the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 44 : Issue 87 friday, february 5, 2010 ndsmcobserver.com Leaders present to Board of Trustees ACE to Schmidt, Weber prioritize initiatives including acceptance of GLBT community members undertake cern” for students, Schmidt said. By JOHN TIERNEY Student body vice president News Writer Cynthia Weber said the three most important issues are the academy Student government is priori- acceptance of gay and lesbian tizing seven initiatives for the members of the community, the rest of the year, student body dissolution of Economics and program president Grant Schmidt told the Policy Studies and the pro-life Student Affairs Committee of the task force. Board of Trustees at a meeting By NORA KENNEY Thursday. Acceptance of gay and lesbian News Writer The Notre Dame Forum, the members of the community University events calendar, the Weber said the University Task Force on Supporting the must work to “better accept Although the Alliance for Choice for Life, pep rallies, the people of different sexual orien- Catholic Education (ACE) is dissolution of the Department of tations. best known for placing Economics and Policy Studies, “Notre Dame has made enor- Notre Dame graduates in the acceptance of gay and les- mous progress, but there’s still a Catholic schools around the bian members of the community lot more progress to be made,” nation to help with academ- and the selection of the Weber said. Observer file photo ics, the program is now Commencement speaker are Student body president Grant Schmidt and vice president Cynthia expanding with the induc- “the issues of most pressing con- see BOT/page 6 Weber talked to the BOT about pressing student issues Thursday. tion of new ACE Academies. In schools that are desig- nated as ACE Academies, the ACE program will pro- vide support in every area, including curriculum, ‘Day of Man’ raises money for homeless instruction, assessment, financial management, evening. He felt cold in that school leadership, develop- By SARA FELSENSTEIN short run and wondered ment, marketing and News Writer how homeless people live Catholic identity. with [the cold],” senior Currently, there are three The thermometer read 32 Michael Dean, coordinator ACE Academies — all of degrees, but yesterday 180 of this year’s fundraiser, which are located in Tucson, Siegfried Hall men braced said. Ariz. the freezing South Bend Those involved with the “[There is an] enormous, weather in shorts, T-shirts fundraiser began planning vibrant Catholic community and sandals to raise money the event right after winter [in Tucson] that is so under- for the South Bend Center break, assigning commis- served and so eager for the for the Homeless. sioners to various duties kind of support that the ACE The Siegfried Day of Man like recruiting Siegfried Program hopes to provide,” fundraiser is now in its residents to participate and Dr. Christian Dallavis, a fac- fourth year — Robbie contacting the media. ulty member who works Bernardin came up with the “[Sophomore] Dan with ACE, said. idea for the fundraiser back McGrail’s job was to get the Sarah Greene, Assistant in 2007. local media involved. He Director for the ACE SUZANNA PRATT/The Observer “He came up with [the even tried to get us live on Program, said the communi- The men of Siegfried hold signs outside the dining hall while collecting idea] when he ran back to donations for the South Bend Center for the Homeless Thursday. Siegfried from Farley one see SIEGFRIED/page 4 see ACE/page 4 Saint Mary’s choir to Scholars study merits of Rome perform in Carnegie Two-day colloquium to discuss the influence of the Eternal City By MEGAN DOYLE News Writer By ASHLEY CHARNLEY school choirs from California. Saint Mary’s Editor The South Bend Chamber Scholars across disciplines Singers and a group of singers will come together tonight and from the Northwest Symphony tomorrow in a colloquium host- Music professor Nancy Menk Chorus will be also be attend- ed by the School of and members of the Saint ing. Architecture entitled “Learning Mary’s Women’s Choir will join “I was asked to do another from Rome: The Influence of other choirs in a performance [performance] and I agreed and the Eternal City on Art, at Carnegie Hall in New York the New York company that Architecture and the City on Valentine’s Day. produces the concerts, there Humanities” in order to ques- The concert is entitled “Love, are several of these production tion the merits of studying in Lust and Light” and will begin companies in New York City, and about the Italian capital. at 2 p.m. in the Isaac Stern they asked me to suggest other The two-day colloquium, held Auditorium. choirs I would recommend who in celebration of the School of This will be Menk’s fifth time would be well prepared and Architecture’s 40th year in conducting at Carnegie Hall. would learn the music and Italy, will begin with an The Saint Mary’s women will might enjoy the experience,” address from keynote speaker be joined by two local high Menk said. Professor Ingrid Rowland school choirs, Laporte and Northwood, and two more high see CHOIR/page 4 see ROME/page 6 JACLYN ESPINOZA | The Observer

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INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CAFFEINATED BEVERAGE? Thrill of the Chase

I like to think of myself as a writer. It is my pastime, my passion and my pro- fession (or, rather, it will be post-gradu- Mike Wiederecht Stephanie Walz Andrew Ofsonka Theresa Lai Mitch Gainer ation). There is nothing like opening a brand new notebook and filling the sophomore sophomore sophomore freshman sophomore pages with words. Keenan Pangborn Keenan Pangborn Keenan It is how I express myself. When I am “Waddick’s.” angry, I write. When “Orange mocha “Starbucks venti “Dr. Pepper.” “Orangina.” I am happy, I write. frappucino.” double shot When I am upset, I upside-down write. Writing chal- white chocolate lenges me. I like to mocha with try to push myself extra soy milk.” to improve my Alicia Smith work. I strive to create something News better than I ever production have before with editor Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] each of my compo- sitions. Words usually flow easily from the tip of my Paper Mate pen onto my crisp, IN BRIEF lined notebook paper. Sometimes, how- ever, I face a challenge. It’s a classic A Blood Drive will take place dilemma, writers’ block. I have no today from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 topic, no idea and nothing to compose. p.m. at Rolfs Sports These are the moments every writer Recreation Center. The drive dreads. The emptiness of being without will benefit the South Bend a topic makes me cringe. A sense of Medical Foundation. failure and incompetence washes over me. I need an idea and I need one now. Part II of the Ten Years And so, I ensue the thrill of the chase. Hence Speaker Series: “The When trying to chase down a topic, Ascent of Money” Panel initially I brainstorm. I thin of every- Discussion will take place thing from puppies to food to school to today from 10:40 a.m. to 12:10 weather, etc. I write down any thought p.m. in the Jordan Auditorium that pops into my head. Nothing is dis- at the Mendoza College of missed no matter how crazy it may be. Business. The event is free When I run out of random ideas, I look and open to the public. over my list. If anything strikes me, I start writing. If not, I move on. A Student Ski Trip will take My next tactic is to just go off on my place today from 4:30 p.m. to own and sit in silence. No music or tel- 11 p.m. at the Swiss Valley Ski evision, just quiet. I go to the library or Resort in Jones, Mi. The cost is take a drive and let my thoughts wan- $30 per student with trans- der. With each new thought, I imagine portation and lift tickets how I could develop it and turn it into a included. Ski rental is extra. worthy subject. However, if nothing PAT COVENEY/The Observer Register on RecRegister at seems to work, then I try another tac- Director of Athletics Jack Swarbrick, right, holds up a jersey during the dedication recsports.nd.edu tic. of the Purcell Pavillion before Notre Dame’s 83-65 win over Cincinnati at the My next attempt is simple. I look Purcell Pavilion Thursday night. Ice Skating Night will take around. I observer everything around place tonight from 8 p.m. to me, people, nature, buildings and ani- 10 p.m. at the Joyce Center mals. If it is in my line of vision, I look hockey rink. The cost is $3 to to it for inspiration. Then I describe skate and $2 for rental. what I see. In my mind I describe the OFFBEAT tree on the Library green, its bark The film “Hunger” will be rough like rugged mountains. The Montana restaurant the next night and again deep water on a beach shown Saturday at 6:30 p.m. limbs branching out, trying to high-five burgalized 3 times in 4 days cleaned out the tip jar. near the southern New in the Browning Cinema at the the sky. The glistening green leaves BUTTE — A Butte Sometime on Monday Zealand city of Invercargill DeBartolo Performing Arts shining in the sunlight. I paint a pic- restaurant was burglarized night, someone made a on Monday, the Southland Center. The event is free but ture of the landscape around me with three times in four days, third attempt to rob the Times newspaper reported. tickets are required. Call the words. Sometimes these descriptions but the last time, the restaurant. That time, a Ward repeatedly hit the ticket office at 574-631-2800 are the start of something magical. would-be thieves left empty cash register was shark about the head until to reserve tickets. Other times they are woefully inade- handed. The first break-in destroyed in an attempt to it let her go, prompting her quate. and burglary of get it open, however, it was mother to praise her calm DanceFest 2010: “Bad If using my vision does not work, Casagranda's restaurant empty. reaction. “I couldn’t believe Romance” will take place then I try another sense. I try to listen. happened sometime the lack of fuss. I would’ve Saturday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. During classes, I listen to my profes- overnight Friday and was Teenager fights off shark been hysterically scream- at Washington Hall. Tickets sors, not just for the course material reported at 10 a.m. with a boogie board ing but no, there was no are $5 and are available at the but also for brilliant ideas that I can Saturday. Butte-Silver Bow WELLINGTON — A 14- screaming. She was just LaFortune Student Center.The run with. I listen to the wind push Sheriff John Walsh said the year old New Zealand girl standing there looking a bit event is open to the public. against my window. suspect or suspects forced has been praised for fight- shaky,” the Southland And then it hits me. I know what I want a door open and took the ing off a shark with her Times reported her mother To submit information to be to say. I grab my notebook and my contents of the tip jar, boogie board after it had Fiona Ward as saying. included in this section of The purple ink pen, shut myself in my room between $100 and $200. bitten her. The shark bit Observer, e-mail detailed and put it down on paper. In this The door was fixed, but Lydia Ward on the hip as Information compiled information about an event to moment, I find what I have been the culprits pried it open she was standing in waist- from the Associated Press. [email protected] searching for. I have caught up with that idea that has continuously evaded me. I can now begin to write. Today Tonight saturday sunday monday tuesday The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. Contact Alicia Smith at

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have practiced weekly other residents of the hall By COURTENAY DEVLIN throughout the year. are supporting the event by hosts ND alumni News Writer “It’s a great opportunity being ushers and collecting for people who otherwise fees at the door. The event, wouldn’t be able to dance which will take place at 7 By JOHN CAMERON which includes marketing for This Friday and Saturday because of their schedules, p.m., will cost $5 a person, News Writer Harley-Davidson and contribut- night, Washington Hall will but who grew up dancing, with all proceeds going to ing to the extremely successful be brimming with different and still want to express the Robinson Community “Got Milk?” campaign. styles of dance—from hip- themselves in that way Learning Center’s Notre Dame alumni Kaylea The Forum will include pre- hop to Irish Stepping — as here at Notre Dame,” Shakespeare Company. Hoelscher and Todd Woodward sentations by the speakers con- Welsh Family Hall presents Grothaus said. Grothaus, who has just will return to campus on Feb. 8 centrating on getting into and its annual signature event, Claire Stephens, who is returned from a semester top share their experiences in excelling in the marketing DanceFest 2010. performing in a b r o a d i n the advertising profession at an industry followed by an oppor- This year’s event is titled the “Give It To L o n d o n event hosted by the Marketing tunity for students to ask ques- “Bad Romance,” which is a Me” dance, is “It’s a great w h e r e s h e Club. tions and network, Elliott said. reference to the hit Lady really excited opportunity for people p e r s o n a l l y The Marketing Club hopes The Marketing Club has been Gaga song. to be on stage performed in the event, titled the Advertising at Notre Dame for many years. The show, co-directed by again. who otherwise would- t h e G l o b e Career Forum, will “provide In the past it was one of the Kaitlyn Mahoney and Sarah “I’m thrilled n’t be able to dance Theatre, and attendees an idea of what it larger student clubs, but mem- Grothaus, is bound to be to be dancing because of their w h o s p e n t takes to get into advertising by bership has declined in recent unique and diverse with again — being last summer hearing the experiences of the years. The club caters not only eight different dance a f r e s h m a n schedules...” working with speakers,” junior Lauren to declared marketing majors, groups performing — The and still figur- local kids in Elliott, vice president and head but all students with an interest Notre Dame Dance ing things out, Sarah Grothaus the program of promotions for the club, said. in the industry or contemplat- Company, Pom Squad, it was great to “Bad Romance” director said she is The “experiences” of the ing pursuing the major. Ballet Folklorico, Troop get a chance to happy to be alumni are considerable. “We’re hoping to make it one ND, Irish Dance Team, do what I love able to sup- Hoelscher works for Leo of those bigger clubs on cam- Ballroom Dance Club, The and make new friends,” port the Shakespeare Burnett, a major advertising pus again,” Elliott said. “We Swing Club and The First Stephens said. “The hip- Company. company, and handles market- want to reach first-year stu- Class Steppers. hop dance is definitely “It’s incredible to watch ing for Kellogg’s adult cereals. dents especially,” since they are Along with these perform- going to be awesome, and I these kids grow and Woodward, now the Associate often uncertain if marketing is ances, there will also be can’t wait to be performing express themselves through Vice President in the Office of the career path best suited for seven DanceFest Dances on stage with the bright theatre,” Sarah said. “I Public Affairs and them, she said. created specifically for the lights, makeup and audi- learned so much from the Communications at Notre The club’s mission is to “give show. Prospective ence” kids that I really wanted to Dame, has more than 20 years members a better understand- dancers—with different Welsh Family’s own support the program.” of experience in the industry ing of what marketing is as well focus from ballet and tap, Caitlin Cunningham, a as a chance to meet experts in to jazz and hip-hop, attend- freshman, is debuting on Contact Courtenay Devlin at the field ... from there to build ed tryouts in Sept., and the sound board, and many [email protected] a better resume and progress in the field if you choose to pur- sue it,” Elliott said. Events on the horizon for the Marketing Club include the “Spread the Love for Haiti” charity event, running Feb. 8- 11, a club bowling trip on Feb. 11 and a seminar on new forms Write for News. Call 574-631-5323. of media on Feb. 24.

