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/ ^ V THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41 : ISSUE 24 MONDAY SEPTEMBER25, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM MCAT exam reveals new online-only version Weddings Computerized test administration could will return create problems for students lacking access only known the exam being to LeMans By KATE ANTONACCI delivered in familiar lecture News Editor halls or large classroom facili GPA Acceptance Rate ties. Hall chapel marriages For the first time in nearly 80 “The thing about the test 3.75 or above 100% years, students sitting for the when it was being done on the reinstated for summer campus of Notre Dame is that it 3.25 - 3.5 76% Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) need not panic if they became a sort of community forget a number two pencil. event,” said Father James By MAGGIE DUNN 3.0 - 3.25 52% Foster, assistant dean in the Beginning in January 2007, News Writer the MCAT exam will be paper center for health advising. “The group that is responsible for less, offered only on computers Summer wedding bells will rate: ~47% this transition from the written at “climate and sound-con soon ring again at Saint test to the computerized test trolled” Thomson Prometric Mary’s LeMans Hall Holy Notre Dame acceptance rate: ~80% has been very reassuring ... but testing centers off-campus. Spirit Chapel — an on-cam- that culture is going to be lost.” This is a big change for the pus Catholic church that has Source: Father James Foster, assistant dean in the center for health advising roughly 1,200 pre-medical stu not been utilized for wed dents at Notre Dame who have see MCAT/page 4 dings in several years — when the College re-opens its doors for couples in sum m er 2007. The chapel is located on the third floor of the resi Campus erupts in wake of victory dence hall, and College alumnae can only schedule weddings during the summer Doing their best Michigan months, Campus Ministry By PATRICK CASSIDY impression, the Spartans Director Judy Fean said. News Writer jumped out to a 17-0 first It was available for wed quarter lead. Freshman dings a few years ago, Fean “Emotional rollercoaster” is Anthony Parrish, a trombon said, but even though they not a phrase anyone would ist in the marching band, were set to take place in the have used to describe Notre said he knew that “an epic summer, scheduling became Dame’s despairingly disap comeback was necessary.” difficult because of unpre pointing home loss to “We just needed the team dictable renovations such as Michigan last week — unless to step up,” he said. plumbing and wiring. the rollercoaster was going The Irish took more than a Not knowing what to nowhere but down. few big steps in tough weath expect for the next few sum The same can’t be said er, which senior Annie mers, the chapel was made about Saturday’s 40-37 win Hollenbeck said was “border temporarily unavailable for over Michigan State. line snow.” weddings. For a while, the free fall “Although it was almost Although the on-campus continued in East Lansing. freezing rain, the students Church of Our Lady of That is, until the Fighting were still in high spirits,” she Loretto has successfully Irish did their nickname jus said. remained open for weddings, tice, finding themselves Terrail Lambert’s intercep m any req u ests still cam e in strapped in tight on a roller tion in the closing minute for Floly Spirit Chapel after it coaster ride that ended at its sent the Notre Dame faithful became unavailable, Fean peak. into a frenzy. said. Freshman Brandon Drenon “I was swept up in the urge Now that the chapel will said he had never “experi to hug random people,” open again next summer, ROHAN ANAND/The Obsever many faculty and alumnae enced so many feelings in a Students congregate in Stonehenge Saturday after Notre four-hour period.” see GAME/page 6 Dame’s 40-37 comeback win over Michigan State. see CHAPEL/page 4 Historical mural rediscovered Runners fight rain Saint Edward's Hall celebrates recovery, restoration of priceless relic to help battle cancer alumna and the wife of Notre By JENNIFER METZ By MEGHAN WONS Dame Law School Dean News Writer News Writer Em eritus Dave Link. Participants had the option The Gentlemen of St. Members of Notre Dame, of running a three or six-mile Edward’s Hall are proud, and Saint M ary’s, Holy Cross and course, or completing a two- with good reason. the local community laced up mile fun walk. Not only is St. E dw ard’s the their running shoes