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Two mailboxes are great, but is the light blinking for me or for my The Trashmen Cometh roommate? Story by Aggie Noble Boy, you Domers are slobs Art by Caroline Wolf In terms of melding the physical with the movement, and "I Had No Right" conjures Notre Dame Stadium: a tailgater's para the crews spend another six hours cleaning spiritual, Dar Williams has something in up the anti-Vietnam War poetry and pro dise outside and a concession-stand the parking lots. Finally, the litter is blown common with Notre Dame football. Her tests ofactivists Daniel and Philip Berrigan. at sandwiches for the junkie's dream inside. But after grilling your down with backpack blowers, which new Razor & Tie release, The Green World, Williams makes another Vietnam reference masses - we like to slip pre-game brat to perfection and polishing off takes 20 hours. The total time spent captures the on one ofthe album's catchiest tracks, claim some onions on the grill your nachos in the third quarter, where does all adds up too approximately 32 hours of hand-squeez ing that Y oko Ono 's agenda did not include for a special treat. that trash go? picking up after Notre Dame fans. ing prayers, the breaking up the Beatles, but instead con Usually, the thousands of wrappers and The crews do not always find your exuberance of sisted of "challenging the warring nations V leftovers find their way to the ground. average trash. "Every week, we find a victory ex with her paper installations." Williams' S·····<····)RUd ! Munching Notre Dame fans leave a huge bunch of cell phones, cameras, all types pressed in the subtle rhymes praise Yoko's beloved amount of waste behind after every game. ("When John called the wind an opera / Themo:i~ w~sb~tter of electronics and at least 15 barbecue delicate el before we heard him The people who restore the stadium to its Making love with every chakra"), but her grills," says company owner Richard egance of a speak at the pep rally. pristine state each week come from Great Stein. "The most bizarre find was when lifted helmet. chorus poses a feministic challenge ("I won't Lakes Property Maintenance. The company we opened up a container to find a goat She doesn't be your Y oko Ono ifyou're not good enough cleans the seating area as well as the general skull left over from a barbecue. Everyone compete with Dar Williams forme"). parking lots. The maintenance staff begins jumped when we first saw it. We still the volume of Dar Williams is a teller for our time, CD'······N~qC~~!ra6tJ work as soon as the band clears the field, laugh about it to this day." the crowd in this folksy reverie, but the spinning stories from the depths of Green splitting the work between several areas. So, how much trash are we talking interior crusades that she puts to music wich Village to the peaks ofNepal, bestow We love the money, At the Nebraska game, 24 people cleaned about here? Atthe Nebraska game alone, carry the intensity of the offensive line. ing her listeners with the precis of ancient but these noon-time the stadium and 15 were assigned to the 15 tons of trash were collected, which is Williams matches '60s-folk-rock-influ and modem wisdom: "Life is as hard and as games cut the tailgates parking lots. The crews begin by cleaning enough trash to fill two football fields. enced music with lyrics that draw inspira easy as they say." 0 short. up the seating area of the stadium, which "All I know," Stein says, "is after the game tion from a number of noteworthy sources. takes them about four- to six-and-a-half is over, we certainly have our work cut out for "And A God Descended," for instance, al Catch Dar Williams live at the Vic hours. After they have cleaned the stadium, us." 0 ludes to the failed 17th-century Messianic Theater in Chicago on September 29.

» » Although Christy was a Boilermaker her How many people in your family went Yeah I did, 'cause I had my ND shirt on, gineering and management. Management is a new one to me. freshman year, the pull ofthe Blue and Gold to Purdue? and everyone at the tailgate had on Purdue second-best in the nation, and engineering proved too much for her to resist. Now she is It started off with my dad - he was the things, so they were all saying, "So what'd is huge. Every other person you meet is Who's got better food? trying to convert her die-hard Purdue family first one. Then my mom went, and I have an you do, just throwaway all your Purdue some sort of engineer. There's a good agri Here, definitely. You just have more of a with· a transfer· into Irish fans, a mission that might not be older sister that went ... three of my dad's stuff?" My mom wore a Notre Dame cultural program, too. selection. Also;" at Purdue, each dorm has its stUdent fromPllrciue ... . such a challenge after Saturday's win. . brothers and two ofhis sisters ... my mom's sweatshirt, but that was just for me. own cafeteria, and they're geared to differ brother ... and I have four older cousins that Someone told me thatthe"students have ent things. Last year, I was in the Wellness So what exactly is a Boilermaker? all went to Purdue. Did you have little Purdue cookies and to wear farm boots to class. Is that true? Hall, and they had all the food labeled. There's no real· connection except the decorations there?· Well, uh, there are a few local people drink, but somehow I don't think that's How many were here for the g~me? We had a Purdue tent, but some security from Lafayette that may come straight from Where's there more to do, Lafayette or what you're looking for. There was this We had a big tailgate, all with Purdue fans people made us take it down. They said we the farm to class, but personally, I've never South Bend? reporter for a newspaper in Crawfordsville, - my grandpa, two of my uncles, my aunt, couldn't have it. They really didn't have a seen anyone walking around like th!lt, and They're both horrible! [Pause.] Actually, and he said that Purdue had "boilermakered" a cousin and his girlfriend, and my brother reason, they just said those were the rules! I've never worn them! I guess I'm not really familiar with South its way through a football game it won 44- and his friends came. Bend yet ... ask me in a month and maybe O. After that, othernewspapers started pick~ For all the non-Hoosiers, can you say Does all the milk in the dining halls I can give you a different answer! ing it up. Nobody's really sure what a Did you get a lot of teasing at the tail what Purdue's known for? come from cows on campus? boilermaker is, though! gate? Purdue has two really good schools: en- [Laughing.] Not to my knowledge. That's - Tina Zurcher Tunnelling" into the future Engineers at Notre Dame s Hessert Center test tomorrow s technology 59 Years Ago The Case for Hecklers KATIEFREDDOSO. research are required to orally defend their ing at the center under the direction of "Now, this is an honor-code class. I expect all of you to use written lab reports. "[Students] have to not Professor Thomas Mueller and graduate your own limbs." f you ask the average student about the only do the measurements, but [they] also student Gabriel Torres. The students re Ifyou don't have anything nice to say .... -ballet teacher IHessert Center for Aerospace Research, need to be able to convey the results of searched micro aerial vehicles, which are An editorial in the October 3, 1941 issue you would likely get a blank look in research," Lynch says. low-speed bird- or insect-sized aircraft that of Notre Dame Scholastic says: response. Workers at the facility call it one Researchers at the center are currently can be flown by remote control. Among "In three years, the percentage of wits "If Satan were going to be anywhere on campus, it would of the best-kept secrets on campus. Located working on several projects for the U.S. other things, practical MAV s would allow and half-wits among the student body hasn't definitely be the Hammes Bookstore." behind thepowerplant on St. Joseph's Drive, government. Professor Thomas Corke is soldiers to see around comers or peer into changed perceptively.... After three years - overheard student the center has become a premier facility in investigating ways to improve the efficiency heavily guarded areas while minimizing of listening to half a dozen hecklers from aerospace research since its November 1991 of turbojet engines for NASA in a project risk to their own lives. each of the forty-eight states, we've heard dedication. that has required the construction of a new Notre Dame has participated in MAV almost all of the inane interruptions that an Husker: "Hey, who's on top of the Dome - Julius Caesar?" This reputation is not surprising, given wind tunnel. Corke spent the summer de competitions against other university teams individual under cover of the anonymity of Domer: "No, that's Mary." Notre Dame's history of involvement in signing and building the tunnel with the for the last two years. The MA Vs must a crowd can shout. Husker: "Oh. That makes sense." aerospace engineering. More than 20 years help of his daughter Catherine, a first-year complete a simulation offinding and photo "What [a heckler] fears most is to be before the Wright brothers became the first engineering major, and Mike Klapetzky, a graphing a target. There have been no Irish noticed, identified or scorned by the very in flight, Father Albert Zahm was testing third-year aerospace engineering major. victories yet, but the group has gained valu crowd he insists upon heckling. Every think the lift and drag of model planes in his Klapetzky, who has had experience in con able experience that will help them improve ing student should assume some measure of "All right, three more comments and then we'll get back to homemade, hand-driven wind tunnel on the struction, determined and ordered the parts future models. responsibility for the task of removing and sex." .' campus. Since Zahm's time, Notre Dame has needed based on Corke's design. "It has The Hessert Center's benefits for profes keeping the heckler-nuisance away from I - theology professor ! made significant contributions to the field. been good to get experience in a more aca sors and big-name clients like NASA are every student gathering. ",\.,. Today, 25 graduate ~tudents and about 10 demic environment and ... deal more with clear, but it is possible that the undergradu '0' "The heckler knows full well that if he f '",' professors conduct research in the center's people in the engineering and aerospace ates profit most. The university might point has any message to give to a pep-rally, he nine wind tunnels. The facility also has a field," he says. out the exceptional career preparation pro can obtain the permission of the Student "I don't think Clinton could be cri~inally tried even if he tunnel for the approximately 20 under Klapetzkywas notthe only one who found vided by hands-on experience with the Council president ... to stand on the speak beat the hell out of Hillary - much as some of us might graduate engineering majors who con the experience beneficial. "Mike has been center's professional-grade equipment. But ers' balcony and give that message. want him to." , duct experiments every year at,the center. really fantastic," Corke says. "He's helped the students might have a simpler benefit on "The heckler is also aware that he can have Each of the center's tunnels consists of a me a lot." their minds as they research with their pro his opinions printed in the Scholastic merely motor that blows air or water through a Over the past tWo years, other under fessors: the excitement of creating by signing his name to the opinionated ar cone-shaped tube. The fluid accelerates graduates have spent their summers work- tomorrow's technology. 0 ticle." through a section in the middle of the tube That goes for you, too, Zahm. called the test section. This is where a - Sarah Childress model- such as a plane, an engine com ponent, a car or even a building - is • positioned. Depending on the size of the • model and the desired air or water speed, domelig._h_ts__ .~ the test section can range in size from a few square inches to 25 square feet. COMPILED BY CRISTIN FENZEL The fluid rushes through the test section,

'.; simulating the motion of the model through Of the 1,250 acres of land that the U air or water. This helps determine whether uniyer~ity owns, about half is intensively the model has a sound, aerodynamic design. mamtamed by Landscape Services. It is a cheaper and safer alternative to build Here are some interesting facts about ing a plane without knowing its flight capa what goes into keeping the campus growing. bilities, or to constructing a building be fore ensuring that itcan withstand strong FUll-time groundskeepers: 27 winds. Times per week they mow the grass': 1 The tunnels allow researchers to test and improve engine efficiency, noise levels and Lawnmowers they use: 8 (two of these are 16 feet wide) pollution emission. According to graduate Sprinklers: over 65,000 student Denis Lynch, the labs are intended Marigolds it takes to make the flower "NO": 50-75 flats to develop not only the students' technical skills, but also their ability to analyze and TESTING IDEAS A wind tunnel at Notre Dame's Hessert Center puts a prototype of a U.S. Navy present their findings. Those who conduct . propeller through its paces.

SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE 7 Tunnelling" into the future Engineers at Notre Dame s Hessert Center test tomorrow s technology 59 Years Ago The Case for Hecklers KATIEFREDDOSO. research are required to orally defend their ing at the center under the direction of "Now, this is an honor-code class. I expect all of you to use written lab reports. "[Students] have to not Professor Thomas Mueller and graduate your own limbs." f you ask the average student about the only do the measurements, but [they] also student Gabriel Torres. The students re Ifyou don't have anything nice to say .... -ballet teacher IHessert Center for Aerospace Research, need to be able to convey the results of searched micro aerial vehicles, which are An editorial in the October 3, 1941 issue you would likely get a blank look in research," Lynch says. low-speed bird- or insect-sized aircraft that of Notre Dame Scholastic says: response. Workers at the facility call it one Researchers at the center are currently can be flown by remote control. Among "In three years, the percentage of wits "If Satan were going to be anywhere on campus, it would of the best-kept secrets on campus. Located working on several projects for the U.S. other things, practical MAV s would allow and half-wits among the student body hasn't definitely be the Hammes Bookstore." behind thepowerplant on St. Joseph's Drive, government. Professor Thomas Corke is soldiers to see around comers or peer into changed perceptively.... After three years - overheard student the center has become a premier facility in investigating ways to improve the efficiency heavily guarded areas while minimizing of listening to half a dozen hecklers from aerospace research since its November 1991 of turbojet engines for NASA in a project risk to their own lives. each of the forty-eight states, we've heard dedication. that has required the construction of a new Notre Dame has participated in MAV almost all of the inane interruptions that an Husker: "Hey, who's on top of the Dome - Julius Caesar?" This reputation is not surprising, given wind tunnel. Corke spent the summer de competitions against other university teams individual under cover of the anonymity of Domer: "No, that's Mary." Notre Dame's history of involvement in signing and building the tunnel with the for the last two years. The MA Vs must a crowd can shout. Husker: "Oh. That makes sense." aerospace engineering. More than 20 years help of his daughter Catherine, a first-year complete a simulation offinding and photo "What [a heckler] fears most is to be before the Wright brothers became the first engineering major, and Mike Klapetzky, a graphing a target. There have been no Irish noticed, identified or scorned by the very in flight, Father Albert Zahm was testing third-year aerospace engineering major. victories yet, but the group has gained valu crowd he insists upon heckling. Every think the lift and drag of model planes in his Klapetzky, who has had experience in con able experience that will help them improve ing student should assume some measure of "All right, three more comments and then we'll get back to homemade, hand-driven wind tunnel on the struction, determined and ordered the parts future models. responsibility for the task of removing and sex." .' campus. Since Zahm's time, Notre Dame has needed based on Corke's design. "It has The Hessert Center's benefits for profes keeping the heckler-nuisance away from I - theology professor ! made significant contributions to the field. been good to get experience in a more aca sors and big-name clients like NASA are every student gathering. ",\.,. Today, 25 graduate ~tudents and about 10 demic environment and ... deal more with clear, but it is possible that the undergradu '0' "The heckler knows full well that if he f '",' professors conduct research in the center's people in the engineering and aerospace ates profit most. The university might point has any message to give to a pep-rally, he nine wind tunnels. The facility also has a field," he says. out the exceptional career preparation pro can obtain the permission of the Student "I don't think Clinton could be cri~inally tried even if he tunnel for the approximately 20 under Klapetzkywas notthe only one who found vided by hands-on experience with the Council president ... to stand on the speak beat the hell out of Hillary - much as some of us might graduate engineering majors who con the experience beneficial. "Mike has been center's professional-grade equipment. But ers' balcony and give that message. want him to." , duct experiments every year at,the center. really fantastic," Corke says. "He's helped the students might have a simpler benefit on "The heckler is also aware that he can have Each of the center's tunnels consists of a me a lot." their minds as they research with their pro his opinions printed in the Scholastic merely motor that blows air or water through a Over the past tWo years, other under fessors: the excitement of creating by signing his name to the opinionated ar cone-shaped tube. The fluid accelerates graduates have spent their summers work- tomorrow's technology. 0 ticle." through a section in the middle of the tube That goes for you, too, Zahm. called the test section. This is where a - Sarah Childress model- such as a plane, an engine com ponent, a car or even a building - is • positioned. Depending on the size of the • model and the desired air or water speed, domelig._h_ts__ .~ the test section can range in size from a few square inches to 25 square feet. COMPILED BY CRISTIN FENZEL The fluid rushes through the test section,

SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE 7 IN THE FAST LANE The truck of the Irish Team carries Formula Lightning, the car the land speed record for electric

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RACHAELPROTZMAN "because I figured it was kind of important and I didn't want to kill Cleveland Grand Prix, an established July event. Notre Dame "I look at the schools that were ahead ofus at Winchester," Berry our driver." Rausch has since overcome his fear, as he is now crew was one of the first schools to become involved when his idea says. "They're schools that have edged up while we haven't been· ne year ago, junior Randy Rausch lrnew almost nothing chief of the seven-member team. became a reality. participating. The [Notre Dame] teams in the past couple years Oabout cars. Now, he is responsible for helping to design, He and the other core members of the team now have three That same year, after obtaining funding from both the University have been more interested in racing than in improving the car. This build and, yes, wash an electric car to be driven profes cars to work with: the "honey mobile," a practice electric car of Notre Dame and Delco Remy, a research and development year's team, like the first team, is interested in improving the car." sionally in races around the country as a member ofthe Irish Racing they can strip down, a newly acquired Geo Metro and, of course, division of General Motors, the Irish Racing Team designed a Stephanie Buffa recalls her experience at Winchester. "It was Team. the race car. The Metro hasn't run in five years, but that's just motor and constructed its car: the team was well on its way to really hectic because it was the first race 1'd ever raced in, so I was The team was founded in 1993 to provide students with the part of the challenge for Rausch. He says, "1'mjust trying to get competing. just kind oflearning what goes on. Stuff had to be done, and the car opportunity to apply skills learned in the classroom and gain it to actually work." Both the "honey mobile" and the non Everything seemed to be going well for the team, but with just had to be ready to run," she says. valuable hands-on experience. "We're an academic program, not a functioning Metro provide extra hands-on experience for team five weeks left until the big race in Cleveland, the program suffered Berry sees the Irish in the winner's circle soon. "Some of these club and not a sport," says Professor William Berry, the team's members. This multiplicity of vehicles allows even more stu a major setback: the driver had to deliberately wreck the car during improvements that we're putting in should bring us up a couple of advisor. "Most clubs don't stress academics." dents to become involved. a test drive in order to avoid hitting people. Half of the car was positions, to the point where we're competing with the top again," But for Rausch and his teammates, the team isn't just about The actual race car is, obviously, the focus ofthe team. Because destroyed in the accident, and it didn't look like the team would be he says. learning. "We do it because it's so much fun and because we enjoy the team races the car against other college teams, it must purchase able to compete after all. The students are looking ahead to future races, one in the spring doing it," he says. And, although it offers students who are consid a standard cha,ssis, or frame, for the car" the power source, motor But the team refused to let the program die. The students worked and possibly a couple next summer. Until then, they will cOlJtinue ering a career in the automotive industry an advantage in the work and transmission are the responsibility of the students. Stephanie frantically for three weeks to rebuild the car, and their efforts paid to improve the car."1 really feel good about the group this year," force, the team isn't composed ofengineering majors alone. "It's an Buffa, ajunior computer engineering major, notes that the students off-they managed to getthe car running again in time for the race. says Berry. "They are a more dedicated team than past years. They electric car, but I don't think we even have any electrical engineer are responsible for most of the work, and· she appreciates that - it When it was finished, University President Father Edward Malloy have, in some sense, a better career projection." ing majors on the team," Rausch, a computer engineering major, leads to a lot of quality learning. blessed the car, and the team was ready to compete. Though wins recently have been few and far between, the Irish says. "We have pre-med, music and business majors, too." Actual races require the work of a nine-student pit crew: one In July 1994, the team participated in its first race, the Cleveland Racing Team has not gotten down. Rausch doesn't seem to care Most students on the team volunteer their time to design, test and person acts as the manager and the·remaining eight exchange the Electrical Formula Classic, Its car, christened Formula Lightning about wins as much as experience. He gets a kick out of just race the car, but students can also opt to earn college credit by car's 1,300-pound battery pack. The race experience is not limited came in first place in the field of 12 major schools and set a land watching the team's hard work in action - the race car has become working on a specific project. to the pit crew; other students are welcome to tag along. speed record for electric vehicles. the pride of the team. "That is amazing,just being on the race track Although he oversees much ofthe students' work and assists with Races between student-built electric cars are a relatively new Since then, the team has participated in about 10 races, but has not with all the other cars," he says. Even with the lrnowledge that . i higher-level electrical work, Berry believes in staying out of the phenomenon. In 1993 Ernie Holden of the Solar and Electric earned another first-place finish. winning isn't everything, the team has high hopes for the upcoming team,'s way. "I could go out and make improvements on the car, but Racing Association envisioned a college racing program that In fact, this summer's participation in the Winchester race season. Perhaps Rausch sums it up best when he says, "We should that's not the idea," Berry says. "The concept is to get the students would increase interest in the further development of the elec marked the first time in three years that the Irish have participated be very competitive this year." 0 to do it and to learn by doing it." tric car. With funding from the Illuminating Company of Cleve in a race. The team did not compete as well as it had hoped, finishing "I was kind ofscared to work on the race car at first," Rausch says, land, Holden began the annual races in conjunction with the fifth. Jenny Wahoske and Sarah Childress contributed to this article.

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. FEEDING THE STUDEN1 BODY IS NO SMALL TASK .-. " .', ' .

KIMBERLYBLACKWELL As much as one ton of meat passes through the butcher shop (top) every day. This is where the fajita and taco meat, Four years ago, Notre Dame Food as well as all meat for soups are processed. A food-services worker (bottom) slices carrots that have just been pulled out of the freezers in the storage warehouse. Services Support moved from the

cramped quarters of the basement of

A steaming vat (left) simmers 80 gallons of South Dining Hall to a new facility off of broccoli-cheese soup to be cooled and Douglas Road. This much larger build- delivered to the dining halls in two-gallon bags. Over the course ing has all the resources Food Services of a year, 70,000 gallons of soups and sauces are processed needs to live up to its mission of cater- here - enough to fill three or four tanker trucks. ing to Notre Dame students' apparently

insatiable appetites by providing qual-

ity food and service. The amount of

food processed here is staggering. A

small sampling: 40,000 Grab 'n' Go

sandwiches permonth, 500 dozen cook-

ies per day and 60,000 pounds of

chicken stir-fry per year. Do students

really eat that much food? "Yes, you

Most of these lettuce heads (above) will soon be tossed into an industrial strength food shredder, which can handle 800 pounds of onions every 15 do!" says Operations Manager Jim Cira. minutes. The lettuce for the dining halls' tossed salads, however, is cut by hand. ' That includes those 400 pounds of to- The bakery (left) will make about 230 dozen muffins this morning, while on cookie days the cookie machine can cut more than 500 dozen an hour. The matoes that Food Services needs dining halls serve the bakery's 125 desserts on a four-week rotation schedule. Students who really love the strawberry muffins, though, should drop notes to the DH managers: "If you put enough suggestions in the box, they'll listen," every week to do it your way at Burger eira says. King.

10 SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE 11 . . -

. FEEDING THE STUDEN1 BODY IS NO SMALL TASK .-. " .', ' .

cramped quarters of the basement of

insatiable appetites by providing qual-

ity food and service. The amount of

food processed here is staggering. A

small sampling: 40,000 Grab 'n' Go

sandwiches permonth, 500 dozen cook-

ies per day and 60,000 pounds of

chicken stir-fry per year. Do students

really eat that much food? "Yes, you

10 SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE 11 STOPPERS Off-campus crimes spur students and police to step up preventative measures

t was a peaceful summer night. One week was With just under 1,500 Notre Dame undergradu Ileft before classes, and St. Peter Street was . ates living off-campus - including more than 50 fairly empty. Three Notre Dame students sat percent ofthe senior class - off-campus crime is on the front porch of their house discussing the a major concern for many students. Each year, summer and their upcoming senior year. After more students choose to live outside the campus enjoying some cigarettes and each other's com gates and often find themselves in very dangerous pany for a few hours, the students began to notice situations. the same cars passing by over and over again. Karen Cole*, a Notre Dame senior living on St. Soon after, a man in a hooded sweatshirt ap Peter Street, was also robbed at gunpoint in mid proached the porch and asked to bum a smoke. July. "They know we're vulnerable, they know As one student handed over a cigarette, a man we don't have guns and that we can't protect in a hooded sweatshirt came from around the back ourselves," says Cole. "The police have come to of the house. The second man turned to face the talk to us about crime prevention and I feel fairly porch, revealing a mask stretched over his face safe now, but if our dog gets off his leash and I and a sawed-off shotgun in his arms. The two men have to chase him through the neighborhood, I demanded money. After the scrambling students definitely feel that my life is threatened." emptied their pockets, the men instructed them to South Bend Police Chief Larry Bennett points lie face-down on the porch and fled. out that students can take steps to protect them The assailants took little more than $100, but selves. "It isn't so much that students are being the students quickly learned that in addition to targeted, but if students don't use common sense, increased freedom, living off campus also means they become an easy target," he says. "Students a whole new level of danger. need to become familiar with their surroundings

iBY KATIE PHOTOGRAPH BY KATE FOSTER CASPERSEN 12 SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY 13 STOPPERS Off-campus crimes spur students and police to step up preventative measures

iBY KATIE PHOTOGRAPH BY KATE FOSTER CASPERSEN 12 SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY 13 and try to understand how the criminal away. We always keep our blinds down, called Compstat, the same program the New the next thing we knew there was a strange element works. If you're throwing a house our alarm system on, and now we know that York City Police Department uses to moni man standing there in our kitchen," he says. party, don't leav:e your front door wide open the cops will respond very quickly if we tor and fight crime. "The Compstat program "Not only was there a complete stranger in while you're out back." need them to." would mean major changes in this depart the middle of our apartment, but we were Junior Matthew Sarb understands how Crime victims have been very pleased ment," Chief Bennet says. "South Bend is the ones who let him walk right in. We were parties can tum into potentially dangerous with the police support that they have re too big and there is too much going on. lucky, nothing really happened, but it was situations. He and his friends attended a ceived. "They've been great," says Cole. Changes need to be made." definitely a wake-up call letting us know house party near Lafayette Street toward the "The South Bend Police Department has Changes need to be made in the private that we needed to be more careful." beginning of the school year. "Townies been extremely protective, and the Notre sector as well. Domus Properties, the com Lafayette has had a few minor incidents lived on either side of the house, and they Dame Police patrol our area even though pany that owns most ofthe student houses in of trespassing and vandalism this semester, ended up coming into the party," Sarb says. they are not required [to do so]." the northeast area of the city, has tried to but other than several car break-ins, there "Everything was fine until one ofthe townies The police department has taken steps to combat the increase in crime. In response to have been no reported burglaries this year or lifted up his shirt and started showing offhis the incidents earlier this year, the company last year. Each apartment has an ADT alarm gun. Nothing really happened, but ifhe had has installed bars on the windows of many system that students can activate for a fee, wanted to cause trouble no one there could Walking from of the houses it ciwns. and there is also a ground patrol that moni have stopped him." At the request ofthe SBPD, Domus Prop tors anywhere from 10 to 35 hours per week While some types of trouble are unavoid Keenan to the erties has also reworked some of the land BYTHE u.i depending on the amount of parties and able, students can often avoid putting them scaping that surrounds its houses, removing NUMBERS ~ activity in the complex. selves in dangerous situations. "The burden Crime Incident Z ~ UJ large bushes that criminals can use to con ~ (f) With the Dome still clearly in view and a Huddle is one reports in °0 (f) ~('I) ofresponsibility for not being a victim is on ceal themselves. "Everyone needs to work 1-0 (f)o (( 1-" who live at Turtle Creek often operate under neighborhoods ~h:: -UJ UJZ ::J UJz crime-prevention steps," says Detective I-UJ :c, 0:<;: ((, thing, but walking means that if you're renting a house and (f)0 ....lo 0..6 o..:s: 1- 0 the same false sense of security that Frick ((UJ 0 .0 ,0 ~UJ Lieutenant Phil Trent of the South Bend paying a landlord a king's ransom for rent, ::J(( <1: 1-,.... 1-,.... <1:- O~ describes. "I don't know if I'm just being 1-0 :s:ill (f)(f) (f)(f) 0> Z(f) Police Department (SBPD). Bennett em from Lafayette to that landlord makes sure there aren't nine ignorant, but I feel safe living off campus, phasizes that certain behavior invites crimi foot bushes in front or-your house and that especially at Turtle Creek~" says senior nal activity. "If you set your big-screen TV the 7-Eleven is a there's adequate lighting." Aubrey Brackman. "With all ofthe students by the window where everyone can see it, Instead of renting a house, many students around, it doesn't feel that different." you are asking for trouble," Bennet says. whole other choose apartments for added security. But Turtle Creek Apartments refused to com Burglary is an increasing concern ofmany apartment complexes are not necessarily a ment on any security issues, but police re students. Senior Kristin Conners lives in a .j~ safer alternative. "Whether you live in a "- ." ...... ports show that in the past two years Turtle house on St. Peter Street that was burglar story. complex or a rental you are a potential Creek has had higher incidences oflarceny ized twice over the summer. "The thefts victim," Bennet says. 2" ., .. :'01 than Campus View or the St. Peter Street were very random," Conners says. "They Frank Rates for crimes such as larceny, vandal area, and comparable burglary rates. took computers, costume jewelry and a pic ism and burglary at some of the apartment College Park, on the other hand, is a ture frame." Conners explains that the loss Chetalo complexes popular with students are equal student-only residence that has remained of property wasn't the only impact of the to or higher than the rates within popular relatively crime-free in recent years. "The crime. "It was disturbing to know that some student neighborhoods. fAY19';TH~Fi::,;::;:,;~,,(;'\!:y~;:-:::?<:;}:1;f:,e:;i:·:::,(\:, ;1:\iX;;;i\:~::)~:':' ,,:!:,~:6,}:«.' ':~::;::: .,' ~;·F,1 only problems we have had this year were one had been in our house," she says. improve and modernize its crime-fight,ing "You are not nearly as safe off campus as two break-ins on cars," comments P.R. • INFORMATION COURTESY OF THE SOUTH BEND POLICE DEPARTMENT In a perhaps more frightening incident, efforts. All uniformed police officers carry you'd like to think you are," says Frank Gibson, head of security for College Park. senior Mike Dickerson was at home when a laptop computers, which speed response Chetalo, a senior living in a Lafayette apart "Last year we only had one break-in. There robber attempted to enter his house on Corby time. Dispatchers can send calls ,directly to ment. "You feel secure when you are in your ' ,,' Senior Adam Fr~ck, another Lafayette think twice. Here, that mentality has gotten are safety locks and regular locks on all of Street. "Someone tried to break into our the laptop, eliminating the chance that crimi dorm room, but when you leave that haven resident, agrees. "You don't really think us into some trouble." the doors and the neighborhood is mostly a house at fourin the morning one week while nals will intercept a radioed message with a there are no guarantees. Walking from about it, but there are dorm habits that you One weekend at 1:30 a.m., Frick and his retired area." most of us were sleeping," Dickerson says. police scanner. Keenan to the Huddle is one thing, but have to break when you move off campus," friends were talking on the couch when Other apartment complexes enjoy a repu "Luckily, one ofmy roommates was still up. The department is also in the process of walking from I::.afayette to the 7-Eleven is a he says. "In your dorm room, if someone the~e was a knock at the door. "Without a tation for excellent security. Castle Point, He called the police, and they came right, implementing a new computer program whole other story." knocks, you say 'come in' and you don't second thought I shouted, 'Come in,' and known among students as one of the safest