Contact John Cameron at [email protected] page 4 The Observer N CAMPUS NEWS Friday, February 5, 2010 Notre Dame Mag receives awards

Special to The Observer (CASE), the largest interna- tional association of educa- Praise is comely for the tion institutions, in the 2009 upright, as the Psalmist and CASE competition. anyone on the staff of Notre “The Signs of These Times,” Dame Magazine will tell you. an essay by Temple in a The University of Notre recent issue of Notre Dame Dame’s quarterly magazine Magazine was cited among received a surfeit of praise the “Notable Essays of 2008” from a variety of quarters in Houghton Mifflin’s 2009 during the last year, and in edition of “The Best American expressing his satisfaction, its Essays.” congenitally unassuming edi- A survey of 100 online col- tor, Kerry Temple, came as lege magazines recently was Suzanna Pratt/The Observer near as he is capable to a conducted by GCF, a leading The men of Siegfried Hall dressed in only shorts and T-shirts yesterday to encourage people boast. online marketing communica- outside of South Dining Hall to donate to the South Bend Center for the Homeless. “What’s really pleasing tions firm. College juniors, about the recognition is that it seniors and alumni, asked to The first official shift was Matthew Hentz said. comes from different venues,” review online college and uni- at 9:30 a.m., and then Elliott said after partici- Temple said. “From our peers versity magazines, ranked Siegfried throughout the day partici- pating in the Day of Man, he in higher education, from the Notre Dame Magazine in the continued from page 1 pants in the fundraiser has a new appreciation for world of Catholic publishing, top five. made announcements in what those who don’t own and from those paying atten- Temple seemed particularly class to ask for donations. appropriate winter clothing tion to quality writing and pleased to note that more Regis and Kelly. That didn’t The shifts went up to must suffer through. website development in con- than half the magazine’s pro- work out,” sophomore Peter around dinnertime, Elliott “We only do this for one temporary America.” duction costs are met by vol- Elliott said. said. day but some people don’t The magazine was named untary subscriptions. “The Siegfried men split up the Most Siegfried residents even have that choice,” he the top “general interest” financial support and affirma- shifts throughout the day, agreed that bracing the cold said. “It’s really the thought magazine of 2009 by the tion we get from our readers and were stationed outside is well worth helping out that people can’t choose to Catholic Press Association means we’re succeeding with DeBartolo Hall, North and those less fortunate. live every day like this … (CPA). The CPA judges cited them as well,” he said. South Dining Halls and the “I tell myself it’s not as [that] definitely makes real Notre Dame Magazine’s “gen- Notre Dame Magazine LaFortune Student Center, cold as it actually is. I can what cause we’re fighting eral excellence” and its reports on University events Elliott said. deal with the cold for a good for.” “range of articles that go and activities, institutional “We have assigned com- cause,” sophomore Nick Dean said Siegfried hopes from nitty gritty personal trends and campus develop- missioners to various spots Valenti said. to reach $6,500 in dona- news of alumni to national ments. It also reports on on campus to organize who “It’s definitely worth it. A tions. Donations will contin- politics as it connects to reli- Notre Dame’s people, history will be there,” Dean lot of my money has been ue to be accepted today in gion and the university. The and scholarship. Each edition said. “Also, anybody that is raised by professors this the Siegfried Hall Lobby. articles are well-written and includes feature articles and willing to stand outside is year … It’s really not as bad well-reasoned and are con- essays on current affairs and more than welcome to col- as you think. Last year was Contact Sara Felsenstein at tributed by people who exhib- societal trends, the arts and lect money.” much worse,” sophomore [email protected] it strong knowledge of their sciences, business, technolo- subjects. The magazine is gy, family concerns and the nicely laid out and color Catholic Church. Its 150,000 “There is a big reception, a ward to the age diversity of reproduction is bright and subscribers include 100,000 dinner reception after the the choir. Since there are excellent. All in all, the maga- Notre Dame alumni. Choir concert for everybody.” multiple choirs coming zine is classy, informative and continued from page 1 Menk has rehearsed with together, it will be a chal- smart while adhering to its the high school choirs and lenge to have one voice. mission.” said she was pleased with “It’s kind of nice that it is Notre Dame Magazine also Only a few members of the how well prepared they a multi-generational choir won a Silver Medal “for over- Saint Mary’s choir will be were since time is limited to with high school students, all excellence” from the attending because it wasn’t rehearse when they are in college students and adults. Council for the Advancement required and not all of them New York. It’s a nice mix of people,” and Support of Education could fit it into their sched- “We have nine hours of Menk said. ules, Menk said. rehearsal in New York to In the end, it is the history The choirs will first per- sort of polish it, put it with of the stage and feel she form “Lux Aeterna” by com- the orchestra and every- gets walking out onto it that poser Morteu Lauridsen, thing,” she said. Menk said she enjoys. and will be accompanied by Menk said she always “When you walk on the an orchestra. enjoys performances in stage you feel the tradition During their time in New Carnegie Hall. of it all,” Menk said. “You York, the members of the “It’s a beautiful place with know it’s going to sound choir will have some time to great acoustics,” she said. great and the concerts usu- explore the city. “Music sounds wonderful in ally sell out so you always “Some of [Saint Mary’s] there. And there is just a lot have a nice audience.” girls’ parents are coming so of history and tradition that they are going out with make it really memorable.” Contact Ashley Charnley at their parents,” Menk said. She is also looking for- [email protected]

she coaches basketball, vol- thing I have ever experi- ACE leyball and track and field enced. Everyone is excited continued from page 1 in addition to teaching lan- about the ACE Academies guage arts. initiative, as we think it “I have fallen in love with will promote further excel- Do you enjoy the ty in Tucson provided the the community at Santa lence at our school and perfect setting for the Cruz,” she said. “The school provide us with some inception of the first ACE maintains a strong Catholic resources that we are lack- Academies. and Mexican identity. The ing,” she said. basement of South “It’s an incredible place, a community here has truly Dallavis said the ACE loving and car- e m b r a c e d Academy idea originated ing environ- m e . I a m from the extra help the pro- Dining Hall? Then ment for the “The sense of family at c o n s t a n t l y gram gave St. Adalbert’s, a ACE teachers, this school is unlike i n v i t e d t o Magnificat school in South and a great anything I have ever b i r t h d a y Bend that serves a primari- way for them p a r t i e s , ly Latino population. write for News. to serve the experienced. Everyone family par- “The Notre Dame ACE school which is is excited about the ties, etc.” Academy is an evolution of predominantly ACE Academies O ’ L e a r y that academic help we gave L a t i n o , ” said Tucson to St. Adalbert’s, but the E-mail Madeline at Greene said. initiative.” p r o v i d e d new model will also focus K a i t l y n the perfect on things like budget, fund- O ’ L e a r y, a Kaitlyn O’Leary site for ACE raising, and hiring the [email protected] N o t r e D a m e ACE teacher t o t r y o u t school leaders,” Dallavis graduate who t h e n e w said. works at one program. of the ACE Academies in “The sense of family at Contact Nora Kenney at Tucson in Santa Cruz, said this school is unlike any- [email protected] World & Nation Friday, February 5, 2010 Compiled from The Observer’s wire services page 5 INTERNATIONAL NEWS The House approves new budget British toast shatterproof pint glass LONDON — Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses U.S. government adopts financial plan that will sink it $1.9 trillion deeper in debt won’t. The shatterproof pint glass was proudly Associated Press unveiled by the government on Thursday. Officials swore the country would save bil- WASHINGTON — The lions in health care costs by coming up with a House on Thursday voted to glass that doesn’t double as a lethal weapon. allow the government to go But noticeably, no officials were talking $1.9 trillion deeper in debt — about reforming the British binge drinking an increase of about $6,000 culture at the root of the problem. more for every U.S. resident There are about 87,000 alcohol-related that provided a vivid election- glass attacks each year, with many resulting year reminder of the nation’s in hospital visits, Home Secretary Alan perilous financial condition. Johnson said as he introduced the two proto- The huge debt increase, type shatterproof pint glasses. approved 217-212, is only enough to keep the govern- Mia Farrow criticizes Haiti adoptions ment afloat for about another GENEVA — UNICEF goodwill ambassador year as it borrows more than Mia Farrow has criticized as “deplorable” 40 cents of every dollar it attempts to take children out of Haiti illegal- spends on programs like ly after last month’s devastating earthquake. defense, health care, feeding The U.S. actress says groups or individuals the poor and protecting the who want to help Haiti’s children should environment. The budget tops rather support orphanages or their families $3.7 trillion this year and the inside the country. deficit’s approaching $1.6 tril- Farrow, who herself has adopted 11 chil- lion under the budget submit- dren, says offering parents a better life for ted by President Barack their children elsewhere is “completely Obama this week. unacceptable and immoral.” The huge increase — to Adoption practices in Haiti are in the spot- $14.3 trillion — in the cap on light since a group of American missionaries federal borrowing was was caught trying to smuggle Haitian chil- designed by Democratic lead- dren out of the country in the wake of the ers to ensure that the rank Jan. 12 quake. and file won’t have to vote again to run up another increase before facing voters increasingly angry over gov- NATIONAL NEWS ernment spending and debt in the November midterm elec- Hearing for Obama’s aunt ends tions. BOSTON — An immigration hearing for Already, the accumulated AP President Barack Obama’s African aunt ended debt amounts to roughly Speaker of the House Hannah Pingree, right, speaks with Rep. John Piotti, center, and Rep. Seth Thursday without an immediate decision in $40,000 per person. Berry, left, on Jan. 6 at the State House in Augusta, Maine, about the state budget. her second bid for asylum in the United “This debt is being piled on States. the backs of our kids and ure. So did every Republican, either cuts to other programs when we last had statutory Kenya native Zeituni Onyango did not com- grandkids with no relief in even though they routinely or equivalent tax increases. paygo, during the 1990s, we ment after testifying for about 2½ hours sight,” House Minority Leader supported prior increases in If the rules are broken, the turned deficits into surpluses,” Thursday at the closed proceedings in U.S. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said. the borrowing cap when their White House budget office Obama said. “The passage of Immigration Court. Economists warn that the party controlled Congress or would force automatic cuts to statutory paygo today will “The hearing went well. She was very hon- rapidly-rising debt could force when Republican George W. programs like Medicare, farm help usher out an era of irre- est. She was very to the point,” her lawyer, interest rates higher and, if Bush was president. subsidies and unemployment sponsibility and begin putting Margaret Wong, said afterward. left unchecked, could have Senate approval last week insurance. Current rules lack the country back on a fiscally Wong said Onyango is hopeful the judge will even worse consequences for on a party-line tally was only such teeth and commonly sustainable path.” rule in her favor because “she really wants to the economy. possible because have been waived over the But Rep. Pete Sessions, R- stay in America.” Passage of the bill sends it Massachusetts Republican past few years at a cost of Texas, said: “In place of real Two doctors also testified in support of the to Obama, who will sign it to Scott Brown had yet to about $1 trillion. fiscal discipline, it offers a case her lawyer said includes medical reasons avoid a first-ever, market-rat- assume office. Brown was Most other benefit pro- phony pay-as-you-go rule that to stay in the U.S. Wong declined afterward to tling default on U.S. obliga- being seated Thursday. grams — including Medicaid, is more loopholes and excep- discuss specifics before a judge’s decision. tions. To help win passage, Social Security and food tions and does nothing to “I can’t think of a more Democrats also adopted — in stamps — would be exempt tackle our government’s long- Pete Townshend defends himself reckless or irresponsible act. a 233-187 vote — budget from such cuts, leading term structural deficit.” FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Who gave Defaulting is not an option,” rules designed to curb a spi- Republicans to charge that Skeptics say lawmakers also an energetic, acoustic preview of Sunday’s said Rep. Jim McGovern, D- raling upward annual deficit, the new rules are just as will find ways around the new Super Bowl halftime show Thursday— but Mass. “If the United States projected by Obama to hit a weak. rules fairly easily. For exam- things turned serious when Pete Townshend defaults, investors will lose record $1.56 trillion for the Obama issued a statement ple, Congress can declare defended himself against some children’s confidence that the U.S. will budget year ending Sept. 30. praising passage of the statu- some spending an “emer- advocates who say he should not be per- honor its debts in the future.” The new rules — known as tory pay-as-you-go rules, but gency” — a likely scenario for forming. Thirty-seven Democrats, “paygo” — would require skipped any mention of the votes later this month to “I’ve been really saddened by it, and con- mostly from GOP-leaning dis- future spending increases or debt limit increase. extend jobless benefits for the cerned about it. It’s an issue that’s very diffi- tricts, voted against the meas- tax cuts to be paid for with “It is no coincidence that long-term unemployed. cult to deal with in sound bites,” the leg- endary guitarist said at an NFL news confer- ence dedicated to the Super Bowl’s enter- tainers, including Carrie Underwood and HAITI Queen Latifah. “I kind of feel like we’re all on the same side, I guess that’s all I can really say,” he said. U.S. citizens charged with kidnapping

