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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 125 TUESDAY, APRIL 22,2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ND female reports rape on campus Incident is third assault, second rape at University in past month according to NDSP registers• classified the offense as an acquaintance in a resi according to Chapman and By BILL BRINK ·"rape" and said it occurred dence hall on March 23, and NDSP's Safety Information News Editor between 8 and 11:15 p.m. on a student reported being pamphlet. In 2005, there was April 12. assaulted, but not raped, one, and in 2006 there were voters A Notre Dame student The alleged assault between Pasquerilla West five. . reported a sexual assault to occurred in a residence hall. and Siegfried Halls on March Chapman did not know the the Notre Dame Security/ and the victim was not physi 30. number of previous assaults Police (NDSP) on April 16, the cally injured, NDSP Assistant Uhder the Clery Act, which that were allegedly commit Rhodenbaugh signs up third sexual assault reported Director Dave Chapman said. requires disclosure of campus ted by someone the victim out-of-state students on campus in the past month. "The case is still under security information, knew. He also said the pres According to an e-mail sent investigation," he said. Chapman said, NDSP is ence or absence of drugs or to the Notre Dame student This alleged assault is the required by law to publish alcohol during the incident body, the student said an second reported rape and the information about reported was still under investigation. By MADELINE BUCKLEY acquaintance committed the third sexual assault case this crimes. In 2004, there were News Writer assault on April 12. semester. A student reported two "forcible sex offenses" on Contact Bill Brink at The NDSP police blotter being sexually assaulted by campus reported to NDSP, [email protected] Spurred by one of the most competitive primary elections in recent history, freshman Chris Rhodenbaugh has been helping out-of-state Notre Dame students register to vote in the May 6 Indiana primary. Local students travel to see pope "Before [this election) youth votes were not taken as seriously, but this year, students are making Group of 13 makes trip to New York for Youth Rally and papal mass at Yankee Stadium a difference by voting and active ly participating in campaigns," Rhodenbaugh said. "I wanted to ing the bright sunny day until get students involved. Apathetic By TESS CIVANTOS the pope got there, and as campuses are really frustrating." News Writer soon as he arrived everyone About two weeks before April was just drawn into his pres 7, the state's registration dead NEW YORK -A group of 13 ence," freshman Brittani line, Rhodenbaugh organized a students from Notre Dame Russell said. group of volunteers to encourage and Saint Mary's trekked to When the pope arrived, he students who didn't vote in their New York this weekend to drove through the crowds in a own state's primary election to attend the Youth Rally with bulletproof "pope-mobile" instead cast their vote in the Pope Benedict XVI on mounted on the back of a Indiana primary. Rhodenbaugh Saturday and the Papal Mass pick-up truck. said the group is non-partisan, on Sunday at Yankee Staduim. "Only in the USA would the and unaffiliated with other cam The students left the Inn at pope-mobile be on a pick-up pus political groups. Saint Mary's Friday evening truck," senior Bridget Higgins "We just wanted to give stu and drove through the night said. dents a chance to be politically until they arrived at St. The entire crowd treated active on campus," he said. "It is Joseph's Seminary in the pope to a rendition of rare that Indiana plays a role in Dunwoodie, N.Y., on Saturday "Happy Birthday" in German, primary politics, and students morning, joining a crowd of using a pronunciation guide in wanted to be a part of it." over 25,000 people. the program, as the Holy Rhodenbaugh said many stu While waiting, the students Father listened from the dents usually choose to vote in heard brief performances by stage. their home states. However, Kelly Clarkson, Three Graces "I wish to acknowledge your many missed the deadline, and and Father Stan, the rapping singing to me 'Happy registering in Indiana allows stu TESS CIVANTOS/The Observer priest. Birthday,"' the pope said. dents to still cast their vote and The pope speaks to a crowd at the St. Joseph's Seminary in "It was amazing how people New York during his American tour. were just relaxing and enjoy- see POPE/page 4 see ELECTION/page 4
College remembers Miller Political science faculty
Math professor taught at SMC for 40 years, chaired department for 10 debates Electoral College
the current electoral system By BRIAN McKENZIE By LIZ HARTER shifts power toward the South, News Writer Saint Mary's Editor encoJlraging candidates to con ceive more conservative plat Five political science faculty forms. The Saint Mary's community members weighed the pros and "It bothers me the most is is paying tribute to former cons of the Electoral College that the Electoral College has chair of the department of and discussed how the current given the South influence dis mathematics and professor system is practical but not dem proportionate to its numbers," Donald E. Miller who died ocratic at the LaFortune he said. "The Electoral College Sunday. April 13, in his home Student Center Monday. has been the vehicle through after a six-month battle with Professor Peri Arnold criti which the South has exerted its cancer. cized the Electoral College, say int1uence." Miller, 6 7, taught mathemat ing that it encourage Democrats However, Kaplan said finding ics at the College since 1967 .~)lease feelftt!e.to·· s11a:rc. and Republicans to simply a replacement for the College and chaired the department ignore some states. would not be simple, and there since 1997. He was assistant Professor Don E. "What it also does is suppress was no guarantee that it would coach of the Belles softball the vote by excluding fix the current system's prob team, a position he took over Republicans in Oregon and New lems. in the 2000-2001 year. He also LIZ HARTER!The Observer York and Democrats in Idaho "Procedures aren't neutral," Pictures and memories of Professor Miller are posted on a and Utah," he said. see MILLER/page 4 bulletin board in the math department's hallway. Professor Joshua Kaplan said see DEBATE/page 6 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, April 22, 2008
INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: IF YOU COUW GIVE A NICKNAME TO A FOOTB4LL PLAYER, WHO AND WHAT WOUW IT BE? On being a Cubs fan
Trust nw: you don't understand how it fnnls. I don't want to hear a thing from tlws<~ Hnd Sox fans that nndurnd IJO Joe O'Brien Tim LaBarge Joe Mancuso Matt Gelchion Andrew Lorenz plus years without winning a Series sophomore sophomore junior junior junior bPI'orn tlw lloodgatns opened with two Fisher Fisher Fisher Fisher Fisher in tho last fi~w years. Not a p<~ep from tlw Bufl'alo Bills sup porters that saw Jim Kf~lly lead them to "That Clausen "Quarterback "Picture this ... "Cotta say 'Tm not four straight Supnr Bowl appearances before watching the likns of' Scott character ... El No.7, James as Jimmy James Richard ambidextrous, Norwood kiek it all away wide right. Jimador." Clausen. El Clausen leads Clausen -El so I'll keep it And not a Jimador the Irish into Jimador." simple. JC- the word !'rom any Matt Gamber rooter of' any Clausen. thefield, a Jimador." NBA team that Associate Sports brilliant sign hasn't won in Editor exclaims awhile- it is simply, 'El the post-Jordan NBA. aftnr all. whieh means it's not Jimador. '" nvnn worth dis<~ussing. llonnstly, I don't earn who you are, whern you'rn !'rom, or what your tnam has (or bnttnr yet, hasn't) done since IN BRIEF <;od-knows-wlwn. You don't w~t it you can't possibly get it- the way I Thn Frank Cahill Lecture in do. Business Ethics entitled I'm a Cubs f'an. Din-hard. Bleed "Social Entrepreneurship Cubby bhw. All that junk. and Ethics in Banking" will And fin· all tlw ovnrpaid players I've be hnld today at 4::W p.m. in worshippnd. thn ov<~rpricnd ti<~kets l'vn the Jordan Auditorium ol' bought. and tlw over-worn apparnll'vn thP Mendoza College of outgrown, I havnn 't s<~nn a singh~ World Business. Serins. Not ewn orw World Snries ganw. Thn Notre Damn basPiwll Bul tlw Cubs wPrP closn, you'll say, team will play Chieago State back in ;wo:~ lyns, that Bartman ganw tonight at (!:1)5 p.m. at Eek you may haw lward o[). Take it !'rom Stadium. ~onwb<;dy who knows- coming so dosn only makPs it worsP. Tlw Studnnt Union Board TakP it from sonwbody who may or will show "Bark to thP mav not havP slu•d a tPar wlwn thnn Future" tonight on Nol'th piH;nom Mark Prior gave up tlw lnad Quad at IJ p.m. Frn<' burgnrs with lnss than a handful of' outs to go and brats will be s<~rvnd. bnfiwn a Wriglnyville nruption and a World Snries berth. Studm1ts l'or Environmnntal TakP it from somebody who may or Action will hold a Vegetarian may not have broken tlw back door or No Wast.c Dinner in the his lwusl' by throwing a baseball after Coleman-Morse Lounge at 5 Kerry Wood gave up a run in the first WU YUEffhe Observer p.m. on Wednesday. inning of that fatnful Game 7 loss to tho Senior Garrett Flynn of Team Mean Girls fights for the ball in final game against Marlins - those sanw Marlins who Saltines Monday. The Saltines defeated Mean Girls for the 2008 Bookstore Basketball didn't ewn exist li1r the first S5 years The Kroc Institute l'or championship. International Peace Studies of tlw now l 00-ynar Cubs' champi onship drought and have now won two will host a lecture Thursday titles since IIJIJ7. entitled "Sharpening Sanctions' Effectiveness" at And y<)t, lwrn I sit, watching anxious ly as the immortal Honny Cedeno and 12::{0 p.m. in the Heshurgh Fnlix Pin !ill the Cubs to a mid-April OFFBEAT Center. vidory that I can only see as another step toward a distant October cnlebra Cop battles 12-foot python the store, he was ready to kill miles north of Dayton. Women's Laerosse: Big tion that cynics {hard to bnlieve I'm not to save pet store owner the snake with his knife. The barroom church is an East. Semifinals will be held one, right?) don't believe can ever EUGENE, Ore. -A pet But Rossiter asked him to offshoot of Sidney United Friday at 7:45 p.m. against come to Chicago's North Side. But why? store owner is calling a spare the expensive python, First Methodist Church, Georgetown in the N ot.re Because there's nothing bntter than police sergeant a hero for so Nelson put on gloves and whose head pastor says he's Dame Foot.hall Stadium. blasting "Go, Cubs <;o" before a playolf saving her from the coils of a pried open the snake's mouth been looking for creative game. 12-foot Burmese python to free Hossiter's hand. ways to reach people in The band "The Starting Because there's nothing as nostalgic doing its best to turn her into unconventional places. Line" will perl'orm Friday in as sitting in tho stands for a vintage a meal. New church holds service in The church's Web site for Legends at 10 p.m as part ol' Cubbie comebaek (or more likely, col Teresa Rossiter had bar to reach people its new branch advertises the Student Union Board's lapse). reached into a cage SIDNEY, Ohio- Another "Top regional bands, pizza, AnTostal festivities. Becausn thor's nothing more exdting Thursday to show the huge round and amen! Beer was wings, rowdy fllll & a short than watching tlw autumn loaves fall snake to a customer when it on tap and a mechanical bull message." The Notre Dame Bat.t.le of but Uw ivy on Wriglny's walls remain bit her right hand and coiled inspired the sermon as a new The Rev. Chris Heckaman t.he Bands will be at Legends intad fi1r significant baseball well past around her left arm to throw church held its inaugural says people really seemed to Saturday at 8 p.m. thn dog days of summer. her to the tloor. service in a western Ohio enjoy themselves so he Bneausn there's nothing more heart A friend who happened to bar. expects the Country Rock To submit information to be warming than watehing your wheel be at the store kept the snake The Country Rock Church Church will meet weekly. included in this section of ehair-ridden grandmother eheer on her on· her neck and body while drew about 100 people to The Observer, e-mail detailed tnam the way you do yours. police were called. And when Sunday night's meeting at Information compiledfrom information about an event And most importantly, it's bocause I Sgt. Ryan Nelson rushed into the Pub Lounge in Sidney, 35 the Associated Press. to obsnews@nd. edu. know that nvnry lOO years, like dock work, things dkk into placo.for the Cubs. This ynar's tho year. TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY The views expressed in the Inside a:: Column are those of the author and LLI not necessarily those q( The Observer. ::1: Contact Matt Gamber at ~ LLI mgamlwr@lnd. edu. 3: -I
This Sunday, April 27, the follo\ving candidates will co1nplete their initiation into the Catholic Church by receiving the Sacrament of Confirrrmtion at the 11:45 a.1n. Mass in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Please keep then1 in your prayers and join us in congratulating the1n.
