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Thursday, February 6, 2003 Observer picks THE wtnners. and losers Inside The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL. XXXVII NO. 89 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU STUDENT BODY ELECTION 2003 ND tickets Debate shows loss of faith in govt. unleash + Candidates • promise to revamp student life campaign By HELENA PAYNE + Candidates balance News Editor programming, policy Apathy and cynicism set the issues on platforms tone Wednesday as more than half of the seven tickets in the By JASON McFARLEY 2003 student body presidential News Writer elections pointed out the flaws of student government and There's the serious. vowed to nx them. Pat Hallahan and running mate Students filled the LaFortune Jeremy Lao want to start a Ballroom and watched as the "Theology on Tap" program that candidates, ranging from promotes religious discussion humorous to humorless, vowed between stu to reinvigorate student govern dents and pro ment and responded to ques fessors at the tions from students and The revamped Observer. Alumni-Senior The candidates' platforms Club. promised change, results for And there's "real students" and a better the flippant. campus life for undergradu Hyan Gagnet and John McCarthy ates. But in the midst of the propose a "ginormous" underground promises, some candidates chunnel (that's channel plus tunnel) added performances. connecting Notre Dame and Saint Juniors Hyan Gagnet, run Mary's, and the pair supports a ning for student body presi tuition spike that would fund note dent, and John McCarthy, a taking, beer-swilling helper monkeys vice presidential candidate, ADAM MIGLOAE!rhe Observer for every student. called the "Triumvirate," Student body vice presidential candidate John McCarthy (left) and his running mate Ryan But amid the extremes, almost all brought three body guards to Gagnet (right), announce their platform as their bodyguards stand by. The duo refers to of the tickets for Notre Dame student the debates. The two candi themselves as the "Triumvirate." Candidates Pat Hallahan and Jeremy Lao listen during body president and vice president dates, dressed in yellow and Wednesday's debate. this year have designed platforms blue Hawaiian shirts, proceed that reach the middle ground ed to explain their plans to running mate freshman David Matkowski. "For those of you who expect between the consequential and the improve campus with a "chun Rail decided to focus on the However, Muto eventually ed a serious debate, I apolo comical. nel" and "Israeli-style check sole goal of increasing Flex walked out after Padberg failed gize," Muto said before leaving. Undergraduate students next week points." Points but later endorsed presi to take issues seriously and Matkowski remained. will elect one of seven tickets: Mike Sophomore presidential can dential candidate Joe Muto and mocked his campaign goal to didate Matt Padberg and his his running mate junior Mimi end parietals within six years. see DEBATE/page 6 see CAMPAIGN/page 4 BOARD OF TRUSTEES ND ranks 12th in sending grads to Peace Corps undergraduates. The University of The Peace Corps is still a governmental Bishop to By HELENA PAYNE Wisconsin - Madison, tops the large organization that currently has 6,678 vol News Editor school list and Tufts University leads the unteers in 70 countries. Volunteers work in small colleges the areas of The Peace Corps recently ranked Notre and universi- education, deliver Dame No. 12 in a list of medium-size col ties. N Medium-Size Colleges and Universities agriculture, leges and universities that produced the Considering U 60 environmental most volunteers in 2002. Notre Dame's M science, com The University of Virginia, which sent 58 size, with B munity devel alumni volunteers to countries in 2002, roughly 8,000 E 5{) opment, busi report topped the list. Cornell University with 50 undergraduate R u ness and students, Notre health. alumni volunteers and Georgetown 40 • Report is slated to University with 47 were second and third. D a m e 0 According to Notre Dame, which ·sent 31 alumni vol spokesman F Roskelley, the express student unteers in 2002 to various countries, has a Matt Storin y30 Corps is seek opinion on hall culture of service that is compatible with said the rank 0 ing students dances the Peace Corps, according to Scot ing is impres who have Roskelley, public affairs specialist for the sive. 620 degrees in the Chicago Hegional Office of the Peace Corps. "We're proud N above areas By MEGHANNE DOWNES "Notre Dame just has a very strong ser to have such a TlO and those who Associa[e News Edi[or vice ethic that the Peace Corps appreci good associa E have had at ates," Hoskelley said. "It permeates many tion with the E least one Libby Bishop, student