Associated Press Group leader Laura Silsby has said and smiled faintly to reporters but LOCAL NEWS they were trying to take orphans and declined to answer questions. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Ten abandoned children to an orphanage Coq said that under Haiti’s legal East Chicago mayor pleads not guilty members of a U.S. missionary group in the neighboring Dominican system, there won’t be an open trial, HAMMOND, Ind. — East Chicago Mayor who said they were trying to rescue Republic. She acknowledged they but a judge will consider the evi- George Pabey (puh-BAY’) has pleaded not 33 child victims of Haiti’s devastat- had not sought permission from dence and could render a verdict in guilty to federal charges alleging that he ing earthquake were charged with Haitian officials, but said they just about three months. used city workers and resources to child kidnapping and criminal asso- meant to help victims of the quake. Coq said a Haitian prosecutor told upgrade a home he owns. ciation on Thursday, their lawyer The children taken from the group, him the Americans were charged Pabey and co-defendant Jose A. said. ranging in age from 2 to 12, were because they had the children in Camacho both pleaded not guilty Edwin Coq said after a court hear- being cared for at the Austrian-run their possession. No one from the Thursday before a U.S. magistrate in ing that a judge found sufficient evi- SOS Children’s Village in Port-au- Haitian government could be Hammond. dence to charge the Americans, who Prince on Wednesday. reached immediately for comment. The grand jury indictments announced were arrested Friday at Haiti’s bor- The U.S. citizens, most of them Each kidnapping count carries a Wednesday charge Pabey and Camacho der with the Dominican Republic. members of an Idaho-based church possible sentence of five to 15 years with conspiring to divert city money and Coq attended Thursday’s hearing group, were whisked away from the in prison. Each criminal association resources toward improving a Gary home and represents the entire group in closed court hearing to jail in Port- count has a potential sentence of Pabey owns with his daughter. Haiti. au-Prince, the capital. Silsby waved three to nine years. page 6 The Observer N CAMPUS NEWS Friday, February 5, 2010

business” is what truly cre- ates an experience of well- BOT Rome rounded education, Younes continued from page 1 said. continued from page 1 Professors Joseph tonight at 5 p.m. in Bond Buttigieg of the Department She cited the 1997 creation of Hall. of English and Ted Cachey the Core Council as an example “The organizing principle of the Department of of the University’s attempt to be of the colloquium is to take Romance Languages and more accepting of gay and les- an interdisciplinary look at Literatures plan to use their bian students. Notre Dame’s relationship presentation, titled “All The Core Council “serves pas- to Rome,” multimedia coor- Roads Lead To Rome,” to toral and resource needs” for dinator Karen Voss said. focus on an emerging proj- gay and lesbian members of the The colloquium will ect called Interdisciplinary community, but student govern- assemble scholars from the Italian Studies. ment hopes to address “policy School of Architecture, the “The idea of the project is issues,” Weber said. Department of Romance to bring together scholars Student Senate recently Languages and Literatures, whose work in some way or passed a two-part resolution to the Department of English, another is concerned with address these policy issues. the Department of Art, Art Italy,” Buttigieg said. “And The resolution proposed History and Design and the we have found that the establishing a task force under Department of History. range of interest spans a the leadership of the Office of Observer File Photo “The urbanity of Rome broad range of depart- Student Affairs composed of Student body president Grant Schmidt and vice president Cynthia shows the students that all ments.” members of the Core Council, Weber presented to the Board of Trustees Thursday. aspects of the city happen This program is also the Gender Relations Center, together,” Professor Samir designed to contribute to student government, faculty and Schmidt said. said. Younes said. the interna- other campus organizations. One trustee expressed her N Student government is “The city tionalization It also encouraged the admin- surprise after Weber ranked the hopeful that the agenda.nd.edu brings people “The city brings of Notre istration to add sexual orienta- dissolution of the department as calendar is redesigned by the and disciplines people and Dame, he tion to the University’s non-dis- the second most critical issue for beginning of the Fall 2010 t o g e t h e r said. Annual crimination clause. Weber said students, but the issue is about semester, Brellenthin said. The because the disciplines together seminars in student government researched students’ wanting to be respect- initial date for redesigning the city is every- because the city is Rome for non-discrimination clauses at ed, according to Brellenthin. calendar was set for Jan. 29, but thing.” everything.” scholars will other Catholic universities and Brellenthin cited reports that the calendar is still under con- In her be sponsored found that they remained loyal McGreevy described the dissolu- struction. k e y n o t e by the to Church teaching while provid- tion of the department as “too “We are hopeful that that date a d d r e s s , Samir Younes U n i v e r s i t y ing protection for gay and les- sensitive an issue for debate.” stays on track,” Schmidt said. Rowland will Professor b e g i n n i n g bian members of the communi- “We respect the administra- N Schmidt said students want focus on her School of Architecture next summer, ty. tion and the professors as top- to be a part of the introduction and the proj- “It is the unanimous opinion” tier educators, but we want to Commencement speaker selec- on the value of ect will invite of the Student Senate that both be respected as top-tier stu- tion process. Rome in the lives of schol- post-doctorate and visiting changing the University’s non- dents,” Brellenthin said. “Given the recent controversy, ars both in ancient times scholars to spend time on discrimination policy and creat- it’s a simple and realistic and today. Notre Dame’s campus. ing a task force are necessary to Task Force on Supporting the request to ask that there be a “Living in a city with The eventual hope for the make progress on accepting gay Choice for Life student representative in this buildings from the lives of project is the establishment and lesbian students, faculty, After the debate about the decision,” he said. people who lived years ago, of a humanities center in and staff, Weber said. choice of President Barack He suggested the student body we are able to see more Rome, Buttigieg said. While Obama as the 2009 president and the senior class philosophically how short no actual plans for this Dissolution of Economics and Commencement speaker president as students who the amount of time we live forum have been made, one Policy Studies because of his pro-choice should be a part of the but also how long our reach goal of the colloquium is to Students are concerned by stance, “student government Commencement speaker selec- is past our lives,” Rowland determine the dynamic of College of Arts and Letters Dean tried to take leadership,” Weber tion process. said. interdisciplinary study in John McGreevy’s lack of trans- said. N Pep rallies should be more She said interdisciplinary the Eternal City. parency as he moves to dissolve Weber commended University student-friendly, Schmidt said. study means being able to “Another key part of this the Department of Economics President Fr. John Jenkins’ cre- This year, “students did not go work more adequately as an project is the initiative with and Policy Studies, student gov- ation of the Task Force on to pep rallies,” he said. architect. the support of different fac- ernment chief of staff Ryan Supporting the Choice for Life “Students will not go to Irish “If you are a good archi- ulty members and of the Brellenthin said. last year, but said more students Green.” tect, you are paying atten- University to improve the “The decisions were made should be members of the task He suggested moving pep ral- tion to human resources regarding Rome without student input and the force. lies to Purcell Pavillion and beings,” Rowland said. “And in the library,” Buttigieg process was not revealed to the “There is only one student on increasing the involvement of the more you know about said. student body,” Brellenthin said. the task force,” she said. Hall Presidents Council in plan- human beings the better The product of “It was almost as if they were The student on the task force ning the rallies. you can meet their needs.” Interdisciplinary Italian hoping students weren’t paying is not officially responsible to The Irish Green pep rallies Professor Robin Rhodes Studies would be “a model attention,” he said. any “University-recognized stu- were “very commercialized,” described the city as a for collaborative Students are concerned that dent leadership organizations” Schmidt said. Students are look- “crossroads indebted to research” based on a city closing the department will nar- or to “existing and traditional ing for an environment that is many other cultures that is an important source row the economics education at student groups” that support “loud, where people are bounc- through commerce and con- for education in general, he Notre Dame, Brellenthin said. pro-life causes, Weber said. ing up and down,” he said. quest.” said. They are also concerned that Weber commended the Schmidt urged the members of “As an archeologist, I rely Buttigieg described the this decision sets a precedent University for prioritizing the the Board to consider student on people of many different city as “layered,” a compila- that students will be excluded issue, but said it should become government’s positions during disciplines,” Rhodes said. tion of wide-ranging eras of from future academic decisions. a larger priority. their meeting this week. “We need not only field history and a place for “Very little attention has been “It’s a human rights issue that “We encouraged you to advo- techniques but also the art interesting study of contem- focused on the 400 students who should become a part of all cate for us if these are issues and the architecture and porary issues such as immi- are economics majors,” aspects of University culture,” you are passionate about,” he the history and the lan- gration as well as antiquity. Brellenthin said. “No efforts Weber said. said. guages and the literature of “Rome is our history,” have been made to engage stu- a given culture in order to Buttigieg said. “The legacy dent opinion on the topic.” Other issues addressed with Contact John Tierney at interpret the objects being of this city is still what Schmidt said he is an econom- BOT [email protected] found on a dig.” shapes our humanities.” ics major, but he first heard N Students are concerned the The combination of all the about the plans to dissolve the Notre Dame Forum was not held arts and humanities present Contact Megan Doyle at department from The Observer. during the 2009-2010 academic in Rome as “everybody’s [email protected] “We weren’t told about it,” year, Schmidt said. Schmidt said. “It has become an annual The dissolution of Economics event, and there are a multitude and Policy Studies will be voted of issues that students want to on at the next meeting of the talk about in a formal way,” he Academic Council, Brellenthin, who is one of the four students who serve on the academic council, said. “We can make statements against the dissolu- tion, and we certainly will, but it has been on the agenda to dis- solve before we could put it on Please recycle the agenda to discuss,” he said. Brellenthin said faculty mem- bers are also concerned about the dissolution of the depart- The Observer. ment. “They are asking what will happen if professors who teach something that isn’t the main- stream theory are pushed out,” he said. “The fear is that the academic council is just going to be a rub- ber stamp” on McGreevy’s deci- sion to dissolve the department, The Observer Business Friday, February 5, 2010 page 7 MARKET RECAP Cleaning products come clean Environmental group Earth Justice pushes to discover ingredients of household products

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NEW YORK — It’s the mystery under the kitchen sink. Exactly what’s in floor cleaner? What’s stain remover made of? And what effects, if any, might they have on human health or the environment? Environmental advocates want to know, and they asked a court Thursday to use a 1971 New York state law to force such manufac- turers as Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive to reveal just what makes up such household staples as Ajax, Ivory soap and Tide. The cleanser industry — which recently ramped up voluntary efforts to unveil product ingredients — says that the legal case is unwar- ranted, and that fears about health risks are misin- formed. But groups including the American Lung Association and the Sierra Club want the public to know more. Members “want access to the information so they can determine the kind of chem- icals that they are introduc- ing into their homes and whether there are any risks AP associated with them,” Keri The environmental group Earth Justice, who is suing top cleaning brands to come clean about Powell, an attorney for the their products, arranges cleaning products Woolite, Tide, and Ajax on Feb. 4 in New York. IN BRIEF environmental firm Earthjustice, told a state cleaning product compo- information for hundreds of and vague — some compo- Judges rule on MySpace suspensions judge at a hearing Thursday. nents to asthma, antibiotic cleaning products, drawn nents can be listed simply as PHILADELPHIA — Federal appellate judges A victory in the New York resistance, hormone from data gathered for “fragrance” or “dye,” for wrestling with whether schools can discipline case would require compa- changes and other health industrial use. instance. students for Internet speech posted offsite nies to report their contents problems. The industry’s Cleanser industry groups “We must be careful about reached different rulings Thursday in two only to the state. But the major trade group, the Soap unveiled their own ingredi- exposures for all household Pennsylvania cases. advocates hope it will fuel and Detergent Association, ent-listing initiative last chemicals,” said Joseph A. One 3rd U.S. Circuit Court panel upheld the nationwide reform of regu- assails the research as month, offering information Gardella Jr., a Sierra Club suspension of a Schuylkill County eighth-grad- lations on chemicals in flawed, says the products on participating manufac- member from Buffalo. er who posted sexually explicit material along cleaners and other products. are safe if used correctly turers’ Web sites. New York- The activists say only reg- with her principal's photograph on a fake The case comes amid and notes that cleaning can based Colgate-Palmolive Co., ulation can insure full dis- MySpace page. growing concerns about itself help stop the spread of Cincinnati-based Procter & closure, and they hope the However, a different three-judge panel said potential toxins lurking in disease. Gamble Co. and several New York law can serve as a that school officials in Mercer County cannot consumer goods, from the Federal environmental other industry heavyweights model. reach into a family's home and police the heavy metal cadmium in laws don’t require most are participating. The law and subsequent Internet. That case also involves a MySpace jewelry to the chemical household cleaning products “We think we’ve done it in regulations authorized the parody of a principal created by a student at bisphenol A in baby bottles. to list their ingredients, a meaningful way that pro- state Department of home. While lawyers argued the though there are congres- vides more information than Environmental Conservation And, in dissent, a judge in the first case said cleaning-products case in sional proposals to change ever before,” Soap and to make manufacturers his colleagues were broadening the school's New York, a Senate subcom- that. The Consumer Product Detergent Association detail household cleaning authority and improperly censoring students. mittee in Washington held a Safety Commission requires spokesman Brian Sansoni products’ ingredients, as "This holding vests school officials with dan- hearing to examine current hazard warning labels on said. well as any company-led gerously overbroad censorship discretion," science on the public’s expo- some cleansers, and the Environmental advocates research on the products’ Judge Michael Chagares wrote in refusing to sure to toxic chemicals. National Institutes of Health welcome the disclosures but health and environmental uphold the March 2007 suspension of a Blue Some studies have linked offer some health and safety say they are too selective effects. Mountain Middle School student. "Neither the Supreme Court nor this Court has ever allowed schools to punish students for off- campus speech that is not school sponsored and that caused no substantial disruption at school." Dissolvable tobacco may appeal to kids

Ford fixes brake problem in hybrids Associated Press ing, given the brightly colored packag- potential accidental nicotine poison- DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. plans to fix ing, candy-like appearance and easily ing. 17,600 Mercury Milan and Ford Fusion gas- RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and concealable size of many of these Regulators also want a summary of electric hybrids because of a software problem Drug Administration is saying in let- products,” Dr. Lawrence Deyton, user demographics, including at what that can give drivers the impression that the ters to two tobacco companies that director of the Center for Tobacco age “tobacco-naive consumers” start brakes have failed. flavored, dissolvable tobacco products Products, told the companies. using the products. The automaker says the problem occurs in — that the agency compares with Deyton said regulators are worried The products are available in few transition between two braking systems and at candy and says contain a lot of nico- the products’ nicotine content and markets and account for a small no time are drivers without brakes. tine — could be particularly appealing rapid dissolution could cause nicotine share of the tobacco industry. The decision to fix the 2010 model cars came to kids and young adults. dependence and addiction and be Star Scientific, based in Petersburg, after a test driver for Consumer Reports maga- The FDA’s Center for Tobacco especially dangerous to children and Va., markets its Ariva and Stonewall zine experienced the problem as he was driving Products wrote to R.J. Reynolds young adults. tablets in wintergreen, coffee and a Fusion Hybrid. Tobacco Co., maker of Camel ciga- He asked the two best known mak- tobacco flavors. The first versions Ford spokesman Said Deep says braking rettes, and the smaller Star Scientific ers of dissolvable tobacco products to appeared about nine years ago. power seems to drop away as the car makes a Inc. on Monday voicing concern over provide their research and marketing R.J. Reynolds, which is owned by transition from regenerative brakes to the con- smokeless products that are con- information on how people under age Reynolds American Inc. in Winston- ventional system. The Ford hybrids have regen- sumed like breath mints but made 26 perceive and use the products. Salem, N.C., is test-marketing dissolv- erative brakes, which capture energy from from finely milled tobacco. Exercising new power to regulate able tablets, strips and a toothpick braking to help recharge the battery, in addi- “CTP is concerned that children and tobacco that the FDA was granted in shape under the names Camel Orbs, tion to a conventional system that stops the car adolescents may find dissolvable June, Deyton also requested research Camel Strips and Camel Sticks in mint using hydraulic pressure. tobacco products particularly appeal- on misuse of the products, including and other flavors. The Observer Viewpoint page 8 Friday, February 5, 2010