and hit “We were pretty much survivor of a 1980 fire and the rainy road for the 24th right on target [in terms of the site of Knute Rockne’s annual Domer Run Saturday number of participants] from reception into the Church, — logging miles and con where we were last year,” but it also houses a newly tributing to a good cause. said Greg Weber, an intern at restored, eye-catching Luigi The run benefited ovarian RecSports and member of the Gregori mural. cancer awareness and educa Domer Run Committee. The mural, which dates tion and was in memory of “From our final tally, we had back to 1882, has always Barbara Link, who battled a total of 483 participants ... resided in St. Edward’s, but ovarian cancer before pass pretty good considering the has not been visible to resi ing away in 2003, and Ruth race day weather conditions.” dents’ eyes — until now. ANNA AMBERKAR/The Observer Bautel, a former member of According to Weber, the A portion of the Gregori mural in St. Ed’s Hall depicts Father Sorin the Domer Run committee. see MURAL/page 6 performing a wedding ceremony for local Potawatomi Indians. Link was a Notre Dame see RUN/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Monday, September 25, 2006 In sid e C olu m n Question of the Day: W hat is your favorite thing to do w h en the football g a m e is a w ay? From scarlet and gray to blue & gold Kate Crecelius Jim Groff Will McLeod Mike Lee Sarah Walter When I first came to Notre Dame sophomore junior junior freshman sophomore in August, there was little that con McGlinn Fisher Fisher Keough McGlinn nected me with the school. I am a first-generation student. I am not Catholic. And, perhaps most impor “Watching the “Sleep. “Be in the “Run through “Watching a tantly, I was game with my photo poll." Stonehenge. ’’ glorious Irish Sonia Rao raised in a family frien ds comeback. ’’ that avidly sup ports Ohio State because I News Writer football. work first aid Eighteen years a t home of brainwashing has made it so I cannot think of a games. ” Saturday football game without hearing the echoes of fight songs being played by “The Best Damn Band in the Land” throughout my house. When Ohio State played Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl last year, my dad found pictures of the In B r ie f Pope dressed in scarlet and gray and taped them up all over the house. I Patrick Francis Sullivan, traveled with my family to Arizona S.J. will deliver a lecture enti to see the “pass interference” call tled “Catholic Tradition and that led to a national championship Traditions” today at 4 p.m. in in 2002, and a huge picture of it is room 102 DeBartolo Hall. displayed in my basement. Maybe this makes it easy to see RecSports will offer a fitness how, even when I had decided to room orientation workshop attend Notre Dame in the spring, the entitled “Exercise Basics: 101” Irish just didn’t really feel like my tonight from 5:30 to 6:30 in team. 1 didn’t know the fight song or the Rolfs SportsRec Center any of the rich tradition or history Fitness Room. associated with Notre Dame football. In a lot of ways, I think I just didn’t Pasquerilla East Musical really get it. Com pany will hold auditions I just went home over the week for “Ragtime,” the musical end, back into Buckeye territory, and tonight at 6:45. Auditions will I realized that all of a sudden my be held in Pasquerilla East house didn’t quite feel like “my Hall, and are open to all ND, house.” My room was empty, dust SMC and HCC students. was collecting on the nightstand, and my car was bereft of the various Swing Club will host an newspapers, homework assignments open dance night tonight from and loose change that used to be 8 to 10 in the LaFortune there. I had this epiphany that life CLEM SUHENDRA/The Observer Ballroom. This event is open was going on there without me; my Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis celebrates Saturday’s 40-37 comeback victory against Michigan State University in East Lansing. to all ND, SMC and HCC stu parents were still going to my sis dents, staff and faculty free of ter’s tennis matches, sitting in the charge. rain during my brother’s football games, listening to the latest high Kellogg Institute Visiting school drama at the dinner table. I Fellow Juliet Hooker will was still a part of things in a way, deliver her rescheduled lec but I had more of a cameo role. O ffbeat ture entitled “The Institutional Watching the football game on Design of Multicultural Saturday night I realized that just as Burglars get severed head police.