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Miller's family joined the His enduring legacy will be suit and transformed into group, leaving notes of sym the students whose lives he Santa Claus during the holi Pope Miller pathy and memories of Miller changed." day season and many stu continued from page 1 continued from page 1 on the group wall. She said many students and dents have written on the "As a teacher, he was alumnae attended Miller's memory board "everyone "Thank you for this moving served as the faculty advisor always doing something funeral, which was held already misses you dearly, gesture. I give you all an 'A for the team, hp,Jping them to crazy," sophomore Theresa Thursday at Little Flower Santa." plus' for your German pronun kep,p up with their majors, Earle said. "lie called tests Catholic Church. He also served as the mar eiation." grades and other scholastic celebrations and he made "His record of service to the shal at Commencement cere The pope spoke of his own matters. sure that everyone talked in College is extensive, but his monies for more than two youth under the "sinister Shortly after the news was every class. He often said that real legacy will be the stu decades. reginw" of Nazism and encour released to a day in which dents whose lives he "Don was the ideal College aged young people to seek "the the College, you did not con changed," Connolly said. "The marshal," Commencement truth about what is good" and Hesident "Don was the tribute to class number of stu- Committee Chair to be "guiding stars" for others Advisors (HAl consummate teacher. was a day wast dents who found Susan DamptHH by walking in tlw way of Christ. sent e-mails to llis students would ed." his course tough ''As a teacher. he said in a state "What matters most is that their residents Associate pro as nails and ment. "[The you develop your personal to inform all say that he fessor of mathe ended up loving was always doing event) is consis relationship with (;od," he said. them. challenged them and matics Mary him is astound something crazy." tently beautiful, "Take couragt~." "If" you led them to levels Connolly agreed ing." dignified. and The Notre Dame and Saint would please with Earle. She said the flawless because never thought Theresa Earle Mary's students in attendance pray for his "Don was the department has of his attention rea1:ted favorably to the pope's soul as well as possible." consummate been getting sophomore to detail. Don speech. pray family teacher," notes of sympa- loved the cere "I really liked that the Iloly and loved Mary Connolly Connolly said. thy from every- mony and under Father didn't say that we an~ ones, I'm sure professor "His students one imaginable. There is a stood its significance in the thn future of tlw Church. lie they would would all say bulletin board in the mathe lives of our stud1mts and their said that we are the Church. apprp,ciate it," that he chal matics hallway where stu familifls. It is hard to imagine That's an tmcouraging message LeMans B.A. Christina Werner lenged them and led them to dents and members of the Commencement without him." to hear," Higgins said. said in an e-mail. levels they never thought pos community can write remem MiJJp,r's family asks any The next morning, the stu A Facebook group, 'Donald sible. Students were always brances of Miller. The math donations be made to the dents travnled to Yankee E. Miller Memorial (and fan his first priority, whether professors have been adding Donald E. Miller Memorial Stadium to hear the pope say elub!)', was also created to working with them in class, in notes they have received from Fund at the College. mass. Over 60,000 people honor him. the office, on the softball field alumnae and faculty at other attonded the coremony. Over 200 Saint Mary's stu or in developing new or local colleges. Contact Liz Harter at "It really showed the dents, alumnae and friends of enhanced programs of study. Miller often donned a red eharteO 1 @saintmarys.edu strength and unity of the Church to see so many people united like that," Hussell said. An Evening of Prayer from Around the Wortd "Not only that, but it was incredible to hear Mass from the Vicar of Christ, the direct successor to St. Peter. I love being Catholic." Following the Mass, the Notre Dame and St. Mary's stu dents boarded their bus and "21'' Auction travelnd back to Indiana. "It was the best weekend over," Higgins said. join us for an eveni Contact Tess Civantos at 7pm [email protected] Z..en Meditati LaFortune Ballroom as P.art of a series exploring the beliefs and practices world's great taith ·. ditions, Election April22nd continued from page 1 have a voice in the eleetoral Wednesda_y, Apri! 2'rd proeess. Coleman-Morse "Thn racn is heating up and 7-7:+5prn Come bid on a night at the movies with your getting a lot of attlmtion, and stu favorite guys on campus. dlmts want thnir voiens heard," Hhodenbaugh said. 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INTERNATIONAL NEWS ISRAEL
France tries to~ torch protest tension PARIS - France's government scrambled Monday to tamp down tensions with Beijing and Hamas sends conflicting messages calm anti-French sentiment that has swelled in China since pro-Tibet protesters disrupted the Olympic torch relay in Paris. Carter said Islamic group is willing to be peaceful but their actions speak otherwise President Nicolas Sarkozy dispatched his top diplomatic adviser to China, where a French retail giant has become a boycott target, and he Associated Press sent an emotional letter to a disabled Chinese athlete who struggled against a Paris protester trying to wrench the Olympic torch from her. JERUSALEM - Former In his letter to "Mademoiselle Jin Jing," President Carter said Sarkozy noted the "bitterness" felt in China over Monday that the Islamic the incident and insisted that several such group Barnas was willing to attacks by protesters during the April 7 Paris accept the Jewish state as a torch stopover "do not reflect the feelings of my "neighbor next door," but the countrymen toward the Chinese people." militants did not match their upbeat words with concrete Leftist trend continues with Paraguay steps to halt violence. ASUNCION, Paraguay - The victory of the Barnas, which advocates "bishop of the poor" in Paraguay's presidential Israel's destruction, instead election expands a wave of leftist leadership recycled previous offers, across Latin America and further isolates the including a 10-year truce if few remaining conservative governments. Israel takes the unlikely step Once Fernando Lugo is inaugurated on Aug. of withdrawing from the 15, the only right-leaning governments in West Bank and Jerusalem Latin America will be Colombia, El Salvador first. and Mexico - and arguably Peru, where a Barnas has repeatedly con left-leaning populist party has gradually edged founded observers with its to the right. conflicting messages. Actions "The triumph of comrade Fernando Lugo is on the ground- seven rock ... yet another stone in the foundation of this ets were fired on Israel from new Latin America that is just, sovereign, l-lamas-ruled Gaza Monday, independent- and why not, socialist," including one that wounded Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa gushed a 4-year-old boy - contra during a visit from Argentina's new leftist dicted the Islamic militant President Cristina Fernandez. group's positive ~ords about coexistence and a truce. And a leader of the Barnas military wing, which carried NATIONAL NEWS out a twin suicide bombing on the Gaza border Saturday, EKG screening helpful before Ritalin said his group would step up NEW YORK - Children should be screened for attacks against Israel in com heart problems with an electrocardiogram before ing days. getting drugs like Ritalin to treat hyperactivity and The salvo of rockets came attention-deficit disorder, the American Heart despite a last-minute phone AP A<>sociation recommended Monday. call from Carter, urging a Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivers a speech Monday during a meeting Stimulant drugs can increase blood pressure one-month halt to attacks on held by the Israeli Council of Foreign Relations in Jerusalem. and heart rate. For most children, that isn't a Israel, to gain some interna problem. But in those with heart conditions, it tional goodwill and defuse meaning alongside Israel, the peace talks. border crossings. could make them more vulnerable to sudden car tensions. group would never outright "The present strategy of Over the weekend, Carter diac arrest - an erratic heartbeat that causes the "I did the best I could," recognize the Jewish state. excluding Barnas and met twice with Barnas' five heart to stop pumping blood through the body - Carter said of his conversa The Bush administration excluding Syria is just not member politburo, headed and other heart problems. tion with Barnas supreme and Israel, which shun working," said Carter, who by Mashaal. Carter said he leader, Khaled Mashaal, Barnas as a terrorist group, brokered a historic 1979 won a written pledge from Elderly woman convicted of murder pressing him to declare a have criticized the Carter peace treaty between Israel Hamas to accept any peace LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has con one-month truce. "They mission as misguided. In and Egypt. deal with Israel, even if victed an elderly woman of two more counts in a turned me down, and I think Washington, a State Analysts said Hamas Hamas disagrees with some scheme to kill homeless men to collect insurance they're wrong." Department official said apparently decided to send of the terms, as long as it's payoffs. Carter, who delivered a Monday that it does not Carter off largely empty approved in a Palestinian Jurors convicted 75-year-old Olga speech in Jerusalem Monday appear Barnas has changed handed, despite the possibili referendum. Rutterschmidt on Monday of first-degree murder summing up his visit, said its positions. ty he might have paved an Carter said Barnas leaders in the 1999 death of 73-year-old Paul Vados. She top Hamas leaders told him In Jerusalem, Carter opening to a hostile West, told him they're also ready to also was convicted of conspiracy to murder him during seven hours of talks defended his trip, saying because it prefers doing busi accept the Jewish state's for financial gain. in Damascus over the week peace in the region will be ness with le.aders in the right to "live as a neighbor She and co-defendant Helen Golay were con end that they are willing to pm;sible only if Israel and the region who can deliver con next door in peace" one day. victed of other counts last week. live next to Israel. U.S. start talking to Barnas crete achievements. Egypt Since its founding 21 years Prosecutors said the two women collected $2.8 Hours later, however, and Syria, which supports has been shuttling between ago, Barnas has carried out million before their sc.heme was uncovered. Mashaal sent mixed mes several militant groups. He Israel and Hamas for nearly scores of suicide attacks in Authorities said Vados and 50-year-old Kenneth sages. He stressed that while abo called on the Bush two years trying to broker a Israel and has fired hun McDavid were run over in murders staged to look the militants would accept a administration to push hard cease-fire, a prisoner swap dreds of rockets from Gaza like hit-and-run accidents. state in the 1967 borders, er to renew Israeli-Syrian and an opening of Gaza's at Israeli border towns.
LOCAL NEWS Arm_y, Marines felony recruits on the rise Obama and Ointon to return to Indiana EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Barack Obama and Associated Press fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2007. But grown in recent years, as well as those Hillary Hodham Clinton expect to waste little they highlight a trend that has raised needing medical or aptitude waivers. time before bringing their campaigns back to WASHINGTON - Under pressure to concerns both within the military and House Oversight and Government Indiana. meet combat needs, the Army and on Capitol Hill. Reform Committee Chairman Henry • Obama will travel Tuesday to Evansville, Marine Corps brought in signific:mtly The bulk of the crimes involved were Waxman, who released the data, noted where he plans to speak during a rally that more recruits with felony convictions burglaries, other thefts, and drug that there may be valid reasons for night at Hoberts Stadium, his campaign last year than in 2006, including 1;ome offenses, but nine involved sex crimes granting the waivers and giving indi announced. Rocker John Mellencamp will also with manslaughter and sex crime con and six involved manslaughter or viduals a second chance. perform during the event. victions. vehicular homicide convictions. Several But he added, "Concerns have been The rally will draw national attention as it Data released by a congressional dozen Army and Marine recruits had raised that the significant increase in will happen as votes are being totaled from committee shows the number of sol aggravated assault or robbery convic the recruitment of persons with crimi that day's Pennsylvania primary. diers admitted to the Army with fi~lony tions, including incidents involving nal records is a result of the strain put Clinton plans to start a new Indiana cam records jumped from 249 in 2006 to weapons. on the military by the Iraq war and paign swing on Wednesday as both candidates 511 in 2007. And the number of Both the Army and Marine Corps may be undermining military readi start a two-week dash to the state's primary Marines with felonies rose from 208 to have been struggling to increase their ness." on May 6. Clinton will appear in Indianapolis 350. numbers as part of a broader effort to The services use a waiver process to on Wednesday. She is scheduled to visit East Those numbers represent a fraction meet the combat needs of a military let in recruits with felony convictions, Chicago, South Bend and Fort Wayne on of the more than 180,000 rec:uits fighting wars on two fronts. As a result, and many of the crimes were commit Friday and Saturday. Details were not imme brought in by the active duty Army, the number of recruits needing waivers ted when the service members were diately announced. Navy, Air Force and Marines during the for crimes or other bad conduct has juveniles. page 6 The Observer + NEWS Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Debate US, France draft resolution to battle pirates continued from page 1 U.N. document is response to series of attacks off Somalian coast, Spanish boat hijacking he said. "The Electoral College has built-in biasns and any potm1tial replacmnent will Pirates in the lawless Gulf of Spain sent a frigate to the site helicopter captured them after Associated Press have biases." Aden off Somalia fired on a of the hijacking about 200 miJp,s the April 11 release of the Arnold said the elimination UNITED NATIONS - The Japanese oil tanker Monday, off the coast of Somalia. Twnnty yacht's crew. The ship's owners of the Hlectoral College would United States and France are unleashing hundreds of gallons six crew were aboard the 250- reportedly paid a ransom. lead to disorganized elections. drafting a U.N. resolution that of fuel into the sea, a day after a foot vessel when the pirates According to a report from the "In this messy political sys would allow countries to chase Spanish tuna boat was hijacked forced their way on the ship. International Maritimn Bureau, tnm, there's no other way to and arrest pirates off Somalia's using rocket-propelled The Spanish prime minister's piracy is on thn rise, with sea produce a n~al- winner," he coast, responding to a spate of grenades. Earlier this month, a office said efforts were under farers suffering 49 attacks said. "lnstnad of just Florida attacks including this week's French luxury yacht was way to secure the sailors' between January and March _ I in the 2000 election I. we hijacking of a Spanish tuna boat, hijacked. release, and that aid was being up 20 percent from the period would havn benn fighting in U.N. diplomats said Monday. The tanker attack helped send sought fr:om NATO, the African last year. half thn states if there was no France's U.N. Ambassador crude oil prices to a new record, Union, France and Britain. Pirates boarded 36 vessels Elnetoral College." Jean-Maurice Hipert said the spiking above $117 a barrel Spain does not have an embassy and hijacked one, the report Professor Louis Ayala made resolution would authorize for Monday before falling back in Somalia, which has not had said. Seven crew members were the din~ prediction that if the nign governments to pursue slightly. an effective government since taken hostage, six were kid Electoral College was eliminat pirate vessels into territorial "The issue of piracy is an 1991. napped, three were killed and ed, the cost of campaigning waters, make arrests, and pros important issue, and within that The hijackers are demanding one went missing. Most of the would drastically increase. ecute suspects. framework we're focusing in money but have not specified attackers were heavily armed "Thn cost of eampaigning "We want to do it fast, but it particular on the threat of pira how much, Rosa Maria Alvarez, with guns or knives, the report would incrnase significantly," could take one or two weeks cy off the coast of Somalia," U.S. the daughter of the ship's skip said. he said. "[Eliminating the because it has to bn by consen Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad per, Amadeo Alvarez Gomez, Nigeria ranked as the No. 1 College would I lead candidates sus - it's not confrontational," told The Associated Press. told Spanish National Hadio. The trouble spot. India and the Gulf to campaign in previously he told the AssociatPd Press. In Sunday's attack in the Gulf government declined to com of Aden tied for second, with uncontestnd states." The push by key U.N. Security of Aden, pirates approached the ment on her remarks. each reporting five incidents. Senior analyst for Notre Council nations to tackle the Spanish Playa de Bakio and Last week, French judges filed Nearly two dozen piracy inci- · Dame Institutional Hesearch issue follows an alarming opened fire with rocket-pro preliminary charges against six dents were recorded off the .John Mueller said while there increase in piracy by well-armed pelled grenades, striking it but Somali pirates accused of hold coast of Somalia since January arn problems with the bandits. prompting international causing no serious damage, said ing 30 hostages aboard a French 2007, according to Andrew Elnctoral College, the demands for better protection of an oflicial in Prime Minister Jose luxury yacht for a week in the Mwangura of the Kenya-based American public's apathy is the world's shipping lanes. Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's oflice. Gulf of Aden. A French military Seafarers Assistance Program. one of the greatest obstacles to rnform. "It's something we've lived with for 200 years," he said. "There isn't a political will to oliminate it." Mueller said one major prob NOTRE DAME CENTER FOR ETHICS AND lem with the Electoral College was that it "creates a sense of RELIGIOUS VALUES IN BUSINESS false mandate for radical poli cy change." lie dted the exam & ples of President Clinton, who failed to win an outright • . ~ majority in either of his elec . INSTITUTE FOR ETHICAL BUSINESS WORLDWIDE tions, and President Bush, who - failed to win even a plurality in 2000, both elaiming they had received mandates. Jlowever. instead of abolish • HONOR & PRESENT ing the College, Mueller said it could be reformed to reflect the popular vote. lie said some states likn Nebraska and Maine RONALD GRZYWINSKI already award some electoral votes to the runner-up based Chairman and Co-Founder on the outcomes of individual congressional districts. Doctoral candidate in politi and cal science Patrick Kaplan said eliminating the Electoral College might have unintend ed, harmful consequences such as incrnased voter fraud. MARY HOUGHTON "As opposed to competing for President and Co-Founder swing-states, eliminating it would create an incentive to run up the vote in states that are deeply Republican or ShoreBank Corporation Democratic," he said. "There's less oversight in those states, so you're bound to see more with the unsavory practices." Contact Brian McKenzie at Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Award for Business Ethics [email protected] &