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Dr. Ralph McInerny, Notre Dame his person stand out in memory: Ralph Ralph was also, to give the simile its favorite lines of his. I asked him once Professor of Philosophy, scholar, poet, was inspiring, he was funny and he literal force, funny as hell. last year about the Gospel teaching writer, publisher, critic, family man knew fully the joys and sorrows of life. He was concerned primarily for the that husband and wife are not mar- and friend passed away this past He told me a story once about the Catholic Church, especially that great ried in heaven. Friday at the age of 80. legendary Notre Dame English body of inspired truth given it by St. He faced me with a smile and Over a 55-year Professor Frank O’Malley. Thomas Aquinas. The issues to which responded, “We romantics know bet- career at Our Thomas Bounds “He would take some of his students he devoted his work were thus serious ter.” Lady’s University, over to the University Club,” Ralph matters indeed, but always, always I had the opportunity to sit down he wrote nearly explained, “and would very nearly get with an air to the humorous, “the only with Professor McInerny a few times 150 books, The Notre Dame them (and himself) drunk. Then, test of gravity,” as Aristotle observed. over the past couple of years. Now he including a New They Know standing up, he would orate forcefully I asked him once — in those quaint reclines in memory: rounded brown York Times best- on the outstanding talents of these pre-Obama days — about Fr. Jenkins’ tortoise shell glasses over a face punc- seller and a mys- young men, on the way in which each decision regarding the Monologues. tuated by a Newport cigarette, tweed tery series later adapted for NBC; would go on to make a difference in He jumped back without missing a jacket with a button-down shirt, khaki taught thousands of students; directed the world. These boys were nothing beat: “He turned a pornography play pants crossed at the knee. more dissertations than any academic special, of course, but they stumbled into World War III and spent six He is no longer with us, but, as in Notre Dame’s history; developed home thinking they were. And, by months trying to solve a problem his Marvin O’Connell eulogized in a mas- friendships in legion and managed to golly, some of them did something mother could have figured out in five terful homily earlier this week, “We inspire, offend or impress just about about it.” minutes.” can hedge our bets that Ralph rests everyone he encountered. This same spirit animated Ralph. By His life was devoted in love to his now in the bosom of Abraham.” He has been and will continue to be official count, he ranks among the top wife Connie and their seven children. In paradisum, deducant te Angeli … eulogized well by his closest friends 10 Professors in the United States for The loss of his three-year-old first- and fellow academics. One should number of Philosophy dissertations born, Michael, in 1957 and of his wife, Tom is a Senior at Notre Dame. He explore these pieces — the Internet is directed. He frequently taught Connie, in 2002 marked the two great recommends that you read “I Alone a good place to start — to learn more Directed Readings courses at the tragedies of his own life. Have Escaped to Tell You,” the of this man imbued with “an angel’s request of students in addition to his Once, after a group dinner at the delightful autobiography of Ralph wit and singular learning.” regular teaching demands. Always, Morris Inn, he asked the waitress for McInerny. He also recommends However, as he last officially taught the emphasis lay on the ability of the a box to take the rest of his meal seeking out his book of poetry, “The a course at Notre Dame in the fall of student to come to knowledge through home. “For tomorrow night,” he Soul of Wit,” and turning to his poem 2006, his influence has thinned among the use of his or her own intellect explained. One could tell he missed entitled “Necking.” Amidst the shock the student population to whom he properly oriented towards the Truth. his bride. and laughter, you’ll have to smile. devoted much of his efforts. As former student and now Loyola Yet through it all he maintained that Tom can be contacted at Please permit me, then, to share a Marymount Professor Christopher indefatigable joie de vivre. “Wherever [email protected] bit of my own experience with this Kaczor wrote recently, “He called the Catholic Sun doth shine / There’s The views expressed in this column gracious man. While my interaction forth the best from us by seeing it in always laughter and good red wine,” are those of the author and not neces- with him was limited, three aspects of us before we did.” from a poem by Hilaire Belloc, were sarily those of The Observer.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thankful for Howard Zinn Harmless hobby or Dear Mr. Brendan O’Reilly, honest — it is finally a history told from a Your critique of the legacy of Howard Zinn perspective other than that of the winner’s. was almost as biased and selective as you I think that you read ‘A People’s History’ Satan praise? claim the writings of the late historian as a condemnation of America, and I will were. You say that Zinn’s ‘A People’s not disagree that Zinn takes issue with and As a Catholic member of this institution, I am very surprised that History’ constantly presents battles between protests many instances in our past. The Observer prints a daily horoscope. The Catechism of the Catholic the brave and courageous proletariat and However, what you failed to recognize in Church clearly states that all forms of divination are to be rejected: that most ubiquitous of villains, the evil your review are all of the stories of those Recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices white male. And you’re right, because that who resisted and fought against injustice, falsely supposed to ‘unveil’ the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology is a reoccurring theme in his book, just like bigotry and inequality. For every chapter on and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time ... it is in American history. racial discrimination there was a Rosa They contradict the honor, respect and loving fear that we owe to God Zinn (who is, by the way, a white male) Parks, and for every tale of political corrup- alone? chronicled the plight of black slaves ruled tion, there were corresponding stories of In my opinion, reading your daily horoscope can been seen as a sort by white landowners, women fighting for politicians who inspired and were trusted of “gateway drug” into the dangerous world of fortune telling. It only suffrage against extreme male resistance and for all of these stories we should be takes a seemingly ‘harmless thing like this for the devil to get a toehold and laborers striking for decent working thankful there was Howard Zinn, who didn’t on you. You may think that the horoscope is just fun or amusing, but conditions from those ‘rich, elite’ business shy away from the ugly just like he didn’t really it’s a dangerous demon tool that is offensive to God. And so I beg owners. Our nation has not been perfect — cover up the good. I hope that you will you readers of Observer, beware! Do not tempt yourself by reading far from it. From the Trail of Tears to the reread ‘A People’s History’ with a less criti- your horoscope or before long the devil will ensnare you with his the lynching era to the Vietnam War, huge cal eye and see what a service Zinn has demonic witchcraft! injustices have been committed by elected done. officials and regular civilians. But glossing Matt Brown over these historical facts does not mean Lucia Geglio sophomore they didn’t happen, and it doesn’t allow us junior Knott Hall to take any lessons from them. Zinn’s take Farley Hall Feb. 4 on American history is not revisionist or dis- Feb. 4 Son of a Pitch

I had not realized how far we, as an one scoop. It makes your whites whiter, American society, had fallen until I read the your brights brighter! Whenever I see responses to the question of the day on someone wearing a blue-collared shirt, with Monday, Feb. 1. a full black beard and a smile that would Share your insight. Reading the responses to the question of make even my roommate smile (his nick- “What infomercial product would you be?” name is Eeyore,) I remember and give was nothing less than disheartening and thanks for having had the privilege to have quite depressing. A mop. A weight-loss pro- seen such a visage and hear such a heart- gram. Sham-wow. How quickly we have all warming “Hi” while watching TV. forgotten the man who could actually make So here’s to you, Billy Mays! Not everyone Submit a Letter to the Editor at Americans sit there, look at the product has forgotten you, and if I were an infomer- www.ndsmcobserver.com being pitched and say, “Wow, I could use cial product, I would be proud to be this. No, I need this!” But wait, there’s OxiClean, with a second bucket of me dis- more! tributed free if people call now. The epitome of products that have ever been pitched wasn’t even mentioned: Matt Roe OxiClean! I for one, whenever I hear the sophomore word oxygen, am reminded of the awesome Morrissey Manor power that this detergent harnesses in just Feb. 4 The Observer Scene page 10 Friday, February 5, 2010

formed under the watchful eye of El-P, a New York- label. By NICK ANDERSON based producer and recording artist, to combat the Yesterday’s announcement was not surprising. Scene Writer exact problem we’re likely to see again soon. Major Rumors have been circulating for the past year con- labels had bought up much of the industry talent and cerning the inevitable death of Jux. In 2008 and 2009, Ten years ago, the word indie meant something. were pushing for over-commercialized albums. While there were a total of two albums released, one from Contrary to popular belief, indie is not a style, sound Jux and other indie labels couldn’t compete with the label freshman but industry veteran Del the Funky or genre. Indie meant one thing: Independent label. large paychecks, they could offer artistic freedom. Homosapien. The press release confirmed the future Today, calling a band “indie” says there are two gui- El-P played the game damn near perfect. He was release of one more album, the late Camu Tao’s “King tars, some poppy melodies and a thousand other already one of the most innovative producers working, of Hearts” but gave no more insight into the future of bands that sound exactly like it. Almost all of the and managed to create a roster of artists with mixed the other artists. Jux’s hiatus will no doubt see the “indie” bands you listen to, be it Spoon, the Arctic established fan bases and emerging talent. Strong emigration of the majority of its roster. Monkeys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, or the latest blo- sales and tours from underground names like Aesop In his message to fans, “Of Hooptys and gosphere darlings are in some way connected to Rock, The Perceptionists and RJD2 allowed newcom- Hovercrafts,” El-P admits the troubles of a traditional Warner, EMI, Song ers such as Cannibal Ox and label. Beyond its struggle to continue to make a steady or Universal. Check MURS to find a sound income, EL-P points to a personal drifting away from out Paste maga- without heavy industrial making music as the turning point in his decision. Of zine’s excellent pressure. course, Jux always served as an extension of El-P, and piece on the rise Between 2001 and couldn’t operate in his absence, but the continued rise and fall of indie 2007, Definitive Jux was- of music piracy and the ditching of labels by industry music if you want n’t the loudest voice in leaders Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have caused a better under- hip hop, but it was the label profits to fall even as artists’ pockets fatten. standing of the most important. Jux continues to do the best it can for its loyalist history. Beginning with Cannibal fans, keeping their Web site running, providing some As indie bands Ox’s stone-cold classic show support and continuing to print the back cata- rapidly become a “The Cold Vein,” ending logue. There’s no doubt the bigger orphaned talent thing of the past, with El-P’s “I’ll Sleep will find new labels to support their music habit; less- indie labels are When You’re Dead” and er names may be left out in the cold. For fans of indie following in their including Aesop Rock’s hip hop, Rhymesayers continues to market in intelli- footsteps. The lat- “Bazooka Tooth” as well gent Midwest rap, but Stone’s Throw has largely est label to call it as MURS’ “MURS 3:16,” floundered without the late Jay Dilla. It’s a dark day quits is the semi- Jux could do no wrong. for music, one best accompanied by a moody EL-P nal rap label In those six years, there track. Definitive Jux were upwards of 10 mas- Records. Jux terpieces put out by the Contact Nick Anderson at [email protected]

By COURTNEY COX ing (or in nothing) in particu- bad. Scene Writer lar. This episode may not The best part of the entire have showcased the best project is the fact that for The show begins each week aspects of the project, but it each thing they complete on with a slow reading of, “What still gave viewers the general their list, they help someone would YOU like to do before idea. else do something they want you die?” The concept is uni- The Playboy Mansion fiasco to do in their life. Everyone versal, at some point every- was then followed by the they talk to has an amazing one will die; yet it remains up boys making a toast and ask- story and the fact that they to each individual to make ing out the girl of their were able to help people they the most of the time they are dreams, Megan Fox. This was just met is so powerful. While given. “The Buried Life” fol- not necessarily the most orig- it is compelling to watch lows four individuals in their inal choice for “the girl of these four guys do some of mid-20s trying to do just this. your dreams” but to each his the craziest things ever, it is Ben, the leader of the group, own. The main problem with even more fascinating to see felt that it was important to Ben choosing Megan Fox as them help with the most give their lives direction. the girl of his dreams is that basic goals. Pretty darn existential for an it showed nothing about the In the first episode the MTV show. As a team they guys in the show. It would group raises money by per- created a list of 100 things to have been much more mean- forming on the street to help do collectively and the show ingful had one of them cho- provide a poor school with a simply follows them as they sen a girl from their past. working computer. They went try to accomplish what they Wishful thinking. to the school to simply talk want most out of life. The interesting thing about with the kids about following The first episode featured “The Buried Life” is that it their dreams and setting the group attempting to isn’t just a show. It is most goals for things to do before sneak into the Playboy accurately described as a they die, and they came back Mansion. Of course they project. These four bros have the next day with a brand managed to find the most dif- been attempting to fulfill new Apple desktop computer. ficult way to go about doing their wildest dreams since The reactions of the little this. Two of the four manage 2006. This would definitely kids were priceless. They all to do this only because they make it difficult to complete started screaming and it was were willing to sit inside of a task 11, get a college degree, the most triumphant moment cake for seven hours dressed but honestly 99/100 of the show. as oompa loompas. This may isn’t that The real reason to watch not have been a the show is not to see a smart choice for bunch of 20-something men a first episode goof off; it’s to see the sin- simply because it cere reactions of the people would appear they help. As far as MTV that not many shows are concerned, “The women would Buried Life” goes beyond like to sneak into what may be expected from the Playboy the network that brought you Mansion. In fact “The Jersey Shore.” women could probably enter Contact Courtney Cox at dressed as noth- [email protected] Observer Graphic I JACLYN ESPINOZA page 2 The Observer N ELECTION 2010 Friday, February 5, 2010 Catherine Soler president vice president Andrew Bell

Who They Are to do this job, so the creation of a Presidential candidate Soler, a commissioner seems redundant. sophomore from Farley Hall, is an N Most Feasible: Instating a accounting major and vice presi- rental textbook program in the dential candidate Bell is a sopho- Bookstore. Follett already offers more business major from Knott this program to 27 colleges and Hall. Soler is currently sophomore universities, and the ticket has class president and Bell serves on already had discussions on the Student Senate. topic with officials from Follett and the Bookstore. Since the program In Their Words already exists, the duo’s only chal- N Top Priority: Soler and Bell lenge is bringing it to Notre Dame. plan on creating a rental program N Least Feasible: Instating The for textbooks in the Hammes Notre Good Samaritan Policy or a medical Dame Bookstore. amnesty policy for students helping “You will be able to rent bigger others in dangerous situations textbooks for $40 instead of buying involving alcohol. Past student gov- them for $100 and selling them ernment administrations have back for $30,” Soler said. worked to create a change like The N First Priority: The ticket hopes Good Samaritan Policy but have not to hold a block party in Eddy Street been successful. Commons to unite the outside com- N Fun Facts: Soler is a proud munity, off-campus students and vegetarian but says she has a students living on campus. weakness for chocolate and Bell is “We see Eddy Street Commons as a big fan of attending Drummer’s the first step off campus,” Bell said. Circle. N Notable Quote: “We have a lot In Our Words of food initiatives on our platform.” N Best Idea: Revamping the — Soler DeBartolo lounge. Although they said a café cannot be added to the Bottom Line building, Soler and Bell hope to Soler and Bell demonstrate well- PAT COVENEY/The Observer refurbish the current lounge near researched ideas that will benefit Presidential candidate Catherine Soler, left, and candidate for vice president Andrew Bell emphasize the computer lab to make it more their plan to install a rental textbook system in the Bookstore. the student body. Most are simple comfortable for students by adding enough to achieve, like the Eddy healthier vending options and pos- Street Commons block party, but sibly a coffee machine. some are broad and vague, such as N Worst Idea: Creating a hall the work they plan to do with the alcohol commissioner whose Office of Drug and Alcohol “Common ground. responsibility is to be an informed Education and their hunger initia- resource in the dorm for students tive. They have also said they will to approach about these issues and continue the weekend Transpo Uncommon vision.” also to contact in case of an emer- route — a popular initiative to gency. The Resident Assistants in come out of this year’s administra- each dormitory are already trained tion.