body of the different programs both academic Peace Corps," Rs 0 semester of president, delivers her Board of and student organizations." he said. French. Trustees report at the board's Strong international programs also draw Storin said However, all winter meeting today in Naples, students to the Peace Corps, Roskelley said, Notre Dame volunteers do Fla. pointing out the success of the University of became the site where the first Peace not have to work in the area in which they Bishop said the report, an Michigan- Ann Arbor, which ranked sec Corps were trained in 1961, after President obtained their degree. update on hall dances and an ond on the list of large colleges and univer John F. Kennedy signed an executive order Although a degree is not required for the overview of social life at Notre sities. for its establishment. Since then, the Peace Corps, 86 percent of its volunteers Dame, would review the status of "They promote Peace Corps a lot and University has sent 645 volunteers to have an undergraduate degree. hall dances and the trend of the that really makes such a big difference on nations hosting the Peace Corps. Each More information is available at direction in which these dances large campuses," Roskelley said. The list year, roughly 10 percent of students work www .peacecorps.gov. are headed. considers schools with more than 15,000 in paid or unpaid community service fol "I made it clear that students undergraduates, like Michigan, to be large. lowing graduation. About 75 percent of Notre Dame is medium-size, falling undergraduates participate in service pro between 5,001 and 15,000 undergradu jects while at Notre Dame. Storin attributes Contact Helena Payne at see BOT/page 8 ates. Small schools have less than 5,000 this to the University's Catholic tradition. [email protected] page 2 The Observer+ WHAT'S UP Thursday, February 6, 2003 INSIDE COLUMN WHAT'S INSIDE CAMPUS WORLD& BUSINESS Going to NEWS NATION NEWS VIEWPOINT SCENE SPORTS Senate Powell urges ND lags SEC to watch Scene reviews Ending with a Chicago upholds U.N. to take behind in u.s. upcoming bang Winter in South Bend can be as fun reprimand of notice of Iraq accepting as an 8:30a.m. seminar. No one ever accounting releases has a good time, and most students candidates evidence alternative wait impatiently for deliverance by lifestyles staring at the clock. But, there is an escape from Irish South Bend in Justin Krlvlckas U.S. Secretary of The SEC will fully R i c h a r d Scene reviews the The sign The Student three major recruits the form of a big Senate meeting State Colin Powell investigate and Friedman writes on newly released ger brighter star Assistant News Wednesday denied provided evidence prosecute about a need for movies "Rabbit to complete the to the west that Editor a presidential can- of Iraq's possession corporate student support in Proof Fence" and class of 2007 goes by the name the creation of a signing day. didate appeal to of weapons of mass lawbreakers "The Recruit." of Chicago, offer- avoid a reprimand Catholic identity ing a plethora of entertainment, cui destruction to the without regard to that accepts for violating cam- politics. sine and the occasional oddities South paign rules. U.N. homosexuality. Bend does not support. For a little enlightenment, the muse ums spread out on the lakeshore can page 3 page 5 page 7 page 12 page 14 page 28 provide a vast amount of knowledge and interesting facts. The Field Museum holds collections such as Egyptian mummies and the art Lacquer of Japan. Also, in the main WHAT'S GOING DoWN corridor, visitors can breeze by a lady named Sue, the largest and most com Student requires treatment after fall plete T. Rex ever recovered. Plus, only NDSP transported a student to the University a short walk away is the Museum of Health Center for treatment of injuries sustained Science and Industry. Main attractions during a fall in O'Shaughnessy Hall on Tuesday. include a coal mine and a "fairy cas tle" doll house and visitors can even tour a U-505 German submarine from Vandalism reported at Village World War II. A visitor discovered vandalism to her vehicle on Also, on Lake Shore Drive is the Jan. 31 in University Village. There are no sus Shedd Aquarium, which boasts of hav pects. ing the largest indoor aquarium in the world. It is definitely a must-see for everyone interested in the gill. Sea Items stolen in Bond Hall creatures such as sharks, turtles. ana A student reported the theft of several items from conda, piranhas and beluga whales all his desk in Bond Hall on Tuesday. There are no call the Shedd their home. suspects. A good laugh can be easily procured from the city's many comedy clubs. The infamous Second City offers come Car collision reported on Dorr dy that is both topical and universal.