Ideas to toss around Bookstore Round-up Get off the couch and head outside. Better yet, Nylon Strokers and Slappy's All-Stars take Monday take the couch with you. Check out Scene's home Bookstore honors. Check out who else look at fun quad activities. came out on top. APRIL 30, Scene • pages 12-13 Bookstore XXX • Insert 2001 THE • The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV NO. 131 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU New Jersey teens donate 'like champions' High school classroom wins trip to Notre Dame through charity clothing drive project for their Social Studies around Notre Dame's Blue­ By KERRY SMITH seminar class. They wanted to Gold football game? A three­ News Writer organize a clothing drive to day 1 ,446-mile round trip benefit less fortunate Africans wasn't exactly what Penman Michael Panarello was fast through the Dakar World Peace had envisioned when she pro­ Thursday. Academy in Senegal. posed the idea, but she and her Donr..ing his Oakcrest High They proposed a plan to classmates weren't surprised. track and field uniform, he make the drive a contest "Mr. Bottinger is a complete placed in the long jump and between Oakcrest's homerooms and total ND fanatic," Penman finished with a quick enough and as incentive, let the win­ said. time in the 100-meter dash to ning class create its own day Fellow senior Annita Bailey earn four varsity points for his off. It was a tempting plan sure agreed. New Jersey high school team. to create some competition, but "He's in his room playing the Those four points were good Penman had no idea what a Notre Dame Fight Song all the enough to give his team the success the drive would be. time," Bailey said. "Early in the edge and the win. "The drive went so well," morning he's got it on every "I scored four points and we Penman said. "Between all the single day." won the meet by three," homerooms we raised 1,500 Senior Matt Pieper knew how Panarello said with pride. items of clothing to send to much the trip meant to But Panarello wasn't fast Dakar. It took a lot of work but Bottinger. enough for several of his it was worth it." "He's always talking about schoolmates. The senior's track In the end, the drive raised Notre Dame. And now he final­ and field endeavors were hold­ more than 9,000 items of cloth­ ly gets to take us," Pieper said. ing up 24 of his classmates' ing for the Academy. Bottinger, a long-time Notre and two teachers' weekend That work was made a lot Dame fan who has been out to plans- a whirlwhind road trip easier by the idea of one man Notre Dame several times, to Notre Dame. -health teacher Jack wanted to share the experience While Panarello's 1 00-meter Bottinger. with his students and found an race was over in seconds, his outlet to do it with the Dakar and his classmates' trip lasted The man with a plan clothing drive contest. about 65 hours. But the plans "Notre Dame is really some­ for it started months ago. As the clothing drive got underway and donations were thing special, "Bottinger said. "You walk into the Stadium and steady but not stellar, Bottinger KYLIE CARTER/The Observer Competing for charity had an idea. What if his home­ the yellow jackets attack you. 'Welcome to Notre Dame,' they Oakcrest High students visit Notre Dame Stadium and foot­ It all started in the fall when room class dona ted enough ball locker room during their trip to campus this weekend. seniors Tara Penman and clothes to win the contest and Above, students pass by the famous "Play Like a Kristen Schlachter proposed a then designed its day off see VISIT/page 4 Champion" sign that hangs near the locker room. PLAY TIME Parietals fight sends Malloy students camping Hall due and past 2 a.m. on Fridays By JASON McFARLEY and Saturdays. next year News Editor Organizers, including sopho­ mores Graham and Seth Paul Graham knows Whetzel and junior Michael Special to The Observer demonstrations can be a pow­ Pfaff, are optimistic about a erful tool. And he's hoping favorable turnout for tonight's The new theology/philoso­ this one will be. cam pout. phy building under construc­ Graham and two other "By coming out in here in tion at the University is being Notre Dame students are ral­ full numbers, hopefully hall underwritten by Donald lying student support for a rectors and administrators Keough, chairman emeritus of campus-wide campout to take will take notice that [the pari­ t h e place on South Quad tonight. etals measure] is something Univer­ The event comes in response that's important to students," sity's to Campus Life