Peter Ledet president vice president Gabe Alvare

Who They Are Fitness center,” which would Zahm’s perennial farcical ticket replace Stepan Center. While find- is headed this year by freshmen ing new uses for Stepan should be Peter Ledet and Gabe Alvare. encouraged, Ledet and Alvare’s While most of the student body idea is sexist and insensitive. has already written the dynamic N Most feasible idea: None duo off, Ledet said he wants peo- N Least feasible idea: The ple to know that he’s “serial” placement of 18-foot-tall milk about student government. chocolate statues of themselves “We want to bring good things to and cultural icons around campus, campus,” he said. “Power to the which the candidates claim would people.” be eco-friendly and provide a food source for hungry animals. In Their Words N Fun Facts: Both Ledet and N Top Priority: Ledet and Alvare Alvare showed up for the inter- said they would like to create a view wearing high top Nikes, feudal caste system upon taking which they said were worn to office, whereby all Notre Dame show The Observer that their fash- students would be divided into ion sense far surpasses that of the four classes — serfs, warriors, other candidates. They also said nobles and kings. Alvare said he they have significant experience and Ledet would rule over this sys- with the University’s alcohol tem as emperor and vice emperor assessment program. from their royal tree house. N Quote: “It’s dark, scary and “We need our own little secluded they make you wear funny cos- place where we can do things,” tumes to put on musicals,” Ledet, Alvare said. “And of course, no talking about his experience at girls allowed.” alcohol assessment. N First Priority: Ledet and Alvare said they would like to start Bottom Line a program to get more students While Ledet and Alvare really involved in extracurricular activi- have no chance of winning, the PAT COVENEY/The Observer ties in order to boost morale candidates do provide a nice break Vice presidential candidate Gabe Alvare, left, and president candidate Peter Ledet hope to build around campus. Alvare said he from the usual uptightness of stu- a tree house for the men of Notre Dame to use. would like to use the Golden Dome dent government. The one major as the symbolic rallying point for issue that should actually be of this initiative. concern to the student body is that “We want people to come here the pair frequently crosses the line and say, ‘I love Notre Dame. That from funny to offensive, and many Dome was awesome,’” he said. of their ideas are extremely sexist. While candidates running on a “We want people to come here and say, In our words “joke” platform aren’t very harm- N Best idea: Abolishing Student ful and can actually be quite funny, Senate and replacing it with the the student body president elec- ‘I love Notre Dame. Knights of the Round Table. tion should not be turned into a N Worst idea: Mandatory week- forum for people to voice offensive ly weigh-ins for all Notre Dame ideas, even if they are only meant That Dome was awesome.’” female students at the “Flirty Girl as jokes. Friday, February 5, 2010 The Observer N ELECTION 2010 page 3

Eras Noel president vice president Julian Corona

Who They Are N Most Feasible: The idea for Junior Eras Noel lives in the “Perspectives” series would be Siegfried Hall and is majoring in most feasible because increasing Mechanical Engineering and intellectual debate on campus is Industrial Design. Noel’s vice presi- already a concern of some admin- dential candidate, Julian Corona, is istrators and faculty. “Perspectives” a junior Electrical and Mechanical would need minimal help from the Engineering major. He lives in St. University to get accomplished, and Edwards Hall. they shouldn’t have a problem get- ting the support they need. In Their Words: N Least Feasible: Installing the N Top Priority: A series called Flex Points system at Eddy Street “Perspectives,” where a professor Commons is a great idea in theory will lead a discussion with students but coordinating the monetary in his area of expertise about a transfer between the University topic of the week, or topic of the and the businesses in Eddy Street month. Commons would be difficult. Past “We’ll talk about gay marriage, student government administra- abortion, the death penalty,” Noel tions have tried this without suc- said. “It helps us to grow as a stu- cess. dent community and as individu- N Fun Facts: Noel was a mem- als.” ber of the football team when they N First Priority: The ticket wants won the Hawaii Bowl in 2008. to get the Flex Points system instat- N Notable Quote: “If you see ed at Eddy Street Commons. They something that needs to be have already spoken with the changed and you have the oppor- owner of Five Guys and have meet- tunity to change it, then you should ings scheduled with Food Services. take advantage of the opportunity,” Noel said, on why he wants to run In Our Words: for student body president. N Best Idea: Hot Grab-and-Go options. Noel wants students to be Bottom Line PAT COVENEY/The Observer able to go into the dining hall and Noel and Corona have a grasp of Candidate for vice president Julian Corona, left, and presidential candidate Eras Noel fill a box with food. “Two sides, and what the student body wants, and want to bring flex points to Eddy Street Commons. then main platter,” Noel said. “And what it needs. Flex points at Eddy that would cost maybe five of your Street Commons and Hot Grab n’ seven Grab and Go points and then Go options would be immensely you’d have two left over for water popular if ac complished. Noel and or a snack or food.” Corona seem to have clear goals N Worst Idea: While allowing and the drive to accomplish these flex points to be used in Eddy goals, but the lack of experience in “A New Perspective.” Street would appeal to students, it student government may hinder is not feasible. But the ticket has them. Also, the duo only has three cited this platform as a main focus platforms listed on their site, some- of the campaign. thing they should work to expand.

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After interviewing the three money, is to “save the environ- intellectual issues. These can- at a restaurant with Soler-Bell: safety seems to be center on tickets running for student ment,” Soler told The Observer. didates also focus on improv- the ticket also wants to hold a alcohol consumption. While body president and vice presi- This isn’t the only altruistic ing Grab ‘n Go and extending block party at Eddy Street this is one side of student dent, The Observer Editorial thing on their platform — Flex Point use off campus, both Commons to bring the commu- health and safety, preventing Board endorses sophomores Soler-Bell said they would con- of which are important but less nity together. This would be a violence toward students and Catherine Soler and Andrew tinue the efforts of current stu- feasible goals. beneficial opportunity to utilize keeping students physically Bell. dent body president Grant The Soler-Bell platform like- the new “college town” as a safe on and off campus is an The Soler-Bell platform Schmidt and vice president wise addresses food conven- place of interaction and get to important and crucial issue for offers the student body several Cynthia Weber to get the stu- iences as several of their ideas know our South Bend neigh- Notre Dame students, especial- exciting opportunities for dent body involved in “some- involve student meal plans and bors. Their proposed “Good ly in light of recent assaults. improving student life and thing bigger.” Soler and Bell’s food options. They’ve done Neighbor” series could help The Observer would hope safety, as well as community idea is an initia- their research on students living off campus be Soler-Bell would make this a relations. Their most feasible tive to fight global the possibilities of better neighbors and make a top priority, and think of new initiative, implementing a text- hunger. While this off-campus dis- positive impact on their neigh- ways to help keep students book rental system in the pitch is lofty and counts, and their borhoods. safe. Bookstore, is not original: vague, it is an idea to solicit and Their initiative to revamp the Soler-Bell’s experience in Follett has piloted such a pro- admirable effort. publicize dis- DeBartolo lounge also shows student government — Soler is gram at more than 20 other Junior candi- counts available promise and is something that currently sophomore class colleges and universities. dates Eras Noel with a Notre would be appreciated by the president and Bell serves on However, because the rental and Julian Corona Dame student ID majority of the student body. Student Senate — will allow system functions at other also have an initiative to unite card would provide more stu- Safety on and off campus is a them an easy transition to the schools, The Observer has high the student body in a common dent business for local mer- concern with Soler-Bell, and offices of student body presi- hopes that Soler-Bell can make purpose with their chants while encouraging stu- they’ve demonstrated their dent and vice president. Their the program a reality at Notre “Perspectives” series, which, if dents to interact with the com- dedication to student safety in initiatives are thoroughly Dame. successful, would prompt munity and contribute to the their meetings with Notre researched and can make a One of the reasons for this debate and discussion among local economy. Dame Security Police. Their positive impact on the Notre rental system, besides saving students and faculty about The interaction wouldn’t stop primary concern regarding Dame community.

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The duo has vowed to contin- ue the weekend Transpo route Their campaign features a Soler and Bell are veteran They hope to offer a rental to ensure safe transportation block party at Eddy Street members of student govern- textbook system in the Hammes off campus and they want to Commons and a South Bend ment but seem to have a good Notre Dame Bookstore and work with the Office of Drug street fair for students and grasp on what the student body revamp the DeBartolo lounge. and Alcohol Education to offer community members. wants and needs. students solutions in dangerous situations involving alcohol. Soler & Bell

Ledet and Alvare hope to The ticket assures the student They want to build a tree lower alcohol violations by body they are “super serial” house for males to go and drink They don’t address this forming a University-sponsored candidates but their self-pro- juice boxes and eat lunchables, issue in their platform. alcohol assessment in which claimed titles of emperor and only of the pizza and nacho students are supplied with alco- vice emperor are somewhat variety. hol to test their limits. condescending. Ledet & Alvare

They do not address com- Noel and Corona are running munity relations in their Noel and Alvare said they will The ticket pledges to work to with the slogan, “A New campaign platform, but their work with Notre Dame Security create a system where students Perspective.” As outsiders, they “Prospectives” proposal will Police and local law enforce- could use flex points in Eddy have the opportunity to bring create dialogue between ment to foster a safer commu- Street Commons. fresh ideas to student govern- professors and students out- nity for students. ment. side of the classroom. Noel & Corona

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audience, abandon it, get how we deal with it. But By SHANE STEINBERG under the skin and stay where the film truly takes its Scene Writer there, and then tear at one’s dive is at an unnamed, almost insides until the mind and unidentifiable point, where A few years back I heard a soul can’t take it and all suddenly the co-stars story about a mysterious that’s left are scars of an ulti- (Charlotte Gainsbourg and occurrence in Japan that was mately terrifying experience. Willem Dafoe) begin to give tied to a film once slated for This is the first film I’ve ever their entire selves unto von release but immediately seen that I will not only rec- Trier’s uncompromisingly and banned after only a couple of ommend but near implore unapologetically bleak view test screenings. I never you not to see. You either of human nature. It’s learned the name of the film won’t understand it (which is Gainsbourg though who goes nor do I know any details the best-case scenario), walk way beyond where any about its plot, but what’s out in disgust, or worst of all, actress should, capturing the important about this particu- get sucked into it to the point true essence of suffering, and lar film is the rather perplex- that you feel it going on in it’s through her performance ing, or horrifying to be more and around you, until, at a that von Trier pushes forth precise, effect that it had on certain point, it becomes too not only the film’s brilliance some members of the few much to bare. but the essence of what audiences unlucky enough to For those of you who have makes this trip into Eden so see it. For you see, as I was seen this film or who’ve unbearable. told, following the film there heard the rather grand tales To explain “Antichrist” is to happened a string of suicides about it, I will caution you take a trip back to Eden that that were committed largely right now by saying these opens up wounds on the self, without clear motives. The words: ejaculated blood and better left alone. To under- individuals who took their severed clitoris. This is no stand “Antichrist” is a trip in own lives were then somehow “Saw,” and I don’t think it and of itself, for the film, linked back to being mem- necessary to explain the obvi- especially towards its end, bers of that same test audi- ous reasons why, but at sec- takes a turn for the utterly ence, which then raised ond glance, it’s not the gore perplexing. To see alarms about the film. It’s that will unnerve you here. “Antichrist”— to actually see unclear just how much of an From my own experience I it and not merely watch it — effect the film actually had on might never for the life of me is an experience better left those individuals or the oth- explain what I felt the first for only those truly able and ers who saw it and then time I saw this film in that brave enough to understand admitted to suffering from small cramped theater, and I von Trier as he projects him- depression and/or thoughts of won’t because I don’t want to self in this film. For all else, it suicide afterwards, and until revisit it, but I know that is an experience best left not recently, I always thought it some part of me not as a crit- experienced. rather foolish that a mere ic but as a human being was I once heard someone say film could have that kind of left broken by what I saw. that the best way to keep impact on a person. I don’t “Antichrist” is entirely von from feeling both the worst know what was in that film Trier’s story. The product of and the best of what life that so dramatically scarred its admittedly then-chronical- throws your way is to “don’t those individuals and then ly depressed filmmaker, the play it for real, until it gets propelled them to commit the film is the tale of a couple, He real.” “Antichrist” is a night- unspeakable acts that they and She, who tragically lose mare of a film. It’s the kind of committed, and until recently their son one night when he film that crosses over into the it never really made any falls to his death out of an very rare and almost sense. open window as the couple uncharted territory of being Lars von Trier’s bare-as- has sex in the other room. It’s truly affecting art — art that bones, free-fall into the con- the themes of sex, as violent at once will (if you play it for fines of human suffering and and downright disgusting as real) unnerve and bewilder madness, “Antichrist,” is the it gets, and loss, the land- you and, at its end, leave you film that finally opened my scape on which this film is utterly broken. eyes to the true visceral set, that go on to dictate power of film—its naked abil- much of the film’s four chap- Contact Shane Steinberg at ity to at once unnerve an ters which chronicle loss and [email protected] “Antichrist”

Directed By: Lars von Trier Writer: Lars von Trier Release Date: May 20, 2009 Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