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 USINESS page 7 MARKET RECAP Average gas prices hit $3.50 a gallon Stocks Attack on Japanese oil tanker sends crude oil prices up over $117 a barrel Dow -24.34 Jones 12,825.02 Associated Press Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: 1,469 88 1,870 3,422,844,284 NEW YORK- Hising gaso AMEX 2,367.08 -0.83 line prices tightened the squeeze on drivers Monday, NASDAQ 2,~08.04 +5.07 jumping for the first time to NYSE 9,312.29 x' ,11;05'1 an average $3.50 a gallon at S&P 500 1,388.17 -2.16 filling stations across the NIKKEI (Tokyo) 13,585.91 -110.64 country with no sign of relief. Crude oil set a record for FTSE 100 (London) 6.053.00 -3.50 the sixth day in a row - this COMPANY %CHANGE $GAIN PRICE time closing above $117 a barrel - after an attack on a NATL CITY CP (NCC) -27.61 -2.30 6.03 Japanese oil tanker in the S&P DEP RECEIPTS (SPY) +0.05 +0.07 138.55 Middle East rattled investors. POWERSHARES (QQQQ) +0.71 +0.33 47.04 "It's killing us," said Jean FORD MOTOR CO (F) +3.76 +0.28 7.73 Beuns, a New York cab driv er who estimated he now makes $125 to $150 less per Treasuries month than in the fall 10-YEAR NOTE -0.83 -0.031 3.712 because of costlier gas. "And it was so quick. Every day 13-WEEK BILL -3.79 -0.05 1.270 you see the price go up 5, 6, 30-YEAR BOND -0.91 -0.041 4.476 10 cents more." 5-YEAR NOTE -0.75 -0.022 2.926 Diesel prices at the pump also struck a record high of Commodities $4.20 a gallon, according to LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) +0.79 117.48 AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. That's GOLD ($/Troy oz.) +2.40 917.60 sure to add to truckers' costs PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) -2.45 75.50 and drive up the price of food, clothing and other goods shipped by truck. Exchange Rates "You and I are going to pay YEN 103.1500 more," said Bob Costello, EURO 0.6288 chief economist of American Trucking Associations. CANADIAN DOLLAR 1.0065 "Exactly how much ... I can't BRillSHPOUND 0.5046 tell you, but it's got to show AP up." Traders deal oil options on the floor of the New York Merchantile Exchange, Gasoline and diesel prices Monday. Oil prices spiked to a record $117.40 a barrel. are expected to keep climb ing as they trace the path of most, $3.86 a gallon for reg York, Elvis Ragbir and tJ her, although she too is IN BRIEF crude. Oil prices are charg ular unleaded. Anthony Winckler said they changing her habits and buy ing ahead along with a host The Energy Department are driving less and taking ing a bike to commute to Bush defends free trade in North Amerirn of commodities that are predicted earlier this month the subway more. work. NEW OHLEANS - President Bush and Mexican enticing speculators seeking that monthly average gaso ''I'm spending my gas Energy Department data President Felipe Calderon strongly defended free hedges against a weakening line price will peak at more money on MetroCards," show Americans used about trade across North America on Monday, fending dollar. than $3.60 per gallon in Winckler said in the waiting 1 percent less gas in the four ofl' anti-trade remarks that Democrats running for Light, sweet crude for May June and could even reach room of a vehicle inspection weeks ended April 11 than the White !louse arc using to lure working class delivery rose to a record $4. station in Manhattan. Ragbir, they did a year earlier. voters. $117.76 a barrel on the New "It's uncharted territory," a delivery truck driver, said That change, while not Opening a two-day summit with Calderon and York Mercantile Exchange said Tom Kloza of the Oil he is looking to trade in his drastic, is significant, Canadian Prime Ministm Stephen Harper, Bush before settling at $117.48, up Price Information Service, Lexus LS 400 for a smaller Mariano Gurfinkel, project hailed the bcnefiLs of cross-border trade despite a 79 cents from Friday's close. Wall, N.J. "I don't think we're car. manager at the Center for rising protectionist sentiment on Capitol Hill. The Gas jumped more than a done, but I have to bfllieve In downtown Chicago, Energy Economics at the president said that when he and Calderon were nickel over the weekend and we're in the eighth or ninth Sharon Cooper spent $52 to University of Texas at Austin, growing up, the border was poor, but today it's is up 23 percent from a year inning" of price increases. fill up three-quarters of the who expects per-capita prospering. ago. Drivers in New Jersey The higher prices are tank in her Toyota demand to drop further this "Our trade has tripled, and our economies have are paying the least, while already prompting some Highlander SUV She said she summer unless gas prices grown," said Bush, who decided to host the sum drivers in California pay the drivers to cut back. In New tries not to let the prices get fall. mit in New Orleans to showcase its rebirth follow ing Hurricane Katrina. "This has been a very posi tive aspect for both our countries." Calderon was more specific, saying the North American Free Trade Agreement is misunder stood. Launched in 1994, the accord eliminated Cause of heparin reactions unknown trade barriers among the United States, Mexico and Canada. Associated Press Laboratories, which in turn owns a "We have data in the test tube as Midwest crop prices drop after rainfall Chinese factory - Changzhou SPL - well as animal data that shows this NEW YOHK - Corn and soybean prices WASHINGTON - China and the and buys additional raw heparin contaminant can trigger events that plunged Monday as investors set aside their sup United States traded charges from other Chinese suppliers. would lead to these type of reac ply worries and bet that dry weather in the U.S. Monday about whether a contami The Food and Drug Administration tions," said Janet Woodcock, director corn belt will allow growers to speed up planting. nant in the blood thinner heparin warned Changzhou SPL on Monday of the Food and Drug Other commodities traded mostly lower, with caused severe allergic reactions that the company does not have ade Administration's Center for Drug crude oil falling from a record above $117 and sil linked to as many as 81 deaths. quate systems for ensuring that the Evaluation and Research. "That ver and copper also retreating. Federal health officials said new raw materials it uses are safe and doesn't tell us the whole story. But it Dry. warm weather is expected this week across tests indicated a solid link. China that any impurities are removed. establishes a link." the U.S. corn belt after days of heavy rainfall that said the contaminant could 11ot be The FDA noted that as many as 12 Chinese officials claimed that have soaked fields and slowed spring planting. the "root cause" of the problem. companies in China are involved in adverse events were reported in The favorable forec~ast raised hopes that planting Chinese officials suggested at an the supply chain for heparin. Agency patients who got heparin even when could resume at a faster pace, touching ofT a embassy news conference that the of'ficials don't know at what point the the blood thinner did not contain the broad agrieulture sell-oil' in everything from corn problem with the drug could have contaminant was introduced. contaminant - over-sulfated chon to wheat to oats. occurred in the United States. They Hundreds of patients have suffered droitin. But FDA officials said that "Planting is still going to be very slow, but we plan to visit a Baxter International severe allergic reactions to large premise is incorrect. have a drior outlook f(w this week, so you've got plant in Cherry llill, N.J., to get a doses of the blood thinner. The FDA The Chinese said they hope to get prices dropping back," said Jason Ward, analyst better picture of how the finished said it suspects the problems stem some samples from Baxter for their with North Star Commodity in Minneapolis. product is manufactured. from a contaminant that the agency own investigation. Soyboans for May delivery fell 46 cents to settle Haw heparin is derived from pig discovered in supplies of raw "When you see it, then you believe at $13.155 a bushel on the Chicago Board of intestines, often processed by small, heparin coming from China - a it," said Jin Shaohong, the deputy Trade, after earlier dropping as low as $12.915, unregistered workshops in China. compound derived from animal car director general for the National its lowest level in two weeks. Corn f(n· May .deliv The raw ingredient for Baxter's tilage that so closely mimics heparin Institute for the Control of ery lost 19.25 cents to settle at $5.8025 a bushel recalled heparin came from that routine purity tests can't detect Pharmaceutical and Biological on the CBOT after earlier falling as low as $5.695. Wisconsin-based Scientific Protein it. Products in China. page 8 The Observer + NEWS Tuesday, April22, 2008 Authorities atlemptto UNITED KINGDOM Shakira praises British PM Brovvn match parents, kids taking an inspirational role in dren who now miss out on Associated Press work to provide a basic edu schooling as a result of pover LONDON - George Clooney. cation for every child in the ty. Judge ordered DNA tests to determine familial Angelina Julie. Shakira. world. The group also aims to gen Not a red carpet lineup, but The Grammy-winning erate support for some 226 relations in West Texas polygamist compound a roll call of celebrities the singer, famed for her hit million older children who sometimes dour British Prime "Hips Don't Lie," is support miss out on classes because typical custody or support ing a week of events to high of a lack of access to schools, Associated Press Minister Gordon Brown has case. recruited to inject glamour light the cause of education or because of truancy. SAN ANGELO. Texas - In a typical custody case, into his appeals to help the advocacy group the Global Brown is the world's "No. 1 Using cotton swabs and cam "maternity is already estab developing world. Campaign for Education. champion of education," said eras, lab technieians began lished," Rolfe said, but in this Brown joined a telephone She said the group is press the group's chairman, Gene taking DNA samples Monday case, researchers will have to conference Monday with ing world leaders to provide Sperling, an ex-White House from hundreds of children determine the identity of both Shakira, praising the funding for primary educa economic adviser to former and mothnrs - wearing long. parents. Colombian pop sensation for tion for 72 million young chi!- President Clinton. pioneer-style dresses - in hopes of sorting out the tan gled family relationships with in the West Texas polygamist sect. A judge ordered last week that the genetic material be taken to help determine which children belong to which par ents. Authorities need to figure that out before they begin custody hearings to determine which children may have been abused and need to be perma nently removed from the sect compound in Eldorado, and which ones can be safely returned to the fold. State social workers have complained that over the past few weeks, sect members have offered different names and ages. Also. the children refer to all of their fathflrs' wives as their "mothers," and all men in the community as "uncles." The testing went on behind closed doors at the crowded coliseum where the children seized in the raid earlier this month on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound are staying. The collecting of DNA is likely to take 10 technicians most of thn wnek, and it will be a month or more before the results arn available, said .Janiecn Holfe, a spokeswoman for the Texas attorney gener al's office. Hod Parker. an FLDS attor ney, acknowledged that family names within the sect can be confusing. but said: "No one is trying to dnceive anyon1~ .... It's not sinister." Instead, he said that bncause many of the sect's marriages are not legal, adults and their ehildren may legally have one name but use another within the eommuni ty. Thn April 3 nighttime raid on the 1. 700-acre compound probably frightcnnd the chil dren. said Knn Driggs, who has studind the snct exten sively. "If somebody had taken the timn to approach them in a way that was rcspnctful, SISTER SEND,S APICTOASK they probably would have got ten the information they need IF HER OUTFrr WORKING. ed," Driggs said. Thn children will be placed in group homes or other quar ters until individual eustody U.S. Cellular* gives you hnarings can b1~ completed by narly Junn. Oflkials said they FREE Incoming Text & Pix on all plans plus will try to knep siblings FREE Incoming Calls on select plans. 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IRAQ SOUTH AFRICA leader calls for supportfrotnArab states Mother honored for PM urges neighboring nations to forgive Iraqi debts, open embassies reconciliation efforts ongoing crackdown against Last weekend, al-Sadr, who Associated Press Shiite militants will allay is believed to be in Iran, BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime their fears of Iranian lean threatened in a Web site Daughter was stabbed, stoned to death during minister appealed Monday ings and a bias against his statement to declare full apartheid; parents forgive attackers, found charity for support from his Arab own Sunni population - scale war on th€ U.S.-backed neighbors, urging them to which long held a privileged government if attacks on his open embassies and forgive position under Saddam followers continue. Associated Press ed in finding the humanity in Iraqi debts as his govern Hussein. The crisis began nearly a all of us, which I thought was ment tries to crack down on But he also pointed the fin month ago when al-Maliki PRETORIA - South Africa is the essence of' the Truth and Shiite militias in a crucial ger at "some nations" he launched a military offensive honoring her for helping it Reconciliation Commission. power struggle. claimed were supporting against the Mahdi Army and overcome the legacy of Biehl said she sees her But the government plea extremist groups and "incit other Shiite militias in the apartheid, but Linda Biehl daughter's attackers as vic came as militia leaders ing strife through the media" southern port ci1:y of Basra. says she has simply done what tims, too caught up in the warned more violence could - an apparent reference to Militiamen responded by any parent would after the struggle against apartheid to await. Arab satellite TV stations shelling Baghdad's U.S.-pro death of a child: tried to find value life or consider personal Followers of Shiite cleric based in the Gulf which the tected Green Zone, which meaning in loss. responsibility. And now they Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of leadership here considers houses the U.S. Embassy and Amy Biehl was stabbed and and many like them are the biggest militia, said they hostile to the government. offices of the Ieaqi govern stoned to death in the waning unequipped to prosper in post could widen the battles with "I am a bewildered by the ment. U.S. and Iraqi forces days of apartheid in a town apartheid South Africa. the government - even ask position of these nations," then laid si{:ge to the ship near Cape Town, where "They had the skills to make ing supporters for blood al-Maliki added, without Baghdad militia stronghold she was studying how women the bombs, to strategize in donations to aid fighters specifically naming a coun of Sadr City. were contributing to change in guerrilla warfare," Biehl said, injured during weeks of try. "Do they want to support The daily clashes have South Africa. Her black noting many slipped into urban clashes. Iraq? Iraq has emerged from raised fears that al-Sadr may assailants claimed the attack crime after apartheid ended. With tension rising, Prime a crisis and needs to be sup formally scrap the unilateral on the 26-year-old American, She hopes working with her Minister Nouri al-Maliki flew ported." truce he declared last who was white, was part of foundation will mean a better to Kuwait for a meeting U.S. officials have accused August - a move that the war on white rule. future for at least some of the Tuesday of Iraq's neighbors Iran - which will attend the American officials credit "People don't want a death generation that embraced the to discuss ways they can Kuwait conference - of sup with helping dramatically to be in vain or senseless," call for liberation before edu help Iraq's Shiite-led govern porting Shiite extremists in reduce violence. Linda Biehl told The cation. ment as it confronts both Iraq, an allegation the In Sadr City -- a sprawling Associated Press Monday - "These are committed peo Shiite militias and Sunni Iranians deny. slum of 2.5 million people - her 65th birthday and the eve ple ... they should also be part extremists including al The United States, too, has mosques broadcast appeals of a ceremony at which of the change," she said. Qaida in Iraq. pressed Arab governments to Monday for peoule to donate President Thabo Mbeki is to Composed under a sweep of AI-Maliki said he will be respond to security improve blood to help the hundreds grant her one of his nation's blonde hair. Linda Biehl looks looking for tangible support, ments and political advances who had been illjured in the highest honors. like an art gallery owner or including relief from Iraq's in Iraq with financial and fighting. Hesidents contacted Biehl and her husband Peter, manager of an upscale cloth $67 billion foreign debt - political support. Secretary by telephone said many who died