14 SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY 15 and try to understand how the criminal away. We always keep our blinds down, called Compstat, the same program the New the next thing we knew there was a strange element works. If you're throwing a house our alarm system on, and now we know that York City Police Department uses to moni man standing there in our kitchen," he says. party, don't leav:e your front door wide open the cops will respond very quickly if we tor and fight crime. "The Compstat program "Not only was there a complete stranger in while you're out back." need them to." would mean major changes in this depart the middle of our apartment, but we were Junior Matthew Sarb understands how Crime victims have been very pleased ment," Chief Bennet says. "South Bend is the ones who let him walk right in. We were parties can tum into potentially dangerous with the police support that they have re too big and there is too much going on. lucky, nothing really happened, but it was situations. He and his friends attended a ceived. "They've been great," says Cole. Changes need to be made." definitely a wake-up call letting us know house party near Lafayette Street toward the "The South Bend Police Department has Changes need to be made in the private that we needed to be more careful." beginning of the school year. "Townies been extremely protective, and the Notre sector as well. Domus Properties, the com Lafayette has had a few minor incidents lived on either side of the house, and they Dame Police patrol our area even though pany that owns most ofthe student houses in of trespassing and vandalism this semester, ended up coming into the party," Sarb says. they are not required [to do so]." the northeast area of the city, has tried to but other than several car break-ins, there "Everything was fine until one ofthe townies The police department has taken steps to combat the increase in crime. In response to have been no reported burglaries this year or lifted up his shirt and started showing offhis the incidents earlier this year, the company last year. Each apartment has an ADT alarm gun. Nothing really happened, but ifhe had has installed bars on the windows of many system that students can activate for a fee, wanted to cause trouble no one there could Walking from of the houses it ciwns. and there is also a ground patrol that moni have stopped him." At the request ofthe SBPD, Domus Prop tors anywhere from 10 to 35 hours per week While some types of trouble are unavoid Keenan to the erties has also reworked some of the land BYTHE u.i depending on the amount of parties and able, students can often avoid putting them scaping that surrounds its houses, removing NUMBERS ~ activity in the complex. selves in dangerous situations. "The burden Crime Incident Z ~ UJ large bushes that criminals can use to con ~ (f) With the Dome still clearly in view and a Huddle is one reports in °0 (f) ~('I) ofresponsibility for not being a victim is on ceal themselves. "Everyone needs to work 1-0 (f)o (( 1-" who live at Turtle Creek often operate under neighborhoods ~h:: -UJ UJZ ::J UJz crime-prevention steps," says Detective I-UJ :c, 0:<;: ((, thing, but walking means that if you're renting a house and (f)0 ....lo 0..6 o..:s: 1- 0 the same false sense of security that Frick ((UJ 0 .0 ,0 ~UJ Lieutenant Phil Trent of the South Bend paying a landlord a king's ransom for rent, ::J(( <1: 1-,.... 1-,.... <1:- O~ describes. "I don't know if I'm just being 1-0 :s:ill (f)(f) (f)(f) 0> Z(f) Police Department (SBPD). Bennett em from Lafayette to that landlord makes sure there aren't nine ignorant, but I feel safe living off campus, phasizes that certain behavior invites crimi foot bushes in front or-your house and that especially at Turtle Creek~" says senior nal activity. "If you set your big-screen TV the 7-Eleven is a there's adequate lighting." Aubrey Brackman. "With all ofthe students by the window where everyone can see it, Instead of renting a house, many students around, it doesn't feel that different." you are asking for trouble," Bennet says. whole other choose apartments for added security. But Turtle Creek Apartments refused to com Burglary is an increasing concern ofmany apartment complexes are not necessarily a ment on any security issues, but police re students. Senior Kristin Conners lives in a .j~ safer alternative. "Whether you live in a "- ." ...... ports show that in the past two years Turtle house on St. Peter Street that was burglar story. complex or a rental you are a potential Creek has had higher incidences oflarceny ized twice over the summer. "The thefts victim," Bennet says. 2" ., .. :'01 than Campus View or the St. Peter Street were very random," Conners says. "They Frank Rates for crimes such as larceny, vandal area, and comparable burglary rates. took computers, costume jewelry and a pic ism and burglary at some of the apartment College Park, on the other hand, is a ture frame." Conners explains that the loss Chetalo complexes popular with students are equal student-only residence that has remained of property wasn't the only impact of the to or higher than the rates within popular relatively crime-free in recent years. "The crime. "It was disturbing to know that some student neighborhoods. fAY19';TH~Fi::,;::;:,;~,,(;'\!:y~;:-:::?<:;}:1;f:,e:;i:·:::,(\:, ;1:\iX;;;i\:~::)~:':' ,,:!:,~:6,}:«.' ':~::;::: .,' ~;·F,1 only problems we have had this year were one had been in our house," she says. improve and modernize its crime-fight,ing "You are not nearly as safe off campus as two break-ins on cars," comments P.R. • INFORMATION COURTESY OF THE SOUTH BEND POLICE DEPARTMENT In a perhaps more frightening incident, efforts. All uniformed police officers carry you'd like to think you are," says Frank Gibson, head of security for College Park. senior Mike Dickerson was at home when a laptop computers, which speed response Chetalo, a senior living in a Lafayette apart "Last year we only had one break-in. There robber attempted to enter his house on Corby time. Dispatchers can send calls ,directly to ment. "You feel secure when you are in your ' ,,' Senior Adam Fr~ck, another Lafayette think twice. Here, that mentality has gotten are safety locks and regular locks on all of Street. "Someone tried to break into our the laptop, eliminating the chance that crimi dorm room, but when you leave that haven resident, agrees. "You don't really think us into some trouble." the doors and the neighborhood is mostly a house at fourin the morning one week while nals will intercept a radioed message with a there are no guarantees. Walking from about it, but there are dorm habits that you One weekend at 1:30 a.m., Frick and his retired area." most of us were sleeping," Dickerson says. police scanner. Keenan to the Huddle is one thing, but have to break when you move off campus," friends were talking on the couch when Other apartment complexes enjoy a repu "Luckily, one ofmy roommates was still up. The department is also in the process of walking from I::.afayette to the 7-Eleven is a he says. "In your dorm room, if someone the~e was a knock at the door. "Without a tation for excellent security. Castle Point, He called the police, and they came right, implementing a new computer program whole other story." knocks, you say 'come in' and you don't second thought I shouted, 'Come in,' and known among students as one of the safest

14 SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY 15 off-campus alternatives, has actually done to maintain feelings ofhigh security. It goes sudden, the Campus View security guard explains, "whether you're a student or not." away with one of its safety trademarks. A with our reputation." was telling us to get back to our apartments. In your dorm room if someone Chetalo echoes Bennet's advice. "You guard no longer sits at the front gate of the Campus View Apartments, however, has He said shots had been fired and that we just have to watch your toes and keep your complex to monitor incoming and outgoing increased security measures. The complex needed to get inside." knocks, you say 'come in' and you guard up." traffic, due to a lack offunds. County police, has instituted an all-weekend security watch Williams confirms that shots were fired All ofthe students interviewed reaffirmed however, continue to patrol the complex at this year in an attempt to combat an increase the evening of September 8. "But no one don't think twice. Here, that mentality their decision to move off campus despite night, while the number of security cameras in crime. The watch lasts from 10 p.m. to 6 was hurt, there was no damage and the their experiences. "I would still move off on the premises has increased. Castle Point a.m. Friday through Sunday and two other culprits were chased out onto Dunn Road has gotten us into some trouble. campus, no question, but I would definitely has had very few problems other than the days during the week. So far this year, there by our security guards," she says. look for a safer neighborhood," Cole says. occasional car break-in. "I feel very safe have beenno break-ins. "Campus View is in Despite his bad luck at off-campus par Adam "I would do more research ahead of time, here," says Annie Ralph, a senior Castle more of a business area, so there is less ties this semester, Sarb is still giving seri talking to more students and landlords." Point resident. "I don't think we are as much neighborhood crime," says Property Man ous consideration to moving off campus Frick When it comes down to it, some students of a target as the all-student apartment com ager Cindy Williams, "but we have had next year. "I think I could save some money believe dealing with crime is simply a part plexes, because there is not a single time of enough incidents to know that this was a living off campus," he says. "I would just this county is the fact that we have a county them off the streets." of moving into the real world. "The univer day or year when everyone is gone." problem we needed to address." have to find some place that was still fairly jail downtown that is full," Bennet says. "I Regardless of increased or decreased sity can't take care of us forever," Frick "The neighborhood around the area is The weekend of the Nebraska game, Sarb cheap, but not as dangerous." would venture to say that next June when crime rates, students need to use common says. "We make the choice to take on more very safe and residential," says Castle Point and his friends decided to brave another off As students continue to venture from the new county jail opens that you will see sense at all times. "No matter what neigh responsibility and to take a step forward. Manager Jeff Arthur. "Even though there is campus party, this time at Campus View. outside the campus bubble of safety, do some changes within St. Joseph County in borhood or city that you live in, everyone You just need to be aware that it's not the no guard at the front, there has been no "We were pretty tired and we decided to they have any hope for a decrease in crime? how the criminal element handles them needs to be cognizant and aware of what's safest step forward when you walk into increase in crime to speak of. We still want head back to campus," he says. "All of a "One thing that affects the crime rate in selves because we will now be able to get going on around them at all times," Bennet South Bend." D

statistics, Notre Dame ranked 726 out of 1,497 universities, and was released in c.rder to prote'ct the anonymity of the perpetrators and Residence Life also receives reports from other university secu awarded a "low to moderate" crime risk rating. But Rakow, who has victims. "A lotof our sexual assault cases occur off camp..u.s," says rity or police departments if a Notre Dame student commits a been involved with police departments at sucl,1.· schools as Albion Jeffery Shoup, director ofthe Office ofResidence Life, citing four crime at an away football game. College, Michigan State University and Indiana University in that occurred last year. "You've got to be good here," Rakow says with a laugh. "du Lac HOME Bloomington, insists that statistics aren't everything. "Every cam But even most on-campus rapes evade statistics, as many follows students to the end of the earth -maybe beyond the end," pus is different," he says. "It's unfair to cOinpare universities," citing · victims are reluctant to tum to police. "Unfortunately, date rapes citing an exa~ple in which a student received a university sanction. PROTECTION location and demographics as factors used to determine the types of · probably happen every week here, in some form or another," for a du Lac violation he committed while in Florida on spring break. problems campuses might have. . · Rakow says. Most, if not all, are never reported. Shoup says that the reason for this policy is that Notre Dame Notre Dame Security/Police If every college has different problems, Notre Dame's is theft. . Although the department does not keep any statistics on whether students represent the university no matter where they are. But and the Office ofResidence Recent statistics complied by NDSP, which report all investigations the crimes are perpetrated by students or persons not affiliated the chances ofthe office hearing about out-of-state infractions of ofon-campus criminal activity from 1996 to 1998, place the number with the university, Rakow reports the split is fairly even. dll Lac are slim, he says. "Really, if you're away from the work to combat campus of investigated thefts in the low 400s each year. Every year for the Rakow says that NDSP does its best to alert students to potential university, you're unlucky if we find out." past three years, there have been no more than two investigations dangers. The department posts Campus Watch notices in build . In terms of du Lac violations, Shoup believes that the level of crime each of on-campus rape, assault and forcible fondling. An average ings oncampu.s in accordance with federal legislation, requiring cases remains at a relatively constant low. Although he would not of 14 reports offorcible-entry burglaries are investigated each year, collegecampuses to provide "timely notice ofany incident known divulge statistics of individual crimes to protect students' ano while burglaries with unforced entries decreased from 63 to 32 from by police that would phallenge the safety and security of a nymity, he says that the Office of Residence Life processed 653 1997 to 1998. Reports of motor-vehicle theft have stayed consis student,"says Rakow. These bulletins, which are usuaJly printed cases during the 1999-2000 academic year, a number comparable tently at an average of 10 per year. · once or twice per semester, notify students and faculty of a to number the of cases processed in previous years. SARAHCHILDRESS These statistics do not include any report to security/police that potential threat and encourage them to stay alert and report any After working in disciplinary programs at the University of With the serenity of the lakes and the picturesque, ivy goes uninvestigated, although Rakow says the number of reports findings to the department. "We've solved a lot of cases by South Dakota and Kent State University, he cites higher stan covered buildings, Notre Dame students are often lulled into a investigated is comparable to the number they actually receive. "We 1 students, faculty and staff being good citizens," he says. dards and an emphasis on values as the differences between Notre sense of security on campus. "I think a lot of freshmen come investigate on a higher frequency than other departments," he says. In addition to protection, the department also has the charge of Dame and other schools. "I think we tend to respond a little bit here thinking they're under the shadow of the Golden Dome "Our investigators have heavy caseloads, and they follow up on 1 disciplining students. ,Almost all investigated reports are for more seriously here," he says. "ButI think our policies are similar and nothing can touch them," says Rex Rakow, director ofthe pretty much everything that's reported." warded to the Office of Residence Life for review. "We deal with to most universities in the area of our size." Notre Dame Security/Police Department. "But there's no Also excluded) however, are reports to the Office of Residence anything from parking tickets to serious assaults; thefts ,and Despite the problems that all universities have with crime, where in the world where you can be completely safe." For this Life that never reach NDSP. Two rapes in 1996 and 1997 and one DUls," says Shoup. Rakow believes _the sense of security students have here is reason, he and the rest of the department work with the Office forcible fondling in 1997 were reported"to the Office of Residence The Office of Residence Life also deals not only with on- justified. "Certainly, we have trouble from time to time, but of Residence Life to make students relatively safe - and to Life but do not appear in crime statistics because NDSP never · campus offenses but also student violations of du Lac that occur students feel safe here overall.. ~. It's a wann, welcoming keep them in line. . investigated the reports. at home, on vacation - even overseas. NDSP arid the South Bend community." According to a national study of dangerous campuses con The department also discounts any report of crimes involving Police Department send reports of the criminal misbehavior of And ifNDSP and.ResLife have anything to do with it, it will ducted by ABP.com, a Web site dedicated to crime news and students off campus, and, in fact, no off-campus crime statistics are Notre Dame students to the Office of Residence Life for review. stay that way. D