JACLYN ESPINOZA | Observer Graphic page 12 The Observer N CLASSIFIEDS Friday, February 5, 2010 NFL NBA NFLPA chief claims Dunleavy resigns as coach 2011 lockout inevitable Associated Press “It would indicate a serious issue LOS ANGELES — Mike Associated Press that has to be dealt with. You look Dunleavy stepped down as FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — at your single largest expense, the Los Angeles Clippers’ The question to DeMaurice Smith which is player costs.” head coach Thursday, was simple, coming from Indianapolis quarterback Peyton retaining his job as general Cincinnati receiver Chad Manning(notes), whom the Colts manager. Ochocinco, asking how serious he are planning to soon give a new Assistant coach Kim viewed the possibility of football contract that would make him the Hughes will be the interim not being played in 2011. league’s highest-paid player, replacement for Dunleavy, Smith did not hesitate. acknowledged that he has con- who has led the Clippers to “On a scale of 1 to 10,” Smith cerns. just one winning season said Thursday, “it’s a 14.” “I think as a player, I feel we since taking over the star- With that, the executive director have a pretty good thing going crossed franchise in 2003. of the NFL Players Association right now in the NFL,” Manning The Clippers abruptly painted perhaps the bleakest pic- said Thursday. “It would a shame announced the moves in an ture yet regarding prospects of for something to have to change afternoon news release, say- labor strife in the league, which along those lines. I understand ing the decision was volun- could be looking at a 2010 season kind of like when a player is hold- tary and mutual. Los with no salary cap and, if the col- ing out or a player contract, there Angeles (21-28) has lost five lective bargaining agreement is a business side of this that can of six heading into expires as scheduled in March be tough. It is not always pretty.” Saturday’s home game 2011, a lockout that year. Smith said the latest NFL offer against San Antonio, with “I keep coming back to an eco- to the players would reduce their another once-promising sea- nomic model in America that is share to 41 percent of applied rev- son in danger of slipping unparalleled,” said Smith, who enues from about 59 percent. He away. often repeated phrases for empha- emphasized that the teams take “It just seems clear that sis. “And that makes it incredibly $1 billion off the top of the esti- the team needs a fresh voice, difficult to then come to players mated $8 billion the league gener- and we hope that our play- and say, on average, each of you ates. ers will respond in a positive needs to take a $340,000 pay cut Pash argued that the $1 billion way,” Clippers president AP to save the National Football reflects actual costs incurred, Andy Roeser said in a state- Mike Dunleavy will no longer be the Clippers’ head coach but will League. Tough sell. Tough sell.” money “invested in things like NFL ment. continue as general manager for the struggling franchise. Smith said the NFL would Network, NFL.com, putting games Despite a talented roster receive $5 billion from its network on overseas, all of which is intend- including Baron Davis, Chris Dunleavy, who added GM reached the NBA finals. television deals even if no games ed to and has in fact had the effect Kaman, Eric Gordon and duties to his coaching After just two seasons with are played in 2011. He regarded of generating substantial addition- Marcus Camby, the Clippers responsibilities in 2008. “We the Lakers, he coached four that as proof owners are prepar- al revenues, 50 percent of which are in 12th place in the fully expect to be active and losing seasons in Milwaukee ing for a lockout. go to NFL players. And the union Western Conference. Los productive on all those before a moderately success- “Has any one of the prior deals knows that’s true, because the Angeles dropped a season- fronts.” ful four-season run with the included $5 billion to not play foot- union has absolute rights to audit worst seven games under Hughes, a former ABA and Portland Trail Blazers. ball?” Smith asked, referring to those expenses.” .500 with six losses on a NBA player who has never After hiring Dunleavy in previous contracts that were Echoing NFL commissioner just-completed eight-game been a head coach, has been 2003, the much-criticized extended or redone. “The Roger Goodell, Pash said Smith’s road trip. Dunleavy’s assistant since Sterling showed consider- answer’s no.” assertion that players are being Perhaps the Clippers Curse the start in Los Angeles. He able patience, extending the Some of Smith’s nearly hour- asked to accept an 18 percent pay has a bit to do with it as spent several years on the coach’s contract through long question-and-answer session cut—the $340,000 per-player- well: Blake N u g g e t s ’ 2011 after that sole playoff during Super Bowl week was average figure—was among the Griffin, the No. b e n c h run—and even sticking with spent reiterating past claims, such “misrepresentations of what our 1 overall pick before join- him through the Clippers’ as team values increasing “almost proposal is.” in last sum- “It just seems clear that ing the 19-63 misery of a 2008-09 500 percent” over the last 15 “We have never said it would mer’s draft, the team needs a fresh C l i p p e r s , season. years. There was also a call to result in players having to take a will miss the and has Dunleavy’s record as a per- have all 32 NFL teams open their reduction,” Pash said. “The entire entire season voice, and we hope our been a sonnel executive is actually books to show who was losing point here is to generate a pool of after breaking players will respond in scout in fairly solid, which made his money and how much. resources to have continued his kneecap in a positive manner.” Denver and failures as the Clippers’ Smith also said he wanted investment and continued growth, Los Angeles’ Milwaukee. coach even more glaring. He teams to contribute what, ulti- which would lead to higher final preseason D u n l e a v y replaced Elgin Baylor as the mately, would be millions into salaries and benefits for players.” game. Andy Roeser was 215- Clippers’ top basketball what he called “a legacy fund” For now, some players say D u n l e a v y , Clippers president 325 in 6 1/2 executive before last season, that would better support retired they’re bracing for issues. Mawae who said he seasons on uprooting Baylor from a job players. said he even has recommended had “several the bench, he had held since 1986. Most of his focus, however, was players save 25 percent of their conversations” and Los Despite adding Rasual on getting a new CBA. salary next season “in the event of recently with owner Donald Angeles made the playoffs Butler and Craig Smith to a “I really and truly in my heart a lockout,” though he noted “we Sterling about the Clippers’ just once in his first six sea- well-stocked roster that still believe we’ll get a deal done,” can’t make all 1,900 players save direction, is the winningest sons, getting within one should have ample salary NFLPA president Kevin Mawae their money.” coach in franchise history— game of the Western cap space to sign a major said. “But there’s going to have to “We’ve told them, `Don’t go out admittedly not a high bar to Conference finals in 2006. free agent this summer, the be some give and some take and and buy a new boat. Don’t go out clear on a team with just two The Clippers haven’t been Clippers have struggled even not just taking from one side all and buy a new car. Pay off what- winning seasons in 30 years back to the playoffs since, to reach .500 this season. the way.” ever debts you have,’ ” said Jeff and only one playoff series winning just 42 games in the “As we approach the trade The league’s response, in part, Saturday of the Indianapolis Colts. victory since moving to Los past two seasons. deadline, the NBA draft and said that teams like the Green Bay “These are things we’ve been Angeles in 1984. Dunleavy played for the upcoming free agent Packers— whose audited financial learning from history.” “I’ve come to the conclu- Philadelphia, Houston, San period, our team is very statements are the only ones the Smith and Mawae said that if sion that this is the ideal Antonio and Milwaukee dur- well-positioned from a salary union said it has seen — have had next season goes forward with no time for me to direct my ing his career, but the cap standpoint,” Roeser said. a 40 percent decline in profits. salary cap, it would be highly efforts toward the many per- Brooklyn native’s entire “Mike’s experienced input “In most businesses, that would unlikely to have a new CBA with a sonnel opportunities that lie coaching career has been will be vitally important as be a serious cause for concern,” cap reinstated. before us, such as the trade downhill from his debut sea- we continue to develop our said Jeff Pash, the NFL’s executive “Virtually impossible,” Smith market, the draft and the son with the Los Angeles young talented nucleus and vice president and chief counsel. said. free agent process,” said Lakers in 1990-91, when he shape our team’s future.”

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1 Conneticut 1 2 Oklahoma 3 3 Maryland 2 4 Louisville 4 5 Stanford 10 6 Baylor 6 7 Duke 5 8 Texas A&M 7 9 Auburn 8 10 Florida State 12 11 Tennessee 9 12 Ohio State 13 13 North Carolina 11 14 Iowa State 14 15 Rutgers 16 16 NOTRE DAME 17 17 Purdue 15 18 California 28 19 LSU 27 20 Virginia 20 21 Arizona State 19 22 Florida 30 23 Texas 21 24 Vanderbilt 18 25 South Dakota State 25

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AP team previous Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, one o f the most heralded college basketb all coaches of all time, is 1 Duke 1 in favor expanding the NCAA To urnament, he sa id Thursday. 2 Northwestern 2 3 California 4 4 Georgia 3 5 Baylor 6 NCAA discusses expanding from 65-team field 6 NOTRE DAME 5 7 Miami (Fla.) 7 Associated Press with interested parties, but goes. “That would add more 8 Florida 14 nothing definitive to even “If you’re talking about relevance to the regular 9 USC 9 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — analyze at this point.” adding more teams, I don’t season, instead of just hav- 10 Georgia Tech 8 The NCAA has met with It certainly hasn’t think the games would ing big games being brack- 11 Tennessee 10 conference commissioners, stopped the conversation. change a bit,” Texas Tech et busters and things like 12 UCLA 12 university presidents and Many coaches and coach Pat Knight said. that,” Duke coach Mike 13 Stanford 13 athletic directors about the administrators like the “They’d be just as competi- Krzyzewski said. “I could 14 Clemson 11 possibility of expanding the idea of expansion and tive and I think you’d see see it going to 96, but if 15 Florida State 19 men’s basketball tourna- believe its a necessary step more Cinderella stories, they do, I would like to see 16 Fresno State 16 ment. to accommodate a growing more teams people didn’t the regular season champs 17 South Carolina 17 So far it’s slow going. game. There are more think had a chance and rewarded. That would give 18 North Carolina 20 The NCAA started talking teams than ever — 347 in there’d be a lot more the conferences who don’t 19 Arkansas 15 about expansion in the fall, Division I — more depth in upsets if the NCAA expand- get more than one bid a 20 Michigan 18 along with numerous top- the bigger conferences and ed the tournament.” chance to have two bids.” 21 Mississippi 21 ics in all 88 champi- more talent at the mid- Another argument is that In the current format, 18 22 Vanderbilt 22 onships, and hasn’t gotten major level. a larger field would give percent of the teams get 23 SMU 23 past the discussion stage. Whether it’s increasing teams from smaller confer- into the NCAA tournament 24 Washington NR 25 Alabama “It’s still a work in the tournament field to 68 ences a better chance of and another 9 percent NR progress, so there’s no fur- (four play-in games instead getting in. Giving automat- receive invites to the NIT. ther developments or sta- of one) or enveloping the ic bids to the regular-sea- By comparison, 53 percent tus from (the fall),” NCAA NIT to make it a 96-team son and conference tour- of NHL and NBA teams get senior vice president Greg field, more teams are nament champions would into the playoffs, 37 per- Shaheen said. “It’s just a bound to add up to more reward consistency while cent in the NFL and 26 USCHO/CBS Men’s Hockey series of ongoing dialogues excitement, the thinking still allowing for surprise. percent in baseball. Division I Rankings IN BRIEF team points

1 Miami (Ohio) 993 Kobe Bryant misses practice Tomlinson beleives he’s Source: Mariners, Bedard 2 Denver 950 because of sore ankle finished as a Charger closing in on a deal 3 Wisconsin 895 EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Kobe Bryant SAN DIEGO — LaDainian SEATTLE — A person with knowl- 4 St. Cloud State 817 has skipped practice with the Los Tomlinson says he believes he has edge of the negotiations tells The 5 Cornell 718 Angeles Lakers to rest his sore left played his last game in a San Diego Associated Press that the Seattle 6 Minnesota Duluth 690 ankle. Charger uniform. Mariners and left-handed pitcher 7 Bemidji State 635 The Lakers will wait until game The running back told The San Erik Bedard are getting close to a 8 Yale 603 time Friday night to decide whether Diego Union-Tribune on Thursday one-year contract, pending a physi- 9 North Dakota 581 Bryant will play against the Denver that he has thought for a while he cal. 10 Colorado Col. 548 Nuggets. would be let go by the Chargers. The person spoke on condition of Bryant received treatment on his His comments come after more anonymity Thursday to the AP. To ankle Thursday after aggravating his than a month of saying he did not this point, the Mariners have injury during Wednesday night’s vic- know what would happen. remained silent on the issue, and tory over Charlotte when teammate The NFL’s most valuable player in have made no public announcment of Lamar Odom stepped on his foot. 2006 has two years remaining on his a deal. around the dial Bryant originally sprained his ankle contract. He is due a $2 million roster The former Baltimore Orioles ace in Philadelphia last week. bonus March 5 and would be paid $5 has been in his native Canada reha- Bryant scored a season-low five million in total salary in 2010. bilitating from surgery in August to NBA points on 2-for-12 shooting against Tomlinson tells the newspaper he repair a torn labrum in his pitching Nuggets at Lakers the Bobcats. doesn’t know when the Chargers will shoulder. 10:30 p.m., ESPN He has been bothered by injuries release him and that his agent, Tom Mariners trainer Rick Griffin said throughout the season, most notably Condon, might call the club to expe- last week that the 30-year-old Bedard NHL breaking a finger on his shooting dite the process. felt good while throwing. Griffin said hand. Yet Bryant, the NBA’s fourth- Tomlinson has become one of the Bedard has three-to-five months left Coyotes at Blackhawks leading scorer, still hasn’t missed a most beloved athletes in San Diego of rehabilitation before he would be 8 p.m., CSN game. history during a nine-year career. back at full strength. page 14 The Observer N SPORTS Friday, February 5, 2010