in 2002, forgave the ing store - both jobs she once most of it owed to Saudi of State Condoleeza Hice, donors showed up at two four men convicted in their held. In the years since her Arabia, Kuwait, the United who visited Baghdad on hospitals in response to the daughter's 1993 slaying, and daughter's death, she has Arab Emirates and Qatar. Sunday, is scheduled to be at call. embraced the truth and recon devoted most of her time to "There are countries that the Kuwait meeting to lend No major fighting was ciliation process on which the Amy Biehl Foundation, support the political process support to Iraq. reported in S adr City on South Africa embarked after and to speaking about forgive and are opening embassies In Najaf, a top Sadrist Monday. white rule ended in 1994. ness to audiences ranging here. We need the others to spokesman, Salah al-Obeidi, But U.S. military Amy Biehl's attackers were from high school students in open embassies here, too," warned that open warfare spokesman Lt. Col. Steve granted amnesty after con urban America to forums al-Maliki told reporters. was a "strong possibility" if Stover said an unmanned fessing before the Truth and bringing together Palestinians The direct appeal to Arab the government did not ease U.S. aircraft fired a Hellfire Reconciliation Commission and Israelis. heavyweights highlights the the pressure on al-Sadr's missile at a group of gunmen headed by former Cape Town In announcing she was being regional dilemma posed by Mahdi Army militia. late Sunday, killing all three. Anglican Archbishop Desmond awarded the Order of the Iraq. The government has In Basra, a roadside bomb Tutu. Two of them now work Companion of O.R. Tambo, the Sunni Arabs have a strong demanded that al-Sadr dis exploded near a U.S. convoy for a charity the Biehls found president's office cited Linda stake in keeping Iraq - band the Mahdi Army or else in the central part of the ed that has provided training Biehl's "outstanding spirit of which is majority Shiite - the Sadrists will not be city, setting a Humvee ablaze in arts, sports and other areas forgiveness in the wake of the firmly in the Arab orbit as a allowed to run in provincial and causing casualties, the to young South Africans. murder of her daughter and buffer against expanding elections this fall. U.S. military said. No further "If it weren't for the institu contributing to the promotion influence by Iran, the largest Al-Obeidi complained that details were released. tionalized process that we of non-racism in post Shiite nation. But Arab government officials and Elsewhere, ~:unni insur went through, we would not apartheid South Africa." neighbors are still leery of Shiite intermediaries had gents struck twice Monday be connected in a personal The award, named for the al-Maliki's government and offered "no serious propos against U.S. troJps and their reconciliation," said Biehl, late African National Congress the deep Iranian ties of its als" for ending the con new Sunni allies, who have who divides her time between hero Oliver Tambo, has previ main backers. frontation and "we are ready turned against al-Qaida in Newport Beach, Calif., and ously been granted to former Al-Maliki is hoping that the for all possibilities." Iraq. Cape Town. ''I'm just interest- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and, posthumously, to India's independence leader Mohandas Gandhi. Musician and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte was a fellow hon oree this year. Many people don't under stand her decision to trans form grief into commitment to racial reconciliation, Biehl said. Even in South Africa, some are baffled or suspi cious, she said, adding with a rueful laugh that she has the hate mail to prove it. But she also has been embraced. Last June, officials at a Johannesburg high school asked her to speak at anniver sary celebrations for the school, where crime and vio lence had touched many stu dents and their families. Biehl said she found herself facing a mostly white audience. Afterward, a woman told her of her brother's murder dur ing a robbery, and how she was now working for gun con trol. South Africans are "trying to understand the forgiveness and reconciliation process," Biehl said. "If an example can be helpful to people, if a story can be helpful to people, I'm happy to share my story." THE OBSERVER
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thank you for Discrimination 'Finish on the Fifty' policy too narrovv On behalf of Hannah and Friends, we would like to ROTC from Notre Dame and St. Mary's for providing It is unacceptable that the University of Notre Dame refuses to thank the students of Notre Dame, St. Mary's, and volunteers and resources for the run. Special thanks include sexual orientation in the discrimination clause. We pride Holy Cross for making the inaugural "Finish on the to Cappy Gagnon and fellow stadJ urn ushers, Mike ourselves on the unbreakable bonds of the "Notre Dame family" but Fifty" charity run on Saturday a resounding success. Danch and the stadium facilities ~;taff, Molly Notre Dame seems to think this doesn't apply with sexual orienta We were extremely impressed and pleased to see Anderson from Adidas, RecSports, Women's tion. Opposing discrimination towards homosexuals does not con such a strong turnout despite the rain and early Running Club, Student Activities Office, and to all done their lifestyle or compromise our Catholic character; it affirms morning start on a weekend filled with campus fes other students,faculty, and administration that con that we oppose hate and welcome all as equal human beings. Notre tivities. We were inspired by the enthusiasm of the tributed to the success of this event. Dame officials worry about the legal conseguences of this act. But hundreds of students who helped raise awareness We find ourselves blessed to be part of a commu shouldn't our principles of humanity hold more weight than the and compassion for children and adults with special nity that continually supports the mission of Hannah threat of a lawsuit? The day that Notre Dame values the popular needs. and Friends. opinion of her alumni and their pocketbooks more than her morals We extend our appreciation to Alumni Hall for MauraWeis is the day I transfer. Let's hope that Notre Dame acts faster on this sponsoring the run, along with the committee Charlie Weis issue than the Catholic Church did with Galileo. chaired by Clint Bergstrom with fellow members Fow1ders, Hannah and Friends Casey Cockerham Eric llarvan, Kyle Nickoderm, Patrick Schenkel, freshman Mike Streit, and Maribeth Ymgling for their leader Sharon Bui Green Stanford Hall ship and countless hours spent organizing the event. Executive Di1ector, Hannah and Friends Aprill9 Additionally, we would like to thank Circle K and April21 Parietals not an issue Bring Matthevvs to Notre I)arne Mr. Meehan, I do not find humor in your sarcastic article about extending the hours of parietals. As an upstanding member of the After reading Bob Costa's interview with Dave more than the $10 or $15 cover of other Notre Notre Dame community, I will tell you right now that the only Matthews prior to his concert in support of Barack Dame concerts. In his article, Bob Costa mentioned times I have sex are during the week, between the hours of 9:00 Obama at Indiana University (April 15th), and how Tim Reynolds has played at Legends on Notre AM and 12:00 AM. I find it appalling and frankly, frustrating that recalling Tim Staub's request to "Revive the con Dame's campus twice in recent years. However, you would even consider restricting my hours of commingling cert" and bring more high-profile performers to few people probably know that the Dave Matthews with others. Parietals simply do not affect me because, like you campus (March 30th), I asked myself why an artist Band played at the .Joyce Center n 1996. Both actually pointed out in your essay (effectively refuting your point, of Matthews' caliber has not played at Notre Dame Matthews and Reynolds have some history with the if I might add), "students either ignore parietals, or they merely since U2 in 2001. U2 is without question one of the university. Given this relationship, as well as the work around them, committing the sin earlier in the evening most successful bands of all-time. They have won relative ease of production for just two acoustic instead". more Grammy Awards than any other band, and guitarists, getting this duo to pia} at ND would cer Now, you have simply put me in a tough position, as a Catholic their ticket prices reflect this success. The average tainly be easier than bringing Matthews' entire citizen, who drinks too much, has premarital sex with countless U2 ticket costs over $100. On the other hand, band back to the JACC. While the concert at IU had women, supports gay rights, abortion and social interaction with Matthews is arguably the most popular touring political undertones, Matthews and Reynolds con the opposite sex, I cannot possibly attend this school any longer. artist among young adults today, and tickets to his sistently play regular tour concerts on campuses You can expect my letter requesting the release of my transcripts shows are much easier on the wallets of college across the country, at schools botli larger and on your desk, hopefully to be forwarded to the Pope for my con students than any U2 show. Matthews is a musician smaller than Notre Dame, so it is not as if they demnation to hell. who has always been more about the music than have become too large of an act t•J play college But before I leave, I would like to let you know, I have never the money. In this age of music piracy and illegal shows. According to the Notre Dame athletics web made fun of someone for going to mass -not because the stu file sharing, he allows fans to record live shows and site, "Recent performers to perform in the Joyce dent population attends mass, but rather because I am mature share them with others online. During both his Center in the past five years include Elton .John, enough to realize people, at some point in their lives should have acoustic shows with Tim Reynolds, as well as dur Rod Stewart, Garth Brooks, Neil Diamond, James the right to make their own decisions about how to lead their ing full band performances, Matthews' setlists Taylor and U2." Before I graduate, I hope that we lives. I hope at some time, you understand that. America pro eclipse the two-hour mark, certainly giving loyal can once again bring A-list performers such as motes freedom and general autonomy. Stop listening to your fans their money's worth. Even though such a per Matthews & Reynolds to Notre Dame. The universi mother and make decisions for yourself. And by the way, when formance would cost more than either Lupe Fiasco ty is clearly one of the nation's premier, and I think you do get there, wrap it up. or Ok Go, the length and quality of this duo's set that students should again be able to enjoy some of Sincerely, would mean that only one act would need to be their generation's premier performers on campus. Progressive Society booked, rather than two. In addition, I think if Josh Flynt Robby Schoder given the opportunity to the see the likes of freshman sophomore Matthews and Reynolds in the friendly confmes of Keenan Hall Keough Hall the .Joyce Center, many students would gladly pay Aprill5 April21 Celebrating Earth Day A summary of university efforts Not a joke
Dear Members of the Notre Dame Community, both campus buildings and operadons, illustrating What's up with all you so-called serious politicians and The University of Notre Dame is committed to a long-term commitment to sustainability efforts. politically active "educated" people who think the environ incorporating energy conservation and environ Sustained collaboration between many groups ment is not worth your time? You think that you're too cool mental stewardship in its institutional goals. The within the Notre Dame community has demon for school, but I have a newsflash for you, Walter Cronkite ... Energy and E£Ivironmental Issues Committee has strated the University's dedication to energy and you aren't. Seriously though, the environment is a pressing been a driving force behind many of these green environmental issues. It is our hope that this inter political issue with real consequences. (got money for gas?) initiatives at Notre Dame. est will gather momentum in the wake of the So why is it routinely swept under the carpet while several Undoubtedly, the biggest environmental news or" upcoming Presidential Forum on Sustainable flavor-of-the-week political issues are debated incessantly? this year is the creation of the Office of Energy. It's a joke! We are talking about the survival of our planet! Sustainability. The oflice was established the first Throughout the year, we have sponsored initia Not a game, our planet! Honestly... if you like going outside, of the year and its director, James Mazurek, is tives such as Game Day Recycling the Green breathing air, using your paycheck for things other than gas, scheduled to start May 1. Mr. Mazurek joins Notre Summit and RecycleMania in ordu to spread not living underwater, or the color green ... you should proba Dame from Accenturn, where he served as a part awareness and inspire change. In1;titutional bly try to wake up. ner in the Corporate Strategy Group for Utilities, changes are most effective when coupled with per Daniel Colt Collins Energy and Government Practices. He brings valu sonal conservation measures. We encourage all sophomore able experience in developing and executing sound members of the Notre Dame comnunity to exam Alumni Hall sustainability strategies. ine current practices and not to underestimate the April 20 The Oflice of Sustainability will build institution importance of simple actions such as turning off allearning capacities to support continuous the lights, powering down computers, and recy improvement in building design and operations, cling bottles, cans and paper. landscaping, procurement, energy and water con Happy Earth Day. servation. wast1~ disposal, recycling and service Lourdes Long provision. The University has generously provided Colleen Kelly the ollice with a $2 million green loan fund to pro Energy & Environmental Issues Committee vide capital for environmental improvements in April21 THE OBSERVER page 12 CENE Tuesday, April22, 2008
Scene & Hear
AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CHAD STOKES- FORMERLY OF DISPATCH
Somewhern outside Albany, Chad Stokes is frustrated. Stokes, to the peace movement. That was a little bit lost with Dispatch." 32, is the outspoken and shaggy-haired lead singer and guitarist Dispatch disbanded in 2002, before the United States invaded for State Hadio. an independent roots-rock band with reggae Iraq a year later. Before breaking-up tlw band, Stokes recalled inlluences based in Boston. · that members of Dispatch "didn't really got into it" when it came Stokes is bnst-known for his many years as one of the vocalists to polities, but admits that if tlw group was active during the Iraq and guitarists for college-rock band Dispatch. invasion, Dispatch may have changed. who still enjoy a Grateful Dead-like cult fol "If Dispateh was a working band wlwn the invasion occurred, lowing. Stokes spoke with The Observer last Bob Costa we would had to have had a serious convnrsation about what we w1wk about Statn Hadio's music, his some- should do, such as partnering with Iraq Veterans Against the times controversial political views and the Scene Writer War," Stokes said. bmak-up of Dispatch. Stokes said in our interview that politks played a "small part" What was Strokes frustrated about last in Dispatch's break-up. "Personalities wen~ divnrging," Stokns woek during our interview? Zimbabwe. For said. "It wasn't totally political. Most of it was that we had Stokes, being a rock musician is more than just a trade, it's a call stoppnd creating with each othor. It was getting to be too tricky to ing. Stokes lived in Zimbabwe during his 18th year and the expe write and play new songs together. For years, we kept playing old rience has dneply influenced both his songs and his commitment (songs) that had been recorded years ago." to community service and the peace movement. The disconneet between the members of Dispatch from 1999 to When Stokes spoke with The Observer, State Hadio (a trio also 2002 was ultimately insurmountable said Stokes. "I think we all featuring bassist Chuck Fay and drummer Mike Najarian) had were writing new songs. but somehow they didn't lit in," Stokes just finished a short community-service tour supporting Tom said. "No one was bringing them to the table. No one would com Morello of Audioslave and Hage Against The Machine. plain. I don't think anyone wanted nnw songs." "We just got off a short run with Tom Morello in California," In a scene in director Ilelmut Schleppi's 2005 lilm "The Last said Stokes via phone from New York. "None of the artists were Dispatch," which doeuments Dispatch's (at the time) last eoneert getting paid. It was about community service. Besides playing, we in 2004, Stokes is seen tersely talking politics with Dispatch went to a homeless shelter and washed some dishes with Tom drummer and vocalist Brad Corrigan. I mentioned the senne to and friends." Stokes and asked him about his relationship with Corrigan and In early April, Zimbabwe held national elections. although the their politics. country's current president, Robert Mugabe, widely-considered to "Brad said to me, tell me why you don't like George Bush," be a ruthlnss dictator. reportedly has influenced his re-election remembered Stokes. "I said (Bush) was out of touch. in with big vietory through threats and terror. business, making wrong decisions for the people. Since then, "Hight now, with the elections, it's a crucial time," said Stokes, Brad has been more open-minded to that. Pete has always just passionately. "It's a country of empty bellies." been pretty separate from polities. Stokes is worried about the future of Zimbabwe and what When he started State Hadio, Stokes says it was like "uncapping Mugabe may do to his people. a bottle of new (stuf"D" since he was able to develop his own "If Mugabn stays in, through some of his strong-arm tactics and songs. regardless of how controversial their message could be to intimidation, I don't know what that country will do. It's at a very some listeners. critical point in its history. I have some friends over there who I'm State Hadio's current live set mixes tracks from both of their worried about." studio albums and the band's various EP and live releases. "It's Although Dispatch's tenure ended officially in 2002. its mem good for us to break it up," said Stokes of his band's philosophy bers have reunitnd for philanthropic causes. In July 2007, Stokes on their live show. "We play a lot of the new tunes, with two or and former band-matns Pete Francis and Brad Corrigan hosted three of the older tunes. People have been really receptive and an epic, sold-out three-night stand at Madison Square Garden in shouting back at us. It's been cool." New York to benefit the plight in Zimbabwe and raise awareness For their most-recent studio album "Year of the Crow," State about the plethora of political and economic problems there. Radio was aiming for a more live sounding record to capture the "It was cool to play with those kids," reflected Stokes about energy of their on-stage heroics. They enlisted producer Tchad playing with a Zimbabwe youth choir during the Madison Square Blake. well-known for his work with artists such as Phish. Pearl Garden shows. "We were pretty psyched. I was just glad when it Jam and Peter Gabriel, to turn the knobs. They recorded "Year of was over and we hadn't !messed! up royally," said Stokes, laugh the Crow" in Blake's studio outside London. ing. The lyrics on "Year of the Crow" are unforgiving and yearning, State Radio is much more overtly political than Dispatch - and ~ailing agai~~.t per.~eive.?. inju~.tices on tracks such as plays an intense live show. If yol.J haven't heard their music, think Guantanamo, C.I.A. and Sudan. Michael Franti meets John Butler Trio. State Radio released its "We live in such a wild time in this country," Stokes said. "Wn first EP in 2002 but gained a higher prolile after their first full have so much to be upset about. Upset about the war, the cutting length studio album "Us Against the Crown" was released in of funding of different groups - not just veterans but for people 2006. In September 2007. State Radio released its second studio with disabilities, housing shortages, this 'Every Child Left Behind' album. "Year of the Crow." type thing." "In State Hadio, we're all along the same lines," Stokes said. Hegarding the war in Iraq, which shades many State Hadio "We feel unfettered and like that we can let it roll, no matter songs, Stokes said he has "always been against it." what. "Saddam Hussein was a bad man. but so is Kim .long-it," Stokes With Dispatch, Stokes said he was often frustrated with his said. "There are bad places out them, for sure, but a lot of this is band's disinterest in playing politically-tinged songs. channeling our anger from 9/11 to Iraq. It seems really see "With Dispatch, I knew certain things. (Francis and Corrigan) through to me. Such a volatile region, but going in and disturbing wouldn't be pleased with my lyrics. That was hard. It was hard to it with our myopic, Amerieanized policy was a disaster ... we've feel that when I knew there was an audience (for politically-mind ruined our international reputation." ed music) - where we could make some change and contribute Even though Stokes is politically active, he declined making a ------~------~------