Council's April Graham said. Board of 23 defeat of a resolution that Last week, CLC members Trustees, would extend parietals from voted 10-6 in favor of pushing and will midnight to 1 a.m during the the visiting hours back to mid­ be called week. night. The measure fell a vote Edward "I think it's about time that short of the majority needed A. Malloy we get together and say, 'Hey, for passage. Voting on the res­ Hall in Malloy we disapprove of this." olution was sharply divided; honor of Graham said of parietals, the dissenting votes came from N o t r e policy regulating visiting rectors and the lone adminis­ Dame's president, who also is hours between members of trator on the council, Bill Kirk, a full professor of theology. the opposite sex. assistant vice president for Malloy Hall is a 6 7,000- The hours currently prohibit student affairs. square-feet office building for SARAH FUCHS/The Observer the presence by the opposite The CLC approved a propos­ faculty and graduate students Students jump back their childhoods by playing in an inflatable sex in residence hall rooms al that called for parietals to playground during this weekend's SUB-sponsored Antostal. after midnight on weekdays see PARIETALS/page 6 see MALLOY/page 6 ...._ _______ ---------- ~--~·~-~ page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Monday, April 30, 2001 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Perpetual + Poetry: Sonia Gernes + Workshop: "Women as + Workshop: "Teaching the + Concert: Saint Mary's and Orlando Menes, 7 p.m., Citizens in American Humanities in the Art College Women's Choir, identity Notre Dame Bookstore Politics," Christina Museum," 9 a.m. to 3:30 Saint Mary's-Notre Dame + Concert: Notre Dame Wolbrecht, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.. McKenna Hall Collegiate Choir, 7:30p.m., The other day when I walked through LaFortune, I passed by the wall of fame and Brass Ensemble, 7:30p.m., p.m., McKenna Hall + Meeting: Faculty Senate, Little Theatre glanced up at the plaques listing all the names of different student leaders from Notre Dame's past. Band Building + Film: "Life on Earth," 7 7 p.m .. Room 202, McKenna +Concert: Notre Dame On each plaque the little brass plate for the 2000- and 9 p.m., Montgomery Hall Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m., 01 school year has been removed so the latest name Theatre Washington Hall can be added to the wall. And then I saw the Observer Editor plaque and it sort of hit me right then. For Compiled from U-Wire reports as long as those plaques hang OUTSIDE THE DOME in LaFortune I will be remembered as the Editor of The Observer. My identity as Protesters strengthen positions at Harvard Editor will be sealed in brass on the wall of the student Mike Connolly CAMBRIDGE, Mass. now entering its ninth day, little center. Nearly 700 peaceful protesters progress was made Thursday. The But my identity as Editor armed with posters and noisemak­ administration held to its line that has been a permanent part of ers crowded outside Mass. Hall at no negotiations would take place me since I was elected in Editor in Chief Harvard Thursday afternoon in the while Mass. Hall was occupied and March 2000. Everything I largest rally in the Yard in six PSLM members held firm to their have done has not just been years, while inside the occupied decision to remain in the building done by Mike Connolly but by building members of the indefinitely until granted a living Mike Connolly, Editor of The Observer. Progressive Student Leader wage of at least $10.25 an hour for My identity is permanent. I cannot choose to act Movement (PSLM) continued their all University employees. as Mike Connolly. Editor and at other times, as second day of talks with administra­ U n i v e r s i·t y President N e il Mike Connolly, Notre Dame junior. tors. Rudenstine issued a statement, pub­ All my identities are a part of me at all times. I The rally featured speeches from lished as an ad in Friday's Crimson, am Editor of The Observer. I am a Notre Dame stu­ local politicians. Harvard workers . reiterating his "willingness" to meet dent. I am Irish Catholic. I am the son of Mike and and faculty members, and attracted met again with two University rep­ with students "once the sit-in has Rochelle Connolly. I am a collection of many identi­ an unprecedented media presence resentatives, the Rev. Dorothy ended." ties and all of those identities are permanently part with all three major networks Austin, co-master of Lowell House, In addition, Rudenstine has invit­ of me.