NCAA FOOTBALL NCAA BASKETBALL Edwards leaves UF Duke defeats Georgia Tech for Bills’ DC position Associated Press Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. — Kyle Singler went to the bench BUFFALO, N.Y. — George defense last season. and clutched his banged-up Edwards’ tenure as the Personnel will be a question right wrist. Then he came Florida Gators defensive coor- as Buffalo’s defensive line is back onto the court, rattled dinator sure didn’t last long. relatively undersized and in a 3-pointer to beat the Less than a month after lacks a true run-stuffing nose halftime buzzer and kept joining Urban Meyer’s staff, tackle, a key part of a 3-4 making those long-range Edwards left one of the scheme. shots during the second half. nation’s top college programs Defensive tackle Marcus That pesky wrist injury cer- Thursday to become the Stroud previously expressed tainly couldn’t slow the Duke Buffalo Bills‘ defensive coordi- concerns about how he would star. Georgia Tech’s defense nator, reunit- fit in a 3-4 didn’t stand a chance, either. ing him with scheme. Singler had career highs of newly hired “I can’t play 30 points and eight 3-point- head coach “I feel like this is a nose (tackle), ers to lead the 10th-ranked Chan Gailey. great opportunity for but I could Blue Devils past the 21st- “I feel like me to come in and have adapt to that. ranked Yellow Jackets 86-67 this is a great But I don’t on Thursday night. opportunity a chance to work with want to,” “I just got into a rhythm,” for me to come coach Gailey again.” Stroud said Singler said. “I took open in and have a last month as shots … and started knocking chance to George Edwards Bills players them down.” work with cleaned out Jon Scheyer added 21 coach Gailey Bills defensive coordinator their lockers a points for Duke (18-4, 6-2), a g a i n , ” day after clos- which was strong inside and AP Edwards said ing the season outside—hitting nearly 67 Lance Thomas (left) of Duke fights for possession with Georgia in a release with a 6-10 percent of its 3s and domi- Tech’s D’Andre Bell during Duke’s victory Thursday night. issued by the Bills. “I am record. Stroud added that he’s nating Georgia Tech’s foul- excited to have the opportuni- open to playing any scheme so plagued front line. Duke held Devils to their 15th straight “We got rattled a little bit.” ty to come to Buffalo and look long as he’s on the field. a 40-32 rebounding edge and win at Cameron Indoor Duke’s three S’s—Singler, forward to getting started as Stroud is at least familiar remained atop the Atlantic Stadium. Scheyer and Smith—entered quickly as possible.” with Edwards, who was the Coast Conference by claiming “Kyle Singler made us pay, as the nation’s most produc- Edwards has 19 years of defensive line coach at an easy win in a matchup of big time,” Hewitt said. tive scoring trio, averaging coaching experience, includ- Georgia in 1997 during the league’s only ranked Duke was a late Georgia 53 points, and they were sim- ing 12 in the NFL. He broke Stroud’s freshman season. teams. Tech free throw away from ply too much for a talented into the NFL with Dallas in The move to a 3-4 likely “In this type of game,” its 11th 20-point win at home but young Georgia Tech 1998 as a linebackers coach would lead to defensive end coach Mike Krzyzewski said, this season, and entered team. as part of Gailey’s first staff. Aaron Maybin making the “it’s a spectacular shooting outscoring its visitors by an Lawal picked up two fouls Edwards’ abrupt about-face switch to linebacker, a posi- performance.” average of 28.9 points. in the first 33 seconds and came 27 days after he was tion better suited for his 6- Zachery Peacock scored the Singler hit his first three 3s played just 16 minutes; he hired by Florida, and a day foot-4, 250-pound frame. Yellow Jackets’ first 11 of the second half to help and Favors logged six min- after the Gators unveiled what Used mostly as a backup points, but was shut out after push Duke’s lead well into utes apiece in the first half. most recruiting analysts rated defensive end last season, the that. Leading scorers Gani the teens. Then, he helped Duke was in the double- as the top recruiting class in rookie first-round draft pick Lawal and Derrick Favors the Blue Devils take their bonus 10 minutes into the the country. struggled against heftier were in foul trouble all night first 20-point lead when he game—prime position for the With Meyer beginning a offensive linemen. for Georgia Tech (16-6, 4-4), took off downcourt after his nation’s top free-throw- leave of absence, team Another question is the sta- even though coach Paul steal and dumped a behind- shooting team—and made 24 spokesman Steve McClain said tus of the Bills’ leading pass- Hewitt refused to use that as the-back pass to Smith, of 36 attempts from the line. interim coach Steve Addazio rusher, Aaron Schobel, who an excuse. whose layup attempt was “They’re our two big men will coordinate replacing continues to contemplate “I don’t think the fouls had swatted away on the rim and and our two people who draw Edwards. retirement. Schobel told The anything to do with any- Brian Oliver was called for a lot of attention in the mid- Florida could promote Associated Press on Thursday thing,” Hewitt said. “We had goaltending to make it 63-43 dle,” Peacock said of Lawal Chuck Heater, that he’s still three days to prepare. I was with 11 1/2 minutes left. and Favors. “With them not who was weighing his sure we were ready. We spent “We didn’t do a good job of in the game, that definitely named the options and more time preparing for staying poised,” Lawal said. hurt us.” team’s co- hopes to them than we did anybody defensive coor- “I can’t play nose reach a deci- this year, and obviously, it dinator when (tackle), but I could sion within didn’t do any good.” Edwards was adapt to that. But I the next Nolan Smith had 14 points hired last month. for Duke, which led by double month. don’t want to.” Schobel said figures for the entire second A l t h o u g h he’s put his half in bouncing back from Edwards had Marcus Stroud Buffalo-area an embarrassingly lopsided been at Florida Bills defensive tackle home up for loss at Georgetown and for four weeks, sale, but only avenging last month’s 71-67 he wasn’t very because he loss to Georgia Tech. involved in the intends to “We wouldn’t be 18-4 team’s recruit- relocate his unless we played really well,” ing efforts that brought in family permanently to his Krzyzewski said. “We’ve had three of the top defensive native Texas. If he returns to a couple of poor games, and linemen in the country. play for Buffalo next season, we’re not going to define our- Gailey touted Edwards for Schobel said he intends to selves by a poor game. We’re bringing “a wealth of experi- rent. going to define ourselves by ence,” and for his familiarity At 32, Schobel completed the full body of work, and with numerous defensive his ninth season with the Bills we’re just in a situation schemes. and has four years left on a where a lot of people like to Edwards spent the past five $50.5 million contract exten- define us by whatever we seasons as the Miami sion he signed before the don’t do well. Our kids have Dolphins‘ linebackers coach, 2007 season. done a lot really well, and and previously spent two sea- tonight, they even did it a lit- sons with Washington, includ- tle bit better.” ing the 2003 campaign as the The Blue Devils shot nearly Redskins’ defensive coordina- Write Sports. 45 percent against the tor. nation’s fourth-best field-goal Edwards immediately percentage defense, and announced his intention to Singler—who was just 2 for change the Bills defense from 13 in that defeat in Atlanta— a 4-3 scheme (four linemen was the main beneficiary of a and three linebackers) to a 3- E-mail Matt newly installed motion 4. offense designed to give him “We will start from a 3-4 the freedom to create open alignment,” he said. “We’re looks for himself. not going to give anything at He finished 8 for 10 from 3- away about exactly what we’ll point range, scored 20 points do, but personnel will dictate in the final 20 minutes and what you can and what you shook off that sprained wrist can’t do.” [email protected] on his shooting hand to lead The Bills were the only AFC the way in a dominating sec- East team to play a 4-3 ond half that carried the Blue Friday, February 5, 2010 The Observer N SPORTS page 15

TRACK & FIELD NBA Meyo Invitational opens Cavaliers down Heat behind LeBron’s 36 By MATTHEW ROBISON being the last meet before and junior Rudy Atang in the conference.” throws, and the “Meyo mile,” 1 in Cleveland. Sports Writer Associated Press Seventeen jumpers have which is consistently one of The Heat, which lost in already earned spots in the the most exciting events of CLEVELAND — LeBron Boston on Wednesday, have The Irish will kick off the Big East championships, so the indoor season. James scored 36 points — 17 dropped four straight and six of prestigious Meyo Invitational Irish jumps coach Jim According to Garnham, on free throws—and Daniel seven. at the Loftus Sports Center Garnham will be able to rest there were five athletes that Gibson added 12 after returning Miami was within eight after today. Schools from around two of his standouts, seniors ran the mile in less than four from the hospital as the three quarters, but the Cavs the country are coming to E r i c Q u i c k minutes last Cleveland Cavaliers ran their outscored them 10-3 to open town to test their mettle a n d M a t t year. To run winning streak to 10 with a the fourth, taking a 91-76 lead against each other. Schipper. the mile in 102-84 win over Dwyane Wade on a 3 by Gibson. Wade tried to After impressive showings Wi t h t h e less than four and the Miami Heat on keep Miami close but didn’t at the first few meets of the s t r o n g e s t minutes is a Thursday night. have nearly as much help as season including the Notre group of com- “I am hoping for some stunning feat James started at point guard James, who has adapted his Dame Invitational and the petitors the great performances this in itself. To for Gibson and added eight game lately to fill the backcourt Indiana Invitational, the Irish Irish will face weekend. I would w a t c h f i v e assists and seven rebounds. A void. will look to add themselves to b e f o r e t h e runners do it one-on-one showdown between While James was able to the growing list of Big East c o n f e r e n c e expect nothing less.” while racing superstars James and Wade draw fouls—he shot 21 free and NCAA qualifiers. After m e e t , t h i s each other is a never materialized as the Cavs throws to 2 for Wade— his getting into the full swing of w e e k e n d Adam Beltran spectacle. controlled the game and Miami counterpart wasn’t able training and seeing how they promises to Irish coach “It was elec- attempted 36 free throws to 14 to get as many calls despite have fared against the com- b e o n e o f trifying to for Miami. being knocked down on a few petition, the Irish look to intense action stand next to Wade finished with 24 points occasions. Twice, Wade ran into continue to improve their in all events. the track,” on 11 of 26 shooting and Shaquille O’Neal, his former marks and times. The Irish will said Garnham, Michael Beasley had 21. Heat teammate, and found him- Assistant coaches from the certainly be referring to Gibson didn’t enter the game self looking at the ceiling with- sprints, jumps and throws challenged by the field, last year’s thrilling finish. until the second half after join- out hearing a whistle. squads all had positive which features some of the With Big East and NCAA ing his pregnant fiancee, singer O’Neal added 13 points and remarks about their group’s top programs in the country, qualification on the line, a Keyshia Cole, who was hospital- eight rebounds in 21 minutes, chances this weekend. and even some from Canada. host of strong competition ized for precautionary reasons. yet another strong, efficient “[I hope] to see continued “This will be one of the coming to campus, and one of He made two 3-pointers in the performance from the big man improvement in performance deepest fields the Meyo meet the most thrilling events of fourth when the Cavs outscored who has stepped his game up of as we head into the major has seen in a while,” Beltran the season, the Meyo the Heat 21-13. late. part of the indoor season and said. “The competition this Invitational promises to be The last time James and He posted up and scored on a prepare for the Big East weekend will be a big test for one of the best events of the Wade hooked up on Jan. 12, pair of short jumpers as the championships,” Irish sprints us and will be the most com- year. they scored a combined 70 Cavs pushed their lead to 12 coach John Millar. petitive meet of the indoor Competition kicks off today points in an anything-you-can- late in the third. “I am hoping for some season.” at 7 p.m. at the Loftus Sports do-I-can-do-better matchup. James started at point guard great performances this More specifically, the Center. Both provided their usual jaw- for Gibson, who has done a nice weekend,” Irish throws coach events to watch closely will dropping plays again, but job filling in while Mo Williams Adam Beltran said. “I would be All-America senior Jaclyn Contact Matthew Robison at James was able to improve to and Delonte West recover from expect nothing less with this Espinoza, junior Denes Veres, [email protected] 13-9 against Wade, including 9- injuries. page 16 The Observer N SPORTS Friday, February 5, 2010