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by Bob Costa
presidential endorsement during our interview. Stokes said it was the arguments over lyrics during the record ''I'm supporting the Democratic nominee," Stokes said. "I like ing for Dispatch's fourth, and last, studio album that caused Obama and Hillary, but I'm not enamored by either. I'm excited increasing friction within the band. by change, what I think it could bring. If I had to be pushed in one "People would say this is too racy, too risky," Stokes said. direction. I'd lean towards Obama." "People would come to the table and say here's a song. Then Stokes knows that some of his fans are not always pleased with someone would say 'I'm not comfortable with that.' Then, some his band's overt political tone. At times, Stokes said fans young one would say 'what the [heck] are you talking about?"' Stokes and old. and some veterans, havp, given him their own opinions said. "Artists are sensitive people. When they come to the table about State Hadio's lyrics. with a song that can be damaging it makes you less excited. Then "I don't mind if people show up just for the music," Stokes said. you become a legacy act playing old tunes." "Ultimately, we're just a band. It's cool if they just want to come "[Dispatch] was three difierent guys," Stokes said. "J was politi for the music, haVP a good time." cal, Brad was spiritual and coming into his religion. Pete was This summer, State Hadio has landed a handful of coveted more of the romantic and the poet. Pete wanted to push the enve opening slots on the Dave Matthews Band's summer tour. Instead lope in terms of lyrics. I wanted to be edgier politically; Bn:d was of playing to packed clubs, State Hadio will be warming up thou honed in with his faith. It was a democracy. with people putting sands or fans in open-air amphitheaters across America. everything out there." "''m sure we'll be pretty nervous," Stokes said. "It's a huge "I think the United States is in a tough place and it's our show. We've played some big shows and festivals, but we haven't responsibility, and lega,~y of our forefathers, to speak out about bnen the sole opener for a band on a tour like this." what we think is wrong," Stokes said. "Like the bumper sticker StokP.s is adamant that music can play a vital role in getting citi says, dissent is patriotic. We should let our voices be heard." zens interested in their country and important issues. For Stokes, As Stokes has become more politically active over the years, he the activism of other bands in 2008 is refreshing. said he still understands why some fans are not interested in his "I think you sec every election people coming out or the wood message. work. more bands popping up," Stokes said. "Bands are a good "I don't blame people who aren't involved," Stokes said. "But, I counterweight to the media, especially Fox News. Playing in think it's great when they are. When people come up to us after places like the Midwest, you can represent a different viewpoint." shows and tell us they've been affected by our music, or started a Stokes describes State Radio's politics as "liberal, with leftist Save Darfur Club, an Elias Fund ... it's rewarding for us." tendencies." The band is active in raising money and awareness With State Radio, Stokes is confident that "we're in it for life." for veterans' causes, Zimbabwe and the genocide in Darfur Even after the tense Dispatch break-up, Stokes said he wanted to through Stokes' Elias Fund, the Dispatch Foundation and other continue to make music. groups. Stokes also has an obvious passion in supporting people "I thought I'd give it one more try, to see if the same problems with disabilities, which came through in our interview. Stokes was had to exist," Stokes said. "You put eight years into a band, you involved with the 2003 IIBO film "How's Your News?" featuring can finally afford a bus, you feel like all of your work has come to people with disabilities reporting across the country. fruition," said Stokes on Dispatch. "[State Radiol believes in nationalizing healthcare and having The reality of starting State Radio from scratch was a major government take a larger role ·in taking on poverty," Stokes said. change for Stokes. "A year later, I'm back in a van, playing to "There are some socialistic tendencies. We just want to stay away forty people, if that," Stokes said. "It's pretty humbling trying to from the trend of corporations taking over, the corporate welfare start again. We hit the road hard; we built it organically. It's been state. Anything the [Bush administration] does, it does with the tough. I felt like I've done this before, he we are again- driving at onus of keeping the CEOs happy." 4:00 a.m., loading the van." Stokes is happy with the independent, grassroots route State Now, State Radio is normally playing to 500 fans or more. "Once Hadio has taken. you get in the 500 range, it feels pretty big," Stokes said. "The "I'd say things are pretty good in the van right now," Stokes weirdness is playing Madison Square Garden or the Hatch Shell said. "The momentum of the band seems to be going at a nice in Boston with Dispatch when we didn't have any real new songs, pace. You bring a bunch of suits into it, it waters it down. It's not playing the same tunes we'd been playing for years in the base such a enol thing." ment of a dorm. That's the weird thing that's hard to process." Stokes said that State Hadio's path is similar to Dispatch's in State Radio is looking to record their third studio album after some ways. But, Stokes now clearly wants to avoid even enter the 2008 presidential election is over, probably in January 2009. taining the idea of signing with a record label run by a major cor Besides this summer's tour and planning future studio albums, poration. Stokes said the band plans to release a "four or five song EP, spin "With Dispatch, we had some big dinners and lunches and met off type thing, more acoustic, like 2004's 'Simmer Kane' EP." the big guns of the record labels in New York," Stokes said. What will the next State Radio album sound like? "IDispatchl was sort of open to it, but [the labels] never saw our "Some of the tunes we're working on now are epic, more rock vision completely. They said 'recut this album' or 'redo this based," Stokes said. "''d like to get more experimental, add more album.' They never got us," Stokes said. "Besides, when the riffs. I'm not sure where it's going. Sometimes, we visualize our record companies came to Dispatch, we were already almost next record as rock-based, a 'big world' sound with (John) done with it. We were like you guys are coming at us way too Bonham-sounding drums ... more of an airy, big sound." late." Will Dispatch ever reu11ite? Stokes was at first hesitant to go into detail about Dispatch's "There might be a show or two in a few years," Stokes said. "I ··"'!!'' ·' break-up, but recalled that it was around 1999 that the band don't think we'll be a working band. I don't know. Not at the began to go downhill. moment. Breaking up was the best thing for our friendships." "Probably the recording of "Who Are We Living For?" was when it started," Stokes said. "There were some arguments over The views expressed in Scene & Heard are those of the what songs to pick. Lyrically, we weren't on the same page. author and do not necessarily reflect those of The Observer. Everyone started to be pissed with each other in 1999." 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page 14 The Observer + CLASSIFIEDS Tuesday, April 22, 2008 CLUB SPORTS Cavs get • Rugby puts up tough fight against OSU Win over Irish cycling qualifies for Collegiate Road Nationals; crew splits races at Northwestern Wizards
Tim Campbell finishing a 4-plus boats against Wheaton. taking the Central Plains Associated Press Special to The Observer close second. This is the sec The first crew went out Sectional title. Rugby ond consecutive year that the strong but could not keep up Notre Dame heads into its CLEVELAND Maybe Hughy stopped up in dass Irish have boasted the confer with the dominant Whnaton Regionals matchup next week Gilbert Arenas was talking this weekend as the dub host once champion. Notre Dame boat and crossed the finish end in Detroit, Mich. as the about some other Cavalinrs. nd No. 25 Ohio State. A finished third overall among line second. The other boat top seed from its section. The The Cleveland team hn and nationally-ranked pownr the Division I I teams. dominated in a wire-to-wire top two Regional teams will the Washington Wizards matelwd with a lirst-ynar dub John Dailey was the first win. advance to the National faced Monday night doesn't is the proverbial recipe for Irish rider Saturday in the Championship tournament. look so heatable. disaster but the Irish hung men's D road race, placing Ultimate The No. 2-seeded men's LeBron James scored 30 tough throughout the game 13th in the hilly 20-mile race. The men's and women's squad opened pool play on points, Zydrunas llgauskas before falling 36-22 to the John McDonough and Kirk dubs traveled to Naperville, Saturday against Western added 16, and the Cavaliers Buckeyes. Ohio State camn Post represented the Irish in Ill. to compete in College Illinois, and rolled to an easy played their best game in out strong, dominating the the men's Crace. Sectionals, the first round of 11-5 victory with solid play months, blowing out Arenas first tw11nty minutes to the Meghan Johnson and Jenn the UPA College Series. from sophomore Bill Carson. and Co. 116-86 to take a 2-0 tune of a 21-0 lead. Perricone rode in the Fourteen women's teams The Irish then routed Knox lead in an opening-round But once the Irish settled women's A race, which start competed in the tournament, College 11-1. The next game playoff series oozing with bad down and moved play into the ed out at a slow clip. and only eight qualified for of pool play was against Illinois blood. Buekeyns end of the field, the Perrieone stayed with the sec Hegionals. Notre Dame came State and strong cutting from The 30-point margin of vic momentum swung to thn ond group of women and in as the No. 3 seed in the tal Andrew Schroeder led the tory was the largest in home standing squad. sprinted to finish second in ented group of teams looking team to an 11-5 victory. Thn Cleveland's postseason histo Don Creiwe was the first to her group and 11th overall. to improve upon its seed for final game of pool play contest ry. The Cavs were playing in crack the scoreboard for tlw Johnson out-sprinted her Hegionals. Only six of twenty was against a strong Chicago their 112th playoll' game. Irish. kkking a drop goal. A partner for a top-20 finish. three men's teams qualified. team. Notre Dame played its James scored 14 points in quiek drive off a lineout from On Sunday, the Irish raced a Notre Dame's women best game of the day and con the third quarter when the Ohio State's five-meter line team time trial and a criteri opened up Saturday with four trolled the game from begin Cavs opened a 25-point lead n~sulted in a score by David um around the capitol build pool play games. Their first ning to end. With Andy over the Wizards, whose Bray. Chris Harrington then ing in Madison. Lavery, game was against Knox Crutchfield patrolling the skies, defensive scheme coming into intercepted a pass deep in Campbell, and Post rode well College, who they took care of the team won 11-5. their third series in as many Notre Damn territory and in the men's A team time trial quickly 15-0. The second The undefeated finish in pool years with Cleveland was to returned it 70 meters for the to finish seventh overall. game proved to be thn hard play put Notre Dame into the slow James by roughing him seore. Down 28-15, the Irish est of the day against a strong semifinals on Sunday against up with hard, clean fouls. were near the Ohio State goal Men's rowing Indiana team. Notre Dame an upstart North Park team. It may be time for Plan B. line once again when the half The Notre Dame Men's Crew was able to overcome a deficit North Park came out playing The Wizards hardly both ended. team raced Northwestern and late in the game and pull out hard and Notre Dame could not ered James, who finished Tho seeond half was evenly Wheaton College on the nar an 11-10 victory thanks in respond early. Arter falling with 12 assists and nine playnd. Ohio State managed a row Northwestern home part to the strong offensive behind, the team tried to claw rPbounds to barely missed his score ofT a scru m and also course this Saturday. The play of senior Shields Duss. their way back but was unable third career postseason kieked a drop goal but eights focused mainly on The Irish then put away to recover in a 15-11 loss. In a triple-double. James went to llarrington scored once more Northwestern, while the !'our DePaul and the University of backdoor bracket matchup the bench with 6:12 left. At for the Irish. The Irish will man boats took on Wheaton. Illinois-Chicago by identical against Northwestern, Notre that point, the Cavaliers were next travel to another tradi The day started ofT with the 13-6 scores. Dame prevailed, 15-10. The leading by 24 points and tional Midwest power, men's varsity 8-plus between On Sunday, the Irish pre next game was a rematch with coach Mike Brown inserted Bowling Green, this Saturday. Notre Dame and vailed 10-8 over Loyola Chi"cago, and this time Notre seldom-used reserves Notre Dame's B-side pre Northwestern. The Irish crew Chicago and defeated North Dame would won even more Dwayne Jones and Damon vailed 12-3 over Ohio State's gained a lead early and held Park 10-5. convincingly by a tally of 15-7. Jones. B-side. Andy Mullen and on to win the race and the With these victories, Notre This victory led to a rematch Wally Szczerbiak added 15 Kar un Ah u ij a each scored Alumni Blade, a trophy given Dame finished first in their with North Park for the 2nd points for the defending tries, and Sean Mitchell added to the winner of the race each pool and earned the right to place game. North Park had Eastern Conference champi two points on a conversion. year. play in the championship just dropped a hard-fought loss ons, who have struggled since The Irish novice crew also game against Northwestern, a to Illinois in the finals and was a big trade in February Cycling jumped out to an early lead team with a very similar not ready for the energy that changed their roster. As the Notre Dame's cyeling team on the Northwestern boat in offensive style. Notre Dame Notre Dame brought to the playoffs neared, Arenas trave.led to Sheboygan and their race. Coming into the came out with intensity and beginning of the game. Notre called the Cavs out, saying "I Madison this weekend to eom sprint, the Northwestern crew controlled the pace of the Dame jumped out early and led think everybody wants pl~tn in the eonference cham made a strong effort to pull game. Sophomores Erin at the half by a score of 8-0 en Cleveland in that first round" pionship road racn, team time ahead, but the Irish proved Maxwell and Jenna Adsit route to a 15-1 win. and "We don't think they can trial, and criterium. For the too much and held onto for impacted the game on both Notre Dame qualified for the beat us in the playoffs three seeond consecutive year, the the victory sides of the disc, and junior Great Lakes Hegionals next years straight." Irish qualified for the A compilation boat of novice Jean Whitney helped the han weekend in Detroit, Mich. With their blowout win Collegiate Hoad Nationals, to and varsity rowers took on dlers move the disc consis Senior captains Nick Chambers Monday, the Cavs took only be held next month in Fort the Wheaton top varsity 8- tently down field. The game and Mike Florack will lead the their fourth 2-0 series lead in Collins, Colo. plus and dominated the entire was close, with the teams team as it competes for a spot franchise history. That may Irish rider Mike Lavery was race to keep the Irish winning trading leads twice. Notre at the UPA College National not be the best look for thn crowned Division I I streak alive. Dame pulled it out in the end, Championships in Boulder, Wizards, as the Cavs won all Confernne11 Champion, with Notre Dame also raced two winning the game 11-9 and Colo., on May 16-18. of those previous series.