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.~" ,. • ___" _ '_ ._~._~::._ ~ _____ • ___ ~ ______L_'_~ ______---- - off-campus alternatives, has actually done to maintain feelings ofhigh security. It goes sudden, the Campus View security guard explains, "whether you're a student or not." away with one of its safety trademarks. A with our reputation." was telling us to get back to our apartments. In your dorm room if someone Chetalo echoes Bennet's advice. "You guard no longer sits at the front gate of the Campus View Apartments, however, has He said shots had been fired and that we just have to watch your toes and keep your complex to monitor incoming and outgoing increased security measures. The complex needed to get inside." knocks, you say 'come in' and you guard up." traffic, due to a lack offunds. County police, has instituted an all-weekend security watch Williams confirms that shots were fired All ofthe students interviewed reaffirmed however, continue to patrol the complex at this year in an attempt to combat an increase the evening of September 8. "But no one don't think twice. Here, that mentality their decision to move off campus despite night, while the number of security cameras in crime. The watch lasts from 10 p.m. to 6 was hurt, there was no damage and the their experiences. "I would still move off on the premises has increased. Castle Point a.m. Friday through Sunday and two other culprits were chased out onto Dunn Road has gotten us into some trouble. campus, no question, but I would definitely has had very few problems other than the days during the week. So far this year, there by our security guards," she says. look for a safer neighborhood," Cole says. occasional car break-in. "I feel very safe have beenno break-ins. "Campus View is in Despite his bad luck at off-campus par Adam "I would do more research ahead of time, here," says Annie Ralph, a senior Castle more of a business area, so there is less ties this semester, Sarb is still giving seri talking to more students and landlords." Point resident. "I don't think we are as much neighborhood crime," says Property Man ous consideration to moving off campus Frick When it comes down to it, some students of a target as the all-student apartment com ager Cindy Williams, "but we have had next year. "I think I could save some money believe dealing with crime is simply a part plexes, because there is not a single time of enough incidents to know that this was a living off campus," he says. "I would just this county is the fact that we have a county them off the streets." of moving into the real world. "The univer day or year when everyone is gone." problem we needed to address." have to find some place that was still fairly jail downtown that is full," Bennet says. "I Regardless of increased or decreased sity can't take care of us forever," Frick "The neighborhood around the area is The weekend of the Nebraska game, Sarb cheap, but not as dangerous." would venture to say that next June when crime rates, students need to use common says. "We make the choice to take on more very safe and residential," says Castle Point and his friends decided to brave another off As students continue to venture from the new county jail opens that you will see sense at all times. "No matter what neigh responsibility and to take a step forward. Manager Jeff Arthur. "Even though there is campus party, this time at Campus View. outside the campus bubble of safety, do some changes within St. Joseph County in borhood or city that you live in, everyone You just need to be aware that it's not the no guard at the front, there has been no "We were pretty tired and we decided to they have any hope for a decrease in crime? how the criminal element handles them needs to be cognizant and aware of what's safest step forward when you walk into increase in crime to speak of. We still want head back to campus," he says. "All of a "One thing that affects the crime rate in selves because we will now be able to get going on around them at all times," Bennet South Bend." D

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.~" ,. • ___" _ '_ ._~._~::._ ~ _____ • ___ ~ ______L_'_~ ______---- - My biggest tackle in a Notre Dame Football (2-1) uniform was: when I sacked Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch. Key Stat: Without quar terback Arnaz Battle or My biggest game as a Notre Dame linebacker Grant Irons, football player was: playing against the Notre Dame defeated a No.1 Nebraska Cornhuskers. ranked team for the sec ond time in three weeks. The most important game I played Prime Time Performer: was: every game. I give my best effort Quarterback Gary every game and play them all like they're Godsey completed 14 of the most important one. 25 passes and rushed for a touchdown in his first The team I would most like to face college start. this year in a bowl game is: Nebraska, Next Game: Notre preferably in the Orange Bowl. Dame travels to East Lan sing, Mich. to battle Michi I would describe playing in the 1999 gan State Saturday at Gator Bowl as: a tremendous experi 3:30 p.m. EST. ence, especially since it was my fresh man year. I only wish we could have won Women's that game. Soccer (7-0) I would describe balancing football with my preprofessional schedule as: Key Stat: Notre Dame's pretty hard. Taking summer classes, such impressive start has as organic chemistry, helps to free my earned the team the num schedule during the year. ber-one ranking. Prime Time Performer: The' hardest class I have taken at Forward Meotis Erikson Notre Dame is: organic chemistry, by scores her 50th goal, and far. the only one in Notre Dame's 1-0 win over Port The most interesting class I have land on Sunday. taken at Notre Dame is: also organic Next Game: The Irish IRISH chemistry. face West Virginia in Morgantown, W.V. tomor IfI could play another sport at Notre row at 6:30 p.m. EST. Dame, it would be: baseball. I played in EYES high school and considered college ball, Men's Soccer but discovered how much more I loved ON football. (4-3-1 ) My favorite place to play outside of Key Stat: The Irish won Rocky Boiman is a 6-foot-4, 290-pound line Notre Dame is: Tennessee. Playing there their first home contest backer from Cincinnati, Ohio. He played in a was an awesome experience with the on Tuesday against platoon role last year before becoming a full fans and the way that they are set up in Cleveland State. the stadium. Prime Time Performer: time starter in 2000. Since joining the perma Goalkeeper Greg Tait nent starting corps, he has played two eye When I looked at the stands during held Cleveland State to opening defensive games against Texas A&M the Nebraska game, I felt: disappointed. one goal in the Irish vic I give credit to all the students in the tory. and Nebraska, amassing 18 tackles, two of student section, though, who overshad Next Game: The Irish which were sacks. owed the sea of red during the game. host Seton Hall tomorrow at 7:,30 p.m. EST. - Gerard Meskill

SCHOLASTICSPORTS 19 My biggest tackle in a Notre Dame Football (2-1) uniform was: when I sacked Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch. Key Stat: Without quar terback Arnaz Battle or My biggest game as a Notre Dame linebacker Grant Irons, football player was: playing against the Notre Dame defeated a No.1 Nebraska Cornhuskers. ranked team for the sec ond time in three weeks. The most important game I played Prime Time Performer: was: every game. I give my best effort Quarterback Gary every game and play them all like they're Godsey completed 14 of the most important one. 25 passes and rushed for a touchdown in his first The team I would most like to face college start. this year in a bowl game is: Nebraska, Next Game: Notre preferably in the Orange Bowl. Dame travels to East Lan sing, Mich. to battle Michi I would describe playing in the 1999 gan State Saturday at Gator Bowl as: a tremendous experi 3:30 p.m. EST. ence, especially since it was my fresh man year. I only wish we could have won Women's that game. Soccer (7-0) I would describe balancing football with my preprofessional schedule as: Key Stat: Notre Dame's pretty hard. Taking summer classes, such impressive start has as organic chemistry, helps to free my earned the team the num schedule during the year. ber-one ranking. Prime Time Performer: The' hardest class I have taken at Forward Meotis Erikson Notre Dame is: organic chemistry, by scores her 50th goal, and far. the only one in Notre Dame's 1-0 win over Port The most interesting class I have land on Sunday. taken at Notre Dame is: also organic Next Game: The Irish IRISH chemistry. face West Virginia in Morgantown, W.V. tomor IfI could play another sport at Notre row at 6:30 p.m. EST. Dame, it would be: baseball. I played in EYES high school and considered college ball, Men's Soccer but discovered how much more I loved ON football. (4-3-1 ) My favorite place to play outside of Key Stat: The Irish won Rocky Boiman is a 6-foot-4, 290-pound line Notre Dame is: Tennessee. Playing there their first home contest backer from Cincinnati, Ohio. He played in a was an awesome experience with the on Tuesday against platoon role last year before becoming a full fans and the way that they are set up in Cleveland State. the stadium. Prime Time Performer: time starter in 2000. Since joining the perma Goalkeeper Greg Tait nent starting corps, he has played two eye When I looked at the stands during held Cleveland State to opening defensive games against Texas A&M the Nebraska game, I felt: disappointed. one goal in the Irish vic I give credit to all the students in the tory. and Nebraska, amassing 18 tackles, two of student section, though, who overshad Next Game: The Irish which were sacks. owed the sea of red during the game. host Seton Hall tomorrow at 7:,30 p.m. EST. - Gerard Meskill

SCHOLASTICSPORTS 19 ~ . . . looked to become one of only three net. Notre Dame tallied the first score of " ( , , schools to ever win an NCAA national the game on a rare Tar Heel mistake. 1995 ' ~' championship for women's soccer. The contest's final 70 minutes were a Following an outstanding 19-2-2 defensive battle in which neither team regular season, the Irish easily defeated could convert its opportunities. The Irish GOING FOR GOLD Rutgers in the Big East tournament and won the game 1-0 and advanced to the Dame swimmer Carrie went on to blank the University of finals of the NCAA tournament for the Nixon partiCipated in this Connecticut 1-0 in the finals. The Irish second consecutive year. This proved to year's Olympic trials. by Lee De Leon entered the NCAA tournament ranked be the only 1-0 defeat in North Carolina's fourth in the nation. This impressive history, and it also ended the school's FROZEN standing earned them a first-round bye nine-year women's soccer dynasty. and a second-round meeting with the No. The Irish then moved on to the finals to 18 Wisconsin Badgers on Notre Dame's face the talented University of Portland MOMENTS own Alumni Field. The Irish cruised to a Pilots, ranked second in the nation. This 5-0 victory, then picked up another game featured a memorable struggle shutout in their next game by beating between the high-powered Portland Connecticut 2-0. offense, led by All-American Shannon In the semifinal round, Notre Dame MacMillan, and the stingy Notre Dame v faced the seemingly impossible task of defense, anchored by standout Kate defeating the Tar Heels in North Caro Sobrero. The two teams fought through " , 29t1i~rld2ist;''T'' es.pj~cti;~~ lina. The Tar Heels had lost only one 90 minutes of scoreless regulation, two , ",- ·.Iii~h s~im~er'to )fe]jrilinaiY:lieaLt:~:t: game at Chapel Hill while winning their IS-minute overtime periods and five -, ' ''''~. ';,..." ,~. tf!. ' ,,', ,. ... - , v thetrials,was pleased overall, ' " last 31 NCAA tournament games. "There minutes of sudden death. come. "I wanted to make the' \rery' were only 24 people who thought that we The match came to an unexpected end team badly," she explains, "but I am also very could win this game - and they were all when baws made another game-winning The Irish women's soccer team women swimmers remained on campus dur excited [to swim for Notre Dame] this year. in this locker room," Irish Head Coach play. The referees called a foul against the ANNVARGA ing the summer. Among the women training We have a great team." proves that tradition isn't Chris Petrucelli said. "I don't think Pilots and awarded a direct free kick to wimming was fun when I was 10. It at Notre Dame were Nixon, Van Saun, se O'Brien swam in the 400-m individual everything as it defeats North anyone outside our team gave us a chance the Irish just outside the Portland penalty came from the heart. These Olym nior Tiffany O'Brien and juniors Allison medley and described herselfas "awestruck" Carolina on the way to becoming of winning." area. Before Portland goalkeeper Erin S , pic trials reminded me why I swim, Lloyd and Kelly Hecking. The five swam by the atmosphere. O'Brien, whose mother An impressive crowd of7,212 fans Fahey could finish organizing her wall, the NCAA cha~pions. and why it is in my heart to begin with." under the name "Irish Aquatics" and prac swam for Canada in the 1976 Olympics, showed up for the contest, the largest Daws quickly put the ball down and shot These are the words of Kristen Van Saun, ticed eight times a week while juggling also competed in the Canadian Olympic ever to witness a college women's soccer it amidst the confusion. Fahey, who was NOTRE DAME: 1 senior co-captain of the 2000-20.01 Notre summer classes. trials in 1996. "The main difference be match. Notre Dame applied serious screened by her teammates, could not stop UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: 0 Damewomen's swim team. The other nine The male swimmers, however, chose to tween the U.S. and Canadian-trials is that pressure on the Tar Heels from the the ball as it entered the goal. Daws' shot members of the Notre Dame men's and train at other places throughout the United [the U.S. swimmers are] faster," she notes. opening whistle, coming out strong and ended the match and won the Irish a women's swim teams who participated in States. Junior Jonathan Pierce traveled to Freshmen Marie Labowsky andLisaD'Olier surprising its heavily favored opponent. national championship. the 2000 Olympic trials held this August in Austin, Tex. to train with the University of also competed in Indianapolis. he Notre Dame women's soccer This pressure paid off in the 19th minute Many doubted Notre Dame's 1995 Indianapolis echoed similar sentiments. To Texas' swim team, where Irish Assistant Tim Welsh, head coach ofthe Irish men's team came into the 1995 season of the match when the Irish attacked the women's soccer team, but the Irish T these exceptional individuals, this past sum Coach Jonathan Jennings swam during his swim team, believes that it is "unquestion with the goal of winning it all Tar Heel goal. North Carolina's All proved the naysayers wrong. The team mer was a testament to their hard work and collegiate career. Szilier returned to his able" that the experience his swimmers and of defeating North Carolina along the American forward and current U.S. had achieved the illustrious goal that it dedication to the sport. hometown to train with his club team. gained at the Olympic trials will aid the way. The Tar Heels had captured the National Team standout Cindy Parlow had originally set for itself: winning a For many Notre Dame swimmers, includ Senior Ryan Verlin also returned home to team this season. "[Verlin, Szilier and NCAA national championship in the last headed an Irish pass out of her team's national championship and ending the Tar ing three-time All-American Carrie Nixon, prepare for the trials. His family and friends Pierce] are three guys working hard all the nine years, and they had embarrassed the penalty area. Irish junior Cindy Daws Heels' NCAA-title streak. Coach Petrucelli the dream of participating in the Olympic hosted a send-off party to wish him luck at the time," Welsh says. "They are Irish men to Irish in the previous year's final round rerouted the ball back towards the goal. explained after the game, "For a long time trials is always present. "All my life, I've trials. "Support from my hometown was tre the core." Kristen Heath, assistant women's with a 5-0 rout. With many key Irish This time, Parlow's attempt at a clearing we had talked about winning a national wanted to go to the trials," she says. "I mendous," recalled Verlin. "I started swim swim coach, has similar feelings. "As cap players returning, however, Notre Dame header ended up in the back of her own championship and we finally did it." 0 started swimming at age eight, and when ming at age five, and I knew this would be my tains, Carrie [Nixon] and Kristen [Van Saun you are little you hear about all the big last year of competitive swimming. It was a will] bring leadership to the pool every name swimmers and have posters of them. celebration of swimming and myself." day," she says. I knew after my freshman -year at Notre The trials in Indianapolis proved to be a Although none of the Irish swimmers Dame that I could compete at that level and different experience for each swimmer in actually made the Olympic team, the les Notre Dame had an Gary Godsey proves once East Lansing provides a have a shot at going." volved. Nixon described the atmosphere at sons they learned will definitely help them ominous 0-5 record on again that he's our man, difficult arena for the first Dan Szilier, the school record-holder in the trials as "magical." in future meets. Van Saun, for example, re the road last year. even away from home. • Irish road game. Notre the 200-m breastroke, also had aspirations to "I wish I could share with Notre Dame the learned just why she started swimming in OUR CALLS » However, the Irish prove The Irish defense contin Dame struggles, but make the trial cut. "My club team at home is a feeling of the atmosphere and the pride I once and for all that last ues its dominance, ultimately pulls out a 17- the first place. "These trials gave me a velY high-level program," Szilier says. "This felt," she says. "It was the biggest meet I had sport: football year was a fluke, crushing leading the team to a 24- 14 victory. renewed spirit for swimming," says Van level of training early on in my career helped ever been to. The deck was so crowded and ,opponent: Michigan State Michigan State in their 13 win over Michigan Saun. me to prepare for the trials." where: Spartan Stadium own house, 38-14. State. everyone was so excited." Nixon swam in Szilier adds with a grin, "If I learned Swimmers took many different ap when: Saturday 2:30 p.m. three events: the 1OO-m butterfly, the 100-m anything from these trials, it was that I look - Gerard Meskill - Jessica Daues - Jim Pastore proaches in training for the trials. The five freestyle and 50-m freestyle, finishing 38th, really good in a black body suit." 0 Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor Editor in Chief