Kansas has as much depth as we have in our lineup.” Kansas The challenge and competition Devils continued from page 20 that this weekend promises will continued from page 20 continue on to Sunday as the Irish against UNC, and while it is only will travel to Ann Arbor, Mich. in tling into a good rhythm and is one point it is still very impor- hopes of securing a win over the striking the ball well. Casey Watt tant,” Frilling said. “I think it’s No. 19 Wolverines. competes as hard as anyone and crucial that we win the doubles “Michigan doesn’t really have a [junior] Dan Stahl has fully recov- point in every match because it weakness,” Louderback said. ered from his injury suffered last gives everyone confidence for sin- “They are very good at the top of weekend, so we are optimistic gles.” their line up and they have good that we will play well. Winning All three of the doubles teams depth. Michigan on the road will the doubles point will be impor- are new this season, and due to tell us how well we compete tant, as will handling their debilitating injuries in the fall por- against top 20 teams away from crowd.” tion of this academic year, this is home.” Duke has taken the last three only the third weekend the pairs Last weekend, the Wolverines matches from the Irish and Notre have to play together. won their ITA Kickoff Weekend Dame will look to snap this win “Although our doubles teams tournament and will be advanc- streak in the team’s 24th meeting. are new this year, I think we still ing to the National Indoor Team The Irish have had to rebound have the upper hand on these Championships for the first time from the tough loss to Tulsa last teams in regards to the doubles,” in program history. weekend and showed their Frilling said. “I think we’re all “We play Michigan every year resilience in the victory over New hoping to use that to our advan- and it is always a battle,” Frilling Mexico, but will face a tougher tage and win the doubles point in said. “Michigan has great players opponent in Duke this weekend. both matches this weekend.” at every spot in the lineup so we The Irish have a very deep Saturday, the women will travel are all going to have to be pre- team with a lot of young talent to Lawrence, Kan. to compete pared for tough matches all that will all be fighting for playing against the Jayhawks in order to around.” time in the lineup this season. improve on their 3-1 record. The Irish will play Kansas at 4 “I feel we are good enough to “Kansas has a veteran line up p.m. Saturday and Michigan at 11 take on this schedule, but we but they have only played on a.m. Sunday. need to be sufficiently resilient to match so we don’t know much handle some losses and rebound about them,” Irish coach Jay Contact Molly Sammon at well to take advantage of the Louderback said. “I don’t think [email protected] large number of opportunities that we will have,” Bayliss said. “As for playing time, I believe that this might be the deepest team FENCING we have ever had in my 23-year Notre Dame tenure.” PAT COVENY/The Observer The Irish are looking to get con- Irish coach Bobby Bayliss walks down the court in the Eck Tennis tributions from both their veteran Center during a match. players and the freshman. Playing for Teddy “We have 10 players who have [junior] Tyler [Davis], David you can hit the ground running done well as starters, or are [Anderson], [sophopmore] Niall when your number is called.” impact freshmen,” Bayliss said. [Fitzgerald], and [sophomore] The next duel match for the By KEVIN BALDWIN freshman foilist Grant Hodges, “The last time I checked, we are Sam [Keeton] all started in at Irish will be when they travel to Sports Writer for their annual home invita- only going to be able to play six of least 10 matches, so they know Michigan on Feb. 13, with first tional. them at a time in singles, except that they are all going to get their serve set for 6 p.m. The event will be the final for the Virginia match, in which opportunities. The challenge is to The Irish will be fighting for competition of the regular we are playing 10 singles and five stay focused and ready while Contact Kate Grabarek at more than their undefeated season before the Midwest doubles. Last year, for example, someone else is in there, so that [email protected] season this weekend. Notre Conference championships in Dame will have opportunity to March in which the team will vanquish the top competitors have the opportunity to gain in the Midwest, and better yet position in their pursuit of the SMC BASKETBALL do it at home in the Purcell elusive National Pavilion. Championship. It will feature This time the Notre Dame familiar foe No. 5 fencing team will have one Northwestern, whose women’s Belles in another key MIAA match person in mind as they take to squad is certain to be a formi- the strips Saturday: senior dable challenge to the young Teddy Hodges. Irish squad. By ALLAN JOSEPH forward Nyemade Cooper, who from this point forward is to con- It was just months ago that The men’s team has showed Sports Writer averages 9.6 points per game and tinue improving our team defense an illness struck down the remarkable progress through- six rebounds per game. Another for an entire game,” she said. promising young fencer after out the year and will have an leader for Kalamazoo is junior Saint Mary’s is currently tied for his sophomore year with the opportunity to continue their Saint Mary’s looks to notch guard Courtney Kaplan, who third in the MIAA with Trine (11- Irish, and he soon found him- momentum against rivals another key late-season win over averages nine points per game. 10, 6-6 MIAA), who faces Adrian self in the fight of his life. Cleveland State and Wayne conference foe Kalamazoo when Kalamazoo’s backcourt is aug- Saturday. A Belle win would “[Ted] had a stroke and was State, whose epee unit gave it visits Saturday afternoon. The mented by senior guard Briana ensure that Saint Mary’s retains frankly speaking, dying. He the Irish men a run for their Belles will hope to stay above Hendrix, who scores 7.7 points at least a share of third place, was in a coma and there was money last week in Evanston, .500 in conference play and stay per game. while a loss could mean that the a necessity to replace his Ill. in third place in the MIAA with Senior forward Anna Belles drop into a tie for fourth heart,” Irish coach Janusz However great the margin of only three conference games left Kammrath will go up against place, a crucial difference in the Bednarski said. “We prayed victory, it is always important after this weekend. Cooper in the paint for Saint last few games before the confer- the whole semester for his to bear in mind the value of Saint Mary’s (11-9, 6-6 MIAA) Mary’s, while junior guard Liz ence tournament. health and today he visited us team support that motivates will not look past the Hornets (1- Wade and sophomore guard The game will be preceded by and informed us that he’s get- athletes to overcome whatever 17, 1-11 MIAA) despite Patsy Mahoney will battle the the Saint Mary’s Alumnae game, ting better and he plans to obstacles may be thrown their Kalamazoo’s spot in the confer- Hornet frontcourt. Sophomore which takes place every two return in the fall to continue way in the face of doubt that ence cellar. forward Kelley Murphy will also years. his studies.” is symbolized by Ted Hodges. “When you get into February, be called upon to deliver one of The Belles and Hornets meet in Bednarski called it a miracle “All results this weekend every game is a tough game,” her typically strong all-around a vital late-season matchup at 3 that Ted was able to receive a will be dedicated to Ted,” Belles coach Jennifer Henley said. games. As a team, the Belles will p.m. Saturday in the Angela transplant after waiting for so Bednarski said. “Kalamazoo is a much improved hope to put forth a tougher, more Athletic Facility. long on the donor list, much team. They played us tough at consistent defensive effort during less be able to return to visit Contact Kevin Baldwin at their place back in January.” this game, Henley said. Contact Allan Joseph at his team including brother, [email protected] The Hornets are led by senior “The biggest challenge we have [email protected] Friday, February 5, 2010 The Observer N SPORTS page 17

responded with a steady diet of “They’ve got some really lead the charge. They’re Harangody and Abromaitis, good players,” McGraw said. back and forth with No. 1 Cinci complemented by a few Pitt “[Junior guard Jania] Sims and 2 in steals on the team. continued from page 20 Hansbrough shots from dis- continued from page 20 is playing really well, she They really do a pretty good tance. hits a lot of shots, and they job in our practice, and they Dame was able to run the floor Harangody said the difference misstep to spoil a promising have a really big team. They usually guard the other and split the Bearcats’ (14-8, 5- between this effort and their season. rely on Sims and [junior team’s best player.” 5) defense for three early earlier game, a 60-58 loss to the “Every game is important guard Shayla] Scott quite a The Panthers should have momentum-building dunks. Bearcats, came down to for us,” McGraw said. “We bit on the perimeter. They their hands full guarding “I tried to come out aggres- rebounding. are coming off a four-game have veteran, returning one of the deepest back- sive, I was able to drive a couple “I think it was about getting stretch that was kind of bru- players from last year, and courts in the country, but of times and get to the foul on the backboard, we won those tal for us on the schedule. they’re always a tough game junior forward Becca line,” Abromaitis said. “Ben battles tonight,” Harangody The first thing we do is get a for us to play.” Bruszewski gives the Irish [Hansbrough] was able to pene- said. “They kind of pushed us little rest and get ready to Sims and Scott direct a an additional dimension on trate and find me for a couple of around down at Cincinnati a head into the next stretch. Panthers offense that can offense. If Bruszewski’s 13- easy buckets.” couple of weeks ago, so we felt We’re real focused on what run up the score in a hurry. point performance against The effort was also there early like they thought they could we have to do. It’s great Averaging 15.4 points per Rutgers Monday is any indi- on the defensive end, as the come in here and do it again, when you can come off a game, Sims is an explosive cation of the future, Irish caused Cincinnati to make and we said ‘No, this is our win and still see the things player that thrives on defen- Pittsburgh’s noticeably big- only three of its first 13 shots. place.’” you have to get better at.” sive mismatches, while Scott ger centers will be tested Harangody said Irish coach Hansbourgh had an impres- While traditionally a con- provides an excellent com- early and often. Mike Brey challenged the team sive all-around game, flirting ference powerhouse, plement as a knock-down “We’re just such a bal- to be tougher this week in prac- with a triple-double by filling up Pittsburgh (12-9, 1-7 Big shooter. anced team, we don’t really tice. the box score with 12 points, East) has been plagued by But where Pittsburgh has talk about that,” McGraw “I think this week in practice eight rebounds and nine assists. injuries this season and is struggled mightily on said. “Each particular week we kind of got after each other, Notre Dame slowly began to struggling just to stay in the defense, the Irish are thriv- different people are going to we’ve been a little soft, especial- pull away from Cincinnati as the playoff picture. The ing, averaging 12 steals and be open, different players ly on the road,” Harangody said. second half wore on, and took a Panthers rank dead last in forcing more than 23 are going to get hot. I’m “Now we’ve got another home 15-point lead after a three-point defense, giving up 70.1 turnovers per game. Led by really happy with the way game coming up, but we’ve got play and dunk by Harangody. points per game while forc- the quick feet and aggres- Becca has responded. She to be tough and get to work.” Another three-point play by ing fewer than 15 turnovers. sive style of senior guard was key in that run we had The pace slowed down consid- Abromaitis gave the Irish a 66- If the numbers hold true, Ashley Barlow and freshman in the second half, broke the erably for Notre Dame, as the 48 lead with less than eight Notre Dame (20-1, 7-1 Big guard Skylar Diggins, solid game open for us.” team failed to find a rhythm minutes to play and left little East) should run away with team defense has propelled The Irish tip-off with from the perimeter, making just doubt about the final outcome. its sixth consecutive confer- the Irish to third overall in Pittsburgh Saturday at 2 one of its first seven attempts. Senior point guard Tory ence victory. But this is the t h e conference. p.m. in the Purcell Pavilion. After the Bearcats capitalized Jackson scored just one point Big East, where the only “Ashley Barlow and Skylar on the cold shooting to pull but dished out eight assists, and safe bet is a Connecticut are our two best defenders,” Contact Chris Masoud at within three, Abromaitis and forward Tyrone Nash tallied blowout. McGraw said. “They just [email protected] Harangody keyed an 11-3 run to four points and six rebounds. give the Irish a 28-17 lead. Irish football coach Brian Notre Dame maintained the Kelly was also in attendance to harm’s way,” Jackson said. tied for fourth. lead until the half, entering the watch the battle between the The Irish need to get a win The Irish will attempt to break with a 40-27 edge. Irish and his former school. Injured or two, whether it be 2-1 or hold onto that position when Harangody had a double-double Notre Dame will be back in continued from page 20 6-5, in order to keep pace in they take on Western 15 minutes into the game, and action Sunday, facing confer- the CCHA. Six teams are sep- Michigan at Kalamazoo, ended the half with 16 points ence opponent South Florida at “We are going to have to be arated by two points in pur- Mich., Friday and Saturday, and 10 rebounds. noon. willing to win a game 2-1, suit of the fourth-place spot at 7:35 p.m. both nights. After halftime, the Bearcats and do a good job managing for the conference tourna- gained a little momentum with Contact Michael Bryan at the puck and not put our ment. Currently Notre Dame Contact Douglas Farmer at two consecutive 3s, but the Irish [email protected] defense or our goaltender in and Lake Superior State are [email protected] page 18 The Observer N PAID ADVERTISEMENT Friday, February 5, 2010

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MEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S TENNIS Slamming home a point Squad to Irish get payback after play Kansas, trouncing of Bearcats Michigan By MICHAEL BRYAN Associate Sports Editor By MOLLY SAMMON Sports Writer The Irish avenged a last-sec- ond road loss to Cincinnati ear- After a week of practicing since lier in the season at Purcell their first seasonal loss against Pavilion Thursday, trouncing North Carolina, the Irish are the Bearcats 83-65. ready to bounce back and defeat Senior forward Luke Kansas and Michigan on this Harangody was dominant weekend’s coming road trip. under the basket, scoring a sea- “We want to come out strong, son-high 37 points and gather- forget about the loss, and posi- ing 14 rebounds while junior tively move forward to the rest of forward Tim Abromaitis added the season,” sophomore Kristy 22 points. Frilling said. The game stopped a miser- Last weekend, the Irish lost to able stretch that had seen the No. 17 North Carolina, 5-2, losing Irish (16-7, 5-5) lose four of out on their chance to play at the their past five games, culminat- National Indoor Team ing in a defeat at Rutgers, who Championships in mid-February. had been winless in Big East A crucial point for this weekend play. will be points earned in doubles Notre Dame started hot offen- play. After losing this point sively, quickly opening up a 15- against the Tar Heels, the Irish 6 lead in the first six minutes. were left without the momentum Abromaitis scored nine of the needed to carry out the win. team’s first 11 points, as Notre PAT COVENEY/The Observer “We lost the doubles point Senior forward Luke Harangody dunks in the second half of the Irish’s 83-65 win over see CINCI/page 17 Cincinnati Thursday. see KANSAS/page 16

HOCKEY Injuries an issue as Notre Dame prepares for Western Michigan

“Getting another defense- “Especially with [sophomore ference, five points behind the weekend at Miami, which By DOUGLAS FARMER man certainly will help us,” forward Billy] Maday and Bowling Green, Notre Dame’s is a tough thing to do. A lot of Associate Sports Editor Irish coach Jeff Jackson said. [senior wing Christiaan] next opponent. While Western that is their goaltender.” “Teddy will give us a little bit Minella out.” Michigan may not have had Facing such a goalie as Gill The injury-ravaged Irish of reasonable ice time from Jackson said there is a much success in the confer- will not help the offensive received both good and bad the guys who have been play- chance both Maday and ence this season, the Broncos woes that have plagued the news as they travel to ing a lot of minutes.” Minella could be back on the are always poised for a win Irish for most of the season. Western Michigan for a piv- The bad news: junior center ice within three weeks. behind senior goaltender The Irish average 2.41 goals otal CCHA series this week- Ben Ryan is out for a few But in the meantime, the Riley Gill. Gill leads the CCHA per game in conference play, end. weeks because of a separated Irish (12-11-7, 8-8-6-2 CCHA) with 585 saves. 10th in the conference. The good news: junior shoulder, keeping the injured must prepare to face a “[Western Michigan is] a Western Michigan comes in defenseman Teddy Ruth tally at six players. Western Michigan squad look- tough place to play. They have 12th in the category with 2.05 returns to the lineup, increas- “Losing another forward in ing to shed its doormat status. a really good goaltender,” goals per game. ing the depth on the back line Ben Ryan is going to be tough The Broncos (6-15-5, 2-14-4- Jackson said. “They just took significantly. to deal with,” Jackson said. 1) are in last place in the con- Miami (Ohio) to the limit on see INJURED/page 17

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S TENNIS Streaking Irish to battle Pitt Team ready for ranked

By CHRIS MASOUD bout with Blue Devils Sports Writer NCAA Tournament.” Wrapping up one of the By KATE GRABAREK The Irish are coming off a 4-1 toughest stretches of the Sports Writer victory over New Mexico last year with a rout of Rutgers weekend at the National Team Monday, the No. 3 Irish wel- The No. 34 Irish will travel to Qualifier Indoors in Columbus, come a Pittsburgh team des- Durham, N.C. to take on No. 21 Ohio. perate for a conference win Duke this weekend with first There the Irish finished 1-1 in the last month of the sea- serve set for noon Sunday. with a 4-3 loss to Tulsa to start son. “Duke is a top-20 team this off the weekend. After playing at such a high year and will be difficult to beat “We will need to play one of level of basketball the last in Durham, but we are going our best matches to win, so I am two weeks, Notre Dame’s there with the thought that we counting on continued improved biggest concern heading into can get it done,” Irish coach play deep in our lineup,” Bayliss Saturday’s matchup is main- Bobby Bayliss said. “They have a said. “[Junior] David Anderson taining a controlled style of very strong top of the lineup with played very well against New play to match the Panthers’ freshman Enrique Cunyha and Mexico and has practiced well skill. Irish coach Muffet junior Reid Carleton, who also this week. [Freshman] Blas McGraw said the loss of any form their No. 1 doubles team. Moros is very reliable and has competitive edge will not be Throw in Dylan Arnold, Jason terrific ground strokes. [Junior] a factor, as it only takes one PAT COVENYThe Observer Pinsky, and some of their other Stephen Havens seems to be set- Freshman guard Skylar Diggins goes for the layup against talented players and you have a see PITT/page 17 Providence in Notre Dame’s 84-59 win on Jan. 27th. group that can go deep into the see DEVILS/page 16