waldrum said. [email protected] 574/235^9190 Or Online

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M en ’s B asketball ND W om en ’s Tennis Six players Rock in hand headed to Irish drub Rockhurst defense in the offseason,” McAlarney said. “It was the first 79-44 in exhibition game, so there were a few jit­ Columbus ters, but one way to get rid of jit­ to open season ters is to get up in someone’s face and play defense.” By CHRIS MINE Rockhurst improved in the sec­ Sports Writer By CHRIS KHOREY ond half, shooting 42 percent Associate Sports Editor from the field, but it wasn’t The Irish will send six play­ enough to get back in the game. ers to the ITA National Indoor Russell Carter streaked down Still, Brey saw areas for Championships this weekend at the floor and Kyle McAlarney improvement. Ohio State. But while the tour­ lofted a perfect pass toward the “I think it’s a good thing we nament is one of three national basket. Carter jumped, caught can come back tomorrow, get in meets throughout the year that the ball, slammed it and came the classroom situation, watch feature the top tennis players down on the winning end of a the film, and talk,” Brey said. from around the nation, it will 79-44 blowout at the Joyce Irish freshman forward Luke have no direct NCAA im plica­ Center Wednesday. Harangody led all scorers with tions. The play, early in the second 17 points in his first collegiate “There’s really nothing that half, exemplified a night where appearance, using his 6-8, 250- [they! gain if they win this. It’s everything went right for Notre pound frame to muscle his way really just an opportunity to Dame, as the Irish blasted an under the basket. get the top players from overmatched Rockhurst squad in “This is what I’ve seen for around the country together,” the first exhibition game of the three weeks [in practice],” Brey Irish coach Jay Louderback season for both teams. said of Harangody. “He can score said. “But it is one of the “It’s always good to get on the the ball, he’s got great hands, chances to boost your ranking same bench and get a feel for [and] he gives us a low post pres­ nationally. It’s going to help in your rotation,” Notre Dame head ence.” the spring when they’re seed­ coach Mike Brey said. Junior Rob Kurz was also ing for the NCAA Tournament." The Irish started the game effective in the post for Notre Freshmen Colleen Rielley and with a 20-4 run and never Dame. Kurz scored 11 points and Cosmina Ciobanu will repre­ looked back, shooting 53 percent had a team-high 19 rebounds. sent the Irish in the 32-player from the field and leading 43-17 Sophomore Luke Zeller, who singles field. Rielley and at the half. The Hawks shot just started alongside Kurz in the Ciobanu qualified for the event thanks to their scene-stealing 5-for-23 in the first half and had frontcourt, scored four quick KIRSTEN HOELMER/The Observer nine turnovers. Sophomore guard Kyle McAlarney chases after a loose ball in “We were really stressing see EXHIBITION/page 18 Notre Dame’s 90-63 win over Rutgers Feb. 8. see TOURNEY/page 17

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While Notre Dame’s record Parbhu, Keckley and State’s fourth-seeded Markus suffered its first blemish of the Dickhardt and Christian Groh. season in a scoreless draw at Bass to represent N D Dickhardt and Groh Connecticut Oct. 13, last week’s advanced to the semifinals of 3-0 victory at Cincinnati was the at ITA national meet the Polo Ralph Lauren All season’s biggest setback. A m e ric a n T e n n is The Irish won the match, but Championships with an 8-5 likely lost sophomore center By DEIRDRE KRASULA quarterfinals win over defender Carrie Dew for the rest Sports Writer Tennessee’s Bobby Cameron of the season after she tore her and Kadcn Hensel. Dickhardt anterior cruciate ligament, said Hard work at the ITA and Groh were forced to with­ Irish coach Randy Waldrum. M id w est R eg io n al draw from their semifinal After speaking with doctors, Championships paid off for the match against Georgia’s Luis Waldrum said Dew will eventual­ Irish, who today send three Flores and John Isner after ly require surgery to repair the members of the squad — sen­ Groh pulled a stomach muscle damaged ligament. Holding onto iors Stephen Bass and Ryan in a consolation singles match a sliver of hope to return for the Keckley and junior Sheeva earlier that day. later stages of the NCAA Parbhu — to the four-day ITA Flores and Isner are current­ Tournament — which Waldrum N a tio n a l In d o o r ly the No. 1 doubles team in said would be unlikely — the Big Championships in Columbus, the nation, and Parbhu and East Defensive Player of the Year Ohio. Keckley will likely see them if candidate will undergo rehab to Doubles partners Parbhu and they advance far enough. test her knee’s strength. Keckley earned a spot in the Irish coach Bobby Bayliss “That’s something we’d have tournament with their 9-8(5) said the high level of competi­ to take a hard look at after some victory over Louisville’s Damar tion does not faze the duo. rehab to see if she’d be able to Johnson and Slavko Radman in “Everybody is good and every come in and finish anything out,” DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer the ITA Midwest Doubles match is going to be tough,” Irish defender Carrie Dew, left, and midfielder Jill Krivacek, right, Championship final Oct. 24. see INJURY/page 18 swarm Rutgers’ Jenifer Anzivino in Notre Dame’s 2-0 win Oct. 8. The pair faces San Diego see NATIONAL/page 17

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