20 SCHOLASTICS PORTS SCHOLASTICS PORTS 21 ~ . . . looked to become one of only three net. Notre Dame tallied the first score of " ( , , schools to ever win an NCAA national the game on a rare Tar Heel mistake. 1995 ' ~' championship for women's soccer. The contest's final 70 minutes were a Following an outstanding 19-2-2 defensive battle in which neither team regular season, the Irish easily defeated could convert its opportunities. The Irish GOING FOR GOLD Rutgers in the Big East tournament and won the game 1-0 and advanced to the Dame swimmer Carrie went on to blank the University of finals of the NCAA tournament for the Nixon partiCipated in this Connecticut 1-0 in the finals. The Irish second consecutive year. This proved to year's Olympic trials. by Lee De Leon entered the NCAA tournament ranked be the only 1-0 defeat in North Carolina's fourth in the nation. This impressive history, and it also ended the school's FROZEN standing earned them a first-round bye nine-year women's soccer dynasty. and a second-round meeting with the No. The Irish then moved on to the finals to 18 Wisconsin Badgers on Notre Dame's face the talented University of Portland MOMENTS own Alumni Field. The Irish cruised to a Pilots, ranked second in the nation. This 5-0 victory, then picked up another game featured a memorable struggle shutout in their next game by beating between the high-powered Portland Connecticut 2-0. offense, led by All-American Shannon In the semifinal round, Notre Dame MacMillan, and the stingy Notre Dame v faced the seemingly impossible task of defense, anchored by standout Kate defeating the Tar Heels in North Caro Sobrero. The two teams fought through " , 29t1i~rld2ist;''T'' es.pj~cti;~~ lina. The Tar Heels had lost only one 90 minutes of scoreless regulation, two , ",- ·.Iii~h s~im~er'to )fe]jrilinaiY:lieaLt:~:t: game at Chapel Hill while winning their IS-minute overtime periods and five -, ' ''''~. ';,..." ,~. tf!. ' ,,', ,. ... - , v thetrials,was pleased overall, ' " last 31 NCAA tournament games. "There minutes of sudden death. come. "I wanted to make the' \rery' were only 24 people who thought that we The match came to an unexpected end team badly," she explains, "but I am also very could win this game - and they were all when baws made another game-winning The Irish women's soccer team women swimmers remained on campus dur excited [to swim for Notre Dame] this year. in this locker room," Irish Head Coach play. The referees called a foul against the ANNVARGA ing the summer. Among the women training We have a great team." proves that tradition isn't Chris Petrucelli said. "I don't think Pilots and awarded a direct free kick to wimming was fun when I was 10. It at Notre Dame were Nixon, Van Saun, se O'Brien swam in the 400-m individual everything as it defeats North anyone outside our team gave us a chance the Irish just outside the Portland penalty came from the heart. These Olym nior Tiffany O'Brien and juniors Allison medley and described herselfas "awestruck" Carolina on the way to becoming of winning." area. Before Portland goalkeeper Erin S , pic trials reminded me why I swim, Lloyd and Kelly Hecking. The five swam by the atmosphere. O'Brien, whose mother An impressive crowd of7,212 fans Fahey could finish organizing her wall, the NCAA cha~pions. and why it is in my heart to begin with." under the name "Irish Aquatics" and prac swam for Canada in the 1976 Olympics, showed up for the contest, the largest Daws quickly put the ball down and shot These are the words of Kristen Van Saun, ticed eight times a week while juggling also competed in the Canadian Olympic ever to witness a college women's soccer it amidst the confusion. Fahey, who was NOTRE DAME: 1 senior co-captain of the 2000-20.01 Notre summer classes. trials in 1996. "The main difference be match. Notre Dame applied serious screened by her teammates, could not stop UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: 0 Damewomen's swim team. The other nine The male swimmers, however, chose to tween the U.S. and Canadian-trials is that pressure on the Tar Heels from the the ball as it entered the goal. Daws' shot members of the Notre Dame men's and train at other places throughout the United [the U.S. swimmers are] faster," she notes. opening whistle, coming out strong and ended the match and won the Irish a women's swim teams who participated in States. Junior Jonathan Pierce traveled to Freshmen Marie Labowsky andLisaD'Olier surprising its heavily favored opponent. national championship. the 2000 Olympic trials held this August in Austin, Tex. to train with the University of also competed in Indianapolis. he Notre Dame women's soccer This pressure paid off in the 19th minute Many doubted Notre Dame's 1995 Indianapolis echoed similar sentiments. To Texas' swim team, where Irish Assistant Tim Welsh, head coach ofthe Irish men's team came into the 1995 season of the match when the Irish attacked the women's soccer team, but the Irish T these exceptional individuals, this past sum Coach Jonathan Jennings swam during his swim team, believes that it is "unquestion with the goal of winning it all Tar Heel goal. North Carolina's All proved the naysayers wrong. The team mer was a testament to their hard work and collegiate career. Szilier returned to his able" that the experience his swimmers and of defeating North Carolina along the American forward and current U.S. had achieved the illustrious goal that it dedication to the sport. hometown to train with his club team. gained at the Olympic trials will aid the way. The Tar Heels had captured the National Team standout Cindy Parlow had originally set for itself: winning a For many Notre Dame swimmers, includ Senior Ryan Verlin also returned home to team this season. "[Verlin, Szilier and NCAA national championship in the last headed an Irish pass out of her team's national championship and ending the Tar ing three-time All-American Carrie Nixon, prepare for the trials. His family and friends Pierce] are three guys working hard all the nine years, and they had embarrassed the penalty area. Irish junior Cindy Daws Heels' NCAA-title streak. Coach Petrucelli the dream of participating in the Olympic hosted a send-off party to wish him luck at the time," Welsh says. "They are Irish men to Irish in the previous year's final round rerouted the ball back towards the goal. explained after the game, "For a long time trials is always present. "All my life, I've trials. "Support from my hometown was tre the core." Kristen Heath, assistant women's with a 5-0 rout. With many key Irish This time, Parlow's attempt at a clearing we had talked about winning a national wanted to go to the trials," she says. "I mendous," recalled Verlin. "I started swim swim coach, has similar feelings. "As cap players returning, however, Notre Dame header ended up in the back of her own championship and we finally did it." 0 started swimming at age eight, and when ming at age five, and I knew this would be my tains, Carrie [Nixon] and Kristen [Van Saun you are little you hear about all the big last year of competitive swimming. It was a will] bring leadership to the pool every name swimmers and have posters of them. celebration of swimming and myself." day," she says. I knew after my freshman -year at Notre The trials in Indianapolis proved to be a Although none of the Irish swimmers Dame that I could compete at that level and different experience for each swimmer in actually made the Olympic team, the les Notre Dame had an Gary Godsey proves once East Lansing provides a have a shot at going." volved. Nixon described the atmosphere at sons they learned will definitely help them ominous 0-5 record on again that he's our man, difficult arena for the first Dan Szilier, the school record-holder in the trials as "magical." in future meets. Van Saun, for example, re the road last year. even away from home. • Irish road game. Notre the 200-m breastroke, also had aspirations to "I wish I could share with Notre Dame the learned just why she started swimming in OUR CALLS » However, the Irish prove The Irish defense contin Dame struggles, but make the trial cut. "My club team at home is a feeling of the atmosphere and the pride I once and for all that last ues its dominance, ultimately pulls out a 17- the first place. "These trials gave me a velY high-level program," Szilier says. "This felt," she says. "It was the biggest meet I had sport: football year was a fluke, crushing leading the team to a 24- 14 victory. renewed spirit for swimming," says Van level of training early on in my career helped ever been to. The deck was so crowded and ,opponent: Michigan State Michigan State in their 13 win over Michigan Saun. me to prepare for the trials." where: Spartan Stadium own house, 38-14. State. everyone was so excited." Nixon swam in Szilier adds with a grin, "If I learned Swimmers took many different ap when: Saturday 2:30 p.m. three events: the 1OO-m butterfly, the 100-m anything from these trials, it was that I look - Gerard Meskill - Jessica Daues - Jim Pastore proaches in training for the trials. The five freestyle and 50-m freestyle, finishing 38th, really good in a black body suit." 0 Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor Editor in Chief

20 SCHOLASTICS PORTS SCHOLASTICS PORTS 21 remembers. "I looked up and half of them In addition to the noise provided by the Kids), and a charity designated by the visit game last spring. This game was organized With all the merriment, how seriously did JESSICADAUES were crying like babies. Just because they hundreds of German cheerleaders, the ing team. "Usually, it's some little, class-III to determine who was in good enough these 50 players, some of whom had not played football in 20 years, take this exhibi put on their helmet once more ... you can stadium's loudspeakers played recorded otre Dame football is famous for its school that goes over there," says Father shape to play. From there, the players and say all you want about the Notre Dame music throughout the game. This combina players' successes after graduation. James Riehle, executive director ofthe Notre coaches selected about 50 players to par tion game? According to Eilers, feelings N about the game were intense. "Noone wants mystique, but it was amazing. It really tion, along with the 20,000 boisterous fans, Since the National Football League Dame Monogram Club. This year, how ticipate. was." caused the players some difficulty in hear began drafting players in 1936,410 Notre ever, the organizers decided to ask a school Led by current defensive coordinator Greg to lose," he says. "It's a full-contact football The game, which was held in Volkspark ing the calls. "The fans were very rowdy," Dame players have been chosen by NFL with more drawing power, such as the Uni Mattison and a group of former assistant game. It has to be taken seriously or some Stadium, attracted approximately 20,000 Eilers recalls. "The difference between Notre teams. Notre Dame boasts 55 first-round versity of Notre Dame. But there was one coaches that included Skip Holtz, the team's one will get injured." fans, the largest-ever turnout for a Charity Dame fans and German fans is that German draft picks and five players drafted as the . problem: "In the NCAA, Division-I under members were alumni both young and old. Riehle offers another perspective: "I put Bowl event according to Riehle. Players fans cheered as loud for us as they did their No.1 pick in the entire draft-more than graduates can't [participate]," Riehle says. "We had people from Pat Steenberge, who up asignon Saturday that read, '2p.m. team soon found out that football in Germany is own team." any other institution. Regardless of the Because of this restriction, Notre Dame graduated in '78, to a couple of guys who Mass.' Here at Notre Dame, every single a bit different than football in the United Despite these difficulties, the alumni foot success they find in the NFL or in other decided to send an alumni team instead. For graduated last year," Riehle says. "There player has to go to the Mass before all the States. Although the rules are almost iden ball team managed to keep the game close. endeavors, many players look back their charity, the players chose the Notre was about a 20-year spread between the football games. This time, no one forced tical - in Germany, there are 12-minute The Irish missed two field goals early in the fondly on their time at Notre Dame, Dame Brennan-Boland Scholarship Fund, players." anybody to go. Every single player went to quarters instead of the usual 15-minute game, but compensated later with two remembering the days when they which provides need-based scholarships to Once in Germany, the Irish began a week the Mass. I think they took the game very quarters - the atmosphere was unlike any touchdowns, giving Notre Dame a 14-10 donned their golden helmets and ran children offormer monogram winners, Notre of hard work. "We practiced for four days seriously." thing the players had experienced before. lead late in the fourth quarter. But the out of the tunnel to greet thousands of Dame varsity athletes who earn special rec before the game," Eilers says. Although Many players considered the game a once For instance, over 400 cheerleaders sur Blue Devils refused to roll over. Driving screaming Irish fans. ognition for the contributions they make to they worked hard, the alumni team found in-a-lifetime opportunity to relive the past rounded the field - more than one would to the Irish seven-yard line, Hamburg This summer, 55 former players had a their repective teams. time to do more than just play football. On and put on a Notre Dame uniform one more find at a typical college game. threatened to ·score with 0.9 seconds left chance to relive such memories of Irish The project was organized by a commit the Fourth of July, the team enjoyed an ,r time. "It was a surreal experience," Eilers Luckily, the Irish had someone on their on the clock. As time expired, a diving glory. On July 2, a football team composed tee of former Notre Dame football players, evening boat trip through the Hamburg ca says. "I played professionally for six years side as well. Joining the alumni team in interception in the end zone by defensive of Notre Dame alumni traveled to Ham including Pat Eilers '89 and Mark Green nals. "They had fireworks just for us," Riehle after Notre Dame, but some people hadn't Germany was Leprechaun Mike Brown. back Ivory Covington saved the game for burg, Germany to take part in the 2000 '89, both members of the 1988 national recalls, in addition to noisemakers and con put on the equipment since graduation. It the Irish. Charity Bowl. For the past eight years, championship team. Player participation was fetti. Other activities included a castle tour was like we had stepped into a time ma "There were cheer squads from all over the city at the game, from high schools and "I thought we had you guys," Blue Devil Germany has organized a bowl game in strictly voluntary. "The committee sent out and a viewing of the musical Buddy Holly, chine." local cheer clubs," says Brown. "I went defensive end Tuli Mateialonasaid inajoint which the Hamburg Blue Devils of NFL letters in August of 1999 to see who was with songs in English and dialogue in Ger .According to Riehle, being in the locker press conference after the game. "It must Europe play an exhibition game against a interested," Eilers says. "We got about 100 man. "I've been to the Cotton, Fiesta and room was an emotional experience for from squad to squad and joined in their college team from the United States. Pro replies back." The committee then invited Orange bowls," Eilers says, "and the week many of the men. "Before every game, I dances and cheers." have been the luck of the Irish." ceeds are donated to both the German char the interested players to an alumni touch itself, the way they prepared it, was as good always say a Hail Mary in the locker room "He was fantastic," Riehle says. "The Maybe Mateialona didn't realize it was ity "Kinder Helfen Kindem" (Kids Helping football game before the Blue and Gold as any bowl experience." before they go out onto the field," Riehle German fans really liked him." heart, not luck, that drove this Irish team. 0