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NBA NCAA Men's Tennis ITA Collegiate Rankings team average 1 Virginia 84.38 2 Ohio State 79.75 3 Georgia 72.89 4 usc 67.35 5 UCLA 65.56 6 Mississippi 64.12 7 Texas 62.16 8 Tennessee 59.64 9 Tulsa 52.44 10 Florida State 51.40 11 UNC 51.12 12 Florida 50.79 13 Baylor 50.00 14 Pepperdine 46.94 15 Michigan 44.53 16 Texas Tech 43.62 17 Illinois 43.16 18 Lousiana State 40.79 19 Alabama 39.65 20 Oklahoma State 35.71 21 Arizona State 35.10 22 Rice 33.70 23 Texas A&M 32.55 24 Stanford 32.47 25 Miami (Florida) 31.73
MLB American League, East Division team record perc. RF RA Boston 14·7 .667 112 100 Baltimore 11-8 .579 84 84 AP NY Yankees 10-10 .500 85 93 Spurs guard Manu Ginobli recHives the NBA sixth man award for the 2007-2008 season, given to the league's Toronto 10-10 .500 95 81 best reserve. Ginobli earned 123 of 124 first place votes. Tampa Bay 8·11 .421 92 86 American League, Central Division Ginobli honored with sixth tnan award team record perc. RF RA Chicago Sox 11·7 .611 98 66 O'rer the Phoenix Suns in second with 283 points and name being called in the Kansas City 9·10 .474 63 77 Associated Press their best-of-seven first the Dallas Mavericks' Jason starting lineup. That's not Minnesota 9-10 .474 71 78 Cleveland 7·12 .368 79 90 SAN ANTONIO - San round playoff series. Suns Terry was third with 44. going to make the differ Detroit 7·13 .350 82 118 Antonio Spurs guard Manu guard Leandro Barbosa "It was no race. Just like, ence in 10 to 15 years." Ginobili - good enough to won the award last year when (is it) going to hap Ginobili enters the game, be a starter on about any and Ginobili carne in sec pen," said Spurs point usually about midway American League; West Division team - won the NBA's ond. guard Tony Parker. "He was through the first quarter, to sixth man award given to "He's one of the better our best player all year huge roars from the crowd team record perc. RF RA the league's best reserve on players in the NBA, who long." when the Spurs announcer LA Angels 12·8 •600 97 87 Monday. just happens to come off the The 6-foot-6 guard who yells "Here comes Manu!" Oakland 12·8 .600 91 75 Ginobili led the Spurs in bench," said Spurs starting gives the team a boost of "I just consider myself a Seattle 10-10 .500 94 85 scoring, averaging a career guard Michael Finley. "Any energy off the bench. He player,· a team player," Texas 7·13 .350 82 105 high 19.5 points to go with other team in the league, was drafted by the Spurs in Ginobili said. "So this year 4.8 rebounds and 4.5 he'd probably be starting, 1999 in the second round he (Spurs coach Gregg National League, East Division assists. Ginobili came off the but for hlm to come off the with the 57th overall pick. Popovich) thought it was bench in 51 of the 74 games bench and put his ego aside The Argentinian has been more important for me to team record perc. RF RA he played this season. it just shows what kind of with the team for three of come from the bench, so I Florida 12·7 .632 92 99 "I really don't care about team we have, and more its four title runs. just try to do it the best way NY Mets 10-8 .556 87 69 corning from the bench if importantly what kind of "That is what I'm going to I can." Atlanta 10-9. .526 103 68 that helps the team to win a player and All-Star he is." remember when I retire, Popovich gave all the Philadelphia 9·10 .474 85 83 championship," Ginobili Ginobili got 123 of 124 the rings I have," Ginobili eredit to Ginobili, who is the Washington 5-15 .250 70 107 said. first-place votes for 615 said. "Not the fact l played first Spurs player to win the The Spurs have a 1-0 lead points. Barbosa carne in 28 minutes or 33 or my award. National League, Central Division team record perc. RF RA Chicago Cubs 13·6 .684 118 87 IN BRIEF St. Louis 12-7 .632 87 68 Milwaukee 11-7 .611 87 74 Bens;tals' Thurman back Haywood's foul against Colts RB Keith arrested for Houston 8·12 .400 83 91 with '"Cincy after suspem;ion James sparks controversy multiple misdemeanors Cincinnati 8·12 .400 81 96 CINCINNATI - Linebacker Odell illNEIAND -Washington Wi7_ard'i mn INDIANAPOLIS--Colts running back Pittsburgh 7·12 .368 85 127 Thurman was reinstated from art NFL ter Brendan Haywood was ejected in the Kenton Keith was out of jail Monday suspension after sitting out the last two third quarter of Monday night's Game 2 after being arrested for refusing to National League, West Division seasons. against Oeveland for a hard foul on LeBron leave a nightclub parking lot and The Cincinnati Bengals said Monday James, the most flagrant foul in a series yelling at officers that he was a Coll'i team record perc. RF RA they were informed by commissioner already full of them. 'player who had done nothing wrong, Roger Goodell that Thurman is eligible With 6:59 left. James was driving to the police said. Arizona 13·5 .722 116 65 to play. He was suspended the la.Et two basket when Haywood carne across the Officers working security tried to Colorado 9·9 .500 76 87 seasons because of violations of the lane and shoved the All-Star with both clear a crowd from the parking lot of San Diego 9·11 .450 65 92 NFL's substance abuse policy. hands without going for the ball. The offi the Cloud 9 club after it closed. The LA Dodgers 8·11 .421 82 71 He had been cleared in January by cials called a flagrant 2 foul, leading to 27 -year-old Keith and several others San Francisco 8·11 .421 61 94 the NFL to resume working out with Haywood's automatic ejection The play can refused to leave and were laughing, the Bengals pending word on his sta be reviewed and Haywood could face a dancing and joking, police said. tus. ~le suspension. Keith was charged with misde A second-round draft pick from Tensions have been high between the meanor counts of disorderly conduct, Georgia in 2005, Thurman started 15 team'> for weeks, fueled by oornments from resisting law enforcement, public around the dial games at middle linebacker, led the DeShawn Stevenson and Gilbert Arenas of intoxication and contributing to the team in tackles and tied the team the Wizards. delinquency of a minor, because a rookie record with five interceptions. Game 1, which Oeveland won 93-86, was man he brought to the club with hlm NBA PLAYOFFS His reinstatement comes less than ehippy from the start and Haywood and was 19, police said. He was released Mavericks vs. Hornets three weeks after the Bengals cut wide James had an altercation just before half from jail later Sunday on his own 7:00 p.m., TNT receiver Chris Henry following Jlli; fifth time. In the first half of Game 2, Arenas was recognizance. arrest since 2005. 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Associated Press MONTREAL - Carey Price East leaderboard put a couple of tough losses behind him to save the Montreal Canadiens' playoff run want to keep that going. and dash the Boston Bruins' By MICHAEL BLASCO The only thing that will beat hopes of an improbable come Sports Writer us is ourselves." back. The entire Irish squad Price got his second shutout After a torrid start, No. 25 turned in solid performanc and Andrei Kostitsyn scored Notre Dame holds a nine es, with no golfer ending twice to lead Montreal to a 5-0 stroke lead over the rest of Monday lower than 16th win over Boswn on Monday the field heading into the overall. Behind leader night in the deciding game of final day of competition at Brophy, junior captain Lisa their first-round playoff series. the Big East championship Maunu added a 76 to her The 20-year-old rookie tournament at the Elks Run first-round best 73 to finish stopped 25 shots overall, includ Golf Club in Batavia, Ohio. the five-over par day tied ing 11 shots in the opening peri The Irish (597) shot the for fourth overall, a single od. Price had allowed 10 goals two lowest rounds of the stroke behind the leaders. overall in a pa.ir of Canadiens tournament, carding a 296 Also tied for fourth overall, losses after he :~ot his first play and 301, to stake out a freshman standout So-Hyun off shutout in a 1-0 win in Game comfortable Park fired a 4. lead over 75 on top of "It was a rough couple of second-place "Our goal all year has her first games and we ]mew it just was No. 28 been winning the Big . round 7 4 to n't going our way," Price said. "I Louisville finish five knew it was going to turn (606). Notre East championship. over par. around eventually, and tonight AP Dame sopho That's what we expect to Kristin it did." Canadiens' players celebrate around goaltender Carey Price after more Annie do, and we deserve to Wetzel shot Mike Komisa.rek opened the their 5-0 win over Boston in game 7 of their first-round playoff series. scoring 3:31 in amid one of the B r o p h y have that happen." 75-76, seven recorded . over par, to first of countless roars from the against Washington. Otherwise, it," said Alex Kovalev, who back-to-hack end up tied raucous Bell C€,ntre crowd over the Canadiens will face the New assisted on the Canadiens' first 74s to head Susan Holt for seventh as the course of the evening. York Rangers. two goals. "They battled back into the final Irish coach the fourth The Canadiens took control of Tim Thomas stopped 30 shots and even down 3-1 and coming round tied Notre Dame the game in the second, out for Boston, which fell short in back to our building they were for first. golfer in the shooting the Bruins 17-6 while its bid to overcome both 2-0 and able to regroup and get a cou Three other Irish golfers top 10. Completing the Irish building a thm3-goal lead on a 3-1 series deficits for the first ple of wins, but the mistakes we played their way into the squad, freshman Katie superb goal by Mark Streit mid time in team history. made, we didn't compete like top-10. Conway contributed a 79 way through the period and "The character of this team we did today. If we had played Before play Sunday, Notre and a 77 to head into the Kostitsyn's second goal of the can't be overemphasized, I don't the way we played tonight I Dame head coach Susan final round tied for 16th at series at 15:13. think, for what we battled think we could have done it ear Holt expressed confidence 12-over par. Kostitsyn punctuated the win through all year and even in lier." in her team.· The Big East champi with his second of the game, a this seven-game series," Montreal coach Guy "Our goal all year has onship tournament con power-play goal with 2:02 Thomas said. Carbonneau moved Kovalev to a been winning the Big East cludes today, with the third remaining in tb.e third. Sergei Bruins coach Claude Julien line with Saku Koivu and Chris championship," Holt said. and final round beginning Kostitsyn scored with 7.3 sec was behind the Canadiens' Higgins. "That's what we expect to with a staggered start at onds remaining. bench in 2004 when Montreal The move allowed rookie do, and we deserve to have 8:00a.m. Top-seeded Montreal will face won three straight to overcome Sergei Kostitsyn to play on that happen. We've been Philadelphia in the second a 3-1 deficit in a first-round win another line alongside his playing good golf. We're hit Contact Michael Blasco at round, if the Flyers win their over Boston. brother, Andrei, and center ting the ball well and we [email protected] Eastern Conference quarterfinal "You've got to give them cred- Tomas Plekanec as Carbonneau spread out the Canadiens' offense. · "We were trying to give some space to them, to be able to move around and control the puck," Kovalev said. Komisarek got credit for his first career playoff goal as his point shot struck Bruins center Petteri Nokelainen's stick, caus ing a deflection that left Thomas no chance to recover and stop. Streit made it a 2-0 lead 10:45 into the second as he slipped past Bruins captain Zdeno Chara to fmish off a sensational passing play. Kovalev passed the puck back to Komisarek in the Canadiens' zone and waited on the right boards at center ice for the return pass. The high-scoring Russian fed a cross ice pass to Maxim Lapierre as the Canadiens cen ter entered the Bruins zone, and Lapierre dished off to Streit, who pushed the puck past Chara before driving the net to put a backhand between Thomas' pads for his first play off goaL "My mouth was wide open seeing that goal," Komisarek said. "The patience and poise that he had with the puck, and to bury it was pretty speciaL"
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MLB Rookie Galarraga, Tigers take down Blue Jays Arnzando Galarraga has sparked Detroit to two victories since being called up; Ortiz leads Red Sox over Rangers
on base," Galarraga said. ning. Associated Press "When tho bases were loaded, I They beat the Texas Hangers TOHONTO - t\n unlikely tried to be aggressive in that Monday on Patriots Day and rookil~ is lt>ading tlw Detroit moment." swept the four-game series Tig<~rs in wins. "llis eontrol wasn't as good while Manny Hamirez and Sean Armando c;alarraga won his today. but he dodged a eouple Casey watched from the secoml straight start. Edgar of bullets." Tigers manager Jim dugout. Ht>nleria honwrnd and the Leyland said. Clay Buchholz pitched six Tigers lwat tlw Toronto Bltw Toronto finished 0-for-R with shutout innings, David Ortiz .lays 5-1 Monday. runners in scoring position continued his surge from a hor Ivan Hodrigunz had four hits Monday and went 7-for-56 rible slump with two doubles and lkntPria srorPd twice for 1.125) with runrwrs in scoring and three HBis and .Julio Lugo the Tigm·s. position on this six-game went 4-for-4. c;alarraga 12-0) has won honwstand, winning just twice. Four Hed Sox batters had at b;u:k-to-back starts since bning Tigers rnliever Clay Bapada least two of Boston's 12 hits. called up from Triple-t\ Toledo got ono out in tho sixth, "They rely on everybody and last week to. rPplaee Dontrelln Aquilino Lop~~z worked l 1-3 it seems like everybody seems Willis, sidPiirwd by a hyperex innings and Denny Bautista to contribute," Texas manager lnndod kr11w. pitch1)d tlw eighth. Hon Washington said. "! think t\equirod in an oiTsoason Gregg Zaun hit a lnadofT I ill you ask any manager if it's trade with Texas, Galarraga homer in the ninth Toronto off nice not to see Manny in the won't face tlw Hangors when Todd .lonns. Zaun shook his lineup and they'll tell you, 'yes.' tlwy visit l>otroil this Wl~nk, but !wad af'lPr fouling ofT a high, 3- I'm no different. These guys, still had a rnossagn for his for 2 pitch, tlwn hit the nnxt deliv they scored runs." nwr learn. ery over the right-field wall for Boston scored at lnast five "They made a mistake," he his first home run of the sea runs for the ninth straight said. laughing. SOIL game. The Heel Sox have won No otlwr Tigors pitdwr has The Tigers gave Galarraga all nine of 10 overall. morn than orw win. and the the support he nneded with a "That's the key for us," lead quintnt of Jprpmy Bonderman, !'our-run second ofT Shaun off man .Jacoby Ellsbury said, Nate Holwrtson. Kenny Hogers, Marcum 12-1 ). Hyan Haburn hit "getting on base and allowing .Justin Vorlander and Willis a two-run single. Brandon Inge our great batters in our lineup have just two virtori1~s between f'ollowed with a sacrifice fly and to get up. As long as we get thmn so l'ar. Hodriguez capped the burst runners on, we know we're The 26-yPar-old Galarraga with an HB! single. going to score some runs." AP blank<~d tho Blue .Jays on three "We got some big hits today Hamirez. who was ejected for Tiger pitcher Armando Galarraga delivers a pitch during singles l'or 5 1-:{ innings. lie and took advantage of our arguing a third strike in the Detroit's 5-1 victory over Toronto. struek out four and walked opportunities," Leyland said. sncond inning Sunday, is bat four. "That's huge, that's what ting .338 and got the day ofT. Cers but allowed no runs in the leave lpitchersl out there, but "lie had a lot or late move you've got to do." Lefty hitter Casey, with a .349 inning. But after throwing his we took advantage of it." nwnt," Bluo .Jays seeond base Henteria led off the sixth with average, rested against lefty warmups before the third, he Boston rallied late to win its man Aaron llill said. "He was his third homer of the season Kason Gabbard. left with a stiff back. previous two games but didn't running pilehes in. he was and second or this series. Gabbard pitched a perfect "That doesn't help them," need a comnbaek this time as it doing woll with his slider." Marcum lost for the first time first inning then hurt his back Boston manager Terry scored five runs in a wild c;alcirraga, who beat in four starts, allowing five when he slipped pitching to Francona said. "We got into fourth inning and three in the Clevnland last week. lowered runs in 5 2-3 innings, his short Kevin Youkilis, leading off the their bullpen and they got into fifth, all off Dustin Nippert 11- his EHt\ to 1.50. lin has not est outing this season. lie second. lie walked three bat- situations where they had to 2). allowed a hit to a right-hander walked a season-high four and in 21 at-bats since joining llw struck out two. Tignrs. "Obviously wo didn't bring "lie's got a good sinker, a anything to the table today," good slider," Hodrigunz said. llill said. "Marcum didn't have "lin was able to usn tlwm today his best day, we didn't hit, did and mako tho right-handnd hit n't play defense. It's one of tors hit tlw ball on thn ground." those games that's going to be The Blue Jays loaded the easy to forget." bases against (;alarraga in both tho third and fourth innings, Red Sox 8, Rangers 3 but fail1~d to score eaeh time. Two of Boston's leading hit "I was trying to lw more ters got the holiday off. aggressivo when I had runners t\nd the Heel Sox kept on win-
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BOSTON MARATHON Cheruiyot wins third consecutive Marathon
Kenya~s Robert Cheruiyqt cruises to a 27-second victory; Ethiopia's Dire Tune takes women's race by historic margin
Associated Press Square, and appeared to give up an edge when she nearly missed BOSTON - Hobert Cheruiyot is one of the final turns. well-versed in the Boston Tune quiekly eomposed herself Marathon eourse, with li:IUr vie and took the lead bofore the last tories in five trips from turn, but Biktimirova eaught her llopkinton to thn Ba<:k Bay. and regained the lead briefly. i\bderrahirne Bouramdane vis Tune pulled ahead for the good itml for the first time on Monday, on Boylston Street in the last few learning what thousands beforn dty bloeks and beat the Hussian him have <~orne to und1wstand as to the line. they reached Heartbreak Hill, 20 "I was lighting until the end," miles in. Biktimirova said. "And in the "Up," lw said, "is the prob end I just didn't have enough lnrn." speed." Choruiyot pulled away from The previous elosest women's Bouramdano as they entered the finish eame two years ago, when Newton I Iills, reaching tlw ernst Hita Jcptoo beat Jelena of I leartbreak II ill with a 27 -soe Prokopeuka by 10 seconds. ond lead and coasting to the Jeptoo finished third this year, sixth-fastest time in Boston 69 second behind Tune. Marathon history. Cheruiyot's third straight vieto l>irn Tune outkicked i\levtina ry gave Kenya its 15th men's title Biktimirova after a back-and in 17 years; Kenyans also fin forth last mile to win by 2 sec ished sixth through ninth. But onds in the elosest finish in the Cheruiyot's countrymen strug history of the women's raeo. gled more than usual overall, Cheruiyot. of Knnya, and Tune, with just the one man in the top of Ethiopia, eaeh earned a five - the fewest sinee 1992 - reenntly enhanced prize of and one woman in the top 10. Robert Cheruiyot, right, and Dire Tune, left, celebrate on the winner's podium after their victories $150,000 - the biggest in m<~jor Cheruiyot eouldn't say whether in the men's and women's Boston Marathons Monday. marathon history. the performanee was related to Cheruiyot won in 2 hours, 7 the postelection violence back record paee as he approaehed top three to make the U.S. team year while in orbit on the minutes, 46 seconds to become home, in which some of his Kenmore Square before slowing that will go to Beijing. International Space Station. the fourth man to win the raee country's top runners have been over the last mile. Although his With the throe new Olympians Armstrong won the Tour de li1ur timns. i\llnr erossing the lin killed and thrnatened. Cheruiyot eourse record remained intact, serving as grand marshals, more France seven times on the ish linn, lw dropped to his knees missed two months of training he still beat his winning time of than 25,000 runners left strength of his work in the to kiss the ground beforn stand beeause of the unrnst before his 2:14:13 in last year's monsoon Hopkinton under a cloudy but mountains. When he started ing up and counting otr his four eoaeh moved their camp to like conditions. ealm sky and temperatures in preparing for Boston, his third vietories with an upraisnd arm. Namibia. "Myself, I tried to push," he the 50s - a major improvement marathon, some race veterans "This was the hardest," "My training has been going said. "Last year, I wanted the over last year's rain and wind told him the hills weren't as dilTI Cheruiyot said. "Boston is not a well despite the problems in raee to be faster." that threatened to seuttle the cult as their reputation made very easy course, it's very dilli Kenya," he said. "When some The race eame a day after the raee. them out to be. eult. (But) I enjoy running the thing happens, you have to for U.S. trials featured the top Among those in the event's "They were wrong," said hills." get and train." American women running for a seeond-largest field: eyelist Armstrong, who finished 496th Although he repeatedly Bouramdane finished 1:18 berth in the Olympics. Deena Lance Armstrong and astronaut in 2:50:58. "They are harder, eheckod his watch as he ran back and fellow Moroccan Kastor, Magdalena Lewy Boulet Sunita Williams, who ran a sim and they do eome at a difficult alone for the last miles, Khalid El Boumlili eame in third, and Blake Russell finished in the ulated Boston Marathon last time in the raee." Cheruiyot did not challenge the another 1:31 back. Nicholas course reeord of 2:07:14 he set Arciniaga, of Rochester Hills, two years ago. Mich., was 10th to give the llis problem: No one to race Amerieans a top-1 0 finish for the with. fourth straight year. "It's very dilTicult when you're Cheruiyot pulled away from a LETS PLAY ITALIAN running alone here in Boston," pack of four at the base of the he said. "You need eompany." Newton Hills, running the 19th Tune, who finished in 2:25:25, mile in 4:37. He passed defend THIS· SUMMER was the first Ethiopian woman to ing women's champion Lidiya win sinee Fatuma Hoba won Grigoryeva, with the two No. 1 thrne straight from 1997-99. She bibs running side-by-side, just ran side-by-side with before the 24-mile mark. Biktimirova into Kenmore Cheruiyot remained on a
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Atlanta last weekend. the fourth player in Associated Press Andruw Jones was dropped Philadelphia frar•chise history finish career vvith L.A. ATLANTA - Tim Hudson to eighth in the starting batting to homer in fi.ve straight pitched six scoreless innings order for the first time since games. Bobby Abreu was the Jerry Buss met in Barcelona a before tiring and drove in two Aug. 22, 1998. He went 0-for- last to do it on May 8-12, 2005. Associated Press few weeks after his trade runs, leading the Braves past 4, lowering the five-time All The All-Star second baseman LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant demand, and he again told Buss the Washington Nationals 7-3 Star's average to .159. became the first major leaguer made clear Monday what's been, he wanted out. Then, under on Monday night for Atlanta's Penny (3-2) allowed a run to homer in five straight games at the very least, a bit ambigu standing the difficulty of trading fifth straight win. and six hits while improving to since the New York Yankees' ous for nearly a year: He wants someone of his ability, Bryant The Braves have allowed 5-0 in five career starts at Alex Rodriguez from Sept. 4-9 to stay with the Los Angeles said all the right things entering only six runs during their win Great American. Chan Ho Park last year, according to the Elias Lakers and is open to finishing training camp in October, but ning streak, which pushed pitched three innings for his Sports Bureau. his career with them. the peace was broken a few them above .500 for the first first save in 330 career pitch Garrett Atkins and Yorvit "Absolutely," Bryant said the weeks later when Buss said he time this season at 10-9. ing appearances. Torrealba homl1red for the day after the Lakers beat the would "certainly listen to trade Washington keeps falling far Matt Belisle (0-1}, in his first Rockies, who blew an eighth Denver Nuggets 128-114 in their offers." ther and farther back in the NL start after opening the season inning lead for the second playoff series opener. "I've The situation was tenuous at East race. The Nationals lost on the disabled list due to a straight day. always wanted to be here. I just best when the season began, their third in a row and have sore right forearm, gave up 12 The Phillies mounted the felt like I was in a position and stories circulated through dropped 15 of 17 since starting hits and seven runs in four winning rally off Taylor where I didn't really have a out November concerning poten the season with three straight innings. Buchholz (1-1) \<\-ith two outs choice. They wanted to go in an tial trade possibilities. The spec wins. and no one on. Hyan Howard opposite direction. My legs ulation stopped, Bryant stayed Matt Chico (0-4) lasted only Marlins 10, Pirates 4 and Pat Burrell .>ingled, and aren't as young as they used to and the Lakers flourished, going four innings, giving up six runs PITTSBURGH - Hanley Pedro Feliz walked. Brian be. Just let me know. 57-25 to earn the No. 1 seed in and eight hits. Ramirez, Josh Willingham and Fuentes came on in relief, and "I love the weather. I love my the Western Conference. Hudson (3-1) went to the sev Dan Uggla homered and Mark Carlos Ruiz doubled down the '63 drop-top Impala. I love the The 29-year-old Bryant, a enth with a 7-0 lead, but the Hendrickson, normally one of right-field line to drive in two 405 [freeway]. I love my guys." leading candidate to win his first Nationals touched him for a the majors' worst hitters, had runs. Bryant acknowledged he MVP award, has stated on sever couple of runs. He might have two hits while pitching eight Philadelphia added three wouldn't have imagined things al occasions that his 12th NBA gotten though it if not for an innings in Florida's win over runs in the top of the ninth off would have turned out this way season has been the most enjoy error by first baseman Mark slumping Pittsburgh. Micah Bowie on doubles by late last May, when he publicly able, and did so again Monday. Teixeira, who dropped a rou Ramirez hit a two-run homer Werth and T.J. Bohn. Rudy called the Lakers' front office a He said he hasn't necessarily tine throw and gave during a four-run second Seanez (2-1) got the win in mess and demanded a trade, changed his mind about wanting Washington an unearned run. inning against Matt Morris (0- relief. feeling he had been misled when to stay instead of wanting to 3), giving him three homers in he signed a seven-year, $136.4 leave. Cubs 7, Mets 1 two games. Willingham added Cardinals 4, Brewers 3 million contract in July 2004. "No, I just don't talk about it," CHICAGO Carlos a two-run drive as Florida MILWAUKEE Skip The Lakers haven't won a play Bryant said. "These are answers Zambrano pitched seven scored three more times in the Schumaker doubl£'d in the go off series since. I've given all year long. I love strong innings, and Aramis third to make it 7-2. ahead run in the II inth and the "I've been sitting on this for this team. If they want to win Ramirez and Felix Pie home The Pirates lost their sixth in St. Louis Cardinals overcame a four years now," he said. "After right now, I'm all for them. red as the surging Chicago a row and gave up double-digit fielding blunder in the eighth three or four years of not getting That's all I've said the whole Cubs won for the 12th time in runs for the third consecutive to beat the Milwaukee Brewers anything done, to see it today, it time. We have a job to do here, 15 games. game. They hadn't done that on Monday night in the opener feels pretty damn good. It's been so it's important to focus on Zambrano (3-1) allowed five since Montreal scored a com of a two-game set. a hell of a ride." what we're doing and not get hits and a run with two walks bined 35 runs against them Brian Barton, who pinch hit Bryant and Lakers owner distracted from that." and four strikeouts. Chicago's during three games in June for reliever Ryan Franklin, ace was backed by four double 1994. doubled off embat1.led Brewers plays, including one in the Hendrickson (4-1) gave up reliever Derrick Turnbow (0-1) sixth started by shortstop four runs, three earned, and to start the inning and Store our Stun Honny Cedeno that doused a eight hits. He doubled and Schumaker drove him in with a theSummerl big inning for the New York scored in the fourth inning double to the wall after a sacri Call or stop on by & reserve today! Mets. before hitting a run-scoring fice bunt. Ramirez homered to left-cen single an inning later. Turnbow, frustrated since 866-232-2169 ter after Derrek Lee led off the Hendrickson came in to the he's no longer the setup man, 6482 Brick Road, South Bend fourth with a single off John game 1-for-46 the last two sea has failed to inspire confidence Located at Cleveland Rd. & US 20 Bypass. 