SCHOLASTICSPORTS 23 22 SCHOLASTICS PORTS remembers. "I looked up and half of them In addition to the noise provided by the Kids), and a charity designated by the visit game last spring. This game was organized With all the merriment, how seriously did JESSICADAUES were crying like babies. Just because they hundreds of German cheerleaders, the ing team. "Usually, it's some little, class-III to determine who was in good enough these 50 players, some of whom had not played football in 20 years, take this exhibi put on their helmet once more ... you can stadium's loudspeakers played recorded otre Dame football is famous for its school that goes over there," says Father shape to play. From there, the players and say all you want about the Notre Dame music throughout the game. This combina players' successes after graduation. James Riehle, executive director ofthe Notre coaches selected about 50 players to par tion game? According to Eilers, feelings N about the game were intense. "Noone wants mystique, but it was amazing. It really tion, along with the 20,000 boisterous fans, Since the National Football League Dame Monogram Club. This year, how ticipate. was." caused the players some difficulty in hear began drafting players in 1936,410 Notre ever, the organizers decided to ask a school Led by current defensive coordinator Greg to lose," he says. "It's a full-contact football The game, which was held in Volkspark ing the calls. "The fans were very rowdy," Dame players have been chosen by NFL with more drawing power, such as the Uni Mattison and a group of former assistant game. It has to be taken seriously or some Stadium, attracted approximately 20,000 Eilers recalls. "The difference between Notre teams. Notre Dame boasts 55 first-round versity of Notre Dame. But there was one coaches that included Skip Holtz, the team's one will get injured." fans, the largest-ever turnout for a Charity Dame fans and German fans is that German draft picks and five players drafted as the . problem: "In the NCAA, Division-I under members were alumni both young and old. Riehle offers another perspective: "I put Bowl event according to Riehle. Players fans cheered as loud for us as they did their No.1 pick in the entire draft-more than graduates can't [participate]," Riehle says. "We had people from Pat Steenberge, who up asignon Saturday that read, '2p.m. team soon found out that football in Germany is own team." any other institution. Regardless of the Because of this restriction, Notre Dame graduated in '78, to a couple of guys who Mass.' Here at Notre Dame, every single a bit different than football in the United Despite these difficulties, the alumni foot success they find in the NFL or in other decided to send an alumni team instead. For graduated last year," Riehle says. "There player has to go to the Mass before all the States. Although the rules are almost iden ball team managed to keep the game close. endeavors, many players look back their charity, the players chose the Notre was about a 20-year spread between the football games. This time, no one forced tical - in Germany, there are 12-minute The Irish missed two field goals early in the fondly on their time at Notre Dame, Dame Brennan-Boland Scholarship Fund, players." anybody to go. Every single player went to quarters instead of the usual 15-minute game, but compensated later with two remembering the days when they which provides need-based scholarships to Once in Germany, the Irish began a week the Mass. I think they took the game very quarters - the atmosphere was unlike any touchdowns, giving Notre Dame a 14-10 donned their golden helmets and ran children offormer monogram winners, Notre of hard work. "We practiced for four days seriously." thing the players had experienced before. lead late in the fourth quarter. But the out of the tunnel to greet thousands of Dame varsity athletes who earn special rec before the game," Eilers says. Although Many players considered the game a once For instance, over 400 cheerleaders sur Blue Devils refused to roll over. Driving screaming Irish fans. ognition for the contributions they make to they worked hard, the alumni team found in-a-lifetime opportunity to relive the past rounded the field - more than one would to the Irish seven-yard line, Hamburg This summer, 55 former players had a their repective teams. time to do more than just play football. On and put on a Notre Dame uniform one more find at a typical college game. threatened to ·score with 0.9 seconds left chance to relive such memories of Irish The project was organized by a commit the Fourth of July, the team enjoyed an ,r time. "It was a surreal experience," Eilers Luckily, the Irish had someone on their on the clock. As time expired, a diving glory. On July 2, a football team composed tee of former Notre Dame football players, evening boat trip through the Hamburg ca says. "I played professionally for six years side as well. Joining the alumni team in interception in the end zone by defensive of Notre Dame alumni traveled to Ham including Pat Eilers '89 and Mark Green nals. "They had fireworks just for us," Riehle after Notre Dame, but some people hadn't Germany was Leprechaun Mike Brown. back Ivory Covington saved the game for burg, Germany to take part in the 2000 '89, both members of the 1988 national recalls, in addition to noisemakers and con put on the equipment since graduation. It the Irish. Charity Bowl. For the past eight years, championship team. Player participation was fetti. Other activities included a castle tour was like we had stepped into a time ma "There were cheer squads from all over the city at the game, from high schools and "I thought we had you guys," Blue Devil Germany has organized a bowl game in strictly voluntary. "The committee sent out and a viewing of the musical Buddy Holly, chine." local cheer clubs," says Brown. "I went defensive end Tuli Mateialonasaid inajoint which the Hamburg Blue Devils of NFL letters in August of 1999 to see who was with songs in English and dialogue in Ger .According to Riehle, being in the locker press conference after the game. "It must Europe play an exhibition game against a interested," Eilers says. "We got about 100 man. "I've been to the Cotton, Fiesta and room was an emotional experience for from squad to squad and joined in their college team from the United States. Pro replies back." The committee then invited Orange bowls," Eilers says, "and the week many of the men. "Before every game, I dances and cheers." have been the luck of the Irish." ceeds are donated to both the German char the interested players to an alumni touch itself, the way they prepared it, was as good always say a Hail Mary in the locker room "He was fantastic," Riehle says. "The Maybe Mateialona didn't realize it was ity "Kinder Helfen Kindem" (Kids Helping football game before the Blue and Gold as any bowl experience." before they go out onto the field," Riehle German fans really liked him." heart, not luck, that drove this Irish team. 0

SCHOLASTICSPORTS 23 22 SCHOLASTICS PORTS concealed by pajama pants (a girl in pa jama pants, who would have thunk it?), a Fisher T-shirt and ND hat, but we saw through the camouflage. Fortunately for the couple, the Fisher Hall staff must have taken lessons from the stadium ushers: Rock on, roll on! Fisher's crack hall stafffailed to notice her; it must have been the disguise. WVFI looks to bring new sounds to Notre Dame with Irishpalooza Here's the part ofthe story the Gipp really likes. After the fire alarm subsided, the girl HOPEFEHER AND loud; it can be soft and mellow at one the whole thing sort of took off," Updike went back into the dorm and finished offher JENNIFERMORGAN AND moment, and the next moment it can ex says. stay. Says our tipster: CARRIESWEENEY plode in your face." In addition to recording and copyrighting A consensus amongst my fellow The band's lack of a lead vocalist also its own music, the band has been recording dormmates was quickly reached: being ast spring, when the newly selected distinguishes it from other groups. "We for over two years with Massachusetts-based rudely woken by the screeching of a false L2000-20001 WVFI staff decided to all do vocals," Bayliss says. "A lot of our Skullduggery Records. The band has re fire alarm was bad, but our mood was organize the first-ever Irishpalooza, stuff is instrumental, but when we sing, leased two albums, including 1998' s Dumb improved when we realized that one ofour they knew they had a long road ahead of we sing all at once, but different parts. It Kids. fellow Fishermen was gettin' some on a them. can be overwhelming for an audience, Stillwell, an indie-rock band from Chi Tuesday night. "There's been a ton of planning," says cago, also has experience in the recording Boo-yah! Danny Goodwin, assistant manager of the world. The boys of the band - vocalist and "It all starts with a faith and belief." ushers gave him a tour of the stadium's student-run radio station. "There had to be guitarist Brian Henry, guitarist Trent - former Irish Head Coach Lou Holtz holding cell. IRISHPALOOZA , Shoes, Please contracts filled out for each of the bands, Reushow, bassist Justin Wexler and drum The Gipp has an admission to make: he September 30, 2000, "There is only one Notre Dame, and I we had to get all the spots reserved, and, for 5p;rTL to midnight " •• mer Theo Katsaounis-are currently signed Fisher Man's Catch goofed. Last issue's fairy tale about the boy ., with Rebound Records. They previously think we enjoy a wonderful point of differ a couple ofthe bands, we had to go through The Gipp turns now to another foiler of with no shoes didn't have such a happy their booking agencies. We started plan produced a number ofcompilation CDs and ence as it relates to spirituality, mystique, fun at Notre Dame: parietals. One Fisher ending. In fact, the boy never found his lore, magic, if you will." ning it last year,'as soon as the new board self-released records, including On the Eye resident decided to brave the wrath of shoes. So, listen up! The Gipp needs your ofChange, With No Reply and Under the El - Athletic Director Kevin White was elected." help. If you live in Castle Point and you've The staffrelied on its connections, word Tracks. got a pair of mysterious shoes from a mys of-mouth and a lot of phone calls over the Wafflehouse, a band with Michiganroots, "Our quarterback had completed three terious stranger, e-mail the Gipp. He'll re passes up to that point. I don't think any summer to pull the show together. The hard will also take the stage at Irishpalooza. unite shoes with owner. work will payoff on September 30, when These five members from Detroit - vocal magic was going to suddenly come down If only tht;: boy had been in the Hammes TheRetreads~-Muricie; -Ind:~..:-- -- from the sky." four bands and a DJ will perform near ist and bassist Sean Clancy, guitarist and bookstore, he might have encountered the Stonehenge from 5 p.m. until midnight. backup vocalist Nolan Simon, vocalist Darin - Head Coach Bob Davie on letting strange man whom our next tipster met. time run out against Neoraska "Basically, we just wanted to create a Stillwell ~Chicag() Fiorelli, guitarist and vocalist Mike Maweski While browsing through the used books - music show or music extravaganza just to and drummer Ryan Clancy - call their a whole $2 cheaper than the new ones! - a Fortune's Mantle CloaRs Thee let people know, and put it in people's face, music "fraggle rock," a term they created in man approached our tipster and said, "Nice that there is college music out there," an effort to "avoid being labeled," accord The Gipp has a few bones to pick. From Vlfafflehouse ,~, Detroit shoes ... Chuck Taylor size II?" Flabber Goodwin says. "Just because people haven't ing to WVFI News Director Jon Alvarez. his perch in the stadium, the Gipp has no gasted by the man's keen eye for foot size, heard of it doesn't mean they won't like it. "Their music reflects a lot of indie influ ticed that during the last two games, oppos our tipster nodded. "I've got a pair of those We want to, promote independent-label ences, but basically they just go crazy," ing team fans were sitting in the first row of OJ 'quantum ~ NewYor!<.., out in my car ... you can have them if you bands. These are people you don't hear on Alvarez says. those gold seats - the ones that go to want them," the man continued. For some the radio but who are equally - if not more Finally, DJ Quantum, the only non "friends" ofthe university and are left empty reason - the Gipp's not sure why - our - talented [than the bands that get air band act to be featured at Irishpalooza, at the first sign of rain or cold. Now, the tipster followed the man out to the parking time]." will add some East-Coast talent to the Gipp wonders: were these Husker and Boiler lot. Sure enough, the man popped open his The show will feature five groups from performance. This well-known New York fans friends ofthe university, or did some of trunk and revealed boxes upon boxes of locations ranging from Chicago to New because one of us will start to sing a line, City DJ covers numerous raves and hip our big donors sell out? Either way, Notre shoes. Digging around for the promised York. "Some of these bands are pretty big and then another will sing something dif hop shows and can often be found hang Dame gets its money, and the students get pair, he produced some size-II Chuck names irrindie rock," Goodwin says. "We ferent, and then another will start to sing ing out with the likes of Fat Boy Slim, A pushed back 20 rows. Taylors and presented them as a gift. But the ,r wanted to go a level, above just any old back-up, but we are telling a story at the Tribe Called Quest, Chemical Brothers, To be fair, the Gipp knows that plenty of ResLife and let a female friend stay over. man had more to offer. He produced another college band." same time." Dr. Dre and Bjork. students sold out, too. What the Gipp doesn't Just when it seemed that he and his lady pair of size-II shoes, this time from the The first band, Clark, hails from South , The second band, The Retreads, origi "He spins a wide variety of music - understand is how the normally eagle-eyed friend would get away with their grave Gap. This is where our tipster drew the line. Bend. It features one ofNotre Dame's own: nated in Muncie, Ind. It includes lead gui anything from hip-hop to trance to house to ushers missed the bright red shirts among violation of du Lac, disaster struck: the fire He grabbed the Taylors, left the Gap shoes freshman bass player Patrick Bayliss. Gui tarist and vocalist Mike Schull, bassist Scott jungle," Alvarez says. the sea of green in the student section. Nqt alarm went off. The Gipp lets his tipster pick and headed home a happy man. tarist Mike Beaton ofSouth Bend and drum , Limbird and drummer Matt Amos. Junior Goodwin is confident that the show will only that, but some Husker fans managed to up the tale: mer Ryan Partridge of Logansport, Ind. Lindsay Updike, a friend of the band, is be a success. "We're looking to make this an bring fully inflated balloons into the sta As 180 guys groggily stumbled outside Well, that's it for the Gipp this edition. complete the trio. responsible for bringing The Retreads to the annual event," he says. "In five years, I dium. The last time the Gipp tried to sneak into the chilly morning, it was noticed by The Gipp needs tips, so take the time to "Our music has its roots from punk, festival. She says that the boys first per would say we want to have multiple spon a friend into the student section or bring a several that a female appeared to be shuf show him some love and e-mail him at but it is stripped down and' more emo formed at local shows during high school. sors. We really want to expose Notre Dame bag of marshmallows into the stadium, the fling right along side ofus. She was cleverly [email protected]. 0 tional," Bayliss says. "It is not always "Mike's dad sold T-shirts and stickers, and students to indie-rock bands." 0 24 SCHOLASTICCAMPUS WATCH SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT 25 concealed by pajama pants (a girl in pa jama pants, who would have thunk it?), a Fisher T-shirt and ND hat, but we saw through the camouflage. Fortunately for the couple, the Fisher Hall staff must have taken lessons from the stadium ushers: Rock on, roll on! Fisher's crack hall stafffailed to notice her; it must have been the disguise. WVFI looks to bring new sounds to Notre Dame with Irishpalooza Here's the part ofthe story the Gipp really likes. After the fire alarm subsided, the girl HOPEFEHER AND loud; it can be soft and mellow at one the whole thing sort of took off," Updike went back into the dorm and finished offher JENNIFERMORGAN AND moment, and the next moment it can ex says. stay. Says our tipster: CARRIESWEENEY plode in your face." In addition to recording and copyrighting A consensus amongst my fellow The band's lack of a lead vocalist also its own music, the band has been recording dormmates was quickly reached: being ast spring, when the newly selected distinguishes it from other groups. "We for over two years with Massachusetts-based rudely woken by the screeching of a false L2000-20001 WVFI staff decided to all do vocals," Bayliss says. "A lot of our Skullduggery Records. The band has re fire alarm was bad, but our mood was organize the first-ever Irishpalooza, stuff is instrumental, but when we sing, leased two albums, including 1998' s Dumb improved when we realized that one ofour they knew they had a long road ahead of we sing all at once, but different parts. It Kids. fellow Fishermen was gettin' some on a them. can be overwhelming for an audience, Stillwell, an indie-rock band from Chi Tuesday night. "There's been a ton of planning," says cago, also has experience in the recording Boo-yah! Danny Goodwin, assistant manager of the world. The boys of the band - vocalist and "It all starts with a faith and belief." ushers gave him a tour of the stadium's student-run radio station. "There had to be guitarist Brian Henry, guitarist Trent - former Irish Head Coach Lou Holtz holding cell. IRISHPALOOZA , Shoes, Please contracts filled out for each of the bands, Reushow, bassist Justin Wexler and drum The Gipp has an admission to make: he September 30, 2000, "There is only one Notre Dame, and I we had to get all the spots reserved, and, for 5p;rTL to midnight " •• mer Theo Katsaounis-are currently signed Fisher Man's Catch goofed. Last issue's fairy tale about the boy ., with Rebound Records. They previously think we enjoy a wonderful point of differ a couple ofthe bands, we had to go through The Gipp turns now to another foiler of with no shoes didn't have such a happy their booking agencies. We started plan produced a number ofcompilation CDs and ence as it relates to spirituality, mystique, fun at Notre Dame: parietals. One Fisher ending. In fact, the boy never found his lore, magic, if you will." ning it last year,'as soon as the new board self-released records, including On the Eye resident decided to brave the wrath of shoes. So, listen up! The Gipp needs your ofChange, With No Reply and Under the El - Athletic Director Kevin White was elected." help. If you live in Castle Point and you've The staffrelied on its connections, word Tracks. got a pair of mysterious shoes from a mys of-mouth and a lot of phone calls over the Wafflehouse, a band with Michiganroots, "Our quarterback had completed three terious stranger, e-mail the Gipp. He'll re passes up to that point. I don't think any summer to pull the show together. The hard will also take the stage at Irishpalooza. unite shoes with owner. work will payoff on September 30, when These five members from Detroit - vocal magic was going to suddenly come down If only tht;: boy had been in the Hammes TheRetreads~-Muricie; -Ind:~..:-- -- from the sky." four bands and a DJ will perform near ist and bassist Sean Clancy, guitarist and bookstore, he might have encountered the Stonehenge from 5 p.m. until midnight. backup vocalist Nolan Simon, vocalist Darin - Head Coach Bob Davie on letting strange man whom our next tipster met. time run out against Neoraska "Basically, we just wanted to create a Stillwell ~Chicag() Fiorelli, guitarist and vocalist Mike Maweski While browsing through the used books - music show or music extravaganza just to and drummer Ryan Clancy - call their a whole $2 cheaper than the new ones! - a Fortune's Mantle CloaRs Thee let people know, and put it in people's face, music "fraggle rock," a term they created in man approached our tipster and said, "Nice that there is college music out there," an effort to "avoid being labeled," accord The Gipp has a few bones to pick. From Vlfafflehouse ,~, Detroit shoes ... Chuck Taylor size II?" Flabber Goodwin says. "Just because people haven't ing to WVFI News Director Jon Alvarez. his perch in the stadium, the Gipp has no gasted by the man's keen eye for foot size, heard of it doesn't mean they won't like it. "Their music reflects a lot of indie influ ticed that during the last two games, oppos our tipster nodded. "I've got a pair of those We want to, promote independent-label ences, but basically they just go crazy," ing team fans were sitting in the first row of OJ 'quantum ~ NewYor!<.., out in my car ... you can have them if you bands. These are people you don't hear on Alvarez says. those gold seats - the ones that go to want them," the man continued. For some the radio but who are equally - if not more Finally, DJ Quantum, the only non "friends" ofthe university and are left empty reason - the Gipp's not sure why - our - talented [than the bands that get air band act to be featured at Irishpalooza, at the first sign of rain or cold. Now, the tipster followed the man out to the parking time]." will add some East-Coast talent to the Gipp wonders: were these Husker and Boiler lot. Sure enough, the man popped open his The show will feature five groups from performance. This well-known New York fans friends ofthe university, or did some of trunk and revealed boxes upon boxes of locations ranging from Chicago to New because one of us will start to sing a line, City DJ covers numerous raves and hip our big donors sell out? Either way, Notre shoes. Digging around for the promised York. "Some of these bands are pretty big and then another will sing something dif hop shows and can often be found hang Dame gets its money, and the students get pair, he produced some size-II Chuck names irrindie rock," Goodwin says. "We ferent, and then another will start to sing ing out with the likes of Fat Boy Slim, A pushed back 20 rows. Taylors and presented them as a gift. But the ,r wanted to go a level, above just any old back-up, but we are telling a story at the Tribe Called Quest, Chemical Brothers, To be fair, the Gipp knows that plenty of ResLife and let a female friend stay over. man had more to offer. He produced another college band." same time." Dr. Dre and Bjork. students sold out, too. What the Gipp doesn't Just when it seemed that he and his lady pair of size-II shoes, this time from the The first band, Clark, hails from South , The second band, The Retreads, origi "He spins a wide variety of music - understand is how the normally eagle-eyed friend would get away with their grave Gap. This is where our tipster drew the line. Bend. It features one ofNotre Dame's own: nated in Muncie, Ind. It includes lead gui anything from hip-hop to trance to house to ushers missed the bright red shirts among violation of du Lac, disaster struck: the fire He grabbed the Taylors, left the Gap shoes freshman bass player Patrick Bayliss. Gui tarist and vocalist Mike Schull, bassist Scott jungle," Alvarez says. the sea of green in the student section. Nqt alarm went off. The Gipp lets his tipster pick and headed home a happy man. tarist Mike Beaton ofSouth Bend and drum , Limbird and drummer Matt Amos. Junior Goodwin is confident that the show will only that, but some Husker fans managed to up the tale: mer Ryan Partridge of Logansport, Ind. Lindsay Updike, a friend of the band, is be a success. "We're looking to make this an bring fully inflated balloons into the sta As 180 guys groggily stumbled outside Well, that's it for the Gipp this edition. complete the trio. responsible for bringing The Retreads to the annual event," he says. "In five years, I dium. The last time the Gipp tried to sneak into the chilly morning, it was noticed by The Gipp needs tips, so take the time to "Our music has its roots from punk, festival. She says that the boys first per would say we want to have multiple spon a friend into the student section or bring a several that a female appeared to be shuf show him some love and e-mail him at but it is stripped down and' more emo formed at local shows during high school. sors. We really want to expose Notre Dame bag of marshmallows into the stadium, the fling right along side ofus. She was cleverly [email protected]. 0 tional," Bayliss says. "It is not always "Mike's dad sold T-shirts and stickers, and students to indie-rock bands." 0 24 SCHOLASTICCAMPUS WATCH SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT 25 and it took eight years for it to happen v v