7 minutes from campus Maine (1-2). The Cubs added sons. for the Brewers, who lost for live runs in the eighth, includ the 10th time in 13 games ing three on Pie's first homer Phillies 9, Rockies 5 against the Cardinals. ofT Jorge Sosa. DENVER- Now that there's Franklin (1-1) got the win no playoff pressure, the despite giving up an unearned Astros 10, Padres 3 Philadelphia Phillies beat the run by limiting the damage in HOUSTON - Hoy Oswalt Colorado Rockies with relative the eighth, and Jason won consecutive starts for the ease. Isringhausen earned his sev first time since August, and Chase Utley homered for the enth save in eight chances with Miguel Tejada and Lance fifth straight game, Jayson a perfect ninth. Berkman drove in three runs Werth hit an inside-the-park It appeared the Brewers had each to lead Houston over San home run and Philadelphia ral all the momentum before Diego. lied for a win over Colorado on Franklin stopped them cold. Oswalt (2-3) allowed three Monday night in the first meet With St. Louis leading 3-2, runs and six hits in seven ing between the teams since Ryan Braun doubled to start innings as the Astros won their the Rockies' first-round sweep the eighth inning and right second straight following a last October. fielder Ryan Ludwick charged three-game losing streak. Utley hit his major league hard on a fly ball from Corey Oswalt was 6-0 over eight leading ninth home run -- his Hart, but slipped and lost the starts from July 20 to Sept. 3, sixth in five games. He became ball in the lights. then went 0-4 in six starts before winning at Philadelphia on April 16. Justin Germano (0-2) allowed a career-high 10 runs in 3 1-3 innings, and the 10 hits he gave up matched the most off him in 39 major league appearances. He also walked LIFEGUARDS WANTIED three, and his ERA for the sea son rose from 1.35 to 5.01. RecSports is hiring energetic, responsible and San Diego's Jim Edmonds hit qualified Lifeguards and Water Safety ln.Btructor~. a solo home run in the second, his first homer since Sept. 14. Applicants must be at least eighteen years old w1th a valid WSI and/or Lifeguard certificate with up-to Dodgers 9, Reds 3 date CPR for the Professional Rescuer and First CINCINNATI Nomar Garciaparra hit his first home Aid certifications is required. run since Sept. 14 and drove in three runs, Brad Penny stayed Positions are open at Rolfs Aquatics Center, perfect at Great American Ball Park and Los Angeles beat RocknE! Memorial and St. Joseph Be)ach \:incinnati. Hafael Furcal also homered, and James Loney added three RBI for the Dodgers, who equaliPd their season high with 1 5 hits after scoring one run in each of their three losses at page 22 The Observer+ SPORTS Tuesday, April 22, 2008
SOFTBALL Potthoff made a beautiful behind-the-back pass in the first Kessler half to sophomore Ma,ja I Janson continued from page 24 to give Anthony Travel an H-4 Irish to play two at Purdue lead. also adding six poinl'i of her own. Supremn Court relied on the "I laving a really big presence in deep ball all game and when the post really helped us win the those attempts stopped falling, By SAM WERNER game," Kessler said. "We passed Anthony Travel was ablp, to Sporrs Wrircr very well and were able to set up extP.nd the lead to 11-6 at half a lot of easy lay-ups and shots." time. Notre Damn ( 29-15. 9-5 Big Picking up the Sportsmanship The second half began with EasO looks to rebound from two award for Supreme Court was more of the same, with Anthony crudal Big East losses ov1~r the sophomore Alena Christiansen, Travel continuing to drive to the wneknnd against South Florida who knocked down three deep basket and Supreme Court relying when it travPls to Wnst Lafaynttn shot.:;, including two in the waning on deep jumpers. fiw a non-mnfilrHncn doublehead moments. Supreme Court juniors Erin nr against Purdun (:~0-16, 6-6 Big Anthony Travel made sure it Newson and Meghan Conaty Tim). was clear they were honoring turned it on in thn second period, Thn Irish an• looking to solidify longtime friend McAdams, who combining for five second-half tlwir position fill' post'inason play. works in the Main Building for the points. But that was not enough "We're two Wl)nks away from Office of Information Technology. as Anthony Travel continued to thn Big East championship," McAdams was seriously injured in make tough baskets in tho paint. Notrn Dame mach Doanna Gumpf a car accident in West Virginia Frustration started to Silt in for said. "It's time filr us to got some three months ago while attending Supreme Court, with the scorn at consistency in playing good son a Notre Dame women's ba'ikHtball 14-8, when Supmme Court soph ball." game. omore MHrodith Perks grabbed Thn BoilermakPrs an~ lind for "Patricia has always been our the jersey of Director of Athletic fourth place in tho Big Tnn but biggest fan," forward and assis Advancem1mt Sarah Liebsheer. have strugglnd rnenntly - going tant women's basketball coach Things quiekly cooled down, how :{-6 over th1)ir last ninn games. Angie Potthoff said. "The whole ever, thanks to qui<:k calls from PurdLw has droppnd ganws point of this run was to raise the ollkials. against Ohio State, Valparaiso. money for Patricia and have fun." Kessll~r split the Supreme Court Ball State. Mkhigan State, and Fans were able to pledge for the defense several times in the sec Northwestern in that span. IAN GAVLICK!The Observer points that Anthony Travel ond half, earning some tough Bnfi1m being swPpt by tho Bulls. Irish junior infielder Linda Kohan awaits a pitch during Notre scored, and Potthoff said the team point'> on fast breaks. the Irish worn one of thn hottnst Dame's doubleheader sweep of Eastern Michigan on Apr. 9. was able to raise almost $33,000 Anthony Travel stalled at 16 t1~arns in tlw Big East. sporting a for McAdams. and 18 points, and it looked like 13-3 record in their 16 games HBis. Junior Katie Mitchell and series," Gumpf said. "But our hit Potthoff was dominant for Supreme Court might stage a before Sunday's losses. Notrn sophomore Kelsey Haupert have ting wasn't enough." Anthony Travel, controlling the comeback, but those hopes were Damn is lnd by tho pitching of jun eaeh added seven home runs of Gumpf added that, even though boards on both sides of the ball dashed by one of Kessler's strong ior Brittrwy Bargar. who h
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BOOKSTORE BASKETBALL Closing the book Saltines take men's Anthony Travel wins championship behind women's tournament, steady play of Andersen raises money for friend
By MATT GAMBER By JARED )EDICK Associate Sports Editor Sports Writer
Call it clkh1i, but it's the truth They won it for tlwir biggest - Carl And1~rsen did just about fan. evnrything for the Saltines last Anthony Travel dominated the night. boards to cruise to a hard-fimght The junior guard was named 21-14 victory over Supreme Court the tournament MVP after scor in the Women's Bookstore ing a game-best nine points, Ba..'iketball championship Monday. grabbing several offensive The team dedicated il'i win to rebounds, taking two charges friend Patricia McAdams, who and adding a few blocks and attended the game eourl'iide in a steals to lnad the Saltines to a wheelchair after suffering a terri 21-14 rout of Mean Girls. ble ear accident three months "We came so close my fresh ago. man year and these otlwr guys' Saint Mary's senior ~lison sophomore ynar," Andersen said Kessler of Anthony Travel came of a championship gamP defeat away with the tournament MVP two years ago. "It's just good to award. end on a winning noh•." "The MVP award is really a ·- Mean (1irls opened the gamp, great honor for me, but I am in a box-and-one defense with more happy that we wern able to senior guard Justin Cillette win it all," Kessler said. given tlw undesirable assign Kessler ran tho point elliciently ment of shadowing Andnrsen, l()f Anthony Traw1l, setting up her who also scored 10 points in WU YUEfThe Observer teammates in the low post while Left, junior Carl Andersen attempts a shot in the Saltines' 21-14 win in the men's Bookstore see CHAMPS/page 22 Basketball final Monday. Right, Anthony Travel senior Alison Kessler dribbles in the women's final. see KESSLER/page 22
MEN'S lACROSSE Laxers travel to face Air Force in Colorado Springs
of an 11-10 overtirnP. loss to out the season. Wharton leads the squad in Corrigan said. "Not only did By ELLYN MICHALAK Quinnipac, hold an overall "We're playing good assists after earning his 22nd he win it, but he seored a goal Sports Wrirer reeord of 3-7 ( 1-2). defense, winning faceoffs, and against Lehigh. Senior goal and allowed us to score four "lAir Foree! plays like most getting good goal tending," tender Joey Kemp reeordnd goals after that. It was make Coming ofT a 14-7 win over [SIHvice I academy teams," Corrigan said. "Those are his ninth win of the season in it-take it at that time and he Lehigh, the No. 9 Irish travel Irish coach Kevin Corrigan pretty reliable things. When the same game. allowed us to advance the to Colorado to take on Air said. "They are disciplined, you can do those things well Despite close competition score and snparate from Foree in their penultimate they play hard, they are well and consistently, you beeome and a tied first quarter score Lehigh." conference game. conditioned, and you have to a very hard team to beat. Our of 2-2 in the Lehigh eontest, The Irish hope to carry their The rnateh-up was originally be ready for tough competi offense has been less effective Notre Dame's senior midfield suceess into the f'inal two sclwdulnd for earlier this Sfla tion beeause they play hard but when you have those er Taylor Clagett ignited thn GWLL contests of the season son, hut indement weather in for a full 60 minu.tes." three things, you have a very Irish offense, scoring the sec against Air Foree and Ohio the Chieago area prevented Despite the Lehigh game tough team." ond goal of a 9-0 Irish run. State. the Irish from traveling. being the seventh time this The Irish are led by junior "The biggest thing that was Tomorrow's contest against Thn Irish eurn1ntly boast an year his squad has recorded attack Ryan Hoff, whose four a turning point in the game the Falcons begins at 4 p.m. overall record of 9-2 (2-1 14 goals, Corrigan attributes goals in the Lehigh game for us was when Taylor GWLL), while the No. 43 Notre Dame's success to effec moved his team-leading tally Claggett won the face off lin Contact Ellyn Michalak at Falcons, recently coming ofT tive defensive tactics through- to 30. Senior attack Alex the second quarter]." [email protected]
BASEBALL Irish garner top-25 recognition for first time
Schrage, it's been a season third straight time a Notre - By LORENZO REYES long goal for his squad - but Dame player has taken the Sporrs Writer now, he says the team cannot award. afford to slip up and lose Mills hit .385 over this past For the f'irst time this sea focus. weekend's conference series son, No. 24 Notre Damn knows "It's a goal that we'vn been against West Virginia with t.hat thP nation is aware of its shooting for all season," seven HB Is, and the first two I'IH~ 11 n t s u e c n s s . T h e el u b Schrage said. "We talked horne runs of his career. cracked the top-25 for thn first about it last week when we Schrage said Mills has been timo whnn the nnwest were ranked 29th. We've been an integral eng in his club's Collegiate BasPball national playing well recently, but now recent success. poll was r11lnasnd Monday, it puts a target on our backs. "He's been a real key to our thanks in part to an ll-ganw When teams come in and face hot streak," Schrage said. win streak and vidorills in 12 us, they're going to want to "lie's enabled the rest of our of its last 13. knock out a top-25 team. so lineup to fall into place from After struggling to open the we have to match their emo the No. 2-hole. lie's just done season, going 5-6, the Irish tions." an outstanding job of getting (25-10-1, 12-3 Big East) havn Part of the recent success is on base. lie's also a team play hit their stride and takPn 20 of due to sophomore pitcher/des er. He has 13 sacrif'ice bunts, their last 25 contests en route ignated hitter David Mills, who and just does the little things VANESSA GEMPIS!The Observer to their f'irst top-25 ranking. was named Big East player of Irish sophomore designated hitter David Mills lays down a bunt For Notre Damn eoaeh DavP the week Monday, marking the see RANKING/page 22 during Notre Dame's 2-2 tie with Central Michigan on March 17.