CARRIESWEENEY After a hectic debut tour, the band went in The band is also learning the downsides different directions. Thomas collaborated of fame - namely, the ever-present de he first thing Matchbox Twenty gui with Carlos Santana to produce "Smooth," mands of the media. "I'm sick, and I've Ttarist Adam Gaynor wants to make a song that earned him three Grammys last been doing all these interviews with no quite clear is that he's a Notre Dame year. But he finally needed some downtime voice," Gaynor says. "I'm getting my steak fan. Sort of. "Let me start offby saying that after those whirlwind months, so he re knife out soon. The last lady I talked to, it although I am a Miami man, I'm always treated to Atlanta with the rest ofthe band to was like Pat [from Saturday Night Live] - happy when a No.1 team gets knocked write songs for their sophomore album. you know, is she a man, is she a woman? The down, so we were definitely behind you They released Mad Season last May, whole time we talked, I know she had no idea guys against Nebraska," he says. which includes "Bent," the group's first what I was talking about. And then, finally, Gaynor and the rest of the band - singer chart-topping single. she was like, 'Usually I'ml)ot a music writer.' Rob Thomas, guitarist Kyle Cook, bassist "Our new album is more diverse than our And so that explains that." Brian Yale and drummer Paul Doucette - first, and the arrangements are more intri Bad interviews aside, Matchbox Twenty's will have a chance to further prove their Irish cate," Gaynor says. "It's a great opportunity rise to the top of the charts has been sweet. loyalty on Monday, October 2, when they when you get to put together an album with It was one of the few groups that broke out perform at the Joyce Center. The concert is your buddies, after you've done 600 shows ofthe pack ofalternative bands that emerged part of their college tour, which also includes together. We'd done, like, three shows to in the early '90s, and, judging by critics' stops at Penn State and the universities of gether before the first one. But even though we praise of Mad Season, it will be hanging Florida, Wisconsin and Iowa, among others. were just. thrown in there the first time, it around for awhile. The band members are "We're doing the college tour as some worked out great, and we're proud of it. This looking forward to a successful college tour thing fun for us," Gaynor says. "We hit a time, though, we know our capabilities and before heading to Australia, where the band matchbox lot of maj or cities during earlier tours, and limitations, and I think everyone put their own is extremely popular. 'a lot of times there's not enough seating signature all over this one." The Jayhawks, a talented alternative T· W E' N T V for all the fans. Colleges are great for us The band is still dealing with its meteoric country-rock group, will open for Match GOES ' TO COLLEGE because the people who really want to see rise to fame and all the surreal situations that box Twenty during the first half of the tour. you get to be there. There's nothing bet accompany it. For example, there are count Formed in 1985 in Minneapolis, the group ter." less Web sites devoted to the group, some has produced six albums, including 1992's In this exclusive interview, guitarist Adam , ~, The band couldn't be doing much better offering such intriguing insights as "Adam Hollywood Town Hall, which was named to , :' these days, either, after humble beginnings really loves apple juice and spaghetti," and, Rolling Stone's list of greatest rock-and Gaynor tells Scholastic about overly enthusi- in Orlando during the early '90s. Evolving "Adam's eyes are brown, but sometimes roll albums of the '90s. The band is a from the bandTabitha's Secret, which Tho hazel." One site even has an al phabeticallist favorite of Thomas ' - in fact, when he was mas started in 1993, the group produced its of reasons to love Adam. forming Tabitha's Secretin 1993, he placed astic fan Web sites, bad interviews and life at first album, Yourself or Someone Like You, .. "It'sjustfunnY,"Gaynorsays. "I saw that an advertisement in a newspaper for a drum in the faJl of1996. The CD went platinum 10 site with the apple juice comments-there's mer who was into the Jayhawks, among the top of the charts. times, and Gaynor says his involvement also a picture of me with my shirt offthere. other bands. , was a dream come true. I'm thinking, 'When the hell did I perform Gaynor is eager to start the college tour "I always had aspirations to be a singer with my shirt off?' And then I finally re and particularly excited about his first trip and songwriter, and it took eight years for it membered it was this really hot day in to South Bend. He promises to behave like I to happen," he says, explaining how he left Miami, during a sound check or something a gentleman despite any lingering biases .1 his job at Miami's Criteria Recording Stu - not even the actual concert. And that was from his Miami days. dios to join the band. "1 have a big mouth, the last time I ever did that. But it's really "Come check out the show and have a good and I just told everyone about myself - I nice - a little awkward, but flattering. I time," he suggests. "We'll have a day ofpeace wanted to do it that badly. Eventually, our write those girls [who run the site] once or between the Hurricanes and Fighting Irish. producer called me up and asked me to twice a year, and I metthem when they came I'll leave all my weapons behind - they can audition with Rob, Paul and Brian, and with their families to a show in D.C. They search me. things started there." devote a lot oftime to it." "Really, we can do it." 0

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<- f • ~ _ _ II' I' '. _ ,." _ _ ",~. • __ GROOVY Junior Luke Burke lays • SECTION SUPERHERO down a bass line for Seven Pounds of Groove. .Interactive OOB: Choose your own R.A. Adventure -Can you help 'Tom Herman maintain order in Zahm Hall?

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tad too loudly. Tom overflows into the hall. Tom I says, "Hey man, turn it uses his trusty laser pointer I down a notch." to: I OR direct the crowd to neWlY~ readied party rooms. ~ OR blind the unruly under classmen by pointing calming sounds of it into their beady Peter, Paul & little eyes. Seven Pounds of Groove brings classic and jam rock to South Bend Mary's "Puff the r·····-_ ....• Magic Dragon." A fourth-floor resident KARAZUARO interludes of eerie carnival music on the screw up, we'd rather do it on other people' s Not a llama in sight, interrupts Tom's fa- but a horde of r vorite television pro keyboard, points out that most of the songs campuses," Maginn explains. The band hit <_ ., -> Zahmbies is whooping gram because he is they cover are blues-based. "Right now college bars at St. Bonaventure, Boston ll right guys, let's do some blues and roaring in support Tom Herman of section lB in Zahm Hall locked out ofhis room we're a cover who is trying to get some of University and Valapraiso, among others. A rifts inB, watch me for the changes, I of a hallway wrestling knows that the powers of an R.A. can be used and wearing only his and, uh, try and keep up, OK?" their own songs out there," Maginn says. Maginn, always quick with the movie refer I match. Tom says: for either good or evil. See if you have what it birthday suit. Tom Alan Maginn, the frontman ofSeven Pounds All the Seven Pounds ofGroove originals - ences, relates their Valapraiso show to the :r "Break it up, guys. It's takes to m_ake the snap decisions necessary to says: of Groove, utters into his mike on have a marked, classic-rock-jam band feel, scene in The Blues Brothers where Jake and 1. quiet hours." save his section from mayhem. "The keys are in the Hey, what's that sound? Barnyard animals Benchwarmer's beer-bannered stage. Be and their genre-spanning covers take on the Elwood get a gig at Bob's Country Bunker, OR fridge, right in the egg} "Beware the' Mighty down the hall? Tom decides to: fore the length of the phrase has crackled same sound. Their repertoire includes only to discover that it's a country and rack." Tom is inclined Hermanator!" and} what's causing the commotion - it wouldn't to ignore nudity when through the speakers, the quiet crowd is Weezer's "Say It Ain't So," the Black western nightspot. "It was punk night when promptly taps into the : be the first time somebody hauled a sheep into he sees it. roused. Chairs squeak like it's the last day of Crowes' "Hard to Handle," Phish' s we played at Valapraiso," Maginn says. fight. I OR "ChalkdustTorture," Santana's "Oye Como "That was an interesting experience." school, barstools are abandoned and- half I OR oJ "Take your hairy ass } filled glasses left behind as knowing fans Va," a few Led Zeppelin tunes and even a Still, even with tour experience under . I keep on watching The Simpsons . to the fourth floor and little Jackson Five. Seven Pounds also plays their belts, a solid repertoire of covers and a L-______---l { make a beeline for the dance floor. Elbows I . tell Vern Walker to let flailing, hips twisting, they're all shimmy a few Radiohead songs, including a poppy, few original songs as well, Seven Pounds of -{I you in." upbeat version of "The Bends" that has the t ing '60s-style to a fast and hard version of Groove still has a few hurdles to jump. '. After housing both wrestlers and dis- After The Simpsol1s, Tom goes to sleep ~ "Johnny B. Goode." Maginn is playing the townies on the other side ofthe bar boogying "We're finding out how hard it is to get a fan persing the crowd, Tom notices a stench on his couch. At 3 a.m., a freshman guitar behind his head. with their pool sticks. Radiohead purists base," Maginn says. "The majority ofpeople in the a,ir, thanks to the piles of sweat wakes him, complaining that somebody Those attending their first Seven Pounds should be forewarned that this version is that go to our shows are people we know." stained clothes that have been left out- just turned on a vacuum in his room and of Groove gig sit mystified, feeling as if probably a far cry from what Thorn Yorke This was clear at the Benchwarmer's show .. side each doorway. Tom should: ran away. Tom says, "That's what we they' dmissed a cue; After the show;Maginn had in mind when he penned the lyrics, but when Maginn shouted to the crowd, "Hey, kick the clothes into their respective call a Phantom Maid," and: explains that the song intro is borrowed it's interesting to hear the song devoid of all Donahey, this one's for you," and the crowd ~ rooms, leaving the hallway neat and sings the kid to sleep with a soft rendi clean. tion of Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow from a line Michael J. Fox's character says bleakness. The highlight ofthe Benchwarmer's shouted back, "He's in the bathroom, man." OR Connection. " show was their cover of Maynard Ferguson's "Clubs want you to play on nights that in Back to the Future just before his band collect the clothes to sell at an upcom OR launches into a similarly raucous rendition "Chameleon," played with the help of Kevin they're dead so that you can drag people ingR.A. auction. of the Chuck Berry classic. Bruce, a mend ofthe band who lent a second bass there,but our friends have other stuff to do "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and to help createthemostfinely layered and polished than see us." Maginn adds, "we have to get . I roll oldie in the band's rather eclectic set. number ofthe evening. enough songs together so that if people do The four band members, all from Sorin Although Seven Pounds of Groove has come to have something different to give Hall, cite a wide range ofinfluences. Drum made only a few appearances at local bars them eac~ time. ''-The band has yet to put out mer Chris Corr mentions jazz, rock and jam this semester, they certainly are not rookies a recording, but Maginn says, "We want to bands, and rhythm guitarist Mark Miller on the club circuit. In fact, before they get a non-studio album out pretty soon." 0 adds classic rock to the list. Luke Burke, the started playing together out at school, they bassist, talks about his admiration for bands went on a "test-run tour" to get a little For updated show information and to like Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Phish and the practice playing in front ofcrowds ofstrang learn more about the band, see the Seven Allman Brothers. Maginn, who shows off ers before they had to play in front ofcrowds Pou,nds ofGroove Web site atwww.nd.edul his classical piano training during musical of people they knew. "If we were going to ~ccorr. by Kara luaro

28 SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT 29 GROOVY Junior Luke Burke lays • SECTION SUPERHERO down a bass line for Seven Pounds of Groove. .Interactive OOB: Choose your own R.A. Adventure -Can you help 'Tom Herman maintain order in Zahm Hall?

~r.:J ,10 r>Quiet hours resume, but some- Later in the evening, some <-. body is playing his music a freshmen throw a party that I

28 SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT 29 That's Amore Romantic approaches differ from Rome to Dome

date, I find myself missing nero , .': ~ ' .. the simplicity ofltalian love. "Kristin," Emily said, "what is the one , sports Over there, you didn't have carol wolf thing you're looking forward to about re to worry about whether you and a guy problem staring at you, and they're obvi turning to the United States?" • Thu 21 through Sun 24 Men's Tennis: ND/Tom Fallon • Sun 24 Soccer: ND men vs. Connecticut, 1 :00 PM, Alumni were just "friends" or "more than friends" ously not ashamed ofwhatthey've got since "Well, it's hard to say," I replied. "I mean, Invitational, All Day, Courtney Courts. Field. or any other nebulous relationship state. they wear those skin-tight pants all the time. there are some superior aspects of Ameri • Thu 21 Volleyball: ND vs. Loyola Marymount, 7:00 PM, • Sun 24 Soccer: ND women vs. Pittsburgh, 3:00 PM, Alumni In Italy, you could be pretty sure that guys They send you subliminal messages saying, can culture. Americans on the whole are ,i Joyce Center Arena:. Field. just wanted one thing: you. As an Italian "Here I am. Take me now. I want you. I am more generous, often more polite, and they • Fri 22 Cross Country: National Catholic Invitational, 4:00 • Fri 29 Soccer: ND men vs. Pittsburgh, 7:30 PM, Alumni friend told a guy in the program, "I have Italian and I wear tight pants." volunte.er more." and 5:00 PM, Burke Memorial Golf Course. Field. sex with the girls now. When I am older And then, of course, you have the South "Yes, but what are you really looking • Fri 22 Volleyball: ND vs. Wyoming, 7:00 PM, Joyce • Fri 29 Soccer: ND women vs. Seton Hall, 5:30 PM, Alumni and unable to have sex, then I will talk to Bend dating scene, where Notre Dame stu forward to?" Emily asked. "What do you Center Arena. Field. them." dents engage in highly complex rituals to miss?" ~ Fri 22 Soccer: ND men vs. Seton Hall, 7:30 PM, Alumni • Fri 29 Volleyball: ND vs. Villanova, 7:00 PM, Joyce SlJre, not all Italian males are like this, but tell someone the big news that : .. you like "Oh. Seeing guys who aren't wearing Field. Center Arena. they are generally a little more aggressive, them. These "rituals" can be performed skin-tight pants. Dude, those things make • Sat 23 Volleyball: ND vs. Colorado State, 7:00 PM, Joyce • Sat 30 Domer Run 2000, 11 :00 AM, Stepan Center, as evidenced by our friend Leonardo. It's an through the aforementioned dances, in me uncomfortable. Do you want to get des Center Arena. sign-up begins at 10:45 AM. interesting contrast to life under the Dome, formed friends, covert services such as that sert?" 0

30 SCHOLASTICWEEK IN DISTORTION That's Amore Romantic approaches differ from Rome to Dome

KRISTINKRAMER because while I don't know many people handy ndtoday.com or even what some like here who'd hook up on a train with their to call "liquid courage." But most of the hy won't you kiss me? Why? assigned seating buddy, I definitely know time, students here hide behind states of W Why? I don't understand!" I people who hook up at dances. I have to ask noncommittal and baggy Gap jeans, except lectures looked across the train compart myself, "What's the difference?" Sure, the for those "special" times when some girls • Thu 21 "Proust's Reinvention of the Novel," ment to see my friend, a blue-eyed Ameri setting might be a little more intimate, the break out their black booty pants for a night 4:30 PM, Annenburg Auditorium. can girl ifthere ever was one, trying to fend lights a little dimmer, but do you know the on the town. Or on the townies - which • Sat 23 "The Papacy in a Time of Crisis: Pope off the advances of a young Italian male. person you're kissing any better? The end ever you prefer. Pius XII and World War II," 9:00 AM, Audito Even though Leonardo had met us only 30 result is the same, right? So it seems that if we're looking for a rium, Hesburgh Library. minutes before, he was ready for some ac On one hand you have the Italians, who direct, hands-on approach to the opposite • Thu 28 "Ruling against the Rulers: Court tion - but my friend wasn't, despite his are pretty up-front about their feelings. They sex, we won't find it here in South Bend, or Executive Relations in Argentina,"4:00 PM, fetching appearance in tight Adidas pants. don't fear "the approach," they don't have a many other places in America. Except maybe Hesburgh Center, Room C-I03. We tried to explain to him in New York, because Sarah Jessica Parker • Thu 28 "Science as Art and Imagery," 4:00 PM, that Americans don't kiss ..• ~\.1 and her Sex and the City friends live there. 20th Century Gallery, Snite. • Tue 03 Oct Members of the Commitee on Notre people they have just met, I know that I should probably extol the of your agendas for the Dame's Position on the Ordination of Women: much less while on public \': virtues of the foreign way oflife and exhort dances. Coming "When Sleeping Women Awake," 7:30 PM, transportation systems, but i:, my comrades and compatriots to take a Distractions can some ideas on how the "Would you Faculty Lounge, Hesburgh Library. Leonardo didn't understand. more direct approach to love and the oppo- thing at my dorm and you're incredibly He thought she was attrac " site sex'. But I'm a ridiculous American, and busy but ... " a little more gracefully. wooing while cinema tive, and he was Italian, so I can't. I have an inherent preference for the keeping in mind some of the characters and historical figures connected • Fri 22 and Sat 23 Time Regained, 6:30 PM and any female on the planet had messed-up way in which we deal with each with the upcoming lectures, plays and films. Just make sure you get it 9:30 PM, Snite. to find him attractive-why other. I would be freaked out if someone right. You wouldn't want to end up saying any of the following: couldn't they go ahead and' came up to me in the dining hall and asked • Mon 25 The Conversation, 7:00 PM, Snite. get it on? • Tue 26 Latin American Film Series: La ley de me out - much simpler to just go through William Shakespeare "Shall I compare thee to my last SYR date? Herodes (The Law of Herod), 7:00 PM, Auditorim, This incident occurred last every person I know at the school first. Nor (Good Night Desdemona, Thou art, urn, less ugly and more likely to semester when I was study 'would I know what it's like to have a guy Hesburgh Center. Good Morning Juliet) ~leep with me." ing in Rome. Luckily, I am call me and not have to wonder what his • Fri 29 and Sat 30 Timecode, 8:00 PM and 10:00 now back at Notre Dame, so "true" motivation for the call was. (There Charles Foster Kane "Well, yeah, I've got some issues with my PM, Snite. things like that don't hap are those who would say that I wouldn't (Citizen Kane) childhood, but you still wanna go with me, • Mon 02 Oct Citizen Kane, 7:00 PM, Snite. pen to me anymore. Ever. In know what it's like to have a guy call me for right? What, are you crazy or something? I fact, judging from the word non-homework-related reasons. But let's own a newspaper! I live in a castle! I'm a the arts on the street, my overall de forget that for right now.) There were a lot millionaire! " • Thurs 28 Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, 8:00 PM, sirability as a female has of things I liked about Europe, but when it Auditorium, Hesburgh Library. The Pope "So the only thing is we've got to ride gone down a whole lot, and comes to relationships, I'm Blue-and-Gold • Sun 01 Oct Ying Quartet, 2:00 PM, Annenburg (The Papacy in a Time oj there in my little bulletproof car. Oh, come that's really ... great. all the way. Auditorium. Crisis: Pope Pius XII and on! I'll let you wear my mitre!" Unfortunately, dance sea • Wed 04 Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning One night, months ago in Rome, my friend World War II) Juliet), two Shakespearean tragedies woven into a son has arrived, and with all Emily and I were chatting about the intrica - Cristin Fenzel the worry about finding a cies of cultural diversity while eating din- light-hearted comedy, 7:30 PM, Washington Hall. date, I find myself missing nero , .': ~ ' .. the simplicity ofltalian love. "Kristin," Emily said, "what is the one , sports Over there, you didn't have carol wolf thing you're looking forward to about re to worry about whether you and a guy problem staring at you, and they're obvi turning to the United States?" • Thu 21 through Sun 24 Men's Tennis: ND/Tom Fallon • Sun 24 Soccer: ND men vs. Connecticut, 1 :00 PM, Alumni were just "friends" or "more than friends" ously not ashamed ofwhatthey've got since "Well, it's hard to say," I replied. "I mean, Invitational, All Day, Courtney Courts. Field. or any other nebulous relationship state. they wear those skin-tight pants all the time. there are some superior aspects of Ameri • Thu 21 Volleyball: ND vs. Loyola Marymount, 7:00 PM, • Sun 24 Soccer: ND women vs. Pittsburgh, 3:00 PM, Alumni In Italy, you could be pretty sure that guys They send you subliminal messages saying, can culture. Americans on the whole are ,i Joyce Center Arena:. Field. just wanted one thing: you. As an Italian "Here I am. Take me now. I want you. I am more generous, often more polite, and they • Fri 22 Cross Country: National Catholic Invitational, 4:00 • Fri 29 Soccer: ND men vs. Pittsburgh, 7:30 PM, Alumni friend told a guy in the program, "I have Italian and I wear tight pants." volunte.er more." and 5:00 PM, Burke Memorial Golf Course. Field. sex with the girls now. When I am older And then, of course, you have the South "Yes, but what are you really looking • Fri 22 Volleyball: ND vs. Wyoming, 7:00 PM, Joyce • Fri 29 Soccer: ND women vs. Seton Hall, 5:30 PM, Alumni and unable to have sex, then I will talk to Bend dating scene, where Notre Dame stu forward to?" Emily asked. "What do you Center Arena. Field. them." dents engage in highly complex rituals to miss?" ~ Fri 22 Soccer: ND men vs. Seton Hall, 7:30 PM, Alumni • Fri 29 Volleyball: ND vs. Villanova, 7:00 PM, Joyce SlJre, not all Italian males are like this, but tell someone the big news that : .. you like "Oh. Seeing guys who aren't wearing Field. Center Arena. they are generally a little more aggressive, them. These "rituals" can be performed skin-tight pants. Dude, those things make • Sat 23 Volleyball: ND vs. Colorado State, 7:00 PM, Joyce • Sat 30 Domer Run 2000, 11 :00 AM, Stepan Center, as evidenced by our friend Leonardo. It's an through the aforementioned dances, in me uncomfortable. Do you want to get des Center Arena. sign-up begins at 10:45 AM. interesting contrast to life under the Dome, formed friends, covert services such as that sert?" 0

30 SCHOLASTICWEEK IN DISTORTION ,Speed .Racer by Warren White

ook up to see ahead ... that's what you do at got a glimpse ofwhat I thought initially was barbeque LWinchester Motor Speedway. With 30-degree smoke. I quickly realized that it was tire smoke. I banking, not looking up becomes somewhat strained to look up even more to see farther ahead. short-sighted. I really didn't notice how far back you Gotto the middle of the comer, the g-forces slammed tilt your head until I got in the race and was straining the car into the banking, the top of my helmet banged to see where Larry Crosser in the Bowling Green off the head rest, and there was Larry Crosser com State car was going to end up after shortening his car pressing the rear of the BGSU car against the tum a foot or so against the fourth tum wall ... but that's four wall. Larry bounced off the wall and back down getting ahead of the story .... the track, crossing the lane I expected to be in at the We should start from the beginning. The weekend time, so we avoided him - by how much I do not of July 29 and 30, I drove the University of Notre know, because I was afraid to look, and control was Dame Formula Lightning (electric) car at Winches still being negotiated between me, the car and the ter Motor Speedway, the world's fastest half-mile laws of physics. I caught my breath ... and realized track. Winchester is an awesome facility. As you we would now be in second place. I hoped'wecould barrel down to tum one, you prepare yourselfto drive hang on at least to the pit stop: At the re-start we did into what looks like a wall. You keep reminding the indeed. Unfortunately, Billy Roe and Chris Schultz self-preservation side of your brain that it really is a were also able to latch onto us; For two or three laps curve and that you will come out on the back straight we had lots of fun. At one point we were three wide ... if everything holds together. Halfway through the through turns one and two - with me on the inside comer, the car slams against the track as the banking and very nervous. comes into play. Next thing you know you are thrust Pit Stop: The initial part of the stop went surpris onto the next straight as ifyou had been shot out ofthe ingly well. Stopped on the marks, switches turned proverbial cannon. off, sidepod doors go up and I felt the batteries leave The race: At the start of the race, we took the lead the vehicle, I felt the left side batteries slide in with and held it for about a lap and a half. The first car to some effort, the right side batteries go in, left sidepod pass was Ohio State University. Next by vias Indiana door goes down, right sidepoddoor ... remains up. I University/Purdue Uni feel effort being applied to the right, I hear words of versity Indianapolis, frustration and encouragement from young men and Next thing you know you are driven by Chris Schultz. women obviously under great strain". then I see a thrust onto the next straight as He stayed there for a lap full sized knock-o-meter (a precision instrument com or two and then faded, monly known as a sledgehammer) being handed if you had been shot out of the and we re-passed him across the front of the car ... what could they ... . proverbial cannon only to be passed by the BANG! BANG! BANG! I could feel the force of Bowling Green State blows right through the frame. They tell me to power University car, driven by it up, all connections are in place ... glance at the Larry Crosser. Then we scoring sign to see the lead6i:s working Lap 21 ". Professional had a race. Larry could not pull away. I was begin BANG! BANG! BANG! Sidepod door down, first driver Warren ning to see the nose ofthe Oklahoma University car, gear already selected, I leave the pits wondering what White is a veteran driven by Indy-500 veteran Billy Roe, and we spent will happen, as I turn onto the apron and accelerate ofthe Formula about four laps having a lot of fun dicing for the around tum two picking up speed .... Continental series. position. About the sixth or seventh lap, Billy came There is a very competitive feel to the team. The He has driven up the inside again, I saw the West Virginia car low students did not give up and actually. beat the thing midgets and has on the inside, about to be lapped, and squeezed my into submission - that Fighting Irish spirit I suspect. been with the Irish line down. Billy had to make a choice: try to go lower They have good leadership and a willingness to work; Racing Team since still and pass West Virginia on the flat part ofthe comer add a little organjzation and they are going to be right 1998. (probably a big crash), hit West Virginia (a bigger crash) there beating on Ohio State's door. or backoff arid wait to play again. Billy backed off. In a full-blown midwestern downpour, I left the I was in third, and Larry in BGSU was now six or fastest half-mile in the world with everything ahead seven car lengths ahead as the race with Billy had cost looking up.. 0 me some ground. The breathing room came in a different form, however. The very next lap, entering The abqve article was edited by members of the tum three, I looked up to see around the comer and Irish